In case you didn’t know, the Brief is where we round up interesting stories from around the web that we may not be able to cover in depth. No formulas, no algorithms, just hand picked headlines that catch our attention as we go about our daily research. Here’s your Monday morning roundup of the best of the best from last week.

It’s a holiday tradition. You’ve spent the last two hours trying on every dress in your closet, figuring out which heels go with said dress, realizing you really want to wear the jewelery that goes much better with your other dress, change three more times, decide you don’t have time to change again, begin to [...]

Lorna Lewis, Systems Analyst by day but expert deal finder by calling, is almost addicted to it. She used it for the first time in August, but she’s already bought at least ten of them – one for a Pilates class, a wine tasting, she even used one to tube down the Delaware River – [...]

Although Twitter may be famous for asking us what we’re doing, Twitter’s most recent business decision has us returning the favor. Yup, as random as it sounds, Twitter - in collaboration with San Francisco company Crushpad - has started selling its own brand of “Fledgling“ Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs. As much as we’d love to scratch (and shake) our heads [...]