Designers Need Monies for Hair Fair Yard Sale Saturday, Jun 20 2009

With officially 3 and a half hours until Hair Fair 2009 opens to the public, a group of designers has realized “ZOMG! we need monies for hair!”

In honor of the once a year occassion of the grid being blessed with an orgy of new hair to satisfy the masses, a group of us designers have organized a 12 hour “we’re insane” sale.

Fatpacks for 100L or less. All items marked WAY WAY down until 9am SLT Saturday morning.

You’ll find amazing deals from:
BOOM
Slash Me Poses
Silhouette
Waffle Hair
ModdG
AddiCt
Mudhoney
Bohica
Meya
NSD
and more…

TP To the Yard Sale!

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Waffle Hair is YUMMY! Wednesday, Jun 10 2009

I was standing around in IMs at the evening room, and noticed I wasn’t alone. Across the room stood Lu Waffle in all of her cuteness. Me being me, of course had to let her know that she was beyond adorable and especially her hair was the bee’s knees.

Imagine my surprise when she sent the hair in a scrummy buttery blonde. Within a half an hour of her passing along the requested landmark, I’d purchased most of the inventory in her small shop, and had to share. The textures are great (especially for a blonde texture snob that I know I am) and the chocolate color is perfect for all you brunettes out there. Keep an eye open for the special freebie and 100L fatpack directly in front of the entrance.

Most of the styles include a resize script and are no mod, but a few styles are still mod for manual fitting. A couple also include scripted color change hair bows. Definitely worth checking out. TP to Waffle Hair

Other Credits:
Shape: Silhouette -APRIL
Skin: June DayLilly (Petal)
Lashes: Silhouette – Sparse
Eyes: Silhouette – Reflections BlueTrue

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Advertising on FashionFeedofSL.com Tuesday, Apr 28 2009

I know, I know…it’s another post about advertising. Everyone seems to be offering advertising nowadays, so how do you know if using your advertising budget on FashionFeedofSL.com is right for you?

• According to Google Analytics, FashionFeedofSL.com has a readership of over 15,000 UNIQUE visitors, and maintains an average of over 2000 Visits a Day. That readership is consistent and never relies on “drama posts” and “shock value” to lure in readers. What does that mean? To put it simply: Your ad on FashionFeedofSL.com has over 2000 chances a day to attract the attention of 15,000 potential fashion savvy customers.
• Which leads me to my second point. The readers of FashionFeedofSL.com are there for one reason. Good quality fashion posts. Not drama and not freebie hunting. FashionFeedofSL.com is filtered and moderated to offer the latest fashion trends, designer releases, and style posts while it cuts out most of the “Days of our SLives” which can certainly be found elsewhere. The search feature makes a fashionista’s next shopping excursion a click away.
• Let’s take a look at some of the other Second Life blog advertisers (FashionFeedofSL.com is that red line that’s shooting off the charts this past month, primarily because of the work I’ve done marketing and building a loyal audience)





• Advertisers on FashionFeedofSL.com now have more options than ever, with new self service access to manage your current campaign. Log in anytime you wish to check the Impression Counts and Click Through values of your ad. Or if you’ve decided you would like to switch out your banner graphic, you can upload the new image at your convenience.
• I’ve expanded the Advertising Offerings with a greater variety of pricing to help meet the needs of any budget:

DEDICATED ADVERTISING BUTTONS (this is the same as what is currently offered)

• 125 by 125 pixel Button Banner in the upper right hand of ALL pages on FashionFeedofSL for a specified period of time
• 100% of the Banner Impressions
• Pricing:
  7 Day Campaign: $2,500L
  15 Day Campaign: $5,000L
  30 Day Campaign: $10,000L
• 10% Discount for Campaigns of 3 months or longer.
• SAMPLE SIZE:

SHARED ADVERTISING BUTTONS (split the advertising cost with multiple designers)

• 125 by 125 pixel Button Banner in the upper right hand of ALL pages on FashionFeedofSL for a specified period of time
• A share of the Banner Impressions (2 advertisers will each get 50% of the ad impressions, 3 advertisers receive 33%)
• FashionFeedofSL.com will automatically rotate the advertisements so that each designer receives an equal share of the visits
• Pricing for 2 Designers (each):
  7 Day Campaign: $1,250L
  15 Day Campaign: $2.500L
  30 Day Campaign: $5,000L
• Pricing for 3 Designers (each):
  7 Day Campaign: $750L
  15 Day Campaign: $1.500L
  30 Day Campaign: $3,000L
• 10% Discount for Campaigns of 3 months or longer.
• SAMPLE SIZE:

SHARED EVENT ADVERTISING

• 250 x 250 pixel Banner announcing a Featured Event
• $250L per day
• SAMPLE SIZE:



If you have any questions at all please feel free to contact me in world (Carissa Crimson) or email me using feed@fashionfeedofsl.com.

