http://sloan.ucr.edu Sloan Center for Internet Retailing - University of California, Riverside Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:12:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Internet experts at the eLab eXchange, using data from Nielsen/NetRatings and their own expert judgment, selected Become.com as the clear winner out of 8 sites in the best search and comparison web site contest. eLab eXchange members selected the Jellyfish Smack Shopping site as the best search and comparison ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/06/22/becomecom-selected-as-best-search-comparison-site-by-elab-exchange-experts/ eLab eXchange members selected Zixxo.com as the online deal web site from a set of 10 sites and the Internet experts at the eLab eXchange concurred. Using data from Nielsen/NetRatings and their own expert judgment, the experts selected Zixxo.com as the clear winner. Experts judged Zixxo.com best at finding ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/06/22/zixxocom-is-judged-best-online-deal-site-by-elab-exchange/ The eLab eXchange has just launched "The Web of Misery," a prediction market tournament with 10 markets that reflect new online indicators of economic distress.  The Wall Street Journal blogged about it recently. Come and give it your best shot - forecast just how bad you think the economy is ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/05/06/elab-exchange-web-of-misery-which-online-indicators-of-distress-will-grow-most/ eLab eXchange members were pretty accurate in their prediction of how much World of Warcraft would grow from 2006 to 2007 in terms of subscribers. Members predicted that the wildly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game would grow 27% in 2007, compared to 2006. According to Blizzard Entertainment, World ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/03/17/elab-exchange-predicts-world-of-warcraft-subscriber-growth/ Speeding from "linked to prostitution ring" to "resignation" in a mere 48 hours is a stunning (de)feat no matter how it's chronicled.  Has ever the mighty fallen so fast? So I can't help wondering about the role the Internet played in this sorry spectacle.   On Monday afternoon, I scratched ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/03/12/did-the-internet-help-sink-spitzer/ Riddle me this:  how is it that three Southern California tract home model matches built within a year of each other and located within yards of each other (on three separate but very close cul-de-sacs) in the same neighbordhood could have such ridiculously different zestimates?  (Model matched homes are tract ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/03/09/why-are-zillow-zestimates-so-wrong/ eLab eXchange members were right on the money in this idea pageant. Members predicted that Monday, December 10, 2007 would be the most popular holiday online shopping day and according to Nielsen Online, they were right! In terms of the top three most popular shopping days this past holiday season, ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/02/24/elab-exchange-members-correctly-predict-the-most-popular-holiday-online-shopping-day/ eLab eXchange members overestimated how successful online holiday shopping would be in Q4 2007. Members predicted that fourth quarter 2007 online holiday sales would increase by 24.5% from Q4 2006. For the past several years, quarterly online holiday sales have increased nearly 25% each year. However, growth slowed this past ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/02/20/elab-exchange-overestimates-growth-in-online-holiday-sales/ eLab eXchange members correctly predicted the top two most popular consumer electronics online retailers for December 2007, although they got the order reversed. Members predicted that Apple would be the most popular, followed by Dell, but according to Nielsen Online, the most popular was Dell, followed by Apple. The ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/02/18/elab-exchange-correctly-predicts-top-two-consumer-electronics-online-retailers/ eLab eXchange members correctly predicted that free shipping with no conditions would be the promotional tactic that was the most successful in encouraging people to shop online this past holiday season.  Not only did members correctly predict the most successful online holiday promotion, they correctly predicted four of the ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/02/18/elab-exchange-correctly-predicts-most-successful-online-holiday-promotions/ eLab eXchange members were too optimistic in their predictions for the Facebook market. The eLab eXchange predicted that Facebook traffic would grow 25% from October to December 2007. But Facebook traffic, measured in terms of growth of unique visitors from Nielsen Online's NetView audience measurement service, increased only 16%. ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/01/27/facebook-growth-slows-down-elab-exchange-was-too-optimistic/ The UCR Sloan Center for Internet Retailing is pleased to announce that it is co-sponsoring the Marketing Science Institute conference on "Leveraging Online Media and Online Marketing" to be held at the Hotel Miramonte Resort and the UCR Palm Desert Campus in Palm Springs from February 6-8, 2008.  Visit MSI ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2008/01/07/leveraging-online-media-and-online-marketing/ The Sloan Center for Internet Retailing is very pleased to announce the selection of eLab City's development team: Cezary Ostrowski, aHead http://www.tutaj.com.pl/ahead/ Nadia Hennrich http://nadiahennrich.com/ Visual artist and composer Cezary Ostrowski's aHead agency, based in Poland, has developed numerous sims in Second Life, including the newly opened Slang Life, as ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/12/06/elab-city-development-has-begun/ The eLab eXchange has four exciting prediction markets geared to the online holiday season: Online Holiday Sales Most Popular Online Holiday Shopping Day Most Popular Consumer Electronics Retailer Most Successful Online Holiday Promotions Try your hand at judging the impact of this year's holiday season! http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/11/28/elab-exchange-has-new-online-holiday-markets/ Among the 14 websites in the eLab eXchange Social Shopping prediction market, our panel of experts judged ThisNext as the most engaging, although Kaboodle received the greatest number of positive tokens by eLab eXchange members. According to eXchange members, the top five social sites were Kaboodle, Buzzillions, ShopWiki, ThisNext and ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/11/14/thisnext-wins-the-elab-exchange-social-shopping-idea-pageant/ Ad Overlays on the Video and Company Sponsorships Chosen as Best Approaches Among the 12 ideas in the Google/YouTube prediction market, our panel of experts judged the Ad Overlays on the Video for the First 10 Seconds or So and Company Sponsorhip of pages, categories, channels or communities as offering ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/11/07/googleyoutube-idea-market-winners-selected-its-a-tie/ eLab City is currently in the planning stages. Construction to begin late 2007. eLab City will be a two-island sim in Second Life. It is being developed by the University of California, Riverside, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing, for the purpose of studying consumer behavior in virtual worlds. eLab ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/10/23/elab-city-new-second-life-research-project/ Novak, Thomas P., "Consumer Behavior Research in Second Life:  Issues and Approaches," (October 2007).Presented at the Association for Consumer Research Pre-Conference, "Consumer Online:  Ten Years Later," Memphis, TN, October 25, 2007.Download powerpoint sldes (long version of presentation) http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/10/23/acr-presentation-novak-october-2007/ Among the 14 companies in the eLab eXchange Virtual Worlds prediction market,our panel of experts judged the Toyota Scion as having the greatest chance for success in Second Life. Scion received the greatest number of positive tokens by eLab eXchange members, and was the selection of the expert judges. The ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/10/16/toyota-scion-wins-elab-exchange-virtual-worlds-prediction-market/ As mentioned in today's New York Times article, "The Wisdom of Sales Trend Predictions," the eLab eXchange (beta) is open and ready for you to start judging. The eLab eXchange is a prediction market that allows you to judge the likelihood of future events in the Internet retailing space like which ... http://sloan.ucr.edu/2007/09/16/elab-exchange-is-live/