Written on May 27th 2008 Author by Kathleen of Adotas

ADOTAS – Creepy stalkers rejoice: Hayden Panettiere is selling off items in her wardrobe for charity. The star on NBC’s Heroes, has announced a partnership with social computing site Zude and peer-to-peer social commerce marketplace Shopit to sell some of her favorite clothes in a bid to raise money and awareness for the “Save The Whales Again!” foundation.

Panettiere joins a star-studded board of spokespeople – including Pierce Brosnan, Isabel Lucas and Keely Shaye Smith – created to draw attention to the industrial killing of whales and dolphins.

Some of her wardrobe items on the block: a Dooney & Bourke handbag and an Alice + Olivia pleated black and white dress that she wore to the premiere of It’s a Mall World.

The items can be found here.

Panettiere joined Zude earlier this year to launch Fanbase – a feature that allows Zude users to build fan sites and gives them exclusive access to images, videos and music. Zude users who are members of her Fanbase can visit her home page and click on the Panettiere Closet storefront widget to embed it in their sites.

Shopit marries commerce and social networking; users can build widgets, upload items and list them for sale.

Heroes’ Hayden Panettiere Saves Whales With eBay Promotion

Hayden Panettiere, star of NBC’s Heroes and whale lover, has signed an endorsement deal with social site Zude and Shopit to sell clothes and raise money for Save the Whales Again, a Whaleman Foundation and Animal Welfare Institute campaign to “create awareness about the industrial slaughter of whales and dolphins.”

The effort is getting added awareness with promotional placement on the homepage of eBay which points to a branded eBay page for Save the Whales Again.

As part of the promotion, an auction is being held to raise money with the winning bid (bidder plus five friends) getting tickets to a celebrity fundraiser held at Eva Longoria’s Beso restaurant and a whale watching tour with Hayden in the Channel Islands.

Whales Benefit from Zude & Shopit Partnership

(Roslyn Heights, NY) - May 27, 2008 - Hayden Panettiere, star of NBC’s Heroes, announced today a first-of-a-kind partnership with social computing site Zude and peer to peer social commerce marketplace Shopit to sell many of her favorite clothes, from designer brands to everyday t-shirts,to raise funds and awareness for the “Save The Whales Again!” foundation. Panettiere, one of the featured celebrities with fan sites on Zude, will offer the items through zude.com/hayden [ Read More ]

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Your products come in all kinds of shapes and forms and now you can let your customers know it right from the Shopit Social Applications.  That’s right, we’ve added Colors and Sizes to our apps, that lets you create the right options for all your products.

How it Works

1. Click on the “Add Colors and Sizes” link when you’re adding a product.
2. Add as many colors and sizes as you want by entering the quantity, size, and color for your product.

• Tip:  You can add either a size, a color, or both!

Go Whale Watching with Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Panettiere – the Heroes star and outspoken activist for the Save the Whales Again! campaign – is auctioning off the chance to join her on an ocean voyage.

The auction – now open on eBay and running through May 30th – includes dinner and drinks for six at Eva Longoria’s Beso restaurant during a celebrity fund-raiser in Hollywood on August 10.

In the next few days, the winner and five guests will spend a morning with Panettiere, 18, on a private whale watching tour off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. (They’ll also receive a $1,000 American Express gift card.) After just one day, bidding had already reached $4,180. Proceeds will got to the Save the Whales Again! campaign. As Panettiere – who recently won an award for her work with the charity – says on eBay, “You can make a huge difference for these wonderful animals.”

Check it out - We partnered with Zude to launch the Hayden Panettiere’s Closet at shopit.com/hayden. So far we’ve had close to $1000 in sales go through the store for Hayden’s save the whales again cause – not a bad start for a store we just launched! In addition to all of this, there is a promotion for people to go to Hayden’s homepage, click on her Fanbase and register for a Zude account; users will automatically be placed in a raffle for a bunch of autographed items from Hayden and The Whaleman Foundation. It’s a good cause!

Be a Pageflake! We’re proud to introduce the Shopit Flake on Pageflakes.com. It’s your homepage 2.0 – a nice way to see what’s important to you in one convenient place. Get a snapshot of your email (Gmail, Yahoo…), Facebook activity, CNN news, and – you guessed it – your latest activity on Shopit. The Shopit Flake keeps you connected to your store, providing you with up-to-date monitoring of your messages, friends and most importantly incoming orders.

Now, let’s setup your new Flake. Go to www.pageflakes.com. Once you’re there select the ‘Menu’ button (top-right corner). A drop-down display will appear. From this drop-down, select ‘Browse All Flakes.’ You’ll see all sorts of useful Flakes to add to your page. Let’s type ’shopit’ into the search box (on the right side) and click ‘Search.’ Find the Shopit Flake and click ‘Add To My Page’ and you’re good to go. Take a moment to pat yourself on the back for a job well done. From here, you can simply login to your Shopit account and your store’s information will be at your fingertips.

We encourage you to be a flake and we hope you enjoy this new way to sell stuff.

Charles Johnson II, Web Developer, the biggest flake in the office with a smooth net vibe

Well, maybe not exactly 50…after, 30 we stopped counting! The point is, we’ve revamped our widgets to include a suped up grab menu where you can, in just a couple of seconds, post your widget onto major blogs (Blogger, TypePad, Vox), social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, hi5), and a variety of other sites as well (Netvibes, iGoogle, Yahoo). You can see a full list of supported widget destinations here.

Be sure to get the latest version of your widget by going to Widget Options in MyShopit. Once you’ve posted your widget, all your friends and fans can grab it and post it somewhere to help promote your stuff. So, have fun and post your widgets far and wide!

Bryan Landers, Product Manager and Flash Guy

Shopit is like a free hosted shopping cart for social networking platforms. Shoppers add items to their cart and go through a checkout process in the same way they would if they were using a cart, only this all takes place on a small corner of a merchant’s personal or business profile page on a social networking site. [ Read More ]

Shopit Store Apps for MySpace are now showing up on Music Profiles! Since our launch back in March, Shopit Store fronts didn’t show up on music profiles… bummer!  Well, MySpace has fixed the issue so feel free to head over there and upload all your swag related to your band.