Barcode Hero Attacks In-Store Shopping With An Addictive Social Game You’re likely aware of Foursquare, the location-based service that turns checking-in to venues into a game of sorts. You may also be aware of StickyBits, an app that turns barcodes into message boards. What do you get when you combine them? Barcode Hero, a new product by Kima Labs, a startup founded by two Amazon veterans. The HTML5 Experiments of Hakim El Hattab Experiments This is my creative lab and interactive playground. It's focused on the exploration of interaction, visual effects and technologies. Flipside Flipside
A Guide to 25 Hashtags Used in The Meetings Industry Whether you’re new to Twitter or you’re experienced with the platform, at some time or another, all event professionals or tweeps (people using twitter) have been faced with a hashtag they weren’t familiar with. In our office, the most popular Twitter questions are about hashtags. “What does this hashtag mean?” First, we’ll begin with the basics in case you aren’t on Twitter. Hashtags are a way to categorize your tweets and also expand the viewing audience. For instance, this tweet is most relevant to MPI, Event Professionals, and PCMA: How SCVNGR Can Be Used for Conferences #mpi #eventprofs #pcma We’ll explain more. Best Buy Launches Shopkick Automatic Checkins and Rewards at 257 Stores Best Buy is readying 257 of its U.S. stores for a digital loyalty program that rewards customers who walk in and automatically check in via the Shopkick iPhone app and future Andriod app. The Best Buy Shopkick initiative was announced earlier this month and will award offline shoppers with "kickbucks" — the Shopkick virtual currency — that can be redeemed in-store or converted to Best Buy gift certificates online. Shopkick has been integrated into Best Buy's point of sale system, allowing customers to give their mobile phone number to the cashier to redeem discounts. The program is set to go live tomorrow in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, New York City and Chicago markets, with 70 additional stores in Dallas, Miami and Minneapolis set to support the digital rewards program by October 1. Shopkick's iPhone app (which also goes live tomorrow) is designed to automatically check shoppers in to retail venues; no manual entry or GPS required.
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2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder And we won’t be forgetting the other, harder-edged meaning of wonder -- where “I wonder” equals “I ponder.” We’ll be adding in strong servings of thoughtful insight, so that the possibilities we dream of are anchored in reality. One other change in 2011 is that, in response to community feedback this year, we are moving the conference one day earlier, so that it starts Monday evening and wraps up Friday afternoon. This allows people travel flexibility at weekends either side of the conference. 24 hour Twitter Police – Manchester force uses social media to showcase work Today the Greater Manchester Police are showing the world what they do by using the power of Twitter. Over the next 24 hours they will be tweeting all of the 999 calls they receive to highlight the complex social issues they face and that it’s not just about ‘catching criminals’. Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), wants the public, and politicians, to see what his officers deal with on a daily basis.
The space matters It might be a garage or a sunlit atrium, but the place you choose to do what you do has an impact on you. More people get engaged in Paris in the springtime than on the 7 train in Queens. They just do. Something in the air, I guess. Pay attention to where you have your brainstorming meetings. 25 brilliant examples of Facebook brand pages What makes a brilliant Facebook page in 2019? Merely being present? Great video content? Full utilisation of Facebook’s page tools?