{"id":10349,"date":"2014-05-06T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/we_dont_need_a_amazoncart_hashtag.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:34:32","slug":"we-dont-need-a-amazoncart-hashtag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/amazon\/we-dont-need-a-amazoncart-hashtag.html","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t need a #AmazonCart Hashtag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally I think Amazon is an amazing company doing amazing things and I am a big fan of Twitter but I don&rsquo;t see any reason why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techzone360.com\/topics\/techzone\/articles\/2014\/05\/05\/377891-amazon-lets-users-shop-without-leaving-twitter-with.htm\">launch<\/a> of #AmazonCart will be a big deal for anyone. The idea is you use a hashtag to add an item to your shopping cart.<\/p>\n<p>I am also an avid user of Twitter I might add but I don&rsquo;t understand why I would want to put something in my Amazon cart from Twitter; especially if I then have to go to Amazon to finish the process.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I am unique but the system I use now of adding to cart or buying with a 1-click strategy works amazingly well for me.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, do we really need yet another way for hackers to get into our ecommerce systems?<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I believe many of my predictions are accurate but I did <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/kindle-nobody-wants-this-thing.html\">botch!<\/a> the Kindle prediction &ndash; I didn&rsquo;t think it would be a mainstream product as a book reader.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts on the matter &ndash; if you have any, are welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally I think Amazon is an amazing company doing amazing things and I am a big fan of Twitter but I don&rsquo;t see any reason why the launch of #AmazonCart will be a big deal for anyone. The idea is you use a hashtag to add an item to your shopping cart. I am also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,206,217],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18810,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349\/revisions\/18810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}