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Web Leftovers – 3/21/2008

March 21st, 2008

Take five minutes out of your Friday to visit some of the sites, blogs and videos we’ve been stumbling across in the past few weeks.

Renault Megane ‘Everything is Sport’ CommercialFrench vehicle manufacturer, Renault, shows us just how desirable their cars are. Even the moving parts will do whatever it takes to get in one.
TweenLite: AS3 [...]

Wedding Party Relationship Map

May 29th, 2007

Imagine sitting down at a wedding and having one of these relationship maps at your placesetting. I’d imagine that conversation would be a lot more animated from the get go.
My favorite?
Andy’s connection to Rick:
‘Had, in early childhood, a near-death experience on the garage rooftop of ‘
Brilliant. Thanks to Kottke.

FITC 2: Casual gaming powers up

May 2nd, 2007

A common theme among a few presentations at last week’s FITC conference in Toronto was the increasing popularity of casual gaming among web users. Casual games are typically short, simple computer games that can be played in small bursts during a lunch break or a few minutes of down time, and are offered as try-then-buy [...]

Don’t Drink the Water: NIN’s amazing viral campaign

March 28th, 2007

Want a glimpse of the future of marketing?
An example of how entertainment and commerce will be indistinguishable?
The next level of gameplaying, puzzlement and conspiracy theory?
Nine Inch Nails unleashed the most compelling viral marketing campaign yet for their new album, Year Zero. Rolling Stone has a great overview.
It will be interesting to see how many lame [...]