Add to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | rawsugar | shadows | netvouz In an interesting new promotion from Hyatt for Gold and Diamond members, you can go online to www.hyattwakeup.com and schedule a personalized wake up call from a friend or family member, or choose to have a standard
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I hate unfolding maps. That’s where this Idea Bar post starts, because unfolding maps and trying to pinpoint your location is near impossible on those huge maps available from AAA or many others. Google Maps and Mapquest are ideal solutions for turn by turn driving directions from one place to another, but they fall far
Continue reading »Add to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | rawsugar | shadows | netvouz New York City is home to some of the finest Italian restaurants in the world, yet a growing challenge for many of these restaurants is consistently filling their tables. In an effort to remind consumers of the
Continue reading »In my inbox today, I recieved a plea from United to support their "Capital to Capital" initiative lobbying the US Department of Transportation to allow them to add a new nonstop direct flight from Washington DC to Beijing, China. The email drives travellers to a website launched on September 12th for the Capital to Capital
Continue reading »Add to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | rawsugar | shadows | netvouz In the midst of planning a trip to India, I am in the process of doing what countless others do when planning a trip nationally or internationally … browsing the bookshelves and looking for the best books
Continue reading »The billboard is getting a makeover these days, as marketers get smarter about using the ultimate outdoor advertising vehicle to encourage more interaction with branded content. CBS recently launched a billboard campaign in Grand Central Terminal train station in New York to promote several new shows in their fall lineup: "Shark," "Smith," "Jericho" and "The
Continue reading »Wikimapia is one of the most recent mashups with Google maps getting a lot of love on del.icio.us lately. The site is a global effort to get people to describe the places they live in the same way that Wikipedia has become a global encyclopedia of knowledge on nearly every topic in the world. The
Continue reading »I recently came across TurnHere.com – a very cool website that has a compilation of short films about various locations across North America. Unlike other video submission sites, the focus of Turn Here is about recruiting filmmakers into a professional community and allowing them to house their work in a more professional environment. Better yet,
Continue reading »Following from my previous post about the Landrover promotion, I did a bit more research and learned about Consola, the Open Source Proximity Media Server. As far as I can tell from their sparse website, the project is designed to create an open source method for what the project calls "placecasting" – or sending a
Continue reading »Anyone in the marketing and advertising industry has probably followed the evolution of product placement on TV and in films with interest. With the Tivo phenomenon changing how consumers view (or skip) the 30 second spot, some say the future of television is in product placements. But what about product placement and sponsorship on blogs?
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