This week we look at Old Spice raising the bar, Calvin Klein getting uncensored with QR, CNN traveling with Gowalla, Patriots fans helping Vince, Barbie videoing social media, Google giving fiber to communities, Discovery highlighting small discoveries with Twitter, Patron letting customers create cocktails in the Lab, Starbucks getting 10 million fans, Facebook getting 500 million users, and Hulu at the top of the video ad charts.
This week, we look at influential link bait, an engagement database, a Humongo road trip, the death of Facebook Gifts and the growth of Facebook Ads, Wheat Thins jokes and Justin Bieber pranks, social media infographics, Twitter sales, sponsored tweets and movie apps, a human avatar, a day in the life of a YouTube user, and an internet full of Comic Sans.
This week, we look at Twitter’s helpful videos, trending topic ads, Gowalla giveaways, Bravo badges, Loopt coupons, Foursquare bookmarks, Facebook admin removal, films on Facebook, a “Heart-of-a-BP-Executive Black” Tumblr Dashboard, the 2011 Ford Explorer Facebook reveal, Common Craft’s augmented reality explanation, branded Formspring.me pages, a social media command center, David on Demand, and the guy or girl of every Apple owner’s dreams.
This week, we look at Foursquare’s new Howcast video, Ferris Bueller’s Foursquare badge, YouTube’s Show and Tell, a Skittles Mob, a Levi’s Girl, and Apple’s HTML5 Showcase.
This week, we look at Twitter’s plans for the future, a record setting Nike viral and the effect it had on their Facebook Page, a Zynga/7-Eleven partnership, a (RED) movie that’s exploring new methods of distribution, Pennsylvania’s Foursquare promotion, and the new digital Macy’s catalogue that’s now available on the iPad.
The Twitter Platform – In [...]
This week we look at NBC’s new affinity program, Google’s take on TV, a Gulf Coast oil spill response network, a social media experiment, hidden whiskey, Facebook page restrictions, Farmville’s sale of real crops, a Double Down challenge for charity, open Facebook data, YouTube’s birthday, new deals for Starbucks’ mayors, Hulu’s new ad tailor, an A-Team van you can drive on Google Maps, and an app you can use to find the nearest pizza place.
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This week we look at location based rewards for skiing the North Pole, a site that lets you buy your way to Mayor, a mysterious hashtag based puzzle, and augmented reality game that uses Layar, and a deodorizing adventure.
The Last Degree – 15 year old Parker Liautaud hopes to become the youngest person to ever [...]
This week we look at product check-ins, an interactive video from Stella Artois, a recycled plastic boat that’s sailing the Pacific ocean, location data from SXSW, record breaking videos from Lady Gaga, Zynga branching out into the real world with their social games, clever Twitter accounts, a Gmail CRM tool, sleep patterns of Twitter users, [...]
This week, we look at EA’s massive Dante’s Inferno campaign, The State of The Internet, how digital is now getting more ad dollars than print, what the Fortune 100 are doing with social media, a bus that launched six startups in just two days leading up to SXSW, a blog treasure hunt that’s promoting a [...]