Link Love: Week Ending 4/12/11

This week was a good one in a sense of getting into my own groove, and spending loads of time with friends. A couple of dinners, shopping trips, drinks, yoga, and surprise parties made this week particularly memorable. I also shopped up quite a bit on Revolve and Solestruck. My fingers are crossed that my orders arrive next week – be prepared for a show and tell!

• Google is shutting down Friend Connect for non-Blogger blogs. Argh!
• Creative, personalized, and well-designed beautiful sales receipts. I wouldn’t throw one of these away in a hurry!
• Forever Amber is my new favorite. I recommend her rants on vanity sizing and hemlines.
• Seth Goden on preparing for the breakthrough/calamity.
• Luxury brands have a love/hate relationship with digital marketing, but this info-graphic illustrates how luxury brands are negotiating the exclusivity of being a luxury brand with the all-inclusive nature of the web.
• On that note – check out Dior’s take on social gaming. This is pretty neat!
• I like this article on the celebrity ‘It’ girl.
• This recipe makes me want to try making (and tasting) eggnogg for the first time in my life.
• Nubby’s office tour has me inspired to keep working on my own workspace.
• Tumblr’s Fashion Director has left the company after massive conflicts with brands and agencies. Tumblr has been accused of playing ‘favourites’ with particular brands/bloggers in the past and it looks like its catching up with them.
• Because I can never resist these: 20 Signs Your A Real Fashion Blogger.
• I was linked to this very inspiring Ted Talk by Sheryl Sandberg on why we have too few women leaders. She is brilliant and I totally recommend sit down and listen up for her 15 minutes!
• Little Printer is totally cute. He lives in your home and brings you news, puzzles, and gossip from your friends online to together to create your own mini-newspaper. I want one!

Have a fabulous weekend!