How Do You Gaboogle?
Everyone nowadays is generally familiar with online commerce channels used by such examples as Amazon.com, eBay, and Apple. These models have been duplicated and at time viewed as being the standard for selling and trading products and services online.
Well after a much needed break from the fall-out of the first “dot-com” bubble pop. I am now project planning for the Gaboogle It? Social Commerce Network. Gaboogle It? is a social commerce network where buyers and sellers will come together and trade almost anything leveraging very unique data mining and sharing between the buyer and seller in a social manner like never seen before.
The Gaboogle It? Social Commerce Network will prove to be an avant-garde solution that is not only valuable for item or service consumption, but it will inspire new socially driven business opportunities for merchants as well.
It embraces the open source community built on WordPress as a FREE stand-alone version as well as a hosted version built on WordPress MU. After many months (almost a year to be exact) of evaluating open source platforms candidates to build Gaboogle It? on, I finally settled on WordPress and WordPress MU due to the WordPress active community, light weight code, easy extendibility, and surprisingly only one commerce application in the space, WP-eCommerce.
Social Networks such as facebook, twitter, and Pownce have set the pace for social networking, and the Gaboogle It? community will be no different and will leverage the available technologies of these applications by integrating Gaboogle It? systems into their communities. Customers of our products or services are friends after all, right?
The Gaboink! network is looking to form an immediate team of contributors in the form of grantors, investors, partnerships, and development resources for this project. If you are interested in being a part of a new ground-level innovation, leave a comment below, use my contact form, or contact me at gaboinked [at] gmail.com. If interested in contributing development resources to a ground level WordPress project, you may also visit the official Gaboogle It? project page located on Google code.
Contributors come in many shapes and sizes and the most important contributor is the one that could potentially use the tool, so I have created a facebook Group and a local focus group discussion in the Gaboink! network forums to allow input from a consumer or merchant point of view. The theme of these focus groups is “How Do You Gaboogle?” trying to discover how you enjoy using the internet today commerce related or not. I encourage you to give a few moments to voice your opinions and take part in a series of surveys or polls valuable to the completion of the Gaboogle It? Functional Feature Specification. How many times are you able to help define a WordPress application before it is built?
