Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Eugenia Chien of Polyvore, Stefan Loble of bluffworks.co, and Carrie Hammer of CarrieHammer.com about a shift we’re seeing in today’s fashion industry. Historically, the industry has had a top-down approach to fashion; trends were decided months before designs were produced or shared on the runway. Rather than asking fashionistas what they liked, brands told them what was “haute” and dictated where fashion was going.

Now, platforms like Kickstarter, Polyvore, Pinterest, Etsy, Storenvy (and the list goes on) allow consumers to put the power back in the hands of the people. Rather than just following trends, consumers are revolutionizing the industry. They can’t find what they want from the big brands, so tastemakers are creating what they (and their friends) want.

Check out this great recap of our convo below!

TIME curated a list of the top 50 Web sites that the “editors find to be useful, entertaining, innovative or just plain addictive,”  with Blogads’ partner Lamebook making the cut!

Lamebook.com is a popular and consistently hilarious resource to view the latest ridiculous and lame posts that people find worth sharing on Facebook. TIME described Lamebook as being “less about Facebook and more about human nature — whether you’re into social networking or not, there’s something for everyone here.”

We here at Blogads are thrilled for Lamebook’s recognition, and we highly suggest for anyone interested in the absurdity of human nature to check it out. Make sure to also check out the other sites that TIME highlights here.

Looking for a recipe on Pinterest? Hope you like processed pork products, because the majority of pins you’ll find in the Pinterest “recipe” search is straight up spam. (more…)

Two years ago, Coke abandoned efforts to build its own social infrastructure “in favor of approaching customers at the places they already hang out, like Facebook and YouTube.” Meanwhile, Pepsi was reallocating cash from Super Bowl spots to its philanthropical crowd-sourcing campaign, The Refresh Project. (more…)

The Kony 2012 campaign is off to an amazing start, spreading awareness of brutal guerilla Joseph Kony on a global scale with the help of famous and influential Twitter users. But the Twitter campaign is just the first step. Kony 2012 is encouraging people to cover their cities with Kony signs and posters in a global event scheduled for April 20. However, many of the young activists Kony 2012 is counting on to “Cover the Night” may have other plans for that day, as April 20, also known as 4/20 or 420, is an international stoner holiday and day of protest. (more…)

Michelle Malkin‘s new Twitter headline site, Twitchy, scooped the world on today’s Joseph Kony story. The #stopkony hashtag and viral film “Kony 2012,” about Joseph Kony, was originally posted to Twitter by pop star Rihanna at 7:40 pm last night.  Twitchy wrote about Kony at 3:01 am, shortly after the hashtag started to trend.  HuffPo picked up the Kony story six and a half hours later, and the Washington Post didn’t cover it until almost noon.

Joseph Kony is a Ugandan guerrilla, whose rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has abducted tens of thousands of children over the last 26 years. The film was made by Jason Russell, of the humanitarian group Invisible Children, with the goal of capturing Kony and trying him in the International Criminal Court.

If you own a Facebook brand page, here’s a good lesson about showing “Everyone” vs showing only your own posts as the default. Some angry customers have been filling Netflix’s Facebook wall with threats of boycott if the online movie distributor doesn’t pull its ads from Rush Limbough’s radio show.

Other customers, like the ones below, went to Facebook, opened the Netflix page, and had no idea that they were walking into a firestorm. (more…)

Each year, when Blogads hosts #SUXORZ at Social Media Week NY, we think its the last. We naively believe that corporations, politicians and celebrities will finally learn how to do The Social Media right. Lucky for the mob of 150 social media fanatics that joined us at the Gershwin Hotel on Wednesday night, 2011 defied and our optimism and was full of spectacular social media screw-ups. (more…)