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FashionFeedofSL.com Syndication Cleanup Thursday, Apr 2 2009

Last week I posted a list of syndicated blogs that were not linking back to FashionFeedofSL.com.

Thanks to those of you who either pointed out the error on my part, or got your reciprocal link fixed!

That being said, I have removed the following blogs from syndication:

• aibaroque.wordpress.com
• allacohol.blogspot.com/
• ambiance-mode.blogspot.com/
• ashiadesigns.blogspot.com/
• beautifulthings.slmame.com
• benihoni.blogspot.com/
• biancafoulon.wordpress.com
• bijouaholic.blogspot.com/
• blog.secondstyle.com
• blog.thebodypolitik.net/blog1.php
• calliecline.blogspot.com/
• canimal.blogspot.com/
• capollo.blogspot.com/
• chignon.wordpress.com
• clawtoothbyclawtooth.blogspot.com/
• contestcentral.impressionegroup.com
• corduroyshop.wordpress.com
• courtisane-products.blogspot.com/
• darkedenplaza.blogspot.com/
• dragonflydesignsinc.blogspot.com/
• enkythings.blogspot.com/
• fashionascension.wordpress.com
• feliceharuka.blogspot.com/
• fluttermemel.blogspot.com/
• gabby.inworld.sl
• genevievelutetia.wordpress.com
• glamurenastudio.wordpress.com
• ibizarre.wordpress.com
• iconicon.wordpress.com
• jerepublic.blogspot.com/
• karistore.blogspot.com/
• lostangelphotostudio.wordpress.com
• mctoastface.wordpress.com
• meltybritches.blogspot.com/
• mimischoice.blogspot.com/
• muism.blogspot.com/
• musefinejewelry.wordpress.com
• ornamentallifeshop.blogspot.com/
• pixeldustsl.wordpress.com
• pradprathivi.com/fashion
• reelgeek.co.uk/blog
• rezzable.com/taxonomy/term/4/0
• rosemaryoh.livejournal.com/
• royalbluebymarnigrut.blogspot.com/
• runwaykidz.wordpress.com
• secondguru.blogspot.com/
• shithappenssl.com/blog
• sl-maitreya.blogspot.com/
• slasty1.wordpress.com
• slastyeditor.wordpress.com
• teslamiles.blogspot.com/
• theoldturnip.blogspot.com/
• typ.slmame.com
• unclewiggily.slmame.com
• vanityuniverse.wordpress.com
• violetacaproni.blogspot.com/
• virtuelnews.com/avatarhype
• blog.digitdarkes.com/
• launafauna.com/blog
• pinkoutfitters.com/
• sayonemasala.com/
• starley.com/
• victoriav-fashion.de/blog

If you would like your blog to be syndicated on FashionFeedofSL.com again, please resubmit it for review via the “Be Included” form AFTER you have added FashionFeedofSL to your Blog Roll or Links page.

<3 Cari

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FashionFeedofSL.com Housekeeping… Tuesday, Mar 24 2009

I’ve been hacking away at the FashionFeedofSL.com again, and wanted to update on a few things.

1. I’ve FINALLY fixed the issue that’s been driving me batty with the syndication updates getting hung up and some blogspot sources taking hours to get updated. Updates will now happen every60 minutes for each blog.  YAY! (oh and no more memory timeouts)
2. I would love if the readers of FashionFeedofSL could  show their support of the site by helping with the Alexa ranking. Simply install Alexa toolbar plugin to your web browser. You can find it HERE.

A little explanation about why I’m requesting this:

Alexa is a long established service, which is now owned by Amazon. It works like by recording the web-surfing patterns of a large number of users.

The information on websites visited by the Alexa “panel” of users (who number hundreds of thousands) are recorded in a database, and the information is analysed to come up with data about popularity of websites.

As you might expect, the group of people who have installed the Alexa toolbar is biased towards technology people who run websites.

I use the Alexa toolbar myself as it helps me weed out quality sites from the junk when I’m google searching just about anything. I’ve worked very hard to make FashionFeedofSL the best it can be, and I would love to see the ranking reflect that. Totally up to you, but I thought I might ask!

