Etsy sellers will do anything to escape extra fees. Some write personal notes like “don’t put this in your cart, it’s on hold for a bride,” while others list a lone bowl in what should be a set of six. Many will even encourage their frustrated shoppers to write in and ask if there are “more in the back.” That’s why Etsy has created a new fee structure that doesn’t punish sellers for unsold inventory.
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YouTube co-founders Are Working on a Magazine Publishing Service Called Zeen (Fusible)
It looks like you’ll soon be able to discover and create “beautiful” magazines online. YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who now run AVOS, posted a “Coming Soon” page on the website Zeen (a take on the word zine, which commonly refers to a narrowly focused self-published magazine). The Next Web The Privacy Policy page indicates that multimedia sharing will be a core part of the service and suggests that there will be a browser bookmarklet available. VentureBeat For now, though, we have relatively few details about how Zeen will work and what ‘zines will look like. You can go to the app’s landing page now to reserve a username and connect the account to an email address, Facebook identity or Twitter account. Business Insider After registering, users get an email to confirm their address, but it becomes a waiting game after that to see how Zeen works and what it’s all about. Read more
Pinterest and other sites are making it even easier to collect, sort and share content. Here are some of my favorite places to curate content on the Web:
What happens when an online crafts fair tries a little DIY social networking? For Etsy.com, the final product is a privacy backlash. Forget the scissors and glue, here come the lawyers and FTC complaints.
The countdown to Christmas is almost over, but there’s still hope for the thousands, or perhaps millions, of Facebook users just now realizing they’ve spent more time on Farmville than shopping for Aunt Jane. Hope, this holiday season, comes in the form of a new gift-generator from online retailer Etsy and Facebook, but does it work, and is its intrusion into your friends’ profiles creepy or useful?
