Clickz: I’ve covered games and advertising a lot lately. And for good reason. Though much of the ad industry is still trying to figure out how to deal with the online world, a few trailblazers have been working diligently (and somewhat covertly) to develop new forms of online marketing that bear no relationship to the models we’re all used to. […]
The Relation Between Gaming And Advertising
Yahoo! Likely To Expand Into Blogs
Reuters via Yahoo! News: Internet media company Yahoo Inc. is likely to build and buy tools that help its users create, publish and search blogs, Susquehanna Financial Group Marianne Wolk said in a note on Friday. Wolk also said she also expects the company to expand into social networking software, which lets users share and organize content. Yahoo recently integrated […]
A Virtual World
TechnologyReview.com: Giant Jimmy Jones is a friendly, helpful giant. In fact, this book character is so helpful, he can make the sun shine on an otherwise gray village. The giant simply walks across the page, reaches up to the cloud cover and pushes it out of the sun’s way so the villagers can catch some rays. Those light rays may […]
Pay by Fingerprint
ABC news: Customers of a German supermarket chain will soon be able to pay for their shopping by placing their finger on a scanner at the check-out, saving up to 40 seconds spent scrabbling for coins or cards, bosses say. An Edeka store in the south-west German town of Ruelzheim has piloted the technology since November and now the company […]
The Perfect Date
Iconoculture: Dinner and a movie? Yawn. Prosaic daters find a creative crutch at Xperience Days, an innovative planning service that sends couples on customized superdates in New York, California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Xperience Days’ “concierges of love” guarantee that clients and their prospective mates live the experience of a lifetime, from salsa dancing and Ferrari racing to copter rides and […]
A Great Dinner Together
Sayrelyns.com: Just like you, Sharon found herself frequently frustrated by the difficulties she faced in simply sitting down for a good dinner with her family. Even though Sharon is a trained chef who loves to cook, she found it difficult to pull everything together and serve delicious, wholesome dinners to her family. Meanwhile, her friends and family, looking for new […]
Church Branding
Brandchannel.com: We’ve heard of bible thumping, but brand thumping? That can’t be kosher. “There’s not a church in the world that doesn’t market itself,” says Richard Reising. “Some do it well, some do it badly. But when you don’t do it consistently and effectively, then you say clearly to the community that you don’t know who you are; you’re not […]
Japanese Influence
GlobeGazette.com: Transported half a world away via a digital connection, best friends Emily Coovert and Simone Boissonneault drift into their own head-bobbing universe of sound as they watch a Japanese stadium show, a furious mix of hard guitar licks, operatic Queen-like vocals, the occasional classical flourish and bouncy beats. It is one of, give or take, 500 J-rock — or […]
Growing Online Sales
AP via Yahoo! News: Consumer spending on online content such as music, dating sites and business and investment information grew 14 percent last year to $1.8 billion, an organization of online publishers reported Thursday. The Online Publishers Association, working with comScore Networks, a group that studies consumer behavior online, said in its report that the biggest gain came in spending […]
FR? FL? D? Fitness
Iconoculture: A few leaps on the treadmill? The FR? FL? D? fitness program blends break-dancing and skateboarding moves with athletic footwork on a customized moving treadmill called the Launchpad. With its martial arts–like twists, inventor/fitness guru Kappel LeRoy Clarke says its not your mother’s treadmill (MTV Summer 04). FR? FL? D? is a great way to challenge the body,”sharpening reflexes, […]