One last issue that isn’t really optional. When a blogger requests a syndication review, the agreement is that a reciprocal link to the FashionFeedofSL.com be added to their blogroll. I’ve overlooked this quite a bit when reviewing and adding blogs (usually reminding the requester add the linkback when I notify that they’ve been syndicated).

Today I ran the list of syndicated sites through a reciprocal link checker and was pretty disappointed to find that over 100 blogs were missing a linkback on their site… I’m publishing the list and giving a week to add FashionFeedofSL.com to their blogroll. At that time, I may contact individuals with a little nudge and give it another week.

After that I will be removing blogs with no link back from syndication. I hate for it to come to that, but I feel it’s a small request in light of the amount of work that goes into maintaining the feed syndications.

EDIT: To clarify, this is the list of syndicated blogs that DO NOT have a link back. If you aren’t on the list, there is nothing for you to change. I’m also updating the list as people contact me about mistakes or after they’ve add FashionFeedofSL to their blog roll.

http://cubiceffect.blogspot.com

http://analutetia.wordpress.com

http://mamijewell.wordpress.com

http://allacohol.blogspot.com

http://courtisane-products.blogspot.com

http://benihoni.blogspot.com

http://achariya.net

http://aibaroque.wordpress.com

http://argrace.com

http://ashiadesigns.blogspot.com

http://virtuelnews.com/avatarhype

http://biancafoulon.wordpress.com

http://bijouaholic.blogspot.com

http://calliecline.blogspot.com

http://canimal.blogspot.com

http://capollo.blogspot.com

http://chignon.wordpress.com

http://clawtoothbyclawtooth.blogspot.com

http://contestcentral.impressionegroup.com

http://corduroyshop.wordpress.com

http://gabby.inworld.sl

http://crushrow.blogspot.com

http://rosemaryoh.livejournal.com

http://darkedenplaza.blogspot.com

http://typ.slmame.com

http://typ.slmame.com

http://blog.digitdarkes.com

http://dragonflydesignsinc.blogspot.com

http://enkythings.blogspot.com

http://essentiasl.blogspot.com

http://elikatiramisudesigns.com

http://feliceharuka.blogspot.com

http://genevievelutetia.wordpress.com

http://glamworldsl.com/blog

http://glamurenastudio.wordpress.com

http://anemysk.blogspot.com

http://fluttermemel.blogspot.com

http://iconicon.wordpress.com

http://incoldbloodsl.blogspot.com

http://iwearbyivyspore.wordpress.com

http://karistore.blogspot.com

http://lostangelphotostudio.wordpress.com

http://ambiance-mode.blogspot.com

http://lbd-hotblog.blogspot.com

http://launafauna.com/blog

http://lucaslameth.wordpress.com

http://magpiemetaverse.wordpress.com

http://sl-maitreya.blogspot.com

http://meltybritches.blogspot.com

http://mimischoice.blogspot.com

http://muism.blogspot.com

http://musefinejewelry.wordpress.com

http://maiiki.blogspot.com

http://violetacaproni.blogspot.com

http://ornamentallifeshop.blogspot.com

http://pinkoutfitters.com

http://pixeldustsl.wordpress.com

http://pradprathivi.com/fashion

http://runwaykidz.wordpress.com

http://reelgeek.co.uk/blog

http://rezzable.com/taxonomy/term/4/0

http://royalbluebymarnigrut.blogspot.com

http://blog.secondstyle.com

http://secondguru.blogspot.com

http://shithappenssl.com/blog

http://sayonemasala.com

http://slasty1.wordpress.com

http://slastyeditor.wordpress.com

http://starley.com

http://strangepixels.net

http://teslamiles.blogspot.com

http://theladyandthetramp.wordpress.com

http://theloftblog.wordpress.com

http://stylefilebyclarabellekay.blogspo…

http://theoldturnip.blogspot.com

http://mctoastface.wordpress.com

http://vanityuniverse.wordpress.com

http://victoriav-fashion.de/blog

http://ibizarre.wordpress.com

http://jerepublic.blogspot.com

http://suri-loves.blogspot.com

http://wickedresistance.com/blog

http://zaarakohime.blogspot.com

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Post your Store SLurl on FashionFeedofSL.com Sunday, Mar 15 2009

I was bored and started adding more features to FashionFeedofSL

I added a SLurls page and made it dynamically updating. The SLurls Directory is organized into Categories:

Clicking a Category will list the Shops and associated SLurls to TP directly in world:

To add your Store’s SLurl, click the “Add URL” option and fill out the details, feel free to include your Update Blog link in the description. The link you add MUST be a valid Second Life SLurl location or it will be deleted. Select the primary Product Category for your store. If you would like a Category added, please email feed@fashionfeedofsl.com with the Subject SLurl Category Request.

