New, simple ‘buy’ buttons make it easier to shop by phone | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

Now several companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, are trying to bridge the gap between mobile browsing and desktop purchasing with a simple “buy” button.


Buy buttons have been around since the early days of the Web, of course, notably with Amazon’s “One-Click Ordering,” where people set up a button that runs their credit card and ships whatever they have bought to a designated address.


But these new buy buttons allow technology companies to act as middlemen between mobile shoppers and retailers — eliminating aggravating typing on a phone’s touch screen and extending one-click ordering to thousands of small retailers....


Via Jeff Domansky