May 2010
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AMAZING, what couldn't you do...
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Microsoft KIN to Sponsor Another Facebook Road...
Microsoft turned some heads with its recent mobile phone marketing campaign when the company sent a young girl, Rosa, around the country to meet her social network in person.
Now, they’re extending the same opportunity to all Facebook users. Anyone who “likes” the KIN page can enter in a sweepstakes to “win a KIN journey.”
“We sent a girl named Rosa around the country to visit her social...
Wake Up World: The Worlds First Social Alarm Clock
Wake Up World is a new kind of social alarm clock. The recently-developed iPhone app, which costs $0.99, supplies you with a username and secret code upon registering. You then share your secret code with other Wake Up World users, who can send you videos which appear at the time you set your alarm to “wake” you.
One of the clever aspects of this app is that it’s inherently social and offers...
Who says you can't be detailed
upload high resolution images and to visualize them through a zoomable and browsable system without requiring any large width band connection. It allows you to present very high resolution images into a simple and customizable widget which can be shared and embedded within the most popular web social media: Facebook, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace…
Mac N Cheese try and revamp their social presence
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TWITTER FEED:
What would you like to see for this week’s #FeastForYourEyes? A summery dessert or something from the grill?
Kraft Hopes to Encourage Adults to Revert to a Childhood Favorite
KRAFT FOODS wants grown-ups to get the blues in the night, and in the afternoon and at snack time, too.
The “blues” in this instance are the familiar blue boxes of Kraft...
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Customer create their own fabric for next season...
Currently a site that lets you design and buy custom fabric printed on demand. Create and upload your own textile designs and print only what you need with no minimum order.
The next frontier of fashion design that involves the customer?
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Keeping it real- animated gif style, gone crazy...
“Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader are a photographic team hailing from Brooklyn, NY. A whimsical and outlandish style quite refreshing making them uncharacteristic creators on the American scene.”- GRAPHIC HUG
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UTWEET- make it personal
It’s brilliant. As Iain points out, it’s another thing from Uniqlo that’s simple, tight, fun, interesting, smart, personalised. But it’s the simple bit that’s it’s greatest asset.
Pop your Twitter name into the box and you’re away. That’s it. Pop your Twitter name into the box and you’re interacting with the brand straight away. No messy sign up process. No email confirmation. Simple. It...
Can everyone interact, sure birdies do it..
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
The Curve gallery at the Barbican.
Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and...
THE NIKE GRID
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Nike GRID uses the now almost defunct iconic London telephone box to track a runner’s progress at designated Nike branded locations. After registering online, players run between two phoneboxes and punch in their unique user id number at each, logging their run and earning them points online. The more runs, the more points earned for that postcode. The person with the most...
URBAN OUTFITTERS BLOG
-is allowing regional stores to add their local content. Blog entries vary from local art to local companies, showing that not all content has to be direct merch for interest.
Urban celebrates “regionality”, don’t you!?!
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Go try it on
Honest opinion on your look before you go out. You can either give or get advice.
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MAKE YOUR OWN MIX
Watch this chap get his teeth loosened to a techno beat, then go here to knock him about yourself—and remix the track in the process.
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Ghislain Poirier - Jusqu’en Haut from departement on Vimeo.
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Starbucks Sponsors Online Contest To Create Green...
The betacup’s goal: find the best ideas to eliminate paper cup consumption and help bring these ideas to life.
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Check out these boobs!
Check out these boobs! from nienaut on Vimeo.
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Design with Google Maps
All you need to do is create map tiles from a collage of work.The Google Maps’ navigation tools can then be used to zoom in on designs and map markers to provide further information about an individual work.
Some of the first to make use of this technology were game fans, producing maps for World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto.
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Foursquare Now Adding 15,000 Users Per Day (and...
Foursquare, which recently surpassed the one million user mark, is now adding about 15,000 users per day according to CEO Dennis Crowley, who revealed the number this morning at Business Insider’s Startup 2010 event in New York City
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In an interview with Business Insider founder Henry Blodgett, Crowley commented on his company’s rapid rise, its recent deal with...
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"Hello, I'm a Mac"
Complete retrospective of the highly successful “Get a Mac” campaign.
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INTERACT- Daniel Rozin
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Displayed at bitforms gallery’s doorstep, Daniel Rozin’s “Weave Mirror” assembles 768 motorized and laminated C-shaped prints along the surface of a picture plane that texturally mimics a homespun basket. A seemingly organic smoky portrait comes in focus to the sound of clacking steps made by the sculpture’s moving parts. Informed by traditions...
INTERNET, ART AND MESSAGING
The brilliant bit.fall by Julius Popp at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008—bit.fall artistically reveals internet-based information generated by a statistics algorithm via controlled drips of water that create a waterfall of words and images.
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SOCIAL SHOPPING COMES TO LEVI'S
Levi’s announced the introduction of a new way to shop. Everything is explained in the video, click Levis.com to start social shopping! Absolutely brilliant and definitely forward thinking, Levi’s is definitely pioneering a new trend. .
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INTERACTIVE BILLBOARD
Mc Donald’s digital billboards: Catch a “product” with your mobile phone & redeem the picture for a free sundae/coffee/pie! Very innovative and definitely interactive, what else could you catch?
