Microclimates, Microclusters, Niche Neighborhoods…High Tech, High Profile, High Life, High Times…only in the Valley.

Silicon Valley is a collection of remarkably local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams.   read more

Wikipedia calls it the “Social Marketplace” and “Social eCommerce”… you can call it your OWN eBay or your own Craigslist…and not pay a dime to create and sell just about anything from your own gratis online eStore. It’s not exactly a new idea, but it will be new for at least one entrant in this new breed of online shopping utilities to actually succeed. So far, ShopIt seems to be leading the way. But capitalism breeds competitition like rabbits…even when it comes to providing free services. We’ll take a look at the others in another post.

ShopIt is the ultimate democratization of online shopping: Stores of one. ShopIt enables anyone to create a fully-featured online store. Your store can then be plugged into your blog or social network profile. Today on ShopIt, you can sell anything you
’d sell on eBay, sans the fees. Tomorrow, ShopIt will let you sell items you don’t own.

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