|
Weardrobe is an online street fashion community designed to encourage networking between both novice and established bloggers, as well as to allow members to share outfits and comment on others' photographs. ==History== The idea for the community originated in a University of Chicago dorm room in September 2004, where Weardrobe co-founder Suzanne Xie kept track of everything she had in her closet via a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. In late 2007, she, along with friend and co-founder Rich Tong, noted that there was no application to organize clothing online and began discussing the possibility of developing such a forum.〔 Their discussions spawned the basis for Weardrobe, and the site officially went online in January 2008. In 2009, Weardrobe was named one of 20 winners of Facebook's fbFund Competition for startups and nonprofit companies, and was invited to participate in Facebook's Summer Incubator Program in Palo Alto, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=InsideFacebook.com )〕 There, Xie and Tong worked on integrating Facebook Connect with the online fashion network so users could see which of their friends were on the site and include those friends' activity through Facebook news feeds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=InsideFacebook.com )〕 The founders also created a partnership with Urban Outfitters where the company sends clothing out to specific Weardrobe users. The individuals then post images of the items styled to their preference, before sending the clothing back to the company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Urban Outfitters )〕 On November 18, 2009, the community was acquired by Like.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TechCrunch.com )〕 Accordingly, the site has undergone several changes, including the addition of search functionality that allows readers to find and purchase similar articles of clothing if they so desire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Switched )〕 Subsequently, Like.com was acquired by Google on August 20, 2010 for a rumored price of $100,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TechCrunch.com )〕 The reasoning is said to be for the strength of visual search within the database of Like.com, which now supports Boutiques.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TechCrunch.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weardrobe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|