Weekly Social Download: So you don’t have to stress out that everything just changed again
Livehoods offer a new way to conceptualize the dynamics, structure, and character of a city by analyzing the social media its residents generate. By looking at people’s checkin patterns at places across the city, they create a mapping of the different dynamic areas that comprise it. Each Livehood tells a different story of the people and places that shape it.
In a bid to launch a travel brand on Twitter and Facebook, Columbian agency, YR, came up with the idea of allowing 5 of the top tweeters in the South American country to “bet” their followers on a live game of poker. Dubbed “Twitpoker”, winner would come away with 180,000 followers. The losers? Nothing!
World’s Longest Lasting Banner Ad
Stride Gum claims to be ridiculously long lasting gum, so naturally, they created a ridiculously long lasting banner ad to match, and it was so good, it’s just picked up a webby award for it!
Foursquare Partners With OpenTable
The foursquare Blog recently announced that its geo-location service has forged a partnership with OpenTable, the online real-time restaurant reservation platform. Essentially, foursquare users can access its Explore recommendation engine to research the restaurants of a specific locality and then go on to book reservations with the new OpenTable integration.
