I'm sure all you fashion heads out there have checked out Glam.com from time to time. There is a lot of fashion and beauty editorial on there, as well as a pretty major community of bloggers. Now me personally, I love fashion, but can't really get into the larger fashion blogger networks. The tone and style of the writing on these network sites isn't authentic or one on one as most one authored blogs seem to be. Check out the email for yourself:
"New York, New York, July 7, 2009- At first glance, Glam.com appears to be an impressive website with links to news on fashion, entertainment, luxury living and more. Articles, blogs, pictures and videos make up the website that seems a hub of fashion and entertainment. Yet the idea for the initial website was implemented with an idea originated by Kimberly Stone, founder and CEO of POSHGLAM.com.
The similarity was no accident; in fact, Glam.com is a stolen business model. Though Glam.com founder Samir Arora launched Sep. 19th 2005, Stone had purchased the rights to POSHGLAM.com on May 16, 2005 far before Arora even owned the rights to GLAM.com.
This initial transfer of ideas was not the end for Glam.com. The site compiles insights and tidbits from other fashion insiders and websites, and then presents them as its own. These underhanded actions are exploitations of the fashion industry and its virtual realms, from blogs to bargain buys. Now, rather than a fashion Mecca, this website has been exposed a fashion fraud.
Glam.com, Don't Click on the Ads...or support the stolen idea!"
Wow. I don't know how true this is, but if Glam.com ripped off the concept, I don't think they should continue to receive support. I know how it feels to work really hard on an idea or project you developed on your own, and I can only imagine what it feels like for it to be stolen and to actually reap the benefits.
