Posted in Amazon, Nike, Puma, Ryz, Vanns, Web 2.0, adidas, crowd sourcing, ecommerce, film festival, open sourcing, threadless, wisdom of crowds on Sunday, 6 July 2008, 8:32 am | No Comments »
Ryz, the Portland-based community sourcing Web 2.0 sneaker eCommerce site that I’ve written about before is live in Beta! At least 3 cool designs are available for purchase. These sneaker designs were chosen as winning designs from amongst hundreds submitted by the masses. Going forward, the masses get to vote on the designs. And the [...]
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UPDATE: 3 June 2008: Ryz is running their first footwear design contest. Ryz’s footwear designs are “community-sourced”: would-be designers download a template, fill it in, have their designs voted on, winning designs are actually produced. And winners get US$1,000 for winning design, plus US$1 royalty on each shoe produced. Pretty cool. Deadline is 9 June. [...]
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Posted in Flash, Web 2.0, ecommerce, humor, joy of use, web video on Friday, 15 February 2008, 12:59 pm | No Comments »
This is the funniest and cleverest use of Flash I’ve ever seen, from e-retailer Hema in Holland. Takes about 60 seconds. Crank your speakers and play it all the way through. (Good clean “Rated G” humor you can play at work.)
Filed under “Web 2.0″ for “joy of use” and “video”.
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