Links for 2008-01-17 :
January 17, 2008
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Sites created to educate teens and tweens about junk food brought to us by the British Heart Foundation – finally a response to all the slick advertising for junk food.
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Oakland based artist Packard Jennings has created some hilarious anarchist dolls and secretly slipped them into a handful of big box retailers around the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Virgin Mobile USA named Bob Stohrer as chief marketing Officer. Stohrer succeeds Howard Handler, who has left the company.
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“Give your room a makeover” says Design My Room, which launched into beta in August. The site lets users test out interior designs by uploading a photo of the real room they have in mind.
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Virtually everything a guest might see or touch in ShowTel will be for sale. Consumers will have the option of sleeping in a different room each night to be able to try out as many designs and combinations as possible.
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A key insight about teen behavior is that this group often spends evenings meeting up with friends on virtual dates. Other research revealed a common outdoor activity: going to the beach.
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Fluevog Shoes found that its “Unique Soles for Unique Souls” was a little too vague to pinpoint consumers. So it asked website visitors to vote for which magazine it should advertise in.
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“A critical factor in this election is speaking the language of Gen X, the language of authenticity and with the tone of optimism and hope of GenY,”
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