Dan Marino Plays Quarterback for Samsung’s “Team Up for Autism” Social Media Campaign
Within 72 hours, Samsung, with the help of Hall of Fame Quarterback Dan Marino, helped raise over 100K for the Dan Marino Foundation, which helps fund autism research and supports initiatives aimed at helping the autistic lead normal, fulfilling lives. The social media campaign “Team Up for Autism” asked people to tweet a message about the [...]
Fox Promotes New Show Bob’s Burgers with Geo-Social Technology Loopt
For those of us who’ve ever dreamed of quenching your appetite for entertainment by taking a swig of a Big Gulp or taking a giant bite of a Krusty Burger, you might need to go ahead and make reservations at Bob’s Burgers, Fox’s new primetime animated series.
Sharpy Award Winner: Reeder for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Although not nearly as coveted as the prestigious Dundies, Sharp Dressed Brand has now established its very own awards for the best of the best in tech design, both in functionality and aesthetics. This week’s winning brand is Reeder and its collection of products, including Reeder for iPhone, iPad, and ReederApp.com, the promotional website for [...]
FourSquare Continues to Show Innovation Dominance with New Marketing Campaign from Gap
FourSquare, the geo-social tool and tech-community darling that was ultimately the precursor to Facebook Places, has teamed up with Gap to offer holiday discounts that integrate directly with FourSquare’s location technology. Gap has replaced their once static banner ads with a handful of interactive display ads that feature a “Add to FourSquare” button, which, when [...]
eBay Uses Holiday Web Design to Establish Itself as a Must-Stop-Shop for Christmas
We all know eBay is a great consumer-powered marketplace to buy new and used items. Not only did eBay introduce most of the world to both buying and selling online in the early 90′s, their brand has now become a household name, as synonymous with e-commerce as McDonald’s is to fast food. Although eBay now handles billions of [...]
Conan O’Brien and His Big Orange Blimp
If you’ve been watching the MLB Playoffs, you might have seen a giant orange eyesore hovering high above Citizens Bank Park as the Philadelphia Phillies took on the Cincinnati Reds during their first of seven games. The “Conan Blimp,” routed to fly all over the Northeast for the entire month of October, is a new [...]
Ochocinco Brings His MoJo to the iPad
Bengals fans probably wish their star wide receiver Chad Ochocinco would spend less time tweeting his memoirs and shooting reality shows and more time focusing on bringing winning seasons back to Cincinnati, but after all his relentless showmanship and other ridiculousness that comes with being #85, its undeniable that “The Receiver Formerly Known As Chad [...]
Arcade Fire and Google Chrome Launch Experimental HTML5 Masterpiece
If you’re like me, you’re probably totally satisfied with your browsing experience through FireFox and Safari, as they are both fast and functional browsers that pretty much do it all, and thus you have yet to download and use Google Chrome. Well, Arcade Fire just gave you a reason. I’ll go ahead and say that it is a necessity that you go watch their interactive, HTML5 web experience just launched at Chrome Experiments (Note that you will need to download and install Google Chrome for the video to work).
Facebook vs Foursquare – Check-In Here for the Battle Royale
If you’re one of the 500 million current subscribers to Facebook, then you probably noticed a new feature called “Places” added to the social network. Places is a geo-social tool that allows people to “check-in” at specific locations, alerting their friends to where they are at that moment. If this sounds like a passing novelty [...]
Arcade Fire Teams Up with American Express for Live Streaming Concert on YouTube
Arcade Fire might just be the best band on the planet. Since forming in 2003, they have released two critically-acclaimed albums, Funeral and Neon Bible, that are so refreshingly creative that, if the albums could, would stand up to recent chart-topping imitators like ColdPlay’s “Viva La Vida” and smack it straight in the mouth. (Sharp [...]
New England Patriots Use SCVNGR technology to Build Excitement for 2010 Season
Usually when you hear social media and the New England Patriots in the same sentence, you would be referring to the latest trending Twitter topic about Tom Brady’s newest actress or supermodel conquest, but the marketing department for the storied Patriots franchise has developed a cleverly engaging campaign to energize the Foxboro fanbase for the [...]
Parody Accounts on Twitter Redefine Corporate Brands
If you’re a Twitter enthusiast or follower of industry news in the tech sector, you’ve probably heard of fake twitter accounts that parody a person, brand, event, or other entity. As of this morning, @BPGlobalPR, a fake “BP Global Public Relations” account created after the company’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, now [...]
Woot! The Underdog Whose Character and Charm Won the Heart of Amazon
Earlier Today, Woot! CEO Matt Rutledge announced that his simple “One Deal a Day” startup turned tech-darling-for-the-thrifty-shopper had been acquired by Amazon. How this will affect Woot! into the future is unknown, but when a multi-billion dollar giant like Amazon comes knocking on your door, you can expect your future’s probably so bright, you gotta [...]
Job Hunt in the Web 2.0 World – Meet Michelle Rose
As recruiters, headhunters, and HR officials have been spending more of their time, money, and energy identifying potential job candidates online, whether through open thread job boards, paid listings at dedicated job sites like Monster, CareerBuilder, or Uloop, or through social networking platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook, those candidates are trying a variety of new [...]
Mint.com – Great Website Design Never was so Refreshing… or Free!
For anyone who is not yet using Mint to organize your personal finances, you’re probably still stuck with the agony of setting up budgets only to never meet them, building tables and forecasts only to always fall short, and saving and document receipts only to realize that you never really understand your current economic position. [...]
Uloop – A Student Powered Marketplace with Staying Power
Uloop, a classifieds website whose data organization revolves around colleges, takes the old model of newspaper classifieds (local newspapers, etc.) and the recent model of internet classifieds (craigslist, Oodle) and puts its own unique spin on it. If you graduated college within the last eight years, you probably watched a group of underground techie students [...]
