Marketing Magazine: Shakespeare in the Park plays, gospel concerts, bird watching, tree hugging, historical walking tours, jogging and picnics are not the first things that spring to mind when you think of cemeteries and funerals. But for Mount Royal Commemorative Services, on Montreal’s Mount Royal, it’s all part of bringing life to an industry long known for its deadly dull […]
Funeral Marketing
New Medical Trend in China
Entrez PubMed: Chinese biomedical scientists are now developing a new approach to medicine by combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western biomedical science. This is the current medical trend in China. Some significant results have already been achieved. For instance, in treating fractures the traditional dexterity in coaxing broken ends of bones into alignment has been successfully adopted, and x-ray has […]
7UP Curvy
Indiantelevision.com: Clear lime brand of PepsiCo India, 7UP, has unveiled its curvaceous new packaging Curvy. Promoting the new packaging is 7UP’s popular brand mascot Fido Dido in company with Bollywood siren Mallika Sherawat. Says Pepsi Foods Pvt Ltd, India executive marketing director Punita Lal, “We are pleased to present the new 7UP ‘Curvy’ bottle which spells style, aesthetics & differentiation. […]
Golf Glamour
Springwise: Proving that every industry can benefit from innovation, Eye Candy Caddies’ mission is to make golf sexy. Similar to Models At Work, the temp agency that we wrote about last year, Eye Candy only works with models and other very pretty people. Caddies can be hired for GBP 150 and travel expenses, which covers 18 holes and an after-links […]
Caffine innovation
Bornrich: The Milan furniture fair contest focused on how the coffee rituals will evolve in the future. The first prize winner is the “Nespresso Card” that is a personal chipcard, which holds coffee preferences for registered individuals. The card enables you to access your favorite coffee anytime, anywhere. The second prize winner is an interesting concept of InCar coffee machine […]
Dream Homes
BizReport: Zillow, which provides free, anonymous home value estimates, has struck a deal with Microsoft Corp. to offer detailed pictures of homes using the software company’s “bird’s-eye” mapping technology. The technology, which is the same offering found on Microsoft’s Live Local mapping site, provides photographic search results that are, in some areas, close-up enough to make out individual cars or […]
Mobile Music Studio
Playfuls.com: If music truly is the universal language, then millions of music hopefuls are sure to be talking about the new Cingular Mobile Music Studio available exclusively on MySpace. Announced at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2006, Cingular’s Mobile Music Studio is a first-of-its-kind platform that offers hundreds of thousands of unsigned artists and bands on MySpace the tools needed […]
Viral Videos
TrendCentral: You may have heard about YouTube and the viral video craze that’s become one of the hottest Internet trends since the birth of social networking sites. Two major viral video portals you may not know of yet are Channel 101 and Channel 102. Think of these sites as the localized, viral video equivalents to American Idol. Here’s how it […]
Flower Rings
TrendHunter Magazine: Designed with the fun, colour and passion that life offers in mind, omondieu!’s saucy line of floral jewelry has been making waves with the style set since its inception in 2004. Worn by such celebrities as Lenny Kravitz, Nicole Ritchie, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View, omondieu! has generated major buzz from Hollywood to Berlin – and everywhere […]
Shower Curtains
DailyCandy: You like it hot. Hot and steamy. Spine-tingling, really. So much so that it takes you to a place far, far away. Mind out of the gutter, please. Focus. We’re talking about a shower, here. Namely, a shower behind an Izola shower curtain. Inspired by a passion for photography and art, the vinyl curtains were created to bring a […]