Launches today at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam is Fashiolista, a fashion portal aims to inspire women, help them find fabulous articles and share their style.With experience in building social shopping platforms for electronics, Fashiolista concept took shape in During the summer of 2009. Forming an advisory board for fashion chicks they Fashiolista team set to work researching their target market, consulting fashion bibles Vogue and Elle, forcing them into a certain mindset before realizing his vision with the launch of Fashiolista.com.Fashiolista about the social side of fashion. Each item on Fashiolista website is handpicked by the members who are affectionately called "Fashiolistas". Choosing products a Fashiolista have to install a special browser bookmarklet that once installed, allows the user to start loving or favouriting clothing and accessories for top fashion websites like ASOS, Topshop, H & M, Mango and many others . When a Fashiolista have picked their goods, so other users could see them and give them more love. If a garment receiving enough attention is the finding appears in public, so other users can see what's hot in Fashiolista website.Users is able to monitor and track individual updates, free ding people who they believe to have great sense of fashion . A user may suddenly find they have been an inspiration to hundreds of different people.Fashiolista not require visitors to Fashiolistas get the most out of his website that it is still very easy to find and be inspired by some of the choices downloading. Items are individually tagged to the mere discovery of records, but trace detection of different users reap the most rewards, especially when Fashiolista emails you a weekly fashion update identify what is hot and whats not, as adopted by the people you follow.Photos by Anne Helmond More The Next Web conference photos on Flickr. For more, follow TNW Apps on Twitter, Buzz, and Facebook. Follow TNW network on Twitter, Buzz, and Facebook for all our top historier.Russisk Ecwid startup says it can let you add a shop to your own website, blog or Facebook page. The company, whose name is an abbreviation for "e-commerce widgets," has made shopping cart software for some years, and based on this experience, founder Ruslan Fazlyev am convinced that software as Ecwid is the future of shopping software small-scale sellers. Such "sellsumers" has a growing presence online as a success of sites like Etsy can bevidne.Ecwid is the kind of tool my friend Hilary could use. She has recently made a knitted "sock" to an iPhone (pictured) and posted a picture of the wonderful item on Facebook. It got an immediate positive reaction from her Facebook friends, and she started to make socks bedizened with different patterns and colors. If she wants to sell them on a small scale, she can send them on websites such as Etsy or Ebay. But if she wants to open a shop of his own, would Ecwid give her this opportunity in the form of a series of free html widgets. The widgets allow small sellers core functionality of a web shop, including product catalog, shopping cart, customer management, payments, delivery and ordrestyring.Ecwid integrate an Ajax shopping interface for almost any website or blog, including WordPress, Blogger, etc. as well as many social networking sites like Facebook. Vendors can receive payment via Paypal or Google Checkout and delivery via UPS or DHL among andre.Af Ecwid's 10,000 beta users, 41 percent U.S. and 35 percent are based in Europe. At TheNextWeb conference today, the company announced that is out of beta and has launched a premium version. Premium costs $ 17 per month and allows sellers to offer a larger number of products, promotions and other more advanced funktioner.Konkurrenter includes Pavement on Facebook and open source software like Magento (for larger scale stores) and Shopify (subscription model with no free version). Ecwid was launched in Sep 2009th It has a team of 12 and is selvfinansieret.Næste Story: HP Palm examine evidence Bono is no boon to Elevation Partners Previous Story: HP's agreement with Palm will change the mobile computing landscape
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Adam Murray