EP022 - Facebook F8, Channel Advisor Catalyst, Magento Imagine, and Echo Dot review
Announced the messenger bot platform, included several early e-commerce examples. Most reviews of the early shopping bot experiences were poor, but Jason remains optimistic about the platform. Danny Sullivan sends Mark Zuckerberg flowers via Chatbot. Open-source 360 VR camera VR selfie-stick social VR
Magento Imagine
Magento enterprise cloud edition - running on AWS 2.0 app store - Magento Marketplace committed to quarterly releasesGeneral News:
General SpaceX falcon lands on drone ship Scot reviews the Echo Dot and likes it Poshmark raised $25m Alibaba investment in Zalada to enter South Asia Gene Munster - Piper Jaffray - Amazon survey showed that 70% of high income ($120k+) households are Prime subs Victoria's secret cancels catalog Amazon focus on grocery they may become a top 10 grocer by 2019Staples to turn stores into co-working space w/ Workbar Bestbuy testing deliv for same day deliveryUpcoming events:
Alphabet/google earnings - April 21 eBay earnings - April 26 Amazon earnings - April 28 Shoptalk May 15-18 Google I/O - May 18Episode 22 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, April 14th, 2016.
Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.