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Stride Gum’s Where The Hell is Matt: Earthly appeal and understated marketing

June 30th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments

There's something magical and ethereal about Matt Harding's quest to "dance badly" in all of the planet's corners. You may have seen the original video from 2006, in March a second installment was released. the premise is simple... Matt dances, carefree, badly, in wonderful offbeat locales: Korea's DMZ, Antarctica, Galapagos, Yemen... ...

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iGoogle iMproves iTs Ui

June 28th, 2008 Jobe Roberts 1 comment

Finally those difficult to use and awkward little buttons on iGoogle are about to be nixed. The problem with the UI is that the 'remove this' button marked with an 'x' is right next to the 'expand this' button marked with a '+'. If you're like me you're forever deleting the application you're ...

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Consumer Reports 1941: Exposing the ink pirates

June 26th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

In 1941 a ballpoint pen cost $9. With such a high cost, trusty Consumer Reports built this pen testing machine to compare how long different brands of pens would last. Nearly 70 years later, consumers are still being pillaged by the ink cartridge pirates... A short history of ink gouging: 1888 - ...

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JC Penney / YouTube / Teen Sex: Vampy vandal’s viral video may vanish

June 26th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

The interweb has done it again! A video ad for US-based department store JC Penney is working viral magic. It's winning praise from ad agencies and You Tube fans. It even won an award at the Cannes Advertising Award last week. It even has the potential to transform JC Penney's boring ...

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iotum Goes Warp Speed: Calliflower takes off

June 25th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

Our friends at iotum released their latest product yesterday amid a lot of positive industry buzz, and Hollywood-style excitement. Calliflower extends the functionality of iotum's Free Conference Calling service on Facebook. FCC has been used by 200,000 people. Calliflower is a web-based conference service that features an engaging easy to use interface ...

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GE Innovation: Is that a Mini-Caulker, or are ya just glad to see me…

June 24th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment

Have you ever had to repair a small missing chunk of caulking? It requires a whole tube - when sometimes you just want a touch-up. This GE package idea is brilliant. No more caulking waste! via The DieLine

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ICANN 2008: Personalized Top-Level-Domains without Tasting

June 24th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

If you happen to be bored in France this week, you might want to attend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s board meeting. BTW - ICANN is the organization that "runs" the internet. A few proposed changes could significantly change our beloved cloud. First, ICANN is looking at ways to ...

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FatboySlim will take over YouTube any second…

June 23rd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

LOL - ok - so super home producer FatBoy Slim - recruits David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) and makes this retro 60s "group" party video. This may be slightly NSFW - as they say... but not really... The best part is Pong with the "middle finger" ball!! Relax - just turn up ...

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Wordle: These are just some of my favourite things…

June 23rd, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

TagClouds were born out of Social Bookmaking - trying to represent relative content popularity... Here's a tool that let's you visualize the complexity of your world, as you define it. It's Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg! This is terrific for spicing up a Powerpoint presentation! BTW - no offense to anyone / anything I ...

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