We’ve all wanted to be around Transformers — it’s a natural human feeling. Sadly the technology doesn’t exist to make them in real life, but this promotional video for this promotional video at www.transformersonyourstreet.com for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron gives the illusion of Transformers on your block fighting it out!
With over seven million copies sold, Minecraft has become a global obsession. Now, a similar interface has spread into the realm of HTML5 music apps, in this case, for the Google Chrome web browser.
ToneCraft from Dinahmoe, an “integrated music and sound production house,” takes the matrix sequencer concept and expands it one dimension further, taking several cues from the popular game that inspired its name. The result is a cool, 3D loop-building environment sure to please any Lego maniac — so long as they use Google Chrome, because this is a Chrome app.
We found the app to produce some fairly impressive sounds — and no matter how many blocks you decide to place, it manages to not sound cluttered, allowing you to get fairly creative with these building blocks. Since this is a “Chrome experiment,” in the words of Dinahmoe, the app can get a little buggy. For example, rotating the camera in three dimensions takes way longer than it should, and the blocks can sometimes produce odd visual glitches.
Still, if you have the imagination, this app can keep you entertained for a while. Tonecraft is available for free in the Chrome Web App Store.
GoDaddy.com was apparently not hacked, but went down (and took thousands of sites with it) due to “internal network events that corrupted router data tables.” Regardless, you might want to consider changing your hosting service and there are more than a few alternatives.
Read the full article on Mashable.
While there are 13 million unemployed Americans, yet 3.8 million open jobs remain unfilled. A large part of the problem might be how employers both vet and hire workers.
Find out more in Business News Daily.
80 million users have jumped on Instagram since it launched nearly two years ago. There have also been some brands to use the service creatively, and there are some fundamentals to understanding promotional use on Instagram.
Find out more at iMediaConnection.
Fall is here — which means it’s finally time for Halloween! Each year UNICEF distributes Trick-or-Treat boxes that make the rounds in neighborhoods around the country.
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is a 60-plus year tradition that began during World War II to help children abroad, and it’s been going strong ever since. One great thing about Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is that it gives kids a chance to help others — something that children inherently love to do.
This year, kids can get even more involved by designing their own Trick-or-Treat collection boxes. Whether they want to go retro-orange or create their own monster, there’s no limit. Kids can also enter their designs into our Create-a-Character Contest. The winning designs will be included in next year’s limited edition Box Collection.
To order your collection boxes, enter the Create-a-Character Contest and visit www.trickortreatforunicef.org for rules on how to enter, browse entries and win.
To learn more about how Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF began, click here.
The Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is not a pretentious brand. The Unpretentious Facebook App identifies your most pretentious Facebook friends’ posts, and visually destroys them.
The app analyzes the content from on all of your friends’ Facebook pages to determine your most pretentious friend – whether it’s someone who checks into expensive restaurants or just shows off about their kids – then creates a shareable video that shows the Outlander Sport crashing through visuals of the the pretentious posts. After the video is complete, fans can share the result to their friend or smash another friend and destroy more pretentiousness.
Ever find yourself liking a brand on Facebook, only to spend the ensuing weeks — months years — vaguely regretting it, reading the same inane updates over and over in your feed in a self-loathing stasis, feeling personally affronted yet too damn lazy to click over and unlike the fools The Condescending Corporate Brand Page is for you.
A comic parody of the bottom-feeding like-bait, too-happy imagery, not-worth-answering questions and other obnoxious ploys of “engagement” that brands on Facebook love so much.
Walmart is looking into a mobile self-checkout model in their stores. This change, where customers can scan items with their phones and then go to a special self-checkout counter for payment, is part of the plan by the big-box retailer to increase efficiency and reduce labor costs.
Read more at MediaPost.com.
Creating engaging visuals is an important part of online marketing for years. This is especially true on rising social platforms like Pinterest and Instagram and marketers need to know how to engage with those platforms.
Read the full story on imediaconnection.com.
