Invite-only Flash Sale pioneers Gilt teaming up with Target to give it’s members first dibbs on Target’s new clothing line.
This is over two years old but it is a great example of a number of things. Micro crowd sourcing via Amazon’s mechanical turk, art exhibit, ecommerce, and a custom built content creation tool.
Find something to sell, go to tinypay, upload the details, post it to everywhere, sell through paypal, done.
A nice little community/social/fundraising campaign that spreads via Facebook Connect and Twitter. Great way for PayPal to spread awareness for their product I think. Real-time rankings make for a pretty dynamic fruitcake site.
Soon-to-start social network that lets you share details of your credit card purchases with friends or strangers. Will this really catch on?
Playground picked 4 hikers to stay awake as long as they could. Customers were given a chance to get their last purchase refunded if they chose the one the last hiker standing.
Over at Guitar Center you can make your own tour poster using your wishlist items then share it with friends.
Find gifts with the MasterCard Priceless Gift Finder. Connect with Facebook and pull in your friends and their preferences to get a list of Gift ideas available for purchase at Amazon. Deep integration of product data and shopping cart in a totally custom interface.
Normally Woot! updates at midnight with a new daily-deal on a random item. If you’re paying attention you can catch a Wootoff which is means updates are ramped up to happen hourly. If you see the little lights (shown above) spinning it’s a Wootoff! Cool idea for generating traffic spikes in an otherwise predictable nightly cycle.
In the two months after it’s launch, the Pizza Hut iPhone app has rung up $1 Million in sales.
