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Rich Ottum’s online marketing blog, The eStrategyOne Buzz comments on Stylehive’s collaborative shopping community.

Max Kiesler published a demo video of Stylehive’s bookmarklet feature on his DesignDemo blog. The DesignDemo video steps the viewer thru a demo on how to create a bookmark and save it into the Stylehive. The movie will give you a brief overview of Stylehive’s compelling user experience.  Thanks Max!

March Madness, the annual NCAA basketball tournament pits top college basketball teams against one another.  During the frenzied playoffs, top teams are narrowed during a staged single elimination format. Since it’s beginnings in 1930 the tournament holds a legacy of dynasty teams and underdog winners. A countless number of office pools drain the American economy of thousands of productive work hours topping $237 million. With the massification of the iPod into consumer media habits, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs decided to offer the 2006 men’s March Madness tournament games on demand. Distributed by CBS’s College Sports TV, the games…

Stella McCartney for Adidas, one of the most ingenious and successful brand collaborations in sports apparel history, has launched a new line for Spring 2006. The collection repeats its sport performance focus featuring tennis wear, footwear, apparel and accessories.  The Spring/Summer 2006 collection was released in mid-February and combines function, performance, style, as well as “an element of cheeky femininity”, according to Stella herself. With the rise of stylish superstars such as Anna Kournikova, tennis has become a sport for the fashion crowd.  Key pieces include cropped jackets, fitted polo shirts, pleated skirts and layered dresses.  The colors…

Frank Gruber features the Stylehive on his blog, Somewhat Frank - a candid perspective on technology, business and other aspects of life.  Frank writes about the coincidence of watching Project Runway with his girlfriend and finding Project Runway products and the blog posting on the Stylehive.  We love how he calls our site “amazingly slick” with a “clean and creative design”.  Thanks Frank!

What is there not to love about Treehugger? It’s a blog founded on the principles of eco-friendly modern design. Nominated for “Best Overall Blog of the Year” and “Best Topical Weblog” at the 2006 Bloggies and part of the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin. The winners were announced on Monday…we kept our fingers crossed, but to our dismay Treehugger didn’t take home the grand prize.  You’re still a grand prize winner in our book, Treehugger! Treehugger gives us insight into the best eco-friendly products for everyday living. Current product reviews include the best eco-friendly diapers, the Di Blasi…

The latest celebrity beauty trend is customized makeup. Custom false eyelashes are all the rage among beauty A-listers including Jennifer Lopez, Madonna and Oprah Winfrey.  Madonna, the queen of reinvention, and the ultimate fashion risk-taker flaunts Shu Uemura’s crisscross design diamante lashes lined with genuine diamonds in her new music videos and on the cover of her new single, “Sorry”.  Gina Brooke, Madonna’s makeup artist and artistic director for Shu Uemura personally requested 10 different pairs to go with each of Madonna’s costume changes for her Reinvention tour.  The recent phenomenon in false eyelashes is a driver in…

Paris’ newest multi-brand superstore, the Montaigne Market is a plethora of the world’s most coveted fashion brands. The international multimarque features over 80 hand-picked designers from across the globe. Owner Alain Celhay’s clients “mix and match,” according to Women’s Wear Daily. They may choose a Zac Posen trench to wear with a James Perse T-shirt and True Religion jeans. Featured brands include Alice Temperley, Me & Ro Jewelry, Mayle, Lutz & Patmos, Behnaz Sarafpour, Marc Jacobs, and many more. Think Jeffrey New York (a hip mini department store located in New York’s Meat Packing District), with a refined French sensiblity.…

Reuben Steiger, Evangelist for Linden Labs (creators of the virtual community Second LIfe) reviewed the Stylehive in his blog. We’re thrilled that Reuben sees the Stylehive as not just another Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Site, but as a cool, graphical and shopping-focused resource that appeals to even his wife.  Reuben has been bookmarking like mad, check out his bookmarks here. We especially love the Ecoist handbags made from recycled candy wrappers he chose.

Malaysian company Advance Tech Communications is cooking up a new prototype device named M.A.G.I.C. (Mobile Advanced Global Integrated Communicator.) Professed to be the most powerful Windows smart phone yet, this handheld boasts a built-in 8GB hard drive, 512 MB RAM and the fastest ever processor found in a phone - a whopping 624MHz with a graphic accelerator.  This task master also packs in WiFi, GPS, dual QVGA displays, dual 2 mega pixel cameras, QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, EDGE, IrDA infrared, and whew…a VGA output allowing you to send your video to an external monitor. Road warriors can…

Last Spring, the shoe of the moment was the wedge, and that wedge morphed into the espadrille sandal and that sandal has morphed into the platform wedge for Spring 2006. As shoe trends go the wedge platform looks like it is hear to stay. The uniform for Spring is just-above-the-knee, high waisted full-skirted dresses a’la Chloe and Marni paired with and chunky wedge platforms. Platform wedges are also smart when paired with slightly cropped straight cut jeans (in a dark wash). Here’s a round up of the season’s hottest platform wedges: We can thank Phoebe Philo,…

After a year of effort we are happy to open our doors today and let the world view what we’ve been working on. The Stylehive is the place where “social bookmarking” and shopping merge.  We have created the hive as a place where you can find hot products, places and trends. Stylehive will also help you connect to and track others who are obsessed with the products and brands you covet. The Stylehive is a community where working together we can deliver a greater variety of products and shopping ideas than any other information source in…

Delight is one serious shopping blog. As a social shopping site, we are constantly on the prowl for sources of shopping inspiration. One of our favorite sites for fabulous new products is Delight.com. Delight is fluent in both the ultra luxe and everyday chic, it’s a must-see resource for discovery of new products, hot steals and new retail destinations. Be sure to sign up for SCOOP the bi-weekly newsletter, you’ll get the inside on new shops, special offers, plus exclusive promotions and contests just for SCOOP subscribers. Founded by online media and entertainment industry veteran, Lynda Keeler, Delight…

According to The New York Times, Project Runway is “the Prada of reality shows.” Filled with fashion, models, celebrities and of course, high drama, Project Runway is the most addicting fashion reality show on television.  The prize is a chance to show at New York Fashion Week, a Banana Republic mentorship, an ELLE fashion spread, and $100,000.  Hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum, judges include renowned fashion designer Michael Kors and ELLE Magazine Fashion Director, Nina Garcia.  Each challenge assigned to the contestants pushes their individual creativity (and nerves!) to the limit.  For example, one of Season Two’s challenges…

Ben Rowe reviewed Stylehive on his blog on March 8th. We appreciate the article titled “Social bookmarking goes shopping with Stylehive”. We appreciate the mention, Ben.