Shipwire. Shipwire. Evan Robinson. Fashion Trends & Styles. Polyvore Looks Stylin' In This New $5.6 Million Round Of Funding. In a world where print media is collapsing, it would seem that fashion magazines could easily make a case for why they’ll still exist in the future.
As great as their content may or may not be, a large part of their success is about seeing the pictures of the hot new fashions. But there’s an online site that arguably does that better too, Polyvore. And they just got a big bag of new money to expand their service. The service, which just crossed 4 million unique visitors and 150 million pageviews a month, allows web shoppers to pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online. Users can then share their creations with friends, and, most importantly, anyone can then buy the items shown. This social side of shopping has users engaged. The new $5.6 million Series B round is led by Matrix Partners, alongside previous investors Benchmark Capital and Harrison Metal Capital.
Polyvore's Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect. As “Fashion 2.0″ sites continue to innovate, the social component of these style-focused sites becomes an important tool for viral growth.
Weardrobe, a site focused on capturing and sharing the street style of web users, was recently acquired by Like.com And we’ve written about Polyvore, the startup lets web shoppers pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online. Users can then share their creations on the site and can then buy the items shown. The site is seeing rapid growth, with over 6 million unique visitors per month thanks to new branding efforts and the launch of Facebook Connect. Polyvore’s virtual styling tool allows people to mix and match products from any online store to create fashion collages, called “sets,” and collections that can then be embedded in other sites.
Polyvore To Tempt Fashionistas To Create, Then Spend. Polyvore, founded by ex-Yahoo’er Pasha Sadri (he created Yahoo Pipes) will appeal to the fashionistas out there in the world.
Users install a bookmarklet and grab images from around the web (see demo here) – this part is very similar to what Kaboodle, recently acquired by Hearst, does. They then take those images, plus any images others have uploaded, and create “sets” which are ensembles of individual items, put into, say, a complete outfit. Examples are here. Sets can be viewed by others, commented, rated, shared, embedded into websites (which I have done above), etc. Exclusive: Former Googler Cassidy Steps Down as Polyvore CEO (Kara Swisher/BoomTown) At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs. That's far too much for any reader to follow. Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. Our goal is to become your tech news site of record. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input.
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Pipes is a web application from Yahoo! That provides a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. Polyvore. Pasha Sadri. Benchmark Capital. Pasha Sadri (Yahoo!'s Pipes) Pasha Sadri. Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking. Pinboard. Open Libraries – "… are signs of life and hope: They are the cornerstone of democracy" Not for the first time, the glut of incoming information threatens to push out useful knowledge into merely a cloud of data.
And there’s no doubt that activity streams and linked data are two of the more interesting things to aid research in this onrushing surge of information. In this screen-mediated age, the advantages of deep focus and hyper attention are mixed up like never before, since the advantage accrues to the company who can collect the most data, aggregate it, and repurpose it to willing marketers. N. Katherine Hayles does an excellent job of distinguishing between the uses of hyper and deep attention without privileging either.
Her point is simple,”Deep attention is superb for solving complex problems represented in a single medium, but it comes at the price of environment alertness and flexibility of response. Does data matter? Chrisdiclerico.com » Blog Archive » space shuttle ridiculousness. Macej Ceglowski pinboard at Duck Duck Go. Idle Words - Maciej Ceglowski. Maciej Ceglowski. Particle.
Free Yourself From Accounting; free bookkeeping, business accounting, & tax services at Outright.com. Outright. OneTrueFan. OneTrueFan. Oleboo: the game within the game! Oleboo. NumberFour AG´s Blog. NumberFour. Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo. NumberFire. NumberFire. Brand Marketing Firm Involver Launches ‘AMP’ Social Media Dashboard. Involver, a company that helps both brands and smaller businesses manage their presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other online portals, has launched a new dashboard they’re calling AMP.
The dashboard allows brands to aggregate all of their inbound tweets, Facebook comments, and other messages on a single site, and it isn’t just for monitoring incoming content — you can also respond to messages directly from the page. Involver was founded in 2007 and boasts some big brands as clients, including Warner Brothers, American Apparel, Facebook, and Alicia Keys. They’re also touting some big stats: in terms of clients, they have 80,000 brands/agencies and 200 million ‘Like’ relationships on Facebook (at least, their clients do).
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In terms of users, Nestoria is the 5th largest property web site in the UK (February 2012 [1]) and the 9th in Spain (comScore, May 2009 [2]). Overview[edit] Nestoria aggregates real estate listings from property portals and provides location-based search to Internet users. Nestoria UK Blog - Home. Mashup Case Study: Nestoria. In this installment of our mashup case study series we speak with Ed Freyfogle, the founder of Nestoria, a property search engine in the UK and Spain.
