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A Flurry Of Post-Christmas Ecommerce?

Since the weather outside is frightful, eCommerce sales could become even more delightful.

The huge blizzard that just KO'd the Northeast might be freezing up holiday profits for brick and mortar stores, but online retailers could discover a silver lining. Thanks to large numbers of consumers stuck inside with little more than cabin fever and laptops, e-tailers might see a considerable boost in sales during the post-Christmas whiteout.

Before the storm hit, snarling travel plans and bringing traffic to a standstill, December had already proved to be a boon for eCommerce. Total sales have already climbed to more than $28 billion during the holiday season so far this year, and with pre-blizzard estimates jumping up 11% to $32.4 billion, final sales figures could be especially merry and bright.

Mobilizing For The Holiday Sales Rush

Think mobile optimization and mCommerce are ghosts of Christmas Future? Bah humbug! If you're being a Scrooge about mobile, you're missing out on a huge revenue stream in the biggest sales season of 2010. Need proof that the future is already here?

  • ABI Research says mCommerce sales to hit $2.4 billion in 2010
  • eBay recorded a record $500 million in mobile commerce in 2009 and this grew by 146% on Black Friday 2010
  • On Black Friday of 2009, mobile payments through PayPal grew 650% over same day last year
  • According to a survey of consumer retail spending and trends, 41% of consumers have used a Web-enabled mobile phone to shop online
  • At Gilt, purchases made from consumers' iPhones and iPads now account for about 10% of the company's business
  • On average mobile shoppers spend over $100 per month on mobile purchases

Dc Shoes Mobile Demo

DC Shoes has always been at the forefront of innovation in the action sports industry, and they're leading the way in mobile as well. The new mobile optimized version of dcshoes.com leverages the latest technology to provide mobile users with the full DC experience. Fans now have easy access to videos, photos, and downloads from their mobile devices, as well as quick links to the DC Store, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out the full DC mobile experience here!

DC Mobile Demo from Cuker on Vimeo.

Html5 Rocks

We have been watching HTML5 closely here at the Cuker Interactive tech team, and we just had to share this awesome presentation/interactive site made by Google to promote HTML5: slides.html5rocks.com. Best viewed in Google Chrome, but some other browsers (like Firefox and Safari) show some of the great new in-browser features.

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