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Advertising: From YouTube to mainstream
Is this the next step in consumer-generated advertising?
A television commercial for the new iPod Touch from Apple, running since last weekend in the US and created by Apple’s advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day, is based on a mock-up commercial that 18-year-old Nick Haley from Warwick, England, created on his computer in one day last month.
It might be significant because it is perhaps the first concrete example of an amateur flick being implemented and used by professionals in that way
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Web: Operation Firefox
Firefox is looking for people doing guerrilla marketing for them.
The task is to install giant 3.5-foot Firefox stickers. More info and apply (until 09-Nov-2007) at “Operation Firefox”
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Art: Da Vinci’s Last Supper available online
If you always wanted to see the painting “The Last Supper” – one of Leonard da Vinci’s masterpieces – but never had time to go to Italy or you did not get through the queue at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, you now have the possibility to please your art desires online.
Since last night (site is sometimes not reachable) the Italian group “HAL9000″ has a giga-pixel version of the painting online
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Art: Saatchi Showdown
A Pop Idol-style competition has been launched by well known art collector Charles Saatchi to find a new exhibitor at his latest gallery that will open its doors during autumn this year in London. Anybody can submit images of their work to the website, where they will be judged by their peers in an giant online talent contest. The Showdown initiative is an extension of the popular “Your Gallery” section on Saatchi’s website, that provided a platform for online submissions from artists around the world. The website has received more than 50 million hits since going live earlier this month. Over the next six months thousands of art works will be voted down to twelve in a series of bi-weekly votes…
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Internet: The Great Firewall of China
A non-profit group of web designers, film directors and journalists who want to make the Internet censorship system more transparent has put up a web site called the “Great Firewall of China”. On the site you can test if a particular website address is blocked in China and see how the site looks from the perspective of a Chinese user. It works by routing the requested url from…
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Virtual Reality: Sony PlayStation 3 – Home™
Those who believe that over-hyped gaming platforms like SecondLife are the future for virtual communities or gaming should have a look at “Sony’s PS3 Home™ trailer”. “…Home™ is a real-time 3D, networked community that serves as a meeting place for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) users from around the world, where they can interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share content and even build their own personal spaces. Home™ will be available as a free download from the PLAYSTATION®Store and will launch directly from the PS3™ system’s Home Menu…”
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