Their service makes extensive use of the Google Maps API and other sources to include richer information about properties and neighborhoods. They are also an example of an “API stack” since they build on top of APIs but also provide an API of their own. Ed Freyfogle (Startups) at Duck Duck Go. Ed Freyfogle (freyfogle) Ed Freyfogle. nPario empowers organizations to leverage the power of their data. nPario. Bassel of ArabCrunch at Aljazeera Discussing Google Tashkeel. Ex-Yahoo Executives Launch nPario. Bassel Ojjeh - Patents & Inventors, bibliographic references. Browse Inventors: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Recent bibliographic sampling of Bassel Ojjeh patents listed/published in the public domain by the USPTO (USPTO Patent Application #,Title): Archived* (*May have duplicates - we are upgrading our archive.) 20080235088 - System for measuring web traffic related to an offline advertising campaign20080235089 - System for serving advertisements based on offline advertising campaigns The bibliographic references displayed about Bassel Ojjeh's patents are for a recent sample of Bassel Ojjeh's publicly published patent applications.
The inventor/author may have additional bibliographic citations listed at the USPTO.gov. Bassel Ojjeh (Startups) at Duck Duck Go. Bassel ojjeh (basselojjeh) Bassel Ojjeh (bassel) on ArabCrunch.NET. MyFitnessPal.
Listen to DJ mixes, upload DJ mix, DJ mixtapes - Mixcrate. Mixcrate. Mob.ly. Mihir Shah. Mihir Shah is the CEO and co-founder of Mobly, formerly GoodRec. Prior to co-founding Mob.ly, Mihir served in key product leadership roles at Yahoo! For over four years, most recently as Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo! Search. Mihir was responsible for the US Web Search product and also helped launch Yahoo’s first mobile search products.
Before joining Yahoo! Mihir started his career as a management consultant at R. See Less Mihir started his career as a management consultant at R. Mob.ly. Loud3r. Loud3r. Lowell Goss. Digital.Hollywood. Suzy Sandberg, President, PM Digital: Suzy Sandberg is president of PM Digital.
Since 2001, Suzy and her seasoned management team have molded the company’s vision as it relates to, developing new products, new technologies and overseeing the day-to-day operations. Under Suzy’s leadership, PM Digital has quietly become one of the leading full-service internet marketing agencies specializing in search engine marketing. Suzy also sits as one of six members of the executive team of parent company ParadyszMatera, participating in the decision-making of the entire company. Both ParadyszMatera and PM Digital have deep roots in the retail sector. Loud3r Launches popURLs Competitor. At a glance, Loud3r appears to be yet another version of popURLs or Alltop, just with a lot more verticals right off the bat. Dig a little deeper (you don't have to dig very far) and you'll see that one major differentiating factor for loud3r is that it's also a social network. You can create a user profile, and it will universally give you access to your profiles on lound3r's family of sites.
However, this isn't the only thing that makes loud3r different from the rest. How publishers curate the world of content. Advertisement It's nothing new that many news websites augment their own content with repackaged content from around the Web, but the applications have evolved along with the technology. Content providers are experimenting with all sorts of ways for editors and technology to push outside content to readers, whether through aggregation or curation (for a lengthy discussion about the difference, check out the Nieman Journalism Lab).
While publishers choose to utilize aggregation and curation platforms in a variety of ways, the main point is clear: Many media companies see benefits in collecting content from around the Web. Publishers find curation can attract and retain readers by offering the best of all content, rather than the best of just their own content. Lowell Goss. Lowell Goss. Lowell goss. Lowell Goss (Startups) at Duck Duck Go. Liftium has ceased operations. Krux. Founded in 2010, Krux delivers data fabric for the consumer web. The company's platform helps websites protect, manage, and monetize data across all digital screens and sources. Resume for Nick Sullivan - Web Software Architect. Lensley - Digital Photobooth Rentals. Random($foo) Leonard Lin on 43 Things. Clearing out Things… Leonard Lin. Leonard Lin. Krillion. Joel Toledano. Joel Toledano (joeltoledano) Joel Toledano - Pipl Profile. Speaker: Joel Toledano: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, March 31 - April 03, 2009, San Francisco, CA.
Website Joel is Chief Executive Officer of Krillion. Prior to founding Krillion, Joel was the Director of Business Development and chief negotiator for the Yahoo! Search business unit, where he was responsible for establishing and managing strategic partnerships and executing new revenue-producing channels and business initiatives including Yahoo!’ S Search, Access and subscription services businesses. Special Kelsey Group Presentation: Local 2.0: The Evolution of Local Search. What percentage of online searches are local? If you consider searches that end up having some influence on local buying activity, the opportunity is put into perspective.