Fortune cookies gone high tech
Could this be the death of fortune cookies? The german company Qkies challenge the fortune cookie with this QR-code-covered-cookie. It gives you the chance to say so much more than just "Let love lead the way", or the classic "You will meet a tall, dark stranger".
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Twitter launches direct image upload
Twitter just launched the option to upload an image to your tweet. The image appears as a link in and all images uploaded through this interface are automatically stored to Photobucket. Twitter has earlier annonced that additional photo features like galleries and stuff might be available within a near future. It remains to see what this will mean for our tweehaviour.
Own the Game
We just launched a quiz for adidas new shoe adiPower Predator. It's all about owning the game. Kind of tricky obviously since several players already have played more than 300 times, in 24 hours...
"We can't just sweep 30,000 ugly people under the carpet."
Linkbaiting is an extremely interesting part of modern digital marketing. The question wether you should linkbait or not isn't all that easy to answer, I'd say. However, there are cases where linkbaiting is pure art. Such as when the dating site Beautifulpeople.com rejected 30,000 people due to being too ugly.
The rejections were conducted after a virus (named Shrek) attacked the software used to screen applicants, resulting in thousands of people being accepted wrongly.
When interviewed, the CEO of the site answered:
"We have to stick to our founding principles of only accepting beautiful people – that's what our members have paid for", which is of course awesome linkbait to begin with. But to finish things off, he pronounced one of the best linkbaiting answers maybe ever:
"We can't just sweep 30,000 ugly people under the carpet."
Hands up, who wants to click beautifulpeople.com right away?
via The Guardian
News from the past week
- YouTube is really, really big. 3 billion views per day. 48 hours of video uploaded each minute. If I try to explain how the digital world changes human behavior, these numbers are high on the argument list.
- The war on sharing. I respect the intent to explain the world of file sharing by using the war front comparison, but it does fall a bit short. But it is a nice overview of the history of file sharing.
- Facebook now displays 30% of all US advertising impressions. Facebook has gone from a 16% share of the US online advertising impressions in Q1 2010 to over 30% in Q1 2011. These numbers seem almost unbelievable and a reminder of the kind of influence Facebook has, both on the online world and the advertising world.
- Picture of the last Endeavour launch. Space is scary and fascinating. This picture of the launch of the last Endeavour taken from a plane truly freaks me out.
Image: Stefanie Gordon
Handmade 3D infographics
Putting a lot of hours in researching and validating stats and work on art is needed for any kind of well-made infographic. I assume this work takes the prize in man-hours needed for a final result. Handmade 3D infographics. Via Visualnews
There´s some serious stitching going on!
I dunno what´s up with me and stitched art lately but here´s some more great stuff from Inge Jacobsen
News from the past week
- Once popular social network MySpace is up for grabs when NewsCorp reportedly is looking to sell. Back in 2005 when NewsCorp made the acquisition for $580 million, MySpace was the hottest thing around. Today NewsCorp are hoping to get $100 million for the social network, but why would anyone want to buy it?
- A Twitter user complaining about a hovering helicopter disturbing his neighborhood was unaware he was reporting from the US attack that would kill Osama bin Laden. Stories like these make me sort of religious when thinking about the impact that the spreading of technology, web access and social media has on the world.
- Twitter is reportedly looking to buy popular Twitter client Tweetdeck. Twitter apparently don't want competitors in the client software business to grow their market share too much. Being a Tweetdeck user myself, I am mostly worried that Twitter will put too little focus on the software and ruin it.
- OMG - a new internet service everybody is talking about and that is the next big thing. Color is its name and it is a sharing tool to be used when you are in a proximity of a group of people. Say you are in a music festival, by using Color you can share and view pics by the people in your proximity. Like most networking tools it requires a change of user behavior, which makes it harder to break. I am waiting for the Android version before I can try it, but I do like the looks from the initial demo.
