July 2010
WatchVideo and my write-up of Imran’s live conversation with @netaporter founder Natalie Massenet: Fashion Pioneers | Natalie Massenet Says to Create the Future, Follow the Consumer via The Business of Fashion
LVMH profit beats estimate on rising fashion sales... →
Amazon Friends Facebook for Product Preferences →
“Amazon’s spokeswoman said the effort was about pulling customers’ likes and interests from their profiles to generate personalized recommendations.”
What Fashion Brands Can Learn from Nike →
My latest Fashion 2.0 piece for BoF on integrating digital technology into the core product offering.
A question for publishers: Where does brand... →
Great article on the atomization of content, brand fragmentation and the limits of paywalls via The Nieman Journalism Lab
Conde Nast names new president and openly seeks... →
The company named Robert A. Sauerberg, who had been group president for consumer marketing, to be its new president, a role that had belonged to Charles H. Townsend.
Mr. Sauerberg’s primary responsibility will be to shift Conde Nast toward a model revolving around digital connections with consumers, using emerging technology and better serving advertisers, according to a company statement.
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“Consumers [have] come to expect a much more active role in the content they...”
– Elie Ofek, professor of marketing and innovation at Harvard Business School
The chic learn to click →
Overall, luxury firms are digital laggards, but some are catching up via @TheEconomist
Handy Light, secret iPhone tethering app →
How a 15-yo Kid Tricked Apple With a Disguised iPhone Tethering App via suchmann
Fashion Magazines Embracing Digital →
Coming this fall: enhanced shopping apps, QR codes and Foursquare experiences from InStyle, W and others.
Google Makes Major Semantic Web Play →
As of today, Metaweb, maker of Freebase and a leader in the Semantic Web, has joined forces with Google … “It could not be bigger, because really, we had the biggest company on the Web buy the biggest player in the Semantic Web space.”
