Get a FREE Show Floor Only Pass to the 2011 ERA D2C Convention

(PRWEB) June 09, 2011

The Electronic Retailing Association (ERA), the leading trade association for direct-to-consumer commerce, announced that the Early Bird deadline is less than one month away! Make sure to register by July 1 to get a FREE Show Floor Only Pass or save up to $ 275 on an All Access Pass. With over 4,000 attendees and 120 exhibitors on the show floor, the 2011 ERA D2C Convention is the ONE show you cannot afford to miss! This highly anticipated industry event is scheduled for September 13-15 at the exclusive Wynn Hotel, Las Vegas.

Members who register by the Early Bird deadline, can get free access to the show floor, exhibitor suites, networking lunches, Meet & Greet Lounge and the Premier General Session; or pay only $ 825 for an All Access Pass, which includes all of the above PLUS valuable networking receptions and education sessions. Non-member early bird rates are just $ 99 for Show Floor Only Pass, and $ 1,399 for an All Access Pass. After July 1, Show Floor Only Pass rates increase to $ 99 (members) and $ 149 (non-members); and All Access Pass rates to $ 1,100 (members) and $ 1,599 (non-members).

For more information or to register, please visit http://www.D2Cshow.org.

About the 2011 ERA D2C Convention

The Electronic Retailing Associations 2011 ERA D2C Convention is the 21st annual show where the industrys top technology innovators, manufacturers, buyers and marketers meet to learn about the hottest trends in the direct-to-consumer marketplace and meet with partners and potential customers to seal critical business relationships. The event will feature more than 4,000 attendees and 120 exhibitors, a variety of education sessions on industry-related topics and expansive networking opportunities, as well as wide variety of events on the tradeshow floor. For more information, please visit http://www.D2Cshow.org.

About the Electronic Retailing Association

Representing a more than $ 350 billion market, the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) is the only trade association in the U.S. and internationally that represents leaders of the direct-to-consumer marketplace, which includes members that maximize revenues through electronic retailing on television, online and on radio. ERA strives to protect the regulatory and legislative climate of direct response, while ensuring a favorable landscape that enhances e-retailers ability to bring quality products and services to the consumer. ERA members include some of the industry's most prominent retail merchants, including Acorn Corporation, eBay, Discovery Communications, Gaiam, Google, Guthy-Renker Corporation, HSN, Jewelry Television, QVC, ShopNBC and Thane. For more information about ERA, please visit http://www.retailing.org.

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Beacon Street Girls Dress up and Get Taste of 'Project Runway' with New 'Fashion Frenzy' Online Game: Free Game Lets Girls Become Fashion Designers and Stylists in a Fun and Supportive Environment

Lexington, MA (PRWEB) November 23, 2006

A new online fashion game based on "Fashion Frenzy," the ninth book in the award-winning Beacon Street Girls (BSG) book series, helps girls further explore the exciting world of fashion design and styling. Unlike most fashion-oriented online games, the "Fashion Frenzy" game (http://www.beaconstreetgirls.com/games ) allows budding designers to do more than dress up a figure. With "Fashion Frenzy," players actually help create the apparel options by picking out different fabrics, colors and prints. They also get the opportunity to act as a fashion stylist, accessorizing the outfits. There are thousands of combinations possible.

Most online fashion games simply allow girls to choose apparel from a very limited closet. Unlike these "dress up" games, "Fashion Frenzy" players select among dozens of style options for tops, pants, skirts, jackets and dresses. Then they choose the fabrics, colors and prints, to finish each piece of clothing. Once an outfit has been created, the player dresses Katani Summers, the BSG fashionista, and chooses a photo background. Taking a turn as a fashion stylist, the player then rounds out the look with accessories like scarves, headbands, jewelry, hats and headpieces, footwear and handbags, including bags and purses from the Beacon Street Girls collection (available online at http://www.bsgshop.com ) When the ensemble has been completed, players receive feedback and commentary from Katani, and can email the whole look to a friend.

In addition, true to the upbeat and optimistic messages communicated through the Beacon Street Girls literature, the "Fashion Frenzy" game offers positive role models for girls. "While shows like 'Project Runway' and 'America's Top Model' have been enormously popular with the preteen girls because they offer a behind-the-scenes look at the world of fashion, they sometimes perpetuate the negative tone enlightened adults have come to associate with the world of fashion," said Addie Swartz, founder and CEO of B*tween Productions, home of the Beacon Street Girls. "'Fashion Frenzy' provides girls with a chance to play with fashion in a fun, supportive environment."

Swartz continued, "In addition, the game offers the opportunity for true fashion experimentation. In the fashion industry innovation often springs from un-expected pairings and combinations. The juxtaposition of different colors and patterns can be quite exciting. The huge number of style combinations 'Fashion Frenzy' offers makes this possible."

The BSG's website (http://www.beaconstreetgirls.com ) features the preteen stars of the award-winning book series for girls, providing positive role models and messages for girls as well as a safe, COPPA-compliant online destination. The website also features Club BSG, the free club for Beacon Street Girls fans. The club is open to all girls under the age of 17 who wish to interact with the BSG characters and world. Club members:

Give Thanks to your Hair, Love Your Natural Hair with Eight Tips and Free Products 15 Days to Give Thanks from CurlyNikki.com

Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 07, 2011

Curlies can give thanks to their natural beauty this November with 15 days of prizing! Naturals can enter each day to have a chance to win more than $ 10,000 in fabulous curl-specific prizes and be entered to win the grand prize of $ 1,200+ in curly hair products and a Huetiful Hair Steamer.

