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...also claims to have bought such fanciful items as a box of 10,000 condoms. "You've got to find a site with good stuff, a bad system and stupid people," he advises. It's a pretty common combination. Today, in 15 minutes, he finds an amenable online stereo store in Hungary and a Canadian site selling books on nudist beaches and getaways...
...them ? Google The search empire built itself around a social function: counting links between websites THE GATHERERS The crowd isn't just expressing itself more; it's also gathering and filtering all those blog posts and photographs and finding an audience for them ? iStockphoto This photo store taps an army of amateurs, who can sell their shots for as little as $1 ? flickr The photo-scrapbook site helped popularize tagging as a way to organize information ? Blogger The popular bloggingsoftware service makes every would-be pundit a publisher ? Bloglines Lets users subscribe to various sites...
Back home, plenty continues to change as well. In May, Brooks started rolling out stand-alone Country Club stores to play up the polos, shorts and tennis skirts in its popular sportswear collection. The new concept also speaks to another trend: nearly half of each Country Club store is devoted to women's clothing...
During Del Vecchio's tenure, women's wear overall has gone from 12% to 20% of Brooks sales, a real spike at a store that for most of its 189 years downplayed the fact that women wore its clothes. These days Brooks is paying much more attention. Take, for example, the classic button-down, which is now specially designed with a narrower placard and smaller collar and comes in four different cuts. Brooks has even opened some women's-only shops...
...scaled-down versions of the light-based devices used by dermatologists to treat skin ailments, all designed so that a consumer can use them. Even hair removal via an at-home laser is on the table. Leading the way: Zeno and ThermaClear, two FDA-approved antiacne devices already on store shelves. Most other products are still in development. "This trend is going to change the way consumers get cosmetic treatments," says Rick Krupnick, CEO of Light BioScience, the maker of GentleWaves, a technology that uses light-emitting diodes to combat wrinkles and revitalize the skin...