Posts tagged technology

Catch This? 12th edition Bacteria, Prohibition and the Mood of the Web

It’s Alive!! Warner Brothers Pictures got dirty. To promote the new thriller Contagion, about an unstoppable virus that’s wiping out humanity, WBP Canada grew two billboards promoting the film out of bacteria. As the days passed, the bacteria grew and spread to reveal appropriately hideous... [+]

Catch This # 6

Catch This # 6

How do you win the competition for your customer’s attention? One way is to light up your packaging with a new glowing, electro-conductive ink. Check out a demonstration with some well known cereal brands. (Click Me!) Whether it’s highlighting product features, or part of a... [+]

Catch This? #4

Catch This? #4

Did you catch this list of most popular startups? According to StartupFollower, Quora is #4. It’s up there with goliaths like Facebook, Google and Twitter.  Which begs the question – What the hell is Quora? Quora is a database of questions and answers. Think Wikipedia... [+]

Catch this? #1

Catch this? #1

Help consumers see the world through the eyes of your brand. IFC and Huffington Post are two of the first national brands taking the technological leap into Augmented Reality. A new Foursquare layering app allows for users to opt in to location-based pushes from their... [+]

Big is dead.

Big is dead.

Being big isn’t nearly as important as it used to be. Even the new corporate giants are comparatively tiny compared to their forebears. IBM, with a market cap of $170bn, employs over 350,000 people. Google, with a similar market cap, employs just 19,000. Big is... [+]