Office by Alex Penny
Articles on the future of beauty/cosmetics/fashion and how social media affects engagement.
The Story Of Cosmetics (2010)
Digital Producer with great project management skills and creative sensibility. Strong app development and working experience with social media technical platforms. Must have solid experience actually managing and executing consumer social media campaigns.
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New York-based 3floz is an online boutique that sells beauty and grooming products in TSA-approved sizes only.
Launched in February, 3floz offers a range of luxury skin and hair care products for men and women, all in travel-friendly sizes of 3 fluid ounces (100 ml) or less.
Read more here at Springwise
Where Trendstop’s Trendtracker delivers fashion forecasts to anyone with a mobile phone, UK-based Stylesignal just announced a like-minded app for its subscribers that’s delivered on the brand-new iPad.
Read full article here at Springwise.com
Six famous models, each representing separate fashion magazines, are doing a “beauty tour” with Shiseido’s products. Check out site here (in Japanese)
Apple’s back on the marketing trail to promote the iPhone 3GS.
Today’s iPhone ad focuses around the shopping experience and how the iPhone can help. Of course, it promotes the iPhone’s web browsing capabilities, SMS/MMS interface, and its thousands of apps — the Red Laser barcode-reading app gets some prime placement.
Radio frequency identification tag that can be printed directly onto products eg, clothing tags.
“You could run your cart by a detector and it tells you instantly what’s in the cart,” says James M. Tour of Rice University, whose research group invented the ink. “No more lines, you just walk out with your stuff.”
Can you imagine the amount of shopping you could do with this technology?
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/rfid/#ixzz0jsYHsaIf
You know those moments when you don’t have your friends opinion or you cant trust the shop assistant when you need that second opinion? Justbough.it is the tool to help you make it.
Justbought.it lets you find cool items by connecting you with people with similar taste and style as yours and by recommending stores tailored to your shopping patterns.
Heavy Apple branding on this site. There is iPhone app and a chance to win a iPad. The a Android will include an augmented reality app that lets users walk into a store and see what others on the site have already purchased, the company says. Ultimately, Justbought.it hopes to forge partnerships with online retailers to enable tweets on the site whenever consumers buy something, according to a report on Mashable.
The logo reminds me or Milka or Cadbury’s Chocolate.
Springwise.com article here
