From asilia, an agency. "To Mama With Love is a collaborative art project that allows you to post a public shout out to your mom, send her an ecard pointing to your proclamation, and help out someone in need in the process." - cool in part b/c they have created media space they are now putting their clients on
Data mining in World of Warcraft (sample of 14,400) shows that players fall into different "cliques" of highly predictable (80% accuracy) behavior based on the sort of achievements and activities they like to pursue. The researchers indicate that these lessons could be applied to online retailing as well.
Also confirms my suspicion that there are more lessons to learn in these virtual environments than people want to give them credit for.
Everyone loves a "world's first," but it's gotten to the point where you have to go pretty far out there to accomplish it. As part of the marketing for its new Picanto, the latest version of its smallest model, Kia came up with the world's first nail-art stop-motion animation film.
A 200ft high digital sculpture was unveiled on top of the flame of the Statue of Liberty in New York City yesterday, to mark Independence Day and the launch of the Beck's Green Box Project, the world's first global networked augmented reality gallery.
Nike is looking for a new Fellow to open up the company's data and make it more accessible to developers, designers, and activists to create more sustainable solutions. Called the "Code for a Better World Fellowship at Nike" and "will help Nike determine the steps needed to open our sustainability data to communities of data-obsessed programmers, visual designers, and researchers."
Groupon has bought out Whrrl, which will be shutdown. The idea of "Anti-Search" or "real-world serendipitous discovery" is compelling. Also, the article talks about the LivingSocial $1 Lunch campaign in D.C., which saw 27,000 vouchers purchased within 3 hours.