StyleHive - a social bookmarking site for the shopping obsessed!

StyleHive is a social bookmarking site for the product and shopping obsessed! 

 

A bit similar to My Virtual Model's Closet idea, in which users create a simulation of their personal closet and then share their closet with friends or personal shoppers to help them shop.

 

From Reuben's blog:

"StyleHive has the potential to stand head and shoulders above the crowd in terms of value. If I have the choice to advertise on say, Digg  or the StyleHive, the Hive is much more interesting.  Why?  Because people will be tagging and sharing the web and forming communities around the stuff they aspire to own.  And, if the folks at the StyleHive exectute correctly, those people really will be the precious tastemakers that brand marketers am desperate to reach.  And because it has viral characteristics and a mainstream aesthetic, they may actually be able to achieve scale."

 

See here for Reuben's full posting on StyleHive.

Designer Fashions Flourish Online

This article  by ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writer, supports the idea that people will buy expensive designer clothing on the web without having to try it on first. What do you think?   

 

quote:

"According to Forrester Research, luxury online sales, including jewelry and designer fashions, rose 28 percent to $3.2 billion last year from the previous year."

Hilary Radley - a star outerwear designer from Montreal

Hilary Radley is a name all Montrealer's interested in fashion should know. 

 

Quote:

"Montreal - based Hilary Radley is today North America's premier outerwear designer. Her laser sharp attention to detail, innovative use of textiles and technology has made her the trend-setting innovator in this category.

...Considered by her peers as the "Designer of the Decade", a distinction bestowed on her recently by Elle magazine..."

 

Frank Piller's blog on Mass Customization

 

Excellent blog on Mass Customization by Frank Piller.  Check out the Wine configurator post that describes how a Canadian company has built a toolkit on the web to create your own blend of grapes, yeast, alcohol content, and oak tastes. All at a very attractive price!

 

Here is how Frank describes his blog:

"Notes and ideas on mass customization, personalization, customer integration, and open innovation -- strategies of value co-creation between suppliers and customers. This blog continues a long running newsletter, published and edited by Frank Piller, TUM / MIT, since 1997."

SHARE - a community jam session

The Montreal SHARE group gets together twice a month for a high tech audiovisual community Jam session.

 

The next one is February 25th and coincides with the Montreal's "Festivale en Lumière" "nuit blanche".  Collaboration with Elektra.

 

Quote from the site:

"SHARE Montréal est une communauté d'artistes performeurs et chercheurs en arts interactifs et médiatiques fondée en mai 2005 par les artistes Jean-Ambroise Vesac, Marie-Hélène Parant et Katherine Liberovskaya auxquels se sont joints Sabina Sariyska, Céline Seman, Danny Perreault, Sylvain Cormier, Eric Filion et i8u pour faire de ce projet une réalité vibrante.

SHARE Montréal réuni deux fois par mois des artistes vidéo, audio, nouveaux médias et même performeurs pour qu'ils expérimentent de nouvelles avenues artistiques ensemble. Chacun apporte son équipement, portables, instruments, senseurs, caméras, et se rencontre pour "jammer" et explorer ensemble. Tout artiste qui désire se joindre à nos soirées pour improviser est le bienvenu."

The Laws of the Virtual Worlds

Is it possible to say that virtual world users have real world property interests in virtual objects?

 

This paper entitled "The Laws of the Virtual Worlds" by F. GREGORY LASTOWKA and DAN HUNTER examines this question and whether avatars have enforceable legal and moral rights.

 

 

 

Tailrank is a Memetracker?

I came across a new buzz word in the web/blog space today:Memetracker.

 

I was curious to find out what this is all about. So here are my findings.

 

First, what is a meme?  A "meme" is any "idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture".  The term "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkin's around 1976 to represent a cultural equivalent of a gene.

 

Therefore a meme tracker is an aggregator of ideas compiled by searching lots of blogs and prioritizing the most popular ones..

 

Tailrank is an example of a memetracker.   Tailrank, like memeorandum.com creates a so called "living" newspaper totally generated on the fly (every 5 minutes) with content from people's blogs.  Sounds a bit like what EPIC 2014 (a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson) was talking about.