Posts Tagged as ‘game’

October 7, 2009

Foursquare: Official London launch a “few days away”

The location based social network (and game) Foursquare should be in London in the next “few days” according to co-founder Dennis Cowley. I was actually lucky enough to have a go on the trial version last week (cheers @dens). It’s all coming together nicely and looking just as good as previous city versions, but as [...]

October 6, 2009

Trendplanner Twitter Top 10: September 2009

Using the power of Hootsuite here are the most clicked links from the Trendplanner Twitter account for September. For other useful Twitter links on similar themes, check out Qapture which collects links shared by various interesting people on Twitter. 1. How 20 popular websites looked when they launched – http://ow.ly/nRUg 2. PUMA Pitcrew Builds Ferrari [...]

September 23, 2009

Social Media: Why not make a game of it?

There’s a lot of hype around right now about the mobile service called foursquare. For those that don’t know foursquare is a location based social networking mobile application. The first element of Foursquare is a friend locator; it allows users to share and see the location of their friends that are also using the service [...]

July 15, 2009

Lego: Pretty cool for a 50-year-old

This month Lego turned 50, you might have seen the brilliant ‘making history’ ads created to mark the occasion. It’s hardly surprising that a toy based around small plastic blocks has been around for 50 years, what is a little more surprising is the fact that 50 years on and in the digital age these [...]

July 6, 2009

Evolving traditional communication channels: Interactive Billboards and Cinema ads

Advertising is becoming more and more focused on the getting the consumer involved in the process, it’s no longer a one way broadcast model but a two way communication model where the audience play a vital role in any brand communication. We might assume this spells the end for many traditional advertising channels such as [...]

March 6, 2009

The evolution of AR: 5 of the best Augmented Reality examples

There’s a lot of hype round Augmented reality (AR) right now, people are trying to combine the ‘real world’ and the ‘digital world’ in any way they can. Here are 5 of the best examples that demonstrate what can be done and where this is going. Lego Lego have really embraced AR, as well as [...]

February 25, 2009

Snow leads to Cadbury’s Creme Egg explosion

A unique Billboard has sprung up in Toronto promoting Cadbury’s Creme Egg. The Billboard reacts to the weather with snow fall causing an enormous creme egg to edge closer to an equally enormous fan, resulting in a serious ‘goo’ explosion. As to exactly how this goo explosion will occur you’ll have to wait and see, [...]