This post was originally posted on socialmedia.biz on December 28th. You and your friends from all over the world walk into a bar on New Year’s Eve. The music is great, the bartender is friendly, and you and all your friends are dressed up in your favorite outfits. Your friend from London decides to pick a different song from the jukebox, your friend from Brazil decides to listen to the band instead, while the buddy [...]

Post written by Kevin Swaine I am not ashamed to say that I am, and always have been fascinated by time travel. Be it Doc Brown’s Delorean or the Doctor’s TARDIS, anything to do with time travel has me jumping up and down for more. You can imagine my joy when Facebook rolled out the Timeline option. One of the great things about working in a new media firm is that we found out about [...]

HopStop, a leader in the emerging field of digital pedestrian navigation and mobile transit routing, has released a fascinating Urban Travel Patterns infographic examining the top trends for on-the-go consumers.  According to HopStop, the infographic’s data is “based over 400 million HopStop routes and 2.25 billion miles traveled” in order to expose major travel trends in several major US cities.  The data strongly suggests that modern urbanites are using multiple methods of transportation to get [...]

Post written by Shahar Goldfinger This week, I bought myself a birthday present, it was a genuine mint condition Gameboy color full with a night light, a Pokémon blue cartridge, and a cable to connect up to four (!) Gameboys at once, the guy who sold it to me stated that there is no need for a cable, since the Gameboy came with an Infra-Red interface to connect to other Gameboys. Later that day, I [...]

Post written by Brian Blondy North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il loves a spectacle. His personal creation, the Arirang Festival, is the world’s largest public performance, involving some 100,000 performers to an attending audience of usually 1% of that amount. The Arirang Festival takes place every year for two months to celebrate Kim il-Sung’s birthday (Jong-il’s father) in Pyongyang’s national stadium. The performance itself is utterly mind-blowing in scope and design. Make no mistake, marketers can [...]