Shopablogic

Sober IT truths from the island-state

by Suzanna Low, Singapore

Plan your commute with Google Maps

Nov 27, 2009 12:58

Google's Giant Red Pin as marked its spot at Dhoby Ghaut

Google recently collaborated with LTA (SIngapore Land and Transport Authority) and came up with an online map that provides informations on public transport in Singapore.

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Malaysia Fashion Week 2009 goes online with eBay

Nov 7, 2009 14:28

eBay has been collaborating with local brands worldwide to bring more awareness to its online marketplace and create an interactive platform for the local brand campaigns.�

The 2009 Malaysia Fashion Week is approaching and I am glad that both the eBay and the Malaysian International Fashion Alliance (Mifa) are working together to take Malaysian designer labels to a global audience.
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Poketo, there's more to it than just plastic wallets

Nov 5, 2009 14:37

About seven (or was it six) years ago, I found this Web site which sells cartoony plastic wallets. Poketo started off as an online shop that retails affordable handmade plastic wallets that have cute and colorful designs from various designers.

I am a big fan of Poketo and its cute and affordable plastic designer wallets. But, ironically, as an online shopping mistress, I never got my Poketo wallets online but off the shelves of San Francisco's Moma museum shop in 2008. And it was a lot more expensive than its online store price of US$20.
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Free online store? With a little catch

Oct 31, 2009 15:16

So lately I have been surfing around to find an alternative for my Web-hosting and ecommerce platform. While doing so, I stumbled on many Web-hosting sites offering a "Free Online Store". Naturally, that caught my attention. But when I delved deeper into the details of the various services, it struck me that most of these offers were, not surprisingly, marketing gimmicks.
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The search for the perfect e-commerce hosting service

Oct 13, 2009 09:43

I have been using Bizhosting as my e-commerce hosting service for the last seven years, and I am moving on to a new host for my online business.

When I first built my online store, I literally hardcoded my shopping cart by modifying free Javascript shopping cart codes I found online 10 years ago. I am not a programmer. I was trained as a graphics designer before I stumbled on cell animation, which led me to Web design.
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About Suzanna Low

Suzanna Low has more than a decade of hands-on in interactive and graphics design, e-commerce and online marketing. In fact, true to the Singapore culture, she's a diehard shopaholic and fancies herself a pioneering e-retailer who learned the painful way how to set up store back when ecommerce emerged on the Internet landscape. Low also claims to speak feline language and sometimes seeks approval for her blog topics with her two house cats.