‘Rumble Bug’ is a simple but addictive flash game created by Cybercom for Coca-Cola. Navigate the bugs through 5 levels of game play to be in with a chance of ‘Rumbling’ some daily prizes along the way!
Find out if you are suffering from Friday fatigue on XV Rescue. Subaru’s recently launched website for the Impresa uses interactive games to diagnose how bored the visitor is as part of it’s avoid the mundane campaign.
The new Social website for Puma applauds the champions of late night games and the after hours athlete. Be social and join the club or watch the cool videos of the real Social Club in NYC.
This week we have chosen four sites that are all sort of loosely related to photography…
Could The iOScars be the future of The Oscars? The capabilities of the 4th generation iPhone are incredible so if the best camera is the one you have with you all the time maybe you could be collecting a golden statue soon.
If you want a great laugh check out Photoshop Disasters. How some of these fatal errors were not picked up is a mystery. The site if full of examples of brutal displays of negligence by designers from all over the world and it a definite guide of what not to do!
The Guinness Storehouse Photo Competition is continuing with great prizes up for grabs every month. If you have visited the Home of Guinness upload your photo to be in with a chance of winning a digital photo frame (and if you haven’t perhaps this long weekend could be the ideal opportunity…)
Pop culture packs a punch with Touchpuppet an online cultural magazine for lovers of art, fashion and photography that’s updated multiple times daily.
Dlvr.it provides bloggers, publishers and brands a simple way to instantly syndicate content and expand their reach on the social web and into new channels. This cool little tool publishes your media, your blogs, and all your content to your social channels, ensuring your audience sees it instantly. Nice!
Why buy when you can borrow? Save money and resources by sharing with your friends and neighbors with Neighborgoods.net a kind of social networking site for borrowing and lending. What a great idea.
Jerry Kennelly the man behind Stockbyte has a new startup; Tweak.com bills itself as an online self-service design library, which makes tweakable press advertising and marketing collateral available to users at the touch of a button.
Overacting poses, exacerbated similes, pretentious backgrounds, freaky characters, you will find all these kind of stuff and much more at the Awkward Family Photos site.
http://www.kreiselberg.com/
Kreiselberg is a creative agency from Toronto whose digital paintings are truly awesome, check them out!
http://follownoone.com.au/
Are you a dedicated follower of no one? The New VW Polo website uses a really cool and imaginative interactive navigation that has a great focus on detail.
http://www.onitsukatiger.com/en-uk#/home/
Great interactive website to showcase the new campaign for Onitsuka Tiger, lots of unusual things to discover within a wooden shoe…
http://sosapplesos.com/
By public suggestion this ‘experiment’ by Mat Bisher made it to this week’s Best of the Web. There are good arguments put forward as to why Apple won’t support Flash, but this is still funny!
http://www.admongo.gov/
Get yourself Aducated! Admongo is a fun game which aims to educate a younger audience about the wonderful world of advertising.
http://tweettrumps.com/
The old school favourite playground game Top Trumps has been digitalised! This clever project was developed in 24hrs at WarbleCamp (expect a few bugs…) and pits mutual Twitter followers against one another.
http://offices.colgate.edu/SeniorProfiles/SeniorProfiles.asp
With an increase in the number of Irish graduates seeking work abroad in recent years replicating this digital yearbook, created by Colgate University and incorporating Google maps, could be the way that Alumni keep in touch in the future.
http://www.youtube.com/wearefordogs
Pedigree’s adoption drive campaign is continuing with the release of a new video. Pedigree have pledged £1 each time this and future instalments are viewed, so get watching!
Great article in Saurdays’ Irish Times around smart phone etiquette.
The article, entitled, “Knowing Your App from your Elbow”, and written by Davin O’Dwyer, highlights how smart phones have changed the way we behave in public and lays down a few rules to ensure some smart behaviour.
So, for all of you who spend way too long comparing apps, or offer your iPhone up as the key to unlocking any debate (I’ll just Google it in a second and then we’ll know the answer!), read, smile and maybe re-consider your smart phone etiquette.
http://www.facebook.com/BeroccaBoostNinja
Ordinary mortals learn the way of the Berocca Boost Ninja through addictive Ninja brain games, a recent campaign-work for Cybercom on behalf of Berocca Boost.
http://starwars.jibjab.com/
May the 4th (be with you) marked the 30th anniversary of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and to celebrate JibJab created this Star Wars video with the lead role played by you!
http://vimeo.com/channels/100brands
The 100 Brands Project, created by Robin of Shoreditch, is a made up of a group of creatives whose aim is to raise $195,207.10 for the Haiti relief by creating a new big creative idea for each of the top 100 brands (by brand value). The plan is to invoice them for the work and cross their fingers that the invoices get paid.
Don’t even try to deny it. We know you are a Gleek. And why not? Glee rocks!
Glee is revolutionising the role television plays for the music industry. Not since MTV, has the formula of music television worked so effectively, with digital playing a key role in increasing revenues for music stars.
Glee’s combination of aspiration pop music and racially segmented cast saw the show place 25 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009, becoming the first artist of Artist’s to do some since the Beatles with 31 in 1964. The shows ability to give pop stars the opportunity to reach new audiences have been leaped on, with Live Nation recently giving the show total access to Madonna’s entire catalogue for the episode “The Power of Madonna” which was aired one week before Madonna’s new tour was announced.
Sony, who has a 360 degree deal with Fox over Glee, now have a unique, never before explored opportunity to blend their artists with cultural messages via the shows storyline to develop a cultural currency for their music that will end up in actual currency. Merchandising, touring, music sales etc. have all been taken into account, but the access to obtaining these have been re-mastered – the songs featured in any given episode of the program become available later that same night on iTunes. It’s like buying the artist’s CD in the lobby on the way out of the gig, so no surprise that Madonna’s tunes rocketed to the top of iTunes as soon as the show aired.
Here’s to digital distribution giving us easy access to tunes we love and increased revenues to the stars we admire. Sue Says “Happy Gleeking”!
http://www.onlythebrave-ironman.com
The previous version of Only the Brave was featured on “Friday Best of The Web” a year ago. Now, Diesel have revamped the fragrance and website for the limited Ironman edition. Great comic content and menu design.
http://phylogame.org/
Phylogame isn’t just an ‘awesome’ educational biodiversity game it’s also an interesting experiment in crowd sourcing, open access, and open source game development.
http://store.levi.com/
There was a lot buzz about the introduction of Facebook’s ‘Like’ button this week. Levi’s are clued in to the ‘group like experience with the introduction of the plug-in feature to their webstore. Online shoppers can now enjoy a social shopping experience where they can easily see how many of their friends have liked an individual item.
http://www.stellaartois.com
This interactive video is part of the King of Cannes campaign from Stella Artois and is another great example of Facebook integration. Using Facebook Connect, Facebook members’ content is pulled in, resulting in a personalised short-film experience. Users can also enter the competition to win a trip to the film festival. See you at Cannes.
