What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com:
Tweet of the Week
Past tense of ‘bing’: If bing is like ping then it’s ‘binged’. If it’s like sing, it’s ‘bung’. If it’s like bring, it’s ‘bought’.
Starbucks Listens to Customer Request for More Sizes | Starbucks Coffee Company
This was my favorite April Fools prank. Starbucks again showing the best way to battle brand backlash is to not let it throw you off your game.
How the Tablet Will Change the World
The more I read about the iPad, the more impressed I am by Apple’s vision. I’m also enjoying the battle of the titans between Apple and Google. And while I generally favor the open system approach of Google, Apple’s been providing value through a far more consistently better user experience for the masses of users who never really care about doing their own Google Maps mashup.
10 Apps We’re Excited to Try on iPad Launch Day | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Another post in the topic du jour. To a lot of people, the gap between a laptop and an iPhone experience seems like a small niche. True, almost all apps demonstrated here can already be done on either of those two devices. But looking at these large images and realizing that they’ll be delivered in the tight interface of the Apple app system, and you can see why this is going to be a very different computing experience.
NYT: Data Show Best Corners to Hail a Cab in New York
This article hits on several interesting points. The use of data to create a more fluid society — think traffic management or urban planning. Also, the release of this data as an app means the loop comes around and future data could reflect how this data was reacted to. And lastly, this is all about mobile and location based services; probably the strongest tech meme going.
Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010)
A great presentation on the current and future state of gaming and how it could be worked into seemingly every facet of our lives. Watch this video and get 10 bonus points.
Amazon Filler Item Finder – Get Free Shipping on Amazon.com
Since opening up customer reviews in the mid 90s (to the howls of critics), Amazon has refined and redefined the online commerce business. This is right in line with their trend. A tool that shows you a range of products which will fill that last $3.11 you need to add to your order to get free shipping. Brilliant!
YouTube – Prisencolinensinainciusol
Remarkable video from the early 70s. The song from Italian singer Adriano Celentano is actually a parody on what English sounded like to him. Thus the rather odd title. It actually looks and sounds more like someone trying to take a funk hip hop group and send them time traveling back three decades.