Hi, hater.
I see you. Well, I don’t really see you, I only see your misspelled and hateful comments underneath my Swagger Facebook post. In the past few months, I’ve learned to not only laugh at your attempts at grammar, but also your insecurity-driven desires to tear someone down. Get your life together.
At Swagger, we cover all aspects of style. And by doing so, I completely understand that we open ourselves up to subjectivity – what we think is hot, you may think is not. But in what world is saying that someone “dresses like a fagget [sic]” or “looks like an elf” ever acceptable? We’ve arrived at a place, virtually, where anything can be said or expressed without recourse. You’re not going to get knocked out by the “fagget,” so why not spew some hate his way? Well, because that makes you a chump, son. You pointing out perceived weaknesses in someone else only makes your personal weaknesses that much more apparent.
If I weren’t cool-headed, or felt an overwhelming need to keep it PC, I’d ‘get into it’ with you, hater.
Kinda like John Legend’s fiancée Chrissy Teigen does when a follower tries to hate on her.
Or like Azealia Banks does with a Twitter fan. Just shut it down.
Through my other gig at MTV, I sat down with Khloe Kardashian to talk about what she does when a significant portion of America attempts to bring down her and her family for being too fat, too thin, too rich, or not like ‘us’:
And her approach to dealing with haters – ignoring them – is one to learn from. Because the more I take into account what people like you think about Swagger, me, or the people we interview, the more fuel I give you to share your god-awful comments with others.
The cool thing about the people we cover in our People and Profilin’ sections is that they don’t care about what you think, they care about who they are and how they can express that self through their fashion. So get up on their level, believe that you are special too, and stop wasting your time thinking up mean things to say. Your time would be much better spent, well, learning how to spell. Just sayin’.
-SP
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It’s a revolutionary idea, and so far, more than 150,000 people have signed up for the service, says Alexander Zaidelson, co-founder and VP Business Development of Nareos. “We’ve got users in 178 countries,” he says, “all of whom can connect with each other and experience the best of the Web – video, audio, games, and social networking.”
Nareos has partnered with a number of Web services – most recently Metacafe, another Israeli startup that supplies video content, attracting over 27 million unique users each month.
“By providing instant access from the mobile phone to the millions of videos available on Metacafe, one of the world’s largest video entertainment sites, PeerBox Mobile strengthens its position as the leading content-rich mobile social network service,” said Zaidelson. “This partnership with Metacafe positions us at the forefront of the mobile user generated content revolution.”
Nareos has also worked out a number of partnership deals with cellphone service providers, most notably in the Far East. Right now, the company is actively seeking out partnerships in Europe.
“We believe we will be able to achieve a level of 150m. users on the Peerbox platform,” Zaidelson added.
But Peerbox is about the music, too. As cell phone devices become more sophisticated – including functions that until now required a host of devices to utilize – users are increasingly flocking to Peerbox because of its ability to deliver those services to what is evolving into a single “converged” device – a cellphone based device that incorporates the connectivity of the Internet (did anyone say iPhone?).
Speaking of iPhones, Zaidelson said that Nareos was examining the possibility of developing a version of its platform for the Apple device, which had taken the communications world by storm. Early next year, Apple plans to open up the iPhone platform to developers, “and we are considering entering that area as well.” go to web site programs like limewire
But with most of the world’s cellphone devices relying on Java and with every indication that the biggest names in the business, like Nokia, Samsung, and Sony-Ericsson plan to continue churning out newer, more sophisticated devices based on the Java platform, users will find Peerbox ready and waiting for them.
What is perhaps most unique about Peerbox, however, is the speed with which it can deliver rich content to users.
“We have a very strong back-end server system that allows us to stream content very quickly, ensuring maximum usability for the customer,” said Zaidelson.
Also unique is the Nareos development of separate native versions of Peerbox – as opposed to a ported version – for both Java and Symbian based phones – ensuring that the application is maximally “tweaked” to take advantage of either platform.
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