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Need an ATV? Here’s an Option.
Aug 8th
Fun2Rent Offers Peer to Peer Recreation and Powersport Rentals Fun2rent is an online listing that connects owners of powersport vehicles, such as dirt bikes, snowmobiles, and ATVs, with potential renters, who are looking to rent for fun and wish to reduce the financial strain of owning the powersport vehicle. Owners can then charge others for
Helping You Help Your Friends
Aug 5th
Friendslist is the Craigslist Specific to Your Social Network Who is more trustworthy than your friends? Probably no one. So, why go through the middlemen like Craigslist does when you can just connect to your friends to find the goods and services that you need? That’s exactly was Friendslist is trying to do. Currently in
Full service PR for half the price
May 24th
PR-123 brings professional publicity right to your door Tired of waiting around for a review or an interview to get some free publicity? Or don’t have the budget or know-how or launch a full public relations campaign? Then utilize the services of PR-123! Meant specifically for small businesses and startups, the publicity pros at PR-123
Need a new marketing strategy? Create a game
Aug 23rd
Purina, a pet food manufacturer based in St. Louis, has created a Facebook application where gamers run their own pet resort. Simply called Purina Pet Resort, players must manage guest animals by attending to their feelings, stocking and restocking the resort, organize events to increase customers, all while trying to make a profit. All the in-game foods have the Purina name on it, but only time will tell whether Purina Pet Resort hits the same craze levels as Farmville.
The Infinite House
Aug 7th
Now that we have been talking about open buildings, making a tiny house fit 3 bedrooms and a clothes drying rack, we thought an advert to apply these principles of space would round the week off quite well.
Hornbach, a German supplier of building supplies has released an advert that tells us about engineering, creativity and a sense of space. That a tiny home can be expanded to fit people and hearts is a rather amazing way of putting 3 stories together while promoting the brand that Hornback stands for. The house is infinite and love is too. Enjoy the commercial after the break.
Audi “Unboxing” The Car
Aug 5th
There’s been a massive change in car design in the last 10 years. From boxy to sexy. Audi leads the pack when it comes to shedding the boxy appeal of the car to create smooth curves and sharp lines. Not just aerodynamic, these cars look good. Audi created an advertisement for the Q5 that tried to convey this message of “unboxing” of the car via an animated sequence. The message is so crisp that you cannot ignore the smooth curves anymore. Video after the break.
Building A Smarter City With IBM
Jun 25th
Few advertising campaigns make an impact on our minds, IBM’s “Smarter City” campaign is one of the best we have seen. IBM has built a whole portal putting together all the case studies that make up a smarter city. Its a “complete” campaign in a sense. The campaign addresses issues with transportation, healthcare, education, development,
IBM’s Data Baby
Jun 21st
IBM’s all about building a smarter planet but out of a baby? Yeah, hospitals with IBM software apparently collect about 1000 unique data point every second out of every baby, assimilate all the information and build software models to predict infections the baby can contract so that doctors can prevent a disease from affecting the
PepsiCo Issues Open Call for Innovation Incubator Program
Jun 16th
Hey, lets accept it, we are getting out of bad times and going into good times. Great innovation booms at such junctures and Pepsi wants to nurture this. After their “refresh the world” campaign Pepsi is setting up an innovation incubator program “Pepsico10″ to incubate new ideas. The program will connect 10 entrepreneurial groups with mentors, investment and eventually – success. Head to pepsico10.com to get in line for this gold rush. BUT, there’s one catch. Your ideas will be used to make Pepsico better. Still interested? Full PR after the break.
Engineering A Viral Music Video
Jun 10th
Seen that music video from OK Go – This too shall pass with all the real “engineering” behind it? Now watch the creator of the marvel, Adam Sadowsky talk about how he made it possible. [via Ted]
