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priced at $160... i want the white ones!
this is a pretty awesome concept! Each jet black inkwell stink-bottle of “dark side” scents is capped with a representational bust: a grinning hog for Orwell, a mustached skull for Poe, a young girl with a mouth that looks like an undulating anus for de Sade and an anon aristocrat for Laclos. Read more at animalnewyork.com |
Available in 2GB and 4GB versions in a variety of colors, Verbatim's Store 'n' Go Clip-it drives are a perfect metaphor for our times, a moment in which we're awash in digital files but still burdened by paper ones. The Clip-it drives can handle both—pass someone a print out of your PowerPoint presentation attached by a digital copy of that same presentation. There's a story for your holographic grandkids. Read more at gizmodo.com |
Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the year and reached about 1.7 billion page views in the month of August. (Automattic’s WordPress.com, an older, more established blog platform, recently reported 2.1 billion monthly pageviews.) But Tumblr, which employs about 10 people, has been unable to provide service for hours at a time to its users, because of high traffic. |
“It’s got humongous potential, and humongous potential to fail,” said JD Rucker, president of Hasai Media, a digital marketing firm that builds Tumblr blogs for corporate clients. “We know it can fail. It was down 10 hours straight in July. It goes down way too often. How are they going to turn a profit without pissing people off?” |
“They are definitely growing faster than they can hold,” Rucker said. “And right now it’s an issue because they are at such a delicate stage. They have reached that tipping point where they can explode onto the scene, but all it takes is poor preparation in the form of server problems that could basically piss people off enough to where they might leave.” Read more at social.venturebeat.com |
 The fantastic Nike+ App let you track how far, how fast and at what speed you're running with only a sensor in your Nike-branded shoe and a compatible iPod or iPhone. Now you don't need the sensor or the shoe.
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Finally the redesign of Lincoln center is nearly complete!
This electronic component of the project includes — in addition to the words that have been adorning the risers of the new grand entrance stair on Columbus Avenue for the last few months — five screens at the back of the new bleachers facing Alice Tully Hall, scrolling text on the West 65th Street staircase to the north plaza, and 13 new vertical 4-by-8-foot L.E.D. screens, or blades, lined up along the south side of West 65th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. |
On top of the information they will provide about performances, the blades — 50 feet apart and facing east toward Columbus — will combine text and video images and are meant to enliven the street and convey the vitality and accessibility of the center. |
“New Yorkers are notorious for passing anything,” said Reynold Levy, Lincoln Center’s president. “We think this will cause them to stop in their tracks and really take a look. We are endeavoring to create a feeling, engender a mood, provide a sense of the drama and the beauty of what goes on in our halls. We want to attract passers-by, but we also want to surprise Upper West Siders.” Read more at www.nytimes.com |
I have a feeling that RWW is right. Facebook will eventually begin selling tickets to events, giftcards etc. on the actual site which can be bought with the FB credits. Since Facebook has always been closely associated with birthdays and/or anniversaries this will be the next likely step. Starting this Sunday, Facebook will be getting into the real, instead of virtual, gift giving business with gift cards available for purchase at all of Target's 1,750 stores and on Target.com. The cards will come in $15, $25 and $50 denominations and the timing is perfect, of course, for the upcoming holiday season. |
| Right now, Credits can be used on more than 150 games and applications |
| We also have to wonder when Facebook Credits will make the switchover into purchasing not virtual but real-world goods, such as tickets to events. Read more at www.readwriteweb.com |
This is a great idea. I support anything that gives people a way to give back, especially if it is done in a fun way that will attract more people. | CauseWorld, a location-based platform that allows you to turn your shopping into charity. |
| the company that created CauseWorld has capitalized on the check-in craze to turn marketing dollars into charitable donations -- donations that reached an impressive milestone. |
| It is the first app that lets you do good deeds simply for checking into a store. Every time you check in, you earn what we call Karma Points. These karmas turn into real money contributions to charities. |
There are 30 different charities on CauseWorld. The 30 charities range from feeding a family in America, behind that is the Feeding America charity; or helping to fight cancer, that's Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong organization; or helping an earthquake victim in Haiti that goes through the Red Cross; all the way to feeding a chimp in Africa, or if you're more on the green side of things, you can plant a tree in a rainforest with American Forest. So there's a whole range of different causes on the application. The simple way to earn these karmas is to check in to stores and restaurants as you go about your shopping day. Read more at www.cnn.com |
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