Loving these Foursquare “enhancement” spinoffs! Avoidr helps you keep certain Foursquareers at a safe distance from you.
New plugin for Firefox turns all mentions of BP into mini oil spills. Smart, timely, effective, and creative.
Creative Uses of Stickers in Advertising. While stickers are not directly tech related they can still be awesome, if not awesomer, than tech sometimes!
I love stories like this; a brilliantly simple (and inexpensive at $6) way to land a dream job. Notice, dream job, not just A JOB.
This is over two years old but it is a great example of a number of things. Micro crowd sourcing via Amazon’s mechanical turk, art exhibit, ecommerce, and a custom built content creation tool.
Domino’s turns you into a Taste Bud Bounty Hunter by giving you incremental incentive to turn in your friends. I like to think of it as a smart and creative coupon generator. Great concept.
Turn an email into a snail-mail with a custom Google Maps envelope! Sorry, it’s only a concept but it’s brilliant nonetheless!
So jealous right now because Twitter Choose Your Own Adventure was not my idea. Simple use of Twitter where again, creativity Wins.
BooneOakley is back in the news with their recent Interactive Win at SXSW 2010. This is still a great example of using available tools in a slightly different way than most do. Creativity at its finest!
Crowdsourcing strikes again! This is just a great use of Marketing dollars, $75k and prizes to be exact! LG could have spent that on a custom site promoting the EXACT same thing but they’re awarding it to smart and creative people with good ideas using Crowdspring.
I know what you’re saying, “Another Tower Defense style game for the iPhone, yea.” But hold on there! It’s got an awesome twist to it, it integrates with your Twitter followers, friends, and tweet count to enhance certain aspects of the gameplay.
What’s better, posting your resume on Career Builder with ten hundred billion other people, or posting it creatively where everyone in the world finds out how cool you are on every tech blog in the industry? Creative win of the week. 14,163 views so far!
What if you could give any physical object a story simply by sticking a barcode on it and appending a message to that barcode? The message could be a photo, a text message, a video, or a voice note. All anyone would need to unlock the message is a phone with a special barcode scanning app. The barcode in a greeting card, for instance, could trigger a video message from the sender.
