Angelina Jolie with Vivienne Jolie Pitt. (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images)
“This Back To School contest is the first of several contests Nina Kids will run this fall, including giveaways later in the fall of styles worn by Vivienne Jolie Pitt and other celebrity kids,” said Mary Robertson of Nina Kids.
The contest, which begins this Sunday and runs until August 18, will consist of a digital clue search where Nina Kids will place a hint on its Facebook wall. Each hint will be in the form of a question, riddle or clue. Fans will then have to go to the company website and search for the correct answer (always the name of a Nina Kids shoe). Those that discover the correct response and post their findings first on the Facebook wall will be eligible to win that footwear item.
“Each day we will be selecting two-three winners,” reported Nina Kids’ social media wizard Lindsey Ackerman. “On the last day we will be selecting five winners!”
The Nina Kids line is available at Lord & Taylor in New York City, online and at specialty boutiques around the country.
“Nina Kids is a lifestyle brand for girls, providing fashion shoes since the 1980s for school, special occasion, casuals and everything in between,” Ms. Robertson elaborated.
According to Ms. Robertson, this year’s autumn styles include chunky glitter moccasins and sequined ballet flats and sneakers in addition to season-appropriate boots. Perhaps your darling budding fashionista will give little VJP a run for her money….
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You probably think Zynga is worthless too
Zynga is so much worse than worthless. It is digital pollution.
That was bold and awesome. With that being said, I will say that I use Hashable for one thing and one thing only–to easily grab people’s usernames so I can follow up with them later on Twitter (because it is so much easier to do this on Hashable than on Twitter). I don’t care for the Hashcred or the gaming piece, but the ease of connecting with someone (and the address book) are worthwhile when out at a meetup.
This is true – I think Hashable would do well to focus on the ease of making connections without passing around business cards, something that would make it actually useful to people in industries that don’t use Twitter as a networking tool. I don’t care about the gaming elements, nor do I want to make my social connections public; I’m a journalist and am wary of outing current or future sources by publicizing that I “know” or “have met” someone. And journalism is most certainly not the only industry in which confidentiality is key to business.
wow. you writing this drivel and my enjoyment while reading it proves there’s a sadist in us all..
Noticing a different sort of content with the new Tech section in the Observer
Taylor – love your sense of sarcasm – but you might consider that entrepreneurship is about those pivots – very rarely are people with the best idea at the beginning. Guys at PayPal originated with a security platform for smart phones, then was doing stored credit on smart phones, then traded money between the phones via IR, then onto Palm Pilots with a backup feature of email confirmations – and then suddenly eBay payments from the grassroots. And they exited with a $1.5B exit.
I see Hashable as a platform for managing my Personal CRM – as in Contact Relationship Management. Better to know where and when I connected with someone – the challenge is that the default setting on the app is to tweet everything – which I would rather have my own default on the app so I did not have to tweet it (or 4sq it). But I assume those features will come in time. For now, I just had fun with the app in Austin – just another way to have fun connecting with people and finding surreptitious connections when they happen.
Oh – and I am not a Hashable evangelist or anything of the sort. Just a NY Tech Enthusiast and there to support the team.
Wow! And I thought I was hard on Hashable. Here’s my post from Silicon Alley Insider: “Smackdown! Hashable vs. Business Cards.” Business cards win, but the score is 17-13… not bad for David vs. Business Card Goliath. The bout features six rounds: ease, security, beauty, shareability, charting progress, and “the ask: http://www.businessinsider.com/smackdown-hashable-vs-business-cards-2011-3
before i agree and call this a dumb idea for “insecure people” i need to remind myself that i also thought the same thing about facebook, and just look at it now…
no, you were right about facebook the first time
When the shift change from Interactive to Music happens at SXSW, the vibe changes entirely from entitled dicks to fun music party people. Asked wait staff and they said consistently, “music people tip better, more relaxed, not so pretentious.” This post highlights interactive’s own sense of self important from the author’s point of view and Hashables. Geek Dicks.
As an Austinite, I have the exact opposite sense of the switch from Interactive to Music. I don’t get the sense music people care about the city or its inhabitants at all. The amount of litter goes up significantly, music attendees have a disregard for normal codes of behavior, and driving around abnormally tall bikes is hazardous.
At least Hashable isn’t as bad as Betabeat.
lol…i don’t even know what hashable is but after reading your screed, i hate it too!
good one
I don’t even know what Hashable is or what it does. Thanks for writing this post so I can be one of the first people to be cool because I’m not using it.
It’s pretty jarring when someone you’ve just met asks for your Twitter handle so that they can tell everyone they’ve just met you.
I think you got it wrong. Hashable is a tool for remembering who you met when, and I find it pretty useful in that. It also has the OPTION of broadcasting this information, which is a convenience to those who would do so anyway. As far as the hashable point system, it’s just a game – like foursquare points – to make things fun (although I ignore them) and has nothing to do with the utility of the app.
I agree in some part, in that using hashable for each encounter is stupid, and I have not seen anyone use it that way.
P.S. I was at the VIP VIP section of that party – I think it was mostly a way to reward certain folks with a nice table and some wine.
Have you ever heard of LinkedIn? If you have, you’d know that hashable is a clone.
Disclosures: I’m a user, a fan and I’m on Hashable’s Leaderboard. I am so insecure and weak that I admit here that I enjoy Hashable and use it every day. And I would happily debate publicly with the author the merits (and value) of Hashable, and will go on record with my reasons as to why it’s valuable.
I make a lot of introductions. And I often do so at times when it won’t occur to me to take a note or otherwise set a reminder to see how the introduction went. I see Hashable as ‘CRM for Intros,’ and their new iPhone app also tells me when folks whom I know have met — this is awesome no matter how insecure-like-me you may be — it’s just plain cool to see when folks whom you know meet one another.
The author makes no mention of the fact that you can take full advantage of the *utility* of Hashable exclusively via email. In other words, you can make intros via email — posting nothing socially — and log for yourself when that intro happened. It’s one of the most accessible, useful and (heehee) confidence-building tools on the web to help me bolster my self-esteem — I am so grateful