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The Top 10 Viral Video Ads Chart reveals the...
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EXAMPLE THIS WEEK Toyota Sienna | Saatchi & Saatchi- True Reach™: 1,437,348
TOPSHOPS VERY COOL MAKE UP APP ONLINE
It lets you upload a pic of you, or use the models they have there…Fun make-up tips in just how they apply the make up in different ways and show you how…
Before and after example
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Listen to your customers*
*They’re trying to help you.
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Victoria's Secret shares the facebook like button...
And now a word from the frat boys:
Victoria’s Secret has decided to take a different way to share the Facebook Like button in a way only they can. As you can see in the graphic below, Victoria’s Secret has created a panty that shows off the concept of “liking” something. It’s called a “limited edition” and will be available starting tomorrow until they exhaust their supply.
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WatchDavid Lynch directs a 16 min. film for Dior. Seems like more and more advertisers are going down the non-traditional route and producing less commercial-like commercials.
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WatchUniqlos promo for the opening of their store in Paris. They allow you to create a world clock based on your time zone.
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Diesel Cam – youth want SOCIAL EXPRESSION
Great idea from Diesel in Spain, Diesel Cam taps into young people’s need for SOCIAL EXPRESSION – wanting to express themselves within their social circles. So now, young people’s need for self expression within the tribe has been turbo charged, as now the ‘swarm’ of friends approves or ‘likes’ what you’re wearing/buying etc in real time as opposed to at the next party or meet up. Peer...
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Cool Microsites- Converse, web fun?
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Cool Microsites
These sites are seemingly completely random but all of them provide a cohesive brand feel, despite the lack of actual branding. The main page is thisistheindex.com where you can scroll through and find your favorite microsites.
• IsEverythingGoingToBeOkay.com – well is it?
• ConversespellinBee.com – first ever search engine spelling bee
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SOCIAL MEDIA?!- YEAH SELBY IS SOCIAL MEDIA
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Todd Selby and The Selby are Red Hot
Todd Selby Photo by Backyard Bill
Todd Selby is the talented young photographer behindTheSelby.com a website dedicated to documenting interesting people, their creative spaces and their stuff usually in New York, London and LA. It seems to have hit a critical mass online recently with a mention in the NY Times (here) and all kinds of...
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UJ Uniqlo- every which way to see jeans
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Oh Uniqlo
Yet another beautiful Flash presentation from Uniqlo, this time in celebration of a new store in Shanghai. What is it? A grid of synchronized video thumbnails of girls wearing Uniqlo products, doing dance moves with their hands. Patterns emerge in waves and ripples. Music probably by Fantastic Plastic Machine once again. It works.
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WTF is Social Media?
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I like seeing how peeps “break down” social media…. a little cheeky food for thought….
Watch the slide show-
This is SlideShare. Present yourself is a simple but fun tool to share info as well!
WTF is Social Media?
View more presentations from Ankit Bathija.
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Tavi Gevinson at Generation Next
Our little Bella is not going away and watch out she is Generation Y!
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NEW YORK, United States — With speakers including teenage blogging sensation,Tavi Gevinson and Teen Vogue publisher Laura McEwen, last Friday’s “Generation Next Forum,” organized by New York-based thinktank LuxuryLab, examined the unique characteristics and growing influence of a young generation of...
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The Social Media Revolution
Watch this video and the numbers will get you moving. Welcome to Socialnomics… Click “read more” to read better…
“If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead of the United States and only behind China and India.” (as of this date and growing).
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Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old
96%...
Create your own QR code.
Can you read this? Create your own.
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Peugot says- It's really simple to create your own...
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LONDON - Peugeot is launching a digital campaign to promote its new sports coupé model RCZ, in which consumers must advertise themselves to the brand
The ‘It chooses you campaign’, based around a RCZ Facebook page, invites drivers to create classified car ads advertising themselves, as part of a competition to win an RCZ. The campaign has been devised by EHS 4D...
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What are those QR codes all about?
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Mobile ads with emotion
Yesterday’s Apple event had the Internet community buzzing about the new iPhone 4.0 OS, and impressive stats regarding the iPad. But perhaps the most important announcement made by Steve Jobs was the launch of iAd, Apple’s newest venture in mobile. Dubbed “mobile ads with emotion” by Jobs, iAd will be integrated with the upgraded iPhone OS expected to be released in the coming months. iAd will...
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Who knew Wrangler was this cool? Fun &...
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AMERICAN APPAREL + LOOKBOOK.nu = INTEGRATING A...
* Note this is amazing, you have them buy your clothes, take pictures of themselves and then use the content for your advertising. Yes I would say they did it right!
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The LOOKBOOK.nu Lookbook by American Apparel is a 64-page collection of 132 inspirational American Apparel looks created by 77 of our very own members. Now available for FREE at americanapparel.com, or just pick...
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Collecting all street styles in one place
all the latest styles from the world’s top fashion blogs.
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Virtual Street Corners- connecting communities
Beginning in June 2010, a storefront in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, and in Dudley Square, Roxbury will be transformed into large video screens, providing pedestrians of each neighborhood with a portal into one another’s worlds. Running 24/7, life-size screen images and AV technology will enable real-time communication between residents of the two neighborhoods.
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