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Lego is donating a toy to the US Marine Corp' Toys for Tots for each Star Wars themed e-card sent through their site

"Seurat, a new tool that allows for rendering of very high resolution immersive content even on mobile VR devices that don't necessarily have the best specs. To demonstrate Seurat's capabilities, Google showed off a collaboration with ILMxLAB, which brings cinematic-quality renders from Star Wars to interactive mobile VR."

tablets are the end of e-readers possibly

Environmental scan about future of ebooks in relation to price wars.

daily 8.19 crowdsourced execution where ppl claim 15 second bits of a star wars movie and remake it, then all the pieces are put back together

wikileaks published a shit ton of secret docs related to the war... daily 7.26

An advertising dust-up is roiling the usually quiet grass-seed business, as Scotts Miracle-Gro has joined a war of words with rival Central Garden and Pet's Pennington. One side characterizes the other's seed mix as half "filler," while the other characterizes a rival's product as made from "ground-up paper."

"Coke's involvement in Spotify is notable, as the soda marketer has tested the platform's various ad units repeatedly, while also helping to launch the digital firm's presence in Germany and Australia. Spotify has appeared on 100 million Coke bottles in Australia during the last five months, while receiving a similar on-package treatment recently in Germany. The music upstart is now in 17 countries and goes head-to-head in the U.S. with the formidable Pandora. For its past, Coke seems to be in a music-based turf war of larger scale, battling rival Pepsi for high school and college-aged consumers. Both brands have sponsored various concert series, with Pepsi spending significant resources in the last three years at South by Southwest."

Strengths and weaknesses of a paid Twitter campaign. Walgreen's used paid media on Twitter to wage a PR war on Express Scripts.

More comedians as ad stars

Holy Smoley, this is the in home version of Aereo only better. The pay TV war against Aereo could be irrelevant if this kind of technology takes off. NOTE: it's probably to geeky and expensive to go mass in it's current form ($219 box+monthly sub+separate external hard drive) but a cheaper all in one option could be a game changer.

The platform wars for the quantified self are well underway.

Fight, fight, fight! Looks like GT and North Carolina State are in the computer connected dog wars;-)