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Archive for January 2008

January 23rd, 2008

links for 2008-01-23

Online Augmentation to ‘Emerging Participatory Culture Practices’ by Christy Dena
A look at how ARGs are tiered to support different audiences who want different things from the experiences.
(tags: args games design)

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January 22nd, 2008

Elf Yourself a hit all over again

Elf Yourself, the cute ecard app from Office Max returned again this Christmas. Like a sleeper TV hit, the results the second time round were huge. AdAge have the figures.

In 2006, they had around 2million visitors creating 11 million elves.
In 2007, they had 26.4 million people creating 123 million elves
In October 2007, the […]

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January 21st, 2008

Top Videos Jan 21

At number 15 in the weeks most viewed we have this short one from Hyundai, introducing their new Genesis car. I see very little about this video that would get it spread so I’m guessing this may have had a paid placement. The associated website is just your run of the mill car […]

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January 20th, 2008

Me and My Goldfish

There’s some interesting posters around London, on the Underground and such like, which tell a story, or at least the start of one. They’re all about Goldfish and by well-known people. They point you towards Me and My Goldfish, whilst having a small picture of the Goldfish credit card in the corner, just […]

By Rachel -- 4 comments

January 19th, 2008

Black Mustang Club and Ford

Earlier this week there was a huge blog blowup regarding how Ford had sent a Cease and Desist Letter to Cafe Press and the Black Mustang Club preventing them from printing a calendar featuring club members and their cars. The reaction was generally about how stupid Ford were, how they could not do this, […]

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January 19th, 2008

Mattel and Scrabulous

I’ve not played Scrabble for years, until I joined Facebook and found Scrabulous. In the last few months I’ve played quite a few games and worked out new ways to play given the ubiquity of tools around to easily produce high scoring words. It enticed me enough to consider playing again with the […]

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January 18th, 2008

links for 2008-01-18

PR Squared: The Unbearable Idiocy of Brands: Ford Runs Over Its Fansumers
Ford puts a takedown notice on a Ford fan club that took photos of their cars for a calendar. I’m not sure of the full story on this, as it seems extreme even for a company as old media as Ford.
(tags: socialmedia branding […]

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January 18th, 2008

Honda Joy of Problems

Collective London W&K London have come up with a lovely website to go with the W&L associated campaign to support Honda. There’s teaser billboards and print, based on anagrams. They point you, very subtly, to Problem Playground, tells you that the full site launches Feb 4th. In the meantime you […]

By Rachel -- 7 comments

January 17th, 2008

Vodafone Retention Team

Update: if you’re reading this via a feed, you have to come and read Vodafone’s response, which impressed me.
I contacted Vodafone yesterday to request a PAC number, so that I can move services and retain my phone number. Today, I’ve received a few calls from a number that is not leaving messages - 08080000133. […]

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January 17th, 2008

Lufthansa Maps

How well do you know Europe? Doing Biz Abroad points me towards a new Frequent Flyer promotion from Lufthansa, where they’ve put together a flash map quiz for you to place European countries on the map. The big ones were easy, it’s all those little tiny ones that foxed me. I live these […]

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