About Us
ThisNext.com
ThisNext is a shopcasting network where people can discover, recommend and share products and services they love.
In the real world, we rely on the people around us to sort out what we should buy. Brand marketing hype is too loud, too confusing. Tech specs are too complicated, confounding and time consuming to sort through. Our site is a way to answer online a question we ask those around us every day, “What do you use?”
Buying things that are better suited to our individual lifestyles makes life better. We want to help people live the good life, whatever that means to them.
Our Blog
The ThisNext Blog is a place where we identify bloggers and trends whose work aligns with our goal of helping communities unite, express who they are and find products that will help them live more happily and easily.
Our blog will also cover shopcasting on ThisNext. Curious about what’s being picked, who’s picking it and why? Want to know why we’re doing something (or why we aren’t doing something)?
Our Bloggers
Aunt Beep: Design/Interiors/Art/Media Blogger
For the past several years, Aunt Beep™ has been passionately pursuing all that is fashionable, eclectic and bizarre on the web. Her popular boutique & gallery site www.AuntBeep.com hosts oodles of delectable discoveries from fresh, talented Los Angeles designers and artists who have been featured in Daily Candy and a slew of national style mags. Aunt Beep has also contributed to other sites like Delight.com & LA.com as well as her own blog, beep Blog. Aunt Beep loves you!
Liz Barker: Health/Wellness/ Fitness Blogger
As the beauty director for fashion blog No Good For Me, Liz takes the occasional time-out from her work in freelance health writing to indulge possibly unhealthy obsession with yummy-smelling beauty products. Dedicated to sharing new discoveries in the indie fashion/beauty/craft world, Liz also uses No Good For Me as a space to drool over whichever superfantastic and stylish band she’s freaking out over at the moment.
Kristopher Dukes: Fashion/Beauty Blogger
You’d think Kristopher might prefer being a girl about town, running around in five-inch-heels, covering fashion shows and events, instead of having daily dates with her laptop and blogging from her home on fashionista sites. But she loves blogging: “Self-publishing is a much more effective way to build my empire, one fashion blog and soy latte at a time.” See what Kristopher is wearing, doing and how many pounds of black eyeliner she’s wearing at her blog, KristopherDukes.
Gordon Gould: CEO ThisNext
Gordon’s adventures as a serial entrepreneur led him from New York’s Silicon Alley Reporter and SMS biz UPOC to sunny Los Angeles, surfboard and family in tow, to start ThisNext with CTO Craig Ogg. Though he misses many Manhattan things—among them street culture, Chelsea Piers and his mother—wearing wool suits in the summer isn’t one of them. Gordon’s belief in buying better to live better is why we’re all here at ThisNext. His personal blog can be read at http://gordon.blogsmith.com/.
Sean Timberlake: Food/Wine/LGBT Blogger
Sean is a professional writer, amateur foodie, avid traveler and all-around bon vivant. He lives with his partner, photographer, DPaul Brown in San Francisco. To see what he’s put in his mouth lately (and why wouldn’t you want to know such things?), visit his blog, Hedonia.
Alyson Wilson: ThisNext Community Director & Adventure sports/Travel blogger
Alyson’s background publishing, editing and writing for sporty lifestyle glossies that followed her start writing and editing for newspaper was the perfect preamble for a life less papery. When she gets a few minutes away from her gig as head cowgirl charged with corralling the ThisNext stampede, she blogs for GetOutdoors.com.