Shopping.com Introduces Value-Based Pricing – What This Means for Partners

By the time I had checked my feed reader this morning, Brian Smith had already covered Shopping.com’s latest press release.  If you are a reader of Brian’s blog then you know he has been very …

Shopping.com Announces Partner Network and New API

Shopping.com had a big announcement at the eBay Developers Conference. A complete revamp of the API is in place (version 3). The new API will support REST and SOAP protocol formats. Phase I is …

Malformed Product Datafeeds Cause Problems

I was coding a bit today with the Shopping.com API and something was messing up my HTML and screwing up my app.  After debugging for a while it turns out the description field for a product …

Shopping.com Music and Movies Return Dreadful Results

If I was to ask a random merchant ”Does your site advertise in the Music or Movies section of Shopping.com?”   From what I have seen lately, the likely result would be 99% of them telling me “No.” …

Sites of Interest – Using the Shopping.com API

Shopping.com just updated their site look and feel. Here are two sites that have utilized the Shopping.com API as the backend to their shopping site. They also have a Web 2.0ish vibe about them …

Shopping.com Gets a Facelift, and More

Update: Apparently I stumbled across a live “test” of a new site look.  What are the odds?  So Shopping.com does not actually have a new look yet, but perhaps they may in the future.
Shopping.com just …

Shopping.com Introduces Shop Widgets

Shopping.com recently released Shop Widgets (aka ShopAds) to its partner network. These are essentially product-focused banner advertisements that deliver product and pricing information to the end-user. They differ from Chitika eMinimalls in that …

ProductWiki + Shopping.com

Erik Kalvainen, co-founder of ProductWiki.com, dropped me an email yesterday letting me know that they have successfully integrated Shopping.com listings into their site by utilizing the Shopping.com API. I mentioned to them about a …

Shopping Comparison Roundtable Notes

Here are some interesting tidbits after reading the E-Consultancy Shopping Comparison Roundtable May 2006 Whitepaper. Some of the participants include: Shopping.com, Ciao!, PriceRunner, and Genie Group, amongst others.

“According to one shopping engine representative, only …

Sit down with the Shopping.com Strategic Partnership Team

Blog entry from the eBay Developer Conference – Day 3: The Unconference

The majority of this day was spent with the Shopping.com team. It was great to finally sit down and chat with the Shopping.com team …