Thursday, May 29, 2008

Where the readers are (maybe?): Polyvore.com

I can't quite get my head around how this works or if it works, but it's an interesting take on social networking that seems to have teen appeal. Polyvore.com is combination of fashion, shopping, and social networking recently launched by a Yahoo! alum. Basically, a browser plug-in allows you to snag web images (particularly of clothes, apparently) and combine them into sets, like this:



Why do I know about this? Because Laurie Stolarz discovered that a user had made a set for Blue is for Nightmares. And there are Stephenie Meyer sets. It does not appear that anyone has made a set for Feed.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How cool! We made collages kinda like these on empty wine bottles when we were in high school. (My bottles were covered with pictures of Bono and Sting.)

Anonymous said...

It's spelled Stephenie Meyer. Stephenie with an E, not an A.