Would you pay to Tweet?
October 15, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Technology
You know Twitter. At this time everybody knows it. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Okay let’s highlight the word free. Now if tomorrow you logged on to Twitter and were suddenly informed that it was now a premium service that was charging $1/month (ongoing) or $10/year to access the service, how would you react? Let’s say you had 30 days to make-up your mind and/or backup your stuff. After that, your account was unavailable – unless you paid.
The company confirms — for the first time we’ve seen, at least — age-old theories that they’ll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using the social media.
Twitter is easily worth $1/month to me. Twitter has an estimated 25 million users, and if everybody saw things like I do that would mean quarter-of-a-billion dollars of revenue per annum. Sure, I’d like to see that money invested back into Twitter.
On the other hand it will lose all that underground smell that we all love about micro-blogging on Twitter. But just like anywhere else in this world. It’s all about the money
Lindsay Lohan brings buzz to Paris fashion
October 15, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Fashion and Beauty
Lindsay Lohan
The “Mean Girls” star was signed as the artistic adviser for French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro in September and just weeks later she debuted her first range at Paris Fashion Week.
Dressed in a white mini dress and red heels, the actress sparked a paparazzi frenzy at the Louvre museum where the show was held, creating exactly the kind of buzz executives at Ungaro had been hoping for.
Fashion critics, however, looked aghast at Lohan’s bra tops and stripper-inspired nipple pasties.
“We both love fashion, the different aspects, different generations, different styles from around the world, we like to mix everything up,” Lohan told reporters backstage in a joint interview with Ungaro designer Estrella Archs.
The thigh-skimming dresses in peach, hot pink and white seemed designed for a Malibu Beach party, while sparkling nipple pasties flashing from underneath loose blazers were a reminder of Lohan’s own occasional wardrobe mishaps.
“It’s not good to show your nipples so they should be covered,” Lohan told Reuters, referring to the heart-shaped pasties.
But her appearance was also a reminder of the risks faced by luxury brands who tie their image to that of a celebrity.
When reporters asked her about her love of scandal, Lohan frowned and snapped: “That’s an unnecessary question.”