Find gifts with the MasterCard Priceless Gift Finder. Connect with Facebook and pull in your friends and their preferences to get a list of Gift ideas available for purchase at Amazon. Deep integration of product data and shopping cart in a totally custom interface.
Normally Woot! updates at midnight with a new daily-deal on a random item. If you’re paying attention you can catch a Wootoff which is means updates are ramped up to happen hourly. If you see the little lights (shown above) spinning it’s a Wootoff! Cool idea for generating traffic spikes in an otherwise predictable nightly cycle.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) in San Francisco is partnering with Foursquare for a genius little promotion. If you “check in” at any of the stations can unlock BART-themed “badges” and become eligible for $25 in tickets over the next few months.
Originating in Boston and now Nationwide, The Big Warmup’s goal is to collect coats for the homeless. The site is a great example of brining data to life and creating a living breathing real-time dashboard on the progress. They even have an installation you can visit in Boston. Facebook integration has been added this year as another donation source.
Bacon makes everything better, we know this. Wendy’s has taken bacon lovin’ to a new level by launching a real-time bacon mention microsite and twitter/facebook campaign. I think they’re employing every share technique available and using wendysrealtime.com to aggregate it all for you interactive pleasure.
Epic-ly bad… or AWESOME!!! The guys behind ilovelocalcommercials.com are brilliant. It’s simple, nominate a local deserving small business, these guys come out and film an epic commercial and proceed to get half a million views on YouTube. Then, they get another 100k views from the behind the scenes. Amazing how a video camera, creativity, and a little editing can take local commercials to a level never imagined. These guys did the Red House commercials too.
A whole issue dedicated to Augmented Reality. Only about 8 pages of total AR but still nice to see Print capitalizing on it’s strengths. Especially when it’s innovative.
Expense a Steak. A single function site that generates a set of receipts for office related items that total up to an amount in which you want to hide from Accounting. Simple and effective. I know it was heavily shared around the redpepper hq.
Ad-hoc T-shirt giveaway contest through Twitter twitter.com/yazoobrew. 258 view and some true fans get some swag. Hey Yazoo, redpepper LOVES YOU. Heck, we would even be willing to come by for taste tests if you need ;)
