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Robots. Mind control. Mobile games. Social films. Been there, done that. That is, if you're B-Reel. Last year, Ad Age's sibling publication, Creativity, named the Stockholm-headquartered outfit its Digital Production Company of the Year. It was an easy call, based on groundbreaking projects including the Cannes Cyber Grand Prix-winning "Wilderness Downtown" for Arcade Fire (directed and conceived by Radical Media's Chris Milk and Google's Aaron Koblin) and the much-buzzed-about LiveDrive for Mitsubishi, from 180, Los Angeles. Yet B-Reel's output during the past 12 months has proved even more impressive. A small sampling of the work includes a "Minority Report"-style retail interface for telecom provider 3Sweden; a Rube Goldberg-inspired browser puzzle for Honda and Wieden & Kennedy, London; a social-media-created film for Intel/Toshiba via Pereira & O'Dell; and yes, some really great commercials.

Users can also share their favorite shows on Facebook and pair their mobile device with a web browser on a computer, which turns the device into a remote control or a second screen. Not in the US

The advertising and technology industries, which have been under pressure to do more to ensure privacy, said they would support a "Do Not Track" mechanism that would be clearly and uniformly adopted by browser vendors and would allow consumers to opt out of having some companies, but not all, keep data on their online activities.

Makes iOS ad blocking that much worse

From the porn file: Digital Playground, a major adult film studio, says that if all browsers today were HTML5-ready, they would abandon Flash in a heartbeat. The article also mentions they are skeptical of mass adoption of 3D. 

hmtl5 execution where you enter in your childhood address for a memory lane nostalgia experience. chrome browser only daily 8.31

directv is bringing the NFL to PCs and mobile NFL Sunday Ticket To-Go add-on mobile apps for iphone, android, blackberry, windows mobile, palm pre, web browsers on PC and Macs, and iPad only available to DirecTV subscribers, its $50 for a one time fee or $10 a month for five months daily 8.3

Tech review write up on KHARMA and Argon - the AR standard and browser from Georgia Tech.

Websites gonna get more graphics-y

For their client Cellcom, McCann Erikson Israel invented a new advertising space to promote the brand's teen-focused First Love website. Cute little love messages - followed by a promotional message for the site - were displayed in the address bar next to the site's URL.

Simply enter an address or place into Rorschmap. Click "Go" and watch your browser turn into an animated kaleidoscope of Googley maps.

zynga acquired all their talent

Fortune making a web app instead of a native app. Still includes a premium version, but just lets you access more meaningful applications of the content they provide on different companies.

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Samsung already released a web browser for the Gear VR late last year so it's possible to browse the web using the headset but now that it has support for WebVR, users will be able to browse the virtual reality experiences found on the web as well.