basics
Flip.com provides teens with an innovative way to express themselves and connect with each other online. More than just another social network, Flip offers its users powerful but easy-to-use interactive tools, inspiration from experts and editors to spark their imagination, and a stage on which to showcase their talents.
At the heart of Flip are Flipbooks — customizable, multimedia scrapbooks/zines/journals that Flip members make and share. Users can upload their own photos, songs, and videos as well as choose from a large collection of stickers, wallpaper, animations, and music. They can draw, write, add a soundtrack, rotate and size elements, add pages, and even choose page transitions; the result is a more powerful and personal way for girls to express themselves than anything else currently online.
In addition to making Flipbooks, girls can also browse and create profiles; start and join clubs; send and receive messages; share and comment on each other's stuff; and chat on message boards.
About CondéNet
CondéNet is the leading creator and developer of upscale lifestyle brands online, providing enjoyable, useful services that build upon the heritage of the world's most prestigious magazines. The company publishes online properties in the categories of fashion (STYLE.COM), men's lifestyle (MEN.STYLE.COM), food (Epicurious.com), travel (Concierge.com), and teen (Flip). CondéNet is an Internet unit of Condé Nast publications.
press releases
January 11, 2008
CondéNet Announces Change for Flip.com
April 12, 2007
CondéNet's Flip Helps Combat Rising College Tuition Costs with $25,000 Sweepstakes
February 6, 2007
CondéNet Launches Flip, New Online Outlet for Teen Girls' Creativity
January 22, 2007
CondéNet Hires Publisher for New Teen Site, Flip
bios
Jamie Pallot
Editorial Director, CondéNet
As Editorial Director of CondéNet, the leading creator and developer of upscale lifestyle brands online, Jamie Pallot is responsible for the content, look, and feel of the company's five stand-alone online magazines: fashion bibles STYLE.COM and MEN.STYLE.COM, pioneering food site EPICURIOUS.COM, upscale travel guide CONCIERGE.COM, and social networking site for teen girls Flip.com. The sites have been honored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and the James Beard Foundation, among others, and have received multiple Webby Awards and Media Industry Newsletter Best of the Web Awards. In 2005, STYLE.COM received the ASME award for General Excellence Online.
Pallot came to STYLE.COM from Time Inc. Interactive, where, as an editorial consultant working closely with then-editor Carol Wallace, he oversaw a redesign of People.com. Previously, he spent three years as the Editor in Chief at New York Sidewalk, the acclaimed online city guide published by Microsoft.
Mr. Pallot was educated at the University of Sussex, University of the Sorbonne, and St. Catherine's College, Oxford.
Pallot has also served as Editorial Director of Canadian magazine, Web, and TV company Shift Multimedia; Editorial Director of New Media for News Corp.; and as Editor of Britain's Virgin Movie Guide. He has written a syndicated movie review column and appeared on CNBC as an expert on the entertainment industry.
Chris Gonzalez
Executive Editor, Teen Sites
Christopher Kish Gonzalez is the Executive Editor of CondéNet's Teen Sites. In this role, he has overseen the development of CondéNet's new social networking sites for teen girls, Flip.com, as well as YM.com. With seven years of experience working on teen Web sites and a background in leading media-training workshops for youth, Mr. Gonzalez has a deep commitment to young people and teen media. Prior to joining CondéNet, Chris was Director of Teen Sites at iVillage, where he oversaw the Hearst Teen Internet Group, encompassing Seventeen.com, CosmoGirl.com, and Teenmag.com. He has also served as Director of gURL.com, an early pioneer in online communities for teen girls. As a youth media trainer, Chris has led video and Web workshops at Lincoln Center and the Public Theater, as well as in conjunction with AmeriCorps.
Mr. Gonzalez has an M.A. and B.F.A. from New York University. He lives in Manhattan with his partner and three French bulldogs.
Jane Grenier
Publisher, Flip.com
Jane Grenier, Publisher of Flip.com, brings teen-market expertise from her previous position as Associate Publisher, Marketing, on the highly successful launch of Teen Vogue. Before the formation of Teen Vogue's launch team in 2002, Ms. Grenier was Associate Publisher, Creative Services, at Gourmet, where she partnered with CondéNet colleagues at Epicurious.com on some of the company's early integrated advertising initiatives. Her 20-plus years of print experience also include stints at Esquire, Vogue, and Details.
Ms. Grenier began her New York career on the client side, with several posts at noted footwear maker Charles Jourdan, from wholesale support to advertising and public relations. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the Asolo Conservatory, a division of Florida State University, and has occasionally been seen in off-off-off-Broadway productions. Ms. Grenier and her husband, a ceramic sculptor, live in Brooklyn.
press contact
For members of the press looking for more information regarding Flip, please contact Jennifer Miller at (212) 790-5100.
