Thanks Ness for the heads up – great mix from Pogo. Good tune, good video, good stuff all around.
“Dear Weiden + Kennedy, I am a 19 year old, entrepreneurial/creative mind. I have between 2-3 groundbreaking business or creative ideas every single day, and to say the least, I do NOT have the capability to even keep track or implement them so; I started a business. I decided that If I were to ever become successful and impact the world greatly by undertaking huge and “impossible” projects I would need a very balanced, efficient, and productive degree of discipline. Sometimes discipline and creativity/randomness sit on opposite sides of the lunch hall; however, to combine them would I assume be as earth-shattering as balancing the ying and the yang of business. Behold, my mobile billboard business in Las Vegas, NV. However, I did not have enough money to start it to I decided to sell it first, and with the profits, start it (opposite to the quote “think with your hands, and then talk about it, not in reverse”) Well I did it in reverse. I dressed up in a black and gold suite and tie, drove down to the Forum Shops in Las Vegas, NV (very wealthy shops) and started selling my ideas to the managers, converting them to my corporate sales people, and starting the damning corporate marketing man chase. I thought “wouldn’t it be awesome if I had some clout, some pull, to just pitch these ideas,”. So out of the few dozen I approached, and followed up over weeks and weeks, I ended up with about 4 hot prospective clients. I mean, one that is looking at buying a marketing package from me for $30,000 U.S. and very, very EXCITED to do so. So I have a feeling my ideas are golden, but I promised myself I would stay here until I make my business, my ad agency, my marketing consulting firm, which I named “Unique and Innovative PRO (Personal Relations Officer)”–a success. Well what does this have to do with you? Well I’m a young man, and I “stay stupid, stay foolish (steve jobs)” so I thought I would write this e-mail to someone who has done what I want to do in the advertising/marketing world. I found Weiden + Kennedy from watching everyone of your Nike MVPs videos, and found that you had internships/platform program. This is what is on my mind: Nike Factory in the forum shops needs strip advertising; I concepted a Giant Shoe on a platform truck that will drive up and down the strip with a sign in it promoting a weekly event with the local UNLV Basketball team, celebrity, athlete, or locally famous socialite, that would pull customers to Niketown to HAVE FUN. The place is built like a club and it could very well be a sales monster tool, all while the customer is not cheesed by old ad methods. So To Conclude, If you were to use me for my ideas and implementation and passion… If I were to use you as my clout vessel Your company, Your Ideas, Your advertisements would only progress, and companies that don’t keep innovative, fail. (You DO, trust me I’ve seen your advertising). I would progress, and become the next YOU, to offer more and more people opportunities to create, and jobs for everyone helping them, and in turn bread for families all over the world. This is my calling, I am the global entrepreneur. And I love advertising, Can We Team Up? What do YOU propose?”
Everyone’s favorite Twitter app comes to the iPhone. I haven’t tested it out yet, but I will…that is once I get back onto my iPhone and test out 3.0 which should be coming out in the next few hours. I’m currently on the Nokia N97, it’s pretty great besides the obvious bugs with the unofficial software – will do a review once it’s more stable. If you happen to need a twitter app for Symbian S60 5th edition devices – Gravity is by far the best choice at the moment.
I was indeed excited about upgrading to the new 3GS, but after the fireworks and dry ice faded away – I’m still left with this feeling of uncertainty as to whether its worth it at all.
Bahhh, who am I kidding! Of course I’ll end up springing for it…another sucker born every minute.
Nothing like a good mobile AR shooter on a saturday afternoon. A collaboration between Georgia Tech, SCAD (Savannah School of Art and Design) with the help of Nvidia, this truly takes augmented reality into a space that I feel will get really interesting in the near future.
For the record, I’m not a huge fan of AR ideas where you need to print out a piece of paper and put it in front of a webcam on your computer. Who would do this? I work in advertising and research lots of different techniques and mechanics for delivering ideas and even I can’t be bothered to try most of them out – novelties only last so long. The only way AR will become a success and become ubiquitous is through integration with mobile- if you’re able to look at a marker in a store on a piece of packaging with your phone, then I can see the value of what that could bring to a consumer.
What’s great about this besides the obvious fact that its a mobile AR game, is the level of detail and gameplay that I’ve never seen before. The video does a pretty good job of explaining the in’s and out’s of the game, but the thing that it doesn’t touch on is the notion of how great this could be as a multiplayer experience using the one big marker as a map. 5 phones, millions of zombies…all good fun.
I was utterly impressed by what Microsoft came out with at E3, but I was a little weary that the polished demo presentation was a little too polished – was the gameplay actually going to be that smooth and would the motion detection actually be that sensitive to your movements?
Fast forward to last night where Project Natal makes an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Now Jimmy is a self professed gadget fanatic himself, basically he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to tech toys, so having the Late Night boys get the honor of taking a spin on the new motion equipped Xbox must have a been a dream for all.
The results? Well it sure looks like the real deal in my opinion and from the reaction of Jimmy and co screaming like little kids – I’m assuming they would agree. This could kick the ass of Wii and Playstation in one giant sweep.
Picture a wall of every single app available that lights up each and every app gets downloaded. Pretty slick digital wall at the Moscone center for the WWDC.
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