Art on electrical junction boxes
3-3-2011
Fortum is an electricity company in Sweden. Every year grafitti and vandalism to electrical junctionboxes cost the company over $1,5 million. Research shows that art in public places and a well maintained urban environment lead to increased safety and decreases vandalism. Fortum created the competition “Art on electrical boxes”. Anyone could upload their artwork and collect votes through social media. The artworks with the most votes were posted on electrical junction boxes throughout the city.
Social Dipping
28-2-2011
Social Dipping is an online tool to create your own virtual ice cream shop. An ice cream parlor can show online what flavors are available. Customers can keep track of the flavors through social media.
PALMs newest beer needs a name
24-2-2011
PALM beer is looking for a name for their newest beer through Facebook. Facebookers get several clues to guess the right name. Whoever guesses the right name, can win a weekend in Belgium and a visit to the PALM brewery.
Spcial Media poster
22-2-2011
Socialprintstudio.com makes huge posters of all your Twitter followers, people you follow or all your Facebook photo’s. Nice to put in your the office, for example!
Taste of art plates with QR-codes
17-2-2011
Taste of Art will team up with Pocketmenu, a company that builde mobile websites for restaurants. On the new plates QR-odes will be printed that, when scanned with a smartphone, will direct you to the (mobile) website of the restaurant.
Dutch social platform Whoopaa
16-2-2011
Whoopaa is a new Dutch social platform that makes a distinction between your online business and personal identity. Or: “The social platform to connect, integrate and manage your social identities”.
RFID keychain to update your Facebook
12-2-2011
When entering the theater of Amsterdam, visitors receive a keychain with a RFID chip attached, which is connected to your Facebook-account. You can automatically update your profile by holding the keychain in front of the SowiSocial-desks.
Foursquare vs. Karmatech RFID shoe
2-2-2011
Nowadays it is becoming easier for your friends and family to keep track via social networks. This shoe automatically reports your current location to Facebook or Twitter, so you don’t need to login via foursquare anymore.
Do not eat app
1-2-2011
Max Stoller discovered that 1,660 restaurants in New York received really bad scores from the Health Department, but are still open. Stoller invented an application that allows a user to be warned when he checks in at Foursquare at one of these restaurants.
Heineken bars on Foursquare
20-1-2011
By checking in at Foursquare in a bar where Heineken beer is tapped, consumers save extra ‘e-points ‘, Heineken’s current loyalty program.
