Author Archives: Mark

2012 In Review facebook, twitter, YouTube

Seems like every major social media platform is now onto the Year in Review concept. Given the masses of data that these guys would have it actually make for some pretty cool reading when you drill down to country level. You can get the sentiment of your nation and either remember with joy or sorrow the moments we shared. Read more…

Warm Wishes From Adland

We are such a nice bunch of people in adland – until you trawl through the top ad blogs comments about ads and reach the trolls. Hillarious look at some of adlands finest bitches saying what they think. This was a side hustled, holiday micro-site project handcrafted with love by: Tim Nolan, Jessica Shriftman, Lasse Korsgaard, & Kelly Bignell from BBH NY. Read more…

Never lose your keys again

This is a great idea. StickNFind is an ultra small sticker with bluetooth, that you can stick on any device, person or animal, and find them with your Smart Phone (Apple iOS & Android). I can already see the multiple uses for this within marketing campaigns which use location based tracking to find stuff. Take a look at the video to see how it works. Read more…

Look at this Instagram (Nickelback Parody)

This is a paraody showing the funny side of Instagram delivered using a Nickelback song. The pictures you want to remember. A song you want to forget. Read more…

A Free and Open Web Please

Tell the world’s governments you support a free and open web at http://www.google.com/takeaction.

Starting December 3rd, the world’s governments are meeting behind closed doors at the ITU to discuss the future of the Internet. Some governments want to use this meeting in Dubai to increase censorship and regulate the Internet.

Tell the world’s governments you support a free and open web at http://www.google.com/takeaction. Then spread the word with #freeandopen.

It is ours and it is free. A free and open world depends on a free and open web. And a free and open web depends on me.

Stella Artois Carollers App

Belgian beer company, Stella Artois, has created an interactive Facebook app that allows you to send a group of carolers to your home or your friend’s. Among the carolers is the famous English actress Alice Eve. Of course, there’s one catch — everything happens in a virtual setting.

The app allows you to enter a name, home address, and personal message. Shortly after, a video will begin streaming, featuring the carolers making their way to the specific home. The video integrates Google Street View, so you can see near-by scenery going past the car windows.

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Uniqlo Tilt-Shift Calendar thingy

Tilt-shift weirdness. Uniqlo have a new weather calendar site the tells you the weather where you are in tilt-shift miniature. Kinda weird and kinda cool. I’m not sure what to make of it but I liked it and I don’t know why Maybe if it pulled tilt-shift images from instagram for each city would have been cooler? http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/ Read more…

Game it up with A Spoonful of Sugar [opinion piece]

In Mary Poppins, just before they start the arduous task of cleaning up the nursery Mary chimed in with this gem “In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. If you find the fun, then, snap, the jobs a game. Then every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake.”

Wouldn’t it be great if all our jobs were games and we just played away our days. Even the most mundane positions would be worth turning up for.

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Old Spice | Dikembe Mutombo’s 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World

With December 21st the Mayan calendar’s end of the world deadline, Old Spice today revealed on Twitter and Facebook the latest installment in the digital portion of its Believe in Your Smellf campaign: a video game called Dikembe Mutombo’s 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World, which features the retired NBA star and a sub machine gun with pickle laser. Credit: Wieden + Kennedy Portland. via BrandChannel

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30 Days of Pinterest

Pinterest has a cool new Christmas promotion/site. For 30 days they will be showing off pinners, non-profit’s and brands showcasing what inspiration means to them. It’s like an advent calendar of Pinterest Thanks Caitlin Betts for the tip. See it here Read more…