The Purpose of XenoModa

OBJECTIVE

Summary: To provide a list of international-themed sites I love, with commentary to entertain you and myself.

Although it’s geared toward my tastes, which are trendy, adventurous, multilingual, and young in nature, there is plenty for others.

ORIGINS

Through my forays into international business, such as importing designer European men’s underwear, I have found many terrific sites and a lot of crap. I have weeded out the drivel to provide a highly useful directory of evaluated and recommended stores and sites to people who think outside the map.

HOW IT’S ORGANIZED

The right column lists a few links per category so if you’re down-and-dirty, you can click and go and not be overwhelmed by the number of options you have. The rectangular buttons under “Directories” link to more detailed pages for the main categories.

The main section contains blog posts.

WHAT IT DOES

I list sites I’ve studied, and as often as possible, companies I’ve bought from or who are reputable. Where shopping sites are concerned, I like ones that make it easy for me to choose and go. If I have to spend more than an hour to find great things that work for me, I’ll either not list it or list it with caveats.

WHAT IT DOESN’T

I do not provide links to ad-rich sites, which tend to be ugly and only designed to encourage you click on things to give them money. I have been extremely irritated to do a search on “Clothing Directory” only to get a completely useless list of skeletal sites with ads up the yin-yang, where no one took the effort of actually typing anything themselves.

WHAT I GET

After a few years of hosting this site, I decided to become a Google AdSense subscriber. I know how useful they can be with my own purchases, especially since they now actually can show items (usually shoes) that I’ve already been looking at; that’s just clever.

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