StyleFeeder wins Golden Link Award:
StyleFeeder, the personal shopping engine, has been awarded the Golden Link Technology Genius award by LinkShare, a leading pay-per-action marketing network. The Golden Link awards recognize achievements in e-commerce and the partnerships that drive performance-based marketing. Honorees for this year’s awards were announced on June 23, 2008 at The Plaza in New York City.
StyleFeeder wins MITX Award for 2008:
“For The Year 2008: Welcome to the Hall of Champions. Congratulations to the 2008 MITX Technology Awards….”
StyleFeeder Named 2008 Hall of Famer by Marketing Sherpa “StyleFeeder. MarketingSherpa Summary: Social networks are fertile ground for viral seeds. Facebook users, for instance, love applications and are quick to share them with friends. StyleFeeder had this in mind when it created a product suggestion app for Facebook to expand its user base. Less than a year after launch, the app passed the milestone of 1 million installations.”
“StyleFeeder.com, the personal shopping engine, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of its Northeast 100 Top Private Companies. Receiving hundreds of nominations for this year’s list, the first-annual Northeast 100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the list, companies in the Northeastern United States had to be creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets, demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technology in a key sector.”
“Personal shopping engine StyleFeeder.com has launched an open API that “allows social media developers to create third-party applications, widgets and integrate StyleFeeder’s key functionality into any e-commerce website.”
“While Amazon and eBay may dominate shopping in most of the Web universe, things are still up for grabs on planet Facebook. There, the leading shopping application is from a two-year-old Cambridge, MA, startup called StyleFeeder. More than half a million people have made StyleFeeder’s shopping app part of their Facebook profiles—which is about 50 times as large as the Facebook user base claimed by the nearest competitor, eBay.”
“StyleFeeder, a social shopping site that aims to do for the retail sector what StumbleUpon did for browsing or Last.fm did for music, has announced that it’s pulled in $2 million in Series A venture funding from Highland Capital Partners and Schooner Capital”
“Personal shopping tool StyleFeeder has just secured another $2 million in Series A financing from Highland Capital Partners and Schooner Capital. These are the same investors that provided StyleFeeder’s seed round last year, which was for $1 million. Since that seed round of funding, StyleFeeder has seen some significant growth on both its main website and its Facebook application, which has reportedly become the largest shopping app on Facebook.”
1 minute news segment as part of Data Stream
“StyleFeeder recently launched a personal shopper tool, which made me think it was a good time to sit down with Phil Jacob and his team to get a more in-depth look at the product and the technology.”
“StyleFeeder, the social shopping site, is launching a Personal Shopper tool today for you to shop online with your friends. It’s fortuitous timing, with the social shopping site Kaboodle having just been acquired and other media companies likely looking to buy.”
” I just hired a personal shopper. I did, honest! Only, it’s not an actual human being — it’s the StyleFeeder Personal Shopper, an interactive shopping assistant. The online tool helps you narrow down your potential purchases. Think of it as the super-organized gal’s shopping buddy. You can even connect live with your real friends and other fellow fashion mavens to help you make your shopping decisions. It’s as if you’re shopping with your girlfriends”
“The shopping niche has seen increasing activity in recent months. On Wednesday, StyleFeeder, a social shopping site, launched a browser plug-in that adds social networking features to online shopping.”
“The sites include StyleFeeder.com, Crowdstorm.com and Kaboodle. They are as much about personal taste and online conversation as they are about buying itself, although no products are sold on the sites.”
“Hot for 2007: StyleFeeder
StyleFeeder is new to the scene, and has a strong offering - we think it could get traction in 2007.”
“Ashton Peery, chief executive officer of Top10 Media, takes the target-marketing approach even further with StyleFeeder, a shopping-focused social network. On StyleFeeder, users post products they like and find friends who like the same items or share a similar style. Products posted are linked to online merchants selling the items. StyleFeeder gets a cut of all purchases from recommendations. “When people want to get business done, they want a social site that is much more targeted,” says Peery.”
“You can’t buy friendship. But Philip Jacob of Watertown thinks you can shop for it. That’s why Jacob started StyleFeeder, a new website that lets people create a new kind of online community, by bookmarking items from their favorite online shopping sites. Jacob and others are hoping to repeat the success of social networking websites like MySpace by launching a social bookmarking site. At these sites, users sign up free of charge. Then they post links to their favorite sites, and share those links with friends, family members, or total strangers with similar tastes.”
“Stylefeeder is a shopping community site with a focus on the familiar trappings of social bookmarking sites. To say Stylefeeder is just a social bookmarking site focused on shopping is not entirely accurate. It is that, but because the bookmarks are products and because the community is public, Stylefeeder is actually a shopping site in its own right. Stylefeeder is the shopaholics friend, rather than trying to maintain a wishlist on Amazon, Yahoo and others, you can keep everything in one place. Stylefeeder offers a nice bookmarklet for your browser’s toolbar. When you’re on a site that has something you’d like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed. The bookmarklet features a nice piece of Javascript that lets you select any image on the bookmarked page to use for that bookmark. It’s so dead simple even your grandmother could use it.”
“Watertown resident Philip Jacob is giving online shopping a new look. The e-commerce entrepreneur created the Web site StyleFeeder.com, which combines the feel of blogs and social networking sites like MySpace.com, into a shopping soundboard. The site allows registered users to download images of products… “
“StyleFeeder Launches Online Personal Shopper. Social Shopping `Assistant` Lets People Shop with Friends Online.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 8 — StyleFeeder, the online social shopping site, announces StyleFeeder Personal Shopper - the best way to go shopping online with friends. Available in beta at www.stylefeeder.com, the highly interactive, intelligent shopping assistant brings the social aspects of the in-store experience to your computer. Combining unlimited shopping choices and the ability to connect live with friends, fashion mavens, or other StyleFeeder users means shoppers will always have trusted advice to help make the best purchase decisions. And the StyleFeeder Personal Shopper travels with shoppers across the Web, working on all of their favorite sites.”
“StyleFeeder, a destination site for online shoppers, today announced that it is the first social shopping site to bring self-expression of style and personality to all three major social networking sites – Facebook, MySpace and Friendster. StyleFeeder, a shopping community where users can track the products they like, rate products added by others and receive recommendations tailored to their tastes, has launched a widget compatible with each of these online communities. This personal “StyleFeed” allows shopping fanatics to create virtual wishlists that can be imported to personalized profile pages, serving as a visual communication of personal style to their friends and visitors.”
“Top10 Media, Inc., a family of social networking properties dedicated to creating value in the areas of publishing and retail, today announced that it has successfully completed a financing round of $3.5 million led by Highland Capital Partners with the participation of Schooner Capital and other investors. Headed by an experienced executive team including President Ashton Peery and Chairman John Palfrey, Top10 Media has leveraged this financing to acquire Blogniscient, an expert content ranking and aggregation service, and will use the proceeds to manage and grow the company’s current properties, including Top10 Sources and StyleFeeder.”
