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Raised $1.5 million - $1 million from FarmVille players.

It's like Facebook for things!  Damn cool idea.  Not sure the world is ready.

Interesting spin on how to get fans to like a page.  Could review the Guiness "Likes" and do a write up on that.

NFC used in Japan to trigger likes and check-ins.

"Unite the invite" is an application on Facebook that invites Generation Y consumers to interact with fellow travelers around the world. Users can register for the app at http://apps.facebook.com/unitetheinvite.

 Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz demoed the company's new Livestand service at the Mobile World Congress 2011, noting that for small mobile devices where screen space is at a premium, it is especially important to make sure what is displayed is relevant to user interests.

Don't let the Second Life part distract you. This guy is saying game graphics in web browsers will be on par with the graphics of today's consoles by 2013.

 For the launch of the latest Tom Clancy game, Splinter Cell Conviction, UBISOFT teamed up with Layar to create the worlds first AR game on the popular Augmented Reality iPhone platform called Layar.

"Something odd is happening with celebrities and style. The stars are becoming more daring, more avant garde than the designers. Nowadays, the biggest female names in music don't particularly set themselves apart from their predecessors through musical style… but the way they look is a whole new world."

Tablet, was kind of buzzy at Mobile World Congress. Will be sold as Wi-Fi only device.

Latest ARG from 42 entertainment

Likeable items in-store; scan a 2d code to like.

Google Correlate lets you look at search data correlated with real world data. Let's say that you wanted to plot how many people were searching for "sad light therapy" against the latitude of their location. Bam. It's done. Graphic above.

Ben & Jerry's is letting participants donate their spare characters in the tweets to promote World Fair Trade Day. Execution is called "Fair Tweets."

Nike created a magical game in the real world to promote their new shoes.

After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are another 400 to 500 daily deal sites in the U.S., plus 200 more internationally-and very few people think the world needs that many. Expect plenty of consolidation in the next year or two. By this time next year, you may be finding the best daily deals via search and social networks rather than email blasts-and you could be redeeming the deals with a swipe of your credit card rather than a computer print out.

For their honymoon the pair have gathered together an admirable collection of sponsors for their trip including Red Bull, Moodejaw, Sailor Bags, Weber Grills and several others. You can read about how they worked with each sponsor here.

Jonathan Stark has started an interesting project. He's provided the pic above that you can download to your phone and buy coffee with, the next time you're at Starbucks.  It's not a scam. It's a real card -- Jonathan's -- and he believes that there are as many people in the world willing to reload the card as there are willing to use it.