From a “Fall Wish List” to “Trends We Love: Tassels,” Nordstrom uses Pinterest to feature the hottest lines in their seasonal collections, as well as exposing followers to their picks for the best items on sale in stores that match the current fashion trends. Why It Works: It exposes customers to specific products the brand is trying to push, similar to a features column in a fashion magazine. Chris March is an outlandish fashion designer made famous on Project Runway. How It Works. If it sounds like fun, it is! How Brands Are Involved. Chris March. MORE >>

Tweet So, a rumour says that Yahoo is   shutting down Delicious … or not. David Armano says that 2010 was the year that you went where the people were; 2011 will be the year where social functionality makes websites fashionable once again. Cue a mass exodus as many people, including myself, look for ways to back-up thousands of bookmarks they’ve saved over the years. They also look to backup their photos on Flickr, as people realize that site may not be a sure thing after all. Because this is one of the busiest times of year for many brands. So: Spread it around. MORE >>

G+ , an online community of professionals, academics, and entrepreneurs, assembled the detailed infographic below that clearly lays out the financial picture of social media companies in an easily-understandable way — it covers the history and valuation information for Skype , Delicious , Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Color Labs , makers of Color (a location-based photo-sharing app) in a very understandable fashion. Are we experiencing a tech bubble in shares of social media companies? billion. billion. Groupon may value its IPO at $15-20 billion. billion. Save and Share. MORE >>

And while Google+ has begun as a social platform that acts a bit like Twitter and a bit like Facebook, it has the ultimate potential: to be able to bring these disparate parts together in a much more integrated fashion. For your convenience, I have compiled all of these resources, as well as a number of others with a Google+ tag on my Delicious page. In case you're coming out from the rock you've been living under for the summer, Google+ arrived on our digital doorsteps in early July - but only for limited field testing. The analytics alone would be enough to catch my attention. MORE >>

fashion? Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Google (and Yahoo) brought opportunities to the online retail. Location Based Services will bring promising opportunities to offline shopping. Much has been said about recommendation sites and smart engines as Pandora, Netflix, Amazon and Google. Looking back at the last ten years – recommendation engines started with item comparison. Research has also shown a strong link between social comparison and peer communication about consumption. To be tested: 1. MORE >>