e-commerce

TAVOS Media Network is a trail-blazing venture based in Palo Alto, California, that empowers people in underserved communities around the world through local media services. Our vision is to build a global network of local media microfranchises to give voice and promote the life and prosperity of every community.

From a recent Fortune magazine that I read that most companies in S&P have been rated as risky. This represents a huge challenge for companies as new emerging economies such as India, China or other countries mean new business models which have to be sustainable and scalable and I do not think that there are in most text books or case studies of today.

After Google's testing site "Google Base" was launched and quickly taken off last month, there are many speculations about Google's intention to get into online classified advertising business.

Today, Google Base (http://base.google.com) is officially live! This marks another step of Google’s ambition to organize the world information on the web.

Several of our projects aim to become sustainable by offering some sort of service or product on-line and charging for it.

I thought it would be a good idea to enable a couple of e-commerce applications, on-line stores and shopping carts for the fellows to play around with them and explore their configuration and how they could be used easily for their projects.

One of the social entrepreneurs, Saurav Ghosh, who is trying to scale up SuVyapar (prototype - 2002/03 DVF) is presenting the "Community Friendly Movement" at around 11.30am. Click here to access it...