Category Archives: Fashion 2.0

ThisNext reviewed by eBay’s Erik Stuart

Will eBay incorporate social shopping into its fold? Link to another Vator.tv interview with Erik Stuart.  Erik clearly understands the dynamics at play in social shopping and has pretty good advice for ThisNext.

Ebay eyes social shopping for acquisition

What kind of startups is eBay interested in? Director of Corporate Strategy, Erik Stuart To quote Erik from his interview on Vator.tv: Social shopping is an interesting areas that still has potential that hasn’t been realized yet. The problem is that I don’t think anything that we’ve seen today is really a magic bullet in [...]

Shopping Goes Social

Charline Li, co-author of “Groundswell” and a thought leader on social and emerging technologies made some predictions for 2009 that included one for Social Shopping…

StyleHop – not a boring, Amazon-like ratings engine

Social Media expert, Noa Gafni, recently covered us in her blog, Webutantes.

Interview with StyleHop’s founder, David Reinke

I’ll be giving a product demo of StyleHop at Web2NewYork’s networking party tomorrow, November 18th. Here is an interview I did with Web2NewYork’s Peter Verkooijen:

The Social Life of Shopping

Everyone is talking online about “creating community” within social networks for their brands.  It’s starting to sound hollow isn’t it? Here is a link about the topic with my comment directly below. The value of social networking and fashion shopping goes well beyond providing a sense of connectedness.  The truth is, shopping for fashion is [...]

Enterprise 2.0 and StyleHop

I was at Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference last week in New York.  As far as I know he coined the term 2.0.  Recently, he wrote an insightful post that suggests there are three things that explain everything you need to know about web2.0 as it relates to the enterprise. For those of you trying [...]

Fashion 2.0 Group Started in NYC

For those of you that don’t know how the NY Fashion 2.0 Group started, last month I posted on NextNY about how many times I had attended tech events that promised the potential to meet lots of VCs/Angels only to be disappointed by the lack of investor presence. Charlie O’Donnell, founder of NextNY and CEO [...]

The Business of Fashion

Along with a lot of other fashion executives, I’m a big fan of Imran Amed’s blog The Business of Fashion. Without ever betraying the centrality of design, Imran tackles the top business topics of the fashion industry with a fresh, global perspective. Back in February, Imran interviewed me for a post featuring StyleHop. The exchange [...]