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Online retailers point to new phase for Facebook

By David Gelles in San Francisco

Published: August 4 2009 23:00 | Last updated: August 4 2009 23:00

A new wave of sophisticated e-commerce applications is appearing on Facebook, a sign that the world’s largest social network could rapidly emerge as a big destination for online shopping.

1-800-Flowers, the US floral gift retailer and distributor, last week opened its “Facebook storefront”, an application running on Facebook’s fast-growing platform where users can purchase and send flowers.

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