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For instance, Fiber One Chewy will sponsor a board on the Pinterest page of Hungry Girl, which began as an e-mail newsletter in 2004. About a million people now receive the newsletter each day, and there is also a Hungry Girl Web site. General Mills had earlier turned to Hungry Girl to promote Fiber One products like cereal, yogurt and snack bars. This is "the first time Fiber One has done anything with Pinterest," said Julia Travis, associate marketing manager for Fiber One at General Mills in Golden Valley, Minn. "We know Pinterest is such a growing space, and wanted to test the waters," she added, particularly because "food is one of the top Pinterest categories." The idea is to reach "moms who are pinning fun and creative snacking ideas on their Pinterest boards," Ms. Travis said, and "re-pinning their ideas onto the Fiber One-sponsored board on the Hungry Girl Pinterest site," which will be called Fiber One Chewy Snack Champs. Those Pinterest users whose ideas are selected to appear on the board will receive a badge recognizing them as "Snack Champs."

Much Music, along with Degrassi production firm Epitome Pictures, worked with Badgeville to develop the MuchCloser features. Swierszcz stressed the appeal of Badgeville's approach, which he said focuses on rewards psychology. "If you don't do this properly, cultivate your users, and bring people back after they've left for three weeks...it's useless," he said. And, because Badgeville works like a plugin, MuchCloser users stay on the site. "All rewards happen on our platform so we can monetize them and keep them in our world. We want people coming to our site engaging with Degrassi, not someone else's." The API approach also enables Much Music to incorporate data it has on user interactions on other platforms like Twitter, to get a more holistic view.

French CitéGreen, a site that rewards participants with points - redeemable for gifts and discounts - whenever they perform actions that are good for the environment.  consumers simply register for free and indicate what types of actions they'd like to have rewarded - carpooling or recycling, for example. Through its partnerships with local communities and relevant agencies, CitéGreen then accounts for each action automatically

According to the company, EverShare provides everything an online retailer needs to take full advantage of frictionless sharing on both Facebook and the ecommerce site . Features include: The ability to initiate and manage the perpetual flow of user content from the ecommerce site to Facebook; Privacy controls for the consumer; A social merchandising page much like Pinterest and Fab.com/feed that displays trending products based on what shoppers are saying about them; An activity stream that incentivizes more social sharing activities among shoppers.

food blog Eater started dating site around the HowAboutWe formula (partnership)

The store is the company's first venture into mobile commerce. American Apparel says it chose to start with Japan because many Japanese consumers-especially teenagers, American Apparel's target market-are comfortable shopping from their phones.

"On Smartphone-Optimized Sites, Black Friday Sales Up 187%, Thanksgiving Sales Up 258% Over Last Year"

instead of using ctrl + f to find information in a document... yolink searches a site, and the information behind the links on the site to show you all the relevant info, and the relevant info that is linked in. you can then share and save the info it finds for you. daily 7.26

Google is giving users the ability to block sites that annoy them from ever showing up again in their search results, via a new link next to search results.

site that lets you send in old bridesmaid dresses for a discount up to 50% off of a black dress on their site

Harry Potter e-books site Pottermore.com officially launches in October, but a "Magical Quill" contest that grants one million winners access to the beta site is drawing massive traffic. And beta accounts are popping up on eBay. For each of the seven days, a clue will be posted on the Pottermore homepage, leading those who solve it to the "Magical Quill"-the opportunity to register for early access to the site. A limited number of people are able to register each day, and the competition is designed to keep them glued to the site-though some winners immediately began selling their early-access accounts on eBay. (The bidding on one account is now up to $152.50.)

The online auction site has launched Fashion Outlet, a virtual outlet mall in the US, allowing shoppers anytime to access discounted designer fashion.The new site extends eBay's selection of clothing, shoes and accessories with deals on merchandise direct from a collection of brands and top retailers, including Neiman Marcus Last Call, BCBG, Spanx, Brooks Brothers, Reeds Jewelers, Jockey, William Rast, Fila, Timberland, Custo Barcelona, Hanes, among others.

users are presented with more relevant discounted products the more they interact with the site.  they make recommendations based on what you like and dislike.

But at Tumblr, at least, there's something else very interesting going on: according to Karp, there are 9 curators for every creator on his site. Reblogging, on Tumblr, is so easy that the vast majority of Tumblr sites actually create little or no original content: they just republish content from other people. That's a wonderful thing, for two reasons. Firstly, it takes people who are shy about (or just not very good at) creating their own content, and gives them a great way to express themselves online. (As Arianna Huffington says, "self-expression is the new entertainment".) And secondly, it acts as a natural amplifier for the people who do create original content - the average post on Tumblr gets reblogged nine times, and therefore reaches vastly more people than if it just sat on its original site waiting to be discovered by people visiting it directly.

Video Q&A site focuses on conversational videos

Music-based dating site

another portfolio site like gap

will help filter porn sites if it passes through