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These days social networks like facebook have brought people together to connect, share and discover new things and ideas. And since the beginning film and tv have captivated and brought audiences together. Now Ooyala Social is bringing these worlds together, allowing publishers to harness the power of social to grow their audiences.

Powered by the same core technology that runs Ooyala Everywhere, Ooyala Social enables publishers to grow audiences, boost engagement and drive revenue on the world’s biggest social network.

Built-in social features promote sharing and content discovery. And Facebook Connect-based authentication ensures viewers enjoy seamless viewing, whenever and however they connect. With Ooyala Social, users can:

• Share videos with friends and family, and chat while viewing
• Discover what their friends like and recommend
• Watch on nearly every kind of screen and device
• Rent or buy videos easily with Facebook credits

Facebook is just one piece to the growing social TV phenomenon. Ooyala envisions a future where video viewing, content discovery and engagement all have a connected social dimension—a future that’s enabled by Ooyala’s backend social API integration. Social meets big data, meets HD-quality video on all devices.

One of the first publishers to take the plunge with Ooyala Social, is one of our favorite movie studios – Miramax. The guys that brought you classic films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Good Will Hunting and Clerks – are now available to rent right within Facebook. You can even view them on any other device like a smartphone, tablet or connected TV.

We’ve just checked out this video previewing Google Wallet, and we’re convinced that this kind of this is most definitely the future. NFC chip’s in phones have been standard in Japan and Korea for some time, but they were locked into your mobile provider – generally only being able to make payments from a single account (like your Mobile credit). Google Wallet wants to open this up, so you can carry multiple accounts, credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards – all in the one system.

You can imagine it won’t be very long before you will be able to leave the house with nothing but your phone, gone will be the days of fat wallets filled with prehistoric bits of plastic. This is obviously going to have a huge impact on traditional retail – but we suspect that Google have some interesting things in-store for online retail (ala Paypal).

We’re keeping a very close eye on this, interesting things happening.

Westfield has entered the online world with a fashion show at Sydney’s Customs House lunch time today.

It was a great day, sun shining at 25+ degrees, with over  100 models promoting 70 hottest brands. webqem strategically works closely with Westfield to help retailers leverage the Westfield.com.au online mall. Two of our e-commerce clients, Larry Adler Ski and Outdoor and Costume Box were in the show displaying the latest season fashion ranges.

Contact us today if you are interested in eCommerce for your business.

E-Commerce is influencing the direction of companies more than ever. Forrester Research Inc, have just released an interesting report on Online Retailing in Australia 2010: Technology Investment.

The report supports the notion that E-Commerce is becoming a strong influencer in the direction of companies, with 69% of merchants intend to increase their investment in technology in the year ahead. Further more from these results, 53% nominated the base e-commerce platform as their technology investment priority for the coming year.

Is it time for you to look into E-Commerce for your business? Contact us today to explore the many solutions we offer.