Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy from Bloomsbury Academic is a free download and worth a look. If you are interested in the new economy, this book by Lawrence Lessing is a good find.
Here is a bit about Lessing
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
Download it here
The Simply Shiny blog featured an interview with Sadie about Lollishops yesterday, as part of their series on the best online artisan venues.
This is just an example of the great exposure Sadie has been skillfully drawing to her online marketplace (Lollishops) and its participants through her savvy use of social networking and blogs.
Check out the interview here.
Lollishops, in beta and soon to go live, is a big part of our time and focus this pre-Thanksgiving week at Velocity7—and we’re excited that it’s turning out so well. What’s so great about Lollishops? Besides its conceptual mastermind, frou-frou artist and social networking whiz Sadie Lou (check out her blog too)?
What’s exciting is that we’ve built, from scratch, a functional, expandable portal for individual artists to sell their own work online. Incorporating PayPal, we found a mechanism for e-commerce transactions to take place. Then we built a system where individuals can develop and promote their own brand entirely within the Lollishops framework—building community and generating buzz in the process. And with Sadie’s expert social networking skills already proven, Lollishops is sure to be a hit.
Lollishops is in beta now. Stay tuned for the launch. Happy Thanksgiving!
Alliteration is fun, no?
Lollishops is set to launch!
We’re all pretty excited over here about Lollishops going beta. Lollishops is a “frou frou” friendly site born from the desire for a more shopper friendly, easy to use, community-oriented place for vendors to sell their handmade wares and vintage items. Lets go shopping!
Visit the Lollishops blog here.
And why do you keep inviting me to yours?
Seems like every day I get three new Facebook requests from acquaintances and friends offering me some kind of animated plant or Pokemon-meets-Lego character if I will only join this (lil) Green Patch application.
So, apparently, it’s an extremely viral RPG-style web game that brings its users back for so many repeat page-views, it makes buckets of bucks in ad revenues both for its two creators and their charity of choice, The Nature Conservancy. The game is designed to cultivate its own popularity, because users have to earn GreenBucks to play by sending gifts to other Facebook users–often to those who haven’t started playing yet. Hence the incessant invitations annoying me.
The environmental charity aspect of the game is as much of an appeal of it as the addictive role-playing quality. It’s the same appeal made by The Rainforest Site, plus it’s a game.
Normally I avoid Facebook apps like the plague. I’ve always thought Facebook looks way better than MySpace, and big graphical applications like Superheroes and Superpoke! tend to be really ugly. I guess the lesson of (lil) Green Patch is that people don’t care about aesthetics like I do if they have a couple substantive reasons–gameplay + environment–to keep coming back.
