Hulu has it’s own 50 camera Truman Show show ya heard? What’s interesting about it is how integrated and interactive the entire thing is. Watch live streams from anywhere in the house, watch live concerts in the Pepsi room, tweet the cast, or just plain stalk them.
Ok, so you know I’m a fan of Puma so I had to post this! Puma is releasing a solar soaking Pumaphone thats interface extends the brand with apps like sarcastic calculator, turntable, pedometer, and Dylan. I love my iPhone but there is something crack-like about this phone. We’ll see but for now watch “See me in action” and check out the “Technical stuff” pdf
In honor of Valentines day there is this. Send an anonymous tweet and the beat and your love life will be complete. Well, maybe.
Shooting for Twitter’s trending topics isn’t anything new but regardless, Pizza Hut is running one through Valentine’s Day. The 100 best pick-up lines tweeted @pizzahut tagged #iluvPH win free chocolate-topped dessert sticks. Om Nom Nom!!!
This submission comes straight outta ATL from redpepper homie’ Kevin Burke. Nissan is launching a Twitter + Augmented Reality campaign for it’s Zero Emmision car the Leaf. AR will be used to visualize the tweets. Kenichi Horie, art director at Enjin, said of the agency’s strategy. “We used Twitter and augmented reality because, without using conventional, traditional media, how could we spread the word? We wanted it to spread through viral and social media and to build traffic to the website.”
LEGO CL!CK The new lego website is a piece of artwork. It has successfully aggregated its social networking sites and blog posts into a very slick flash site. New content drops into the site in blocks that you can blow up with a click of a button. The site seems to be a part of a campaign to “Find Your Inspiration” - check out the site and make sure you see their short film. Very inspirational Shortfilm
On ResortQuest they are hiding a treasure map on one of their ski destination pages. If you find it click it to get a phone number and secret code. Be the first to call with the secret code and WIN! It’s like a little one item scavenger hunt on their site. It’s a great way to get eyeballs and raise awareness of their ski packages. Clues are Tweeted out.
At the Grammys Imogen Heap wore a dress that used a real-time Twitter feed to display TwitPics on it.
Technology that makes the world more human instead of less human. That’s nice. By texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999, $10 is added to your phone bill. Making it this easy and natural to donate has meant over $5 million being raised in a matter of days. This is the fastest and most generous results the Red Cross has ever had and many speculate that it’s because of sites like Twitter and Facebook that the message spread so naturally.
Google’s Local Business Center added a Twitter like feature to the mix to allow owners of business to post items of interest. You can also create coupons which work on mobile devices through the system. Example. Add this to their QR markers and things get awesome!
Tasti D-Lite loyalty program is the first to make use of social media for added awesomeness. Tie your Twitter or Foursquare account to your rewards card over at mytasti.com and get extra points through tweets and posts every time you use it.
Black Cherry-lime with Facebook Connect ;). In a fashion similar to Dewmocracy, Vitaminwater recently created a facebook app that would let users build a new flavor.
A nice little community/social/fundraising campaign that spreads via Facebook Connect and Twitter. Great way for PayPal to spread awareness for their product I think. Real-time rankings make for a pretty dynamic fruitcake site.
Soon-to-start social network that lets you share details of your credit card purchases with friends or strangers. Will this really catch on?
