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- Polyvore's Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect
- Indiagames To Launch New Cricket Gaming iPhone App
- First Release of Crunchies Awards Ceremony Tickets. Grab Em Fast.
| Polyvore's Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect | Top |
| 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. Armed with $7 million in funding, Polyvore has recently forged partnerships with brands like Calvin Klein, Barney’s, Lancome, Zappos Marc Jacobs, and the Gap to create branded collages that the Polyvore community of users can then share and buy from. Many of these brands use Polyvore’s technology to create contests for users.The startup collects revenue in these partnerships and also sees returns from affiliate fees when users buy And users can now share their branded “sets” via Facebook and Twitter, serving as social advertisements for designers and fashion companies. Polyvore says 30,000 sets are created daily on the site. Launched in 2007, the startup just raised $5.6 million in funding. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
| Indiagames To Launch New Cricket Gaming iPhone App | Top |
| One of India’s most popular gaming platforms Indiagames is launching a nifty new Cricket iPhone app, called Cricket T20 Fever. Cricket is hugely popular in India and the new app will be a feature rich gaming app that will aim to simulate the experience of playing the sport and competing against other players. The game will launch first on the iPhone and as a PC browser based game and within a few months be available on additional platforms like Symbian, Symbian, Maemo, PSP, Xbox Live Arcade and Nintendo DSi. And the app will feature Facebook Connect. Indiagames has already released a number of mobile cricket apps, including its Cricket T20 World Championship app. Initially Indiagames plans to launch a free version of the game on App Store and a Paid Premium version but will also be experimenting with microtransactions with the app. While cricket doesn’t have a significant fan base in the U.S., the sport has a huge following in other parts of the world, such as India. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
| First Release of Crunchies Awards Ceremony Tickets. Grab Em Fast. | Top |
| The first batch of 150 tickets to attend the Crunchies Awards celebrating the best tech accomplishments of 2009 are on sale now , courtesy of Eventbrite. The Crunchies Awards will be held at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm PST. Orchestra seats are $75 and Balcony seats are $45. Along with our co-hosts, GigaOm and VentureBeat , we will announce the winners from 18 different award categories live on stage. We welcome back the Richter Scales as part of our evening’s festivities. Year one, the Richter Scales delighted us with a live version of Here Comes Another Bubble … turns out they were right because last year the acapella group had to console us with You Gotta Have Heart . Lets hope they can predict a promising 2010. Other special guest appearances and surprises are in the works for ceremony guests. Orchestra and balcony tickets include access to the after party hosted across the street in City Hall’s Grand Rotunda through midnight. There will be a sponsor-hosted bar, savory nibbles and desserts, music and a game room, featuring a mix of traditional and online games to play. Check out more party photos from 2008 and 2007 . There are plenty of ways to sponsor and support the after-party energy. Contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde if you'd like to sponsor: card-game tables, demo tables, photo booths or walls, drinks or food, giveaways and prizes and the like. We have creative packages available in all shapes and sizes. Room for award benefactors and entertainment sponsors for the ceremony too. We could also use some volunteer help. First, we’d love some official event photographers, both for the ceremony and after party. Please contact us if you have high energy, a sharp eye and would like to volunteer to support the community. We also need a handful of student volunteers to help with set-up and admissions. Please contact contact Gene if you’d like to be a volunteer. Thank you. Remember that voting is open through midnight PST, Wednesday, January 6. Everyone is eligible and encouraged to vote daily for their favorite people, products and companies of the year. Hope to see you there. FINALISTS: Please contact us asap so we can get you set up with your two complimentary passes to attend. UPDATE: The first batch of tickets sold out quickly. Our final ticket releases will be Monday, December 28 and Wednesday, December 30 at 12 pm PST. Additional details here . Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
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