It’s that time of year again. That’s right, Fashion’s Night Out NYC is back. Are you ready to hit the NYC streets for one of the biggest fashion parties in the world?
FNO NYC 2011 will feature even more events and locations than previous years and this time you can even participate online from home. With so many things to see and buy, you’ll definitely need to plan your night carefully. Luckily FNO’s website lets you do that fairly easily. You can even download the free FNO NYC iPhone application to plan and keep your itinerary by your side.
The weather may hinder things a bit, but nonetheless the streets will be flooded with designers, celebrities and fashionistas mingling, shopping and checking out exclusive FNO events. Stay up to date by ‘Liking’ them on Facebook and/or following them on Twitter (@FNOnyc). Also, don’t forget to check out all of the music going on throughout Manahattan here.
So adorn your most fashionable attire, pack your Gucci umbrella and enjoy Fashion’s Night Out!
Photo courtesy of Fashion’s Night Out NYC 2011
If you don’t already know about Turntable.fm you are missing out on a creative and fun way to share and discover new music with friends. Turntable.fm combines music with social media while incorporating a game-like twist. Just log in with your Facebook account and then find a room with a genre that tickles your fancy.
From there, you can rate what’s playing as either ‘Lame’ or ‘Awesome’ via a convenient meter. A lame rating will contribute to a song getting skipped (if enough people vote that way) and an awesome rating will allow the DJ who played the song to acquire points. The more points you acquire, the more avatars you will unlock. If there is an opening on the stage you can step in and play some tunes or—if you don’t feel like it—you can just hang out and let others do the spinning.
Although the music selection is slightly limited, there is still a good amount of music to choose from. Plus, you can upload your own mp3s to play them. This allows you to share that new album with your friends or even let them listen to your latest indie project to see what they think.
Overall, this innovative web application creates a pleasant experience by allowing users to share music and interact with friends. Currently, they have a significant amount of features but as a relatively young product, it has the potential to grow and we will likely see additional features in the future. We love it and hope Billy Chasen and the Turntable.fm team continue to improve an already awesome product.
By now we’ve all heard about Google entering the social media battlefield with their eyes set on competing with the network giant, Facebook. Can they do it? We’ve seen Buzzworthy attempts before, but could this be the Facebook killer? A few of us here at Squeaky were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to try it out and had some opinions about the different features of the site.
With Facebook sign ups on the decline in the U.S. and Canada for two consecutive months many of us are wondering, “Is this the beginning of the end of Facebook? What does this mean for marketers?”
