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The system works out well for retailers, which have taken a one-two punch from both the popularity of online shopping and the way smart phones enable consumers to comparison shop while in the store, looking at listings from competitors for lower prices before deciding to buy. In the sixth annual survey from National Retail Federation Foundation and American Express Customers' Choice survey, conducted by BIGresearch, Zappos.com and Amazon.com took the top two spots. Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/05/25/mobile-checkout-devices-save-time-encourage-spending/#ixzz1NTlLUiZH

Kaiser Chiefs are letting Facebook users put together 10 tracks from the 20 on the album, add their own cover art, and then pay and download the album. The personalized album can then be bought by other customers, and the original creator of the custom album gets a 13% commission.

Simply post their deepest, darkest secrets or most embarrassing moments, target just them from the customize menu (they won't realize you did this), click return and let the hilarity ensue. Fun times, fuuuun times.

Sometimes the simple cheap thing is best. Hugo Boss set up a scene for customers to put themselves in an ad.

Argument against insisting on "Liking" and participation and such.  "There is a 100/10/1 'rule of thumb' with social services. 1% will create content, 10% will engage with it, and 100% will consume it."

a trend to move back to custom mannequins

ThinkNear targets customers who are nearby and offers deals at the time the company needs them the most.

Coke planning to expand its Spotify integrations with custom playlists and perhaps Coke-affiliated artists. Also stats on CTR for run-of-sites for Euro brands that have already worked with spotify.

The six largest publicly traded U.S. cable and satellite-TV providers combined to lose about 580,000 customers in the second quarter.

Followgram is a tool that lets you create a custom follow button and vanity url for your Instagram feed. One of the early entrants to the coming Instagram economy. 

this is really cool- shape shifting robots 

For 12 hours straight, 140 KLM employees hung out in an airport hanger responding to customers' tweets by standing in formations with letter signs to form their tweet responses. Um yeah, that's hard to describe. Just watch this awesome video.

Cool sampling stuff

Sprint is taking its "Now Network" concept a step further in a new advertising campaign that encourages even more talking, texting, emailing, video posts, tweeting and Facebook updates. Granted, Sprint doesn't have as many customers using its services as its bigger rivals, and it's well-positioned when it comes to spectrum. So the carrier apparently isn't worried about overtaxed network usage.

FB is releasing the design of its new data center under the Open Web Foundation license

kinect used to let people walking by write on glass, "light write"

brand called shoppers to sit in windows to be like models for the hats