The SLurl Directory is fully searchable:

I just implemented this feature, so it’s very much still in “Beta” mode. I know it’s not sexy, but at this point it is working. I have future plans to add tags to select multiple Categories for your store. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at cari.crim@gmail.com

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Get your FashionFeedofSL.com Updates on PLURK Thursday, Mar 12 2009

Ok. Last post about FashionFeedofSL.com for a while…

But I just finished the last feature I wanted to add. If you plurk, you can now get updated on new posts as they appear on the Fashion Feed of SL directly on your timeline.

Here’s the Profile link to Friend or Fan: http://plurk.com/FashionFeed/invite

If you aren’t already on Plurk, well WHY NOT? It’s a great way to keep in touch with your Second Life friends and stay informed even when you aren’t in world.

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More Features Updates and Changes on FashionFeedofSL.com Wednesday, Mar 11 2009

So it’s Day 2 of the Massive Overhaul I’ve been working on to keep FashionFeedofSL.com alive. Long story short…the feed wasn’t built upon technology that could sustain the surprisingly rapid growth in syndications, popularity, and traffic the past 9 months.

I figured since I was working on it rescripting, writing plugins, optimizing databases, changing webhosts and just generally being a nerd…I’d add some FEATURES!!

• The most noticable update is an ARCHIVE area that will contain all historical posts prior to March 1, 2009. The feed archive has the same look and feel, fully searchable, but distinguishes itself from the MAIN current feed with a greyscale color pallette. Selecting “HOME” from the ARCHIVE area will return you the MAIN current feed.
• FAVORITES!! You can now have post favorites on FashionFeedofSL. Use the handy dandy “Add to Favorites” link at the bottom of any post, and then use the FAVORITES link from the main menu to manage all your favorite posts.
• Statistics for Advertisers and Sponsors. I’ve rescripted the SPONSORED BY advertisement area in the right sidebar to collect “click through” statistics, so I can now provide advertisers with actual number of users that have viewed their blog, magazine, or teleported to their location in world from FashionFeedofSL.
• The biggest change and least visible is quite a bit of fine tuning of the site overall and porting to a better hosting environment.
• Oh! and for all you Plurkers out there, keep your eyes open for FashionFeedofSL’s own plurk updates right in your timeline. I’ll be posting an invite link on the site as soon as I have all the bugs ironed out (and make the Plurk profile all pretty of course!)

*falls over exhausted* I haz sleeps nao?

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Syndicating on FashionFeedofSL.com Just got EASIER!! Monday, Mar 9 2009

• Do you love SL fashion but don’t want the overhead of managing a blog?
• Do you have “Look Book” photos on Flickr with style credits? or a Sales Advertisement or Special Announcement?
• Do you want to be syndicated on the FashionFeedofSL.com?

If so…I just made it easy peasy lemon squeezy to appear on Second Life’s only moderated and quality controlled fashion feed!

Simply join the Syndicate on FashionFeedofSL flickr group, add your photo to the pool and VOILA! as soon as your photo is reviewed and added, you appear on the feed.

Your Flickr photo goes from this:

Flickr photo uploaded on March 8, 2009 by Autumn Ashdene

To a true blue syndication post on FashionFeedofSL.com

Syndicated Post on FashionFeedofSL.com

Contact me at cari.crim@gmail.com if you have any questions, need help finding the Flickr Group, or would like to volunteer as a Group Moderator.

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Beauty Avatar: Thabita Monday, Feb 9 2009

I logged into SL this morning and was greeted with skin goodness!

The newest face of Beauty Avatar: Thabita

And what a beautiful face it is! Th lips are pouty and there is an overall glow effect on the skin. I’m noticing this is becoming more and more popular with skin designers, and really makes for gorgeous photographs without having to monkey around with lighting.

The natural skin tone I received came with 10 makeups of varied lip and eye designs.

Not Safe for Work Body Photos
The glow continues more subtley over the body of the skin, and the effect is perfection. I love the shading and highlighting, neither of which is overdone. It’s just a smooth creamy skin.

My only complaint is the ear, which appears too have a “pasted on as afterthought” look as seen below

At this time I couldn’t find Tabitha in store, but I’m sure it will be released soon.

TP TO BEAUTY AVATAR

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