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Visa has tested a pilot with the Gap, where the retailer's customers can sign up to receive text-message offers based on spending habits or when or where they swipe their Visa

Hunch has an interesting chart up, comparing the interests of self-identified Mac and PC users who fill out their Hunch site profiles. The average Mac user is younger, more liberal, more urban, more educated, and more early-adopty. They are also much more likely to have excellent taste in websites.

"Virgin Mobile promises to make a new celebrity couple from two previously unknown, unfamous people. This is everything that's wrong with society bundled up in awesomeness for advertising glory. We deserve this. Thanks, Jamie!"

wireless inventory mgmt system

stats about shopsavvy app

Mobile banner from Dunkin', not that cool, but a good write up.

Biz Stone and Evan Williams - vaguely positioned social cause start-up

stats on ad spending

CTRs on mobile lowest during morning commute and early work hours; popular at lunchtime - the first collective 'catch up time" of the workday.

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Have you talked about this? Video slideshows. Just picked up 25 million in funding

When nine of Slovakia's leading news organizations went behind a collective paywall in May, the world's eyes turned on this small eastern European country and waited impatiently for the public's response. Now we know. Unique visitors to most of the publications' sites have actually increased since the paywall went up, and Piano Media, the company behind the venture, claims to have met its subscription target within two days of launching the system.

Interesting company working on social listening for TV properties.

he EZ Face "Find Your Look" makeover tool, which allows a customer to snap a digital photograph of herself and then virtually apply products found in the store simply by scanning the bar code; a fragrance display that spritzes 40 scents onto blotters or wrists, and the Nail Bar by Essie-OPI housed in David Rockefeller's former office (complete with his fireplace). Service prices range from a $10 manicure to $65 for a Phyto treatment, with blow-dries hovering at around $40.

Continuing its ballsy Kenny Powers campaign that started with a Funny or Die video last year, K-Swiss has now promoted Kenny to CEO of the company. And the fictional star of HBO's Eastbound & Down is filling out his management team with a group of real athletes

If you want something done, sometimes you just have to do it yourself. The city and county of San Francisco teamed up with Earthlink and Google nearly a decade ago to build what was planned as a citywide Wi-Fi network, only to see Earthlink retreat from its municipal Wi-Fi business in 2007.