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Download of the Day: Pose For iPhone

The social shopping trend has moved from the web to mobile, and now a new app is poised to help you shop and inspire you with suggestions and recommendations from others.

The social shopping trend has moved from the web to mobile, and now a new app is poised to help you shop and inspire you with suggestions and recommendations from others. Pose is meant to enhance your in-store shopping experience by allowing you to take photos of merchandise, recording pricing and location information. Then, share it with friends for feedback via email or social networking to get trusted opinions.

If you're looking for inspiration, Pose has you covered; continuously updated style feeds show popular items, the latest posted, and an editorially selected feed featuring "the finds of a handpicked group of exceedingly stylish shoppers."

Pose for iPhone is free to download; an Android app will be available soon.

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Shop Online With a Little Help From Your Friends

Just about everything else on the Web has a social aspect — tweets, comments, posts, @replies — why not shopping?
Sites For Social Shopping

Just about everything else on the Web has a social aspect — tweets, comments, posts, @replies — why not shopping? Ecommerce is an important slice of the retail pie, and online shopping is fast, simple, and convenient. But, it doesn't beat a day out at the mall with your girlfriends. What good is scoring the coolest find ever if there's no one to tell about it? Here are some of my favorite social shopping websites to share with your friends.