The best part of this time of year is the being thankful part. However, most curlies have struggled for a very long time with managing their hair. Whether it is worn curly, twisted, straightened, in a weave, relaxed, pressed, ironed, blown out or always pulled back in a ponytail, the love for curls is a rocky road. Hair is so tightly connected to self-esteem. CurlyNikki is thankful that she has curly hair not only because it is unique but also because it automatically connects her to other amazing curlies. When two curlies meet, there is an immediate, mutual understanding of the struggles involved with having curly hair. They all are very aware of the humidity and dew points. They all have history with good and bad haircuts. The joys and struggles with hair care products and second-day hair are universal. An immediate understanding that swimming, riding in a convertible car, and being caught in a rainstorm can all be a potential curl disaster. Curlies are thankful for the honesty and support that other curlies have offered them in their life.

In her quest to give back to naturals during this time, CurlyNikki is launching 15 Days of Giving Thanks in November. For 15 days, readers can enter to win products from some of the top natural brands, including Hairfinity, Eden, Bee Mine, Cibu, TwistedSista, CARA B, Amika, Uncle Funkys Daughter, TIGI, SoftSheen Carson, Shea Moisture, Marc Anthony, Hair Rules, Essentious and Karens Body Beautiful. One grand-prize winner will receive a bundle of all of the best products from the sponsors.

I am so thankful for so many things in my life, and my followers are a big part of that... says Nikki Walton, creator/editor of CurlyNikki.com. My mission with my blog is to provide balance between physical beauty and personal esteem in a way that defies societal normsproviding Hair Therapy to achieve real hair, real beauty and real self-esteem! This giveaway is the perfect extension to help women love themselves and to allow me to give back and be thankful for them.

About the Contest

Readers are encouraged to take part in our natural giveaway of various curly hair products from our 15 sponsors: Karen's Body Beautiful, Hair Rules, Hairfinity, EDEN BodyWorks, Bee Mine, Cibu, TwistedSista, CARA B Naturally, Amika, Uncle Funkys Daughter, TIGI, Optimum Care, Shea Moisture, Marc Anthony, Essentious and Huetiful!

How to Enter The Giveaway

15 Days of Giving Thanks Giveaway participants must register here to win. The giveaway begins November 7, 2011, at 12:00 a.m. CST and ends November 21, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. CST. Only online entries will be accepted. No purchase is necessary to enter or win.

A big part of loving your natural hair is knowing how to care for it, so CurlyNikki has complied a list of eight tips that your curls will thank you for.

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Searchdaimon Launches Free "mini-Google" for Companies

Oslo, Norway (PRWEB) November 03, 2011

Searchdaimon is making available a free version of it's corner stone product, Searchdaimon Enterprise Server. The free version is exactly the same as the paid, except it is only licensed for 10 end-users.

Finding relevant information has become one of the most complicated and technologically difficult tasks to be handled by a company. With an ever increasing amount of documents in a wide range of file formats, searching, tracking and comparing data from a wide number of employees has proved difficult.

Enterprise Server is a system that can be linked to all employees in a company. The system enables all the users to access in webpages, intranet, email accounts, files and other systems people may work in, and still maintain existing security policies.

In addition to the build-in data connectors you may write your own connectors to index other data source, or push data over http. You can also create your own search frontends and retrieve search results by xml, json and rss.

"The simplicity of getting started is not comparable to others in the same field. 6 minutes downloading and import into a cloud environment like VMware, Oracle VirtualBox or Xen is all it takes to see the full future enterprise search solution" said Runar Buvik, CTO at Searchdaimon.

"Searchdaimon for us has proved perfect for our needs of finding and cross referencing relevant information fast" says Glenn Lindmark in Convinco.

An online demo is avalibal at http://www.searchdaimon.com/pages/demo/

The appliance can be downloaded from http://www.searchdaimon.com/download/

About Searchdaimon:

Searchdaimon AS was founded by Runar Buvik and Magnus Gal

http://www.hiidea.com book trading platform is released .all are free to use for both sellers and buyers

(PRWEB) September 9, 2004

http://www.hiidea.com, the Internet site of Hiidea Book & Music Store, has announced the release of its first "do it yourself" book trading platform that allows both buyers and sellers to list books wanted or for sale. The site is free to use for both sellers and buyers.

The site, Buy or Sell Books : Do it yourself (http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php), is the first to allow buyers and sellers to find or list a book in their local community, sorted by universities or cities. The site has attracted a large number of college students who are now able to find and buy used textbooks from their neighbours at the same campus.

Allen Goldstein, a computer science student at New York University, said, "Instead of going to eBay and spending hours and dollars without much success in selling my last year's textbooks, I can now go straight to Buy or Sell Books : Do it yourself http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php on

http://www.hiidea.com, and sell them to my buddies right here. I sold three books in a week, and get extra cash to buy new books for this sememster. Best of all, I paid no fee and the service is free at http://www.hiidea.com." Gil Diller, a doctorate student at MIT, was able to pick up a hard to find reference book that is used only in few universities, is excited: "I have been searching for this book for 3 months and nobody has it. I found it in Buy or Sell Books : Do it yourself (http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php). I can't believe the guy living in my apartment building got a copy, and it is in excellent condition. I was able to pay cash and pick it up right away. No shipping needed."

Mr. Peter Jin, the CEO of Hiidea Book & Music Store, was impressed by the warm remarks. He believes the site will have a large following once more and more people know about it. "It is free. It is the first site that allows college students nationwide to trade locally on campus. Once you know about it, you will keep coming back. This site will travel by mouth."

About http://www.hiidea.com


Hiidea Book & Music Store is a leading book store that sells over 1.4 million titles on discount books, music, and movies. It has the largest collection on sports & entertainment books. It is specialised in extbooks and carry some of the hardest to find titles.

For more information visit http://www.hiidea.com or http://www.hiidea.com/posts.php, or email PR Director Allen Xu at jxu@hiidea.com