Jewelry Store owner, Isobel Rosenblum, passes away at 87
The Houston Chronicle has an article about Isobel “Billie” Rosenblum, owner of Rosenblum Fine Jewelers, who passed away at 87. It was a very nice homage to her life. It’s not every day you hear about...
View ArticleNot your average diamond ring
The Walrus published a non-fiction story called Eclipse, about an unusual type of diamond ring: I have a philosophy now, borne out of much necessity, that sometimes things go wrong in order for them to...
View ArticleKaboodle sold to Hearst
Congratulations to Kaboodle. They just got bought out. Didn’t take long… The era of Social Media shopping has just begun…
View ArticleRip the Runway for Darfur. Are you kidding me????
I try to keep things positive on this blog…but when it comes to those fake charity products and events I call charitising, it’s hard to do so. People think I’m too cynical. I hear it all the time. But...
View Article9/11: A time for marketing?
There is an article in The Huffington Post about how luxury retailers are using the 9/11 anniversary for some subtle marketing. James Mulvaney points to Newspaper Ads such as “In remembrance” from...
View ArticleAntwerp Diamond Conference 2007
There is a major Diamond Conference coming up on October 16th 2007. According to the organizers, the diamond producing countries no longer want to be simply the suppliers of the raw materials (rough...
View ArticleDiamond Blog update
As you may have noticed from the date of the last post, we’ve taken a bit of a break from posting. That’s because we are hard at work on a major upgrade, expected first quarter of 2008. Blog updates...
View ArticleA Dogg to watch
I am so not a fan of this guy, but he’s a walking jewelry store so I’m compelled to check out Snoop Dogg’s action. He has some new flash that is being written about around the web giving lots of press...
View ArticleSo will it be called the GUESS Diamond ?
GUESS clothing founder, Georges Marciano, just purchased a huge 84.37 carat D, Flawless diamond for a mere $16.2 million at auction. Imagine buying something like that over the phone!!...
View ArticleTiffany vs Ebay: Who Gets the knockout on the Knockoffs??
There are enough talking points in the lawsuit brought by Tiffany&Co. against Ebay to teach a number of college courses in marketing, econ, law & ethics. The crux of the complaint is that...
View ArticleJoi and the Chocolate Factory
Gmail has this cool feature that helps you waste even more time than email does alone. They let you add your RSS feeds to a list which are fed back to you one at a time in web snippets on top of your...
View ArticleNY Times: Lasers change colors of platinum, aluminum & titanium
From the NY Times comes news that researchers at the University of Rochester can use a tabletop laser to turn aluminum into gold. Neat trick
View ArticleSmithsonian on Lab Grown Diamonds
Smithsonian Magazine covers Lab Grown Diamonds. Very interesting. Here’s a blurb: “This is a virtual diamond mine,” says Apollo CEO Bryant Linares when I arrive at the company’s secret location, where...
View ArticleLargest unseen Diamond
The BBC has an interesting article on the largest unseen diamond: The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond was last seen in public at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels. After that, it disappeared and its...
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