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You’ve probably heard about the new Google Instant Search, so here is the introduction video to help you understand exactly what instant search is, how it works and why it’s so great. And I’ll tell you what, instant it is! Loving it so far. Instant search may very well change the SEO game from a [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Introducing Bing: The Better Way To Google!
2. Google Real Time Twitter Search Results
3. Twitter considered as a search engine?

We’ve been working on a lot of really cool projects for ASICS Australia, and a couple of weeks ago we launched a fully featured mobile site that provides an immersive experience, delivering a full product range (including things like reviews), store locator, intuitive shoe finder, access to search and complete social integration amongst many of [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. INQ1: A Social Media Mobile Phone!
2. Crispin Porter + Bogusky Launches New Beta Website
3. Ford Edge Crossover Website Launches In Brazil

Here is a new infographic from Flowtown, this time it’s on the growth of Social Media Ad Spending. The infographic breaks down where our social media dollars are being spent, shows forecasts for social ad revenue in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 along with some great stats like this… Facebook now has 50% of the words [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Infographic: The Social Media Effect
2. Infographic: Social Media In Big Business
3. Infographic: Mobile Is Changing Social Media

This is a hardcore version of Foursquare and Nike+ combined, just on snow! Ok, well it’s not Foursquare or Nike+, but take that, times it’s functionality by about 50 and then you’ve got EpicMix, in what I’m going to call the ultimate snow tracker app. It’s the sort of app that will influence your decision [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. INQ1: A Social Media Mobile Phone!
2. Burton: Top Online Product Gallery
3. Chocomel Hot: Snow Fight

This is a great new Digital Installation for Nike by the guys at +Castro and BBDO Argentina. The installation brings to life the “Air” with a levitating shoe platform that suspends the new range of Nike Air shoes instore. But the cool thing about this is that if you are in store, or even online at [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Nike Digital Installation: Write Your Headline
2. Live From Inside The Nike Human Race 10k!
3. The 100th Digital Buzz Post!

I’m a few days late on this (was out of the Country!) but it’s worth a look if you haven’t yet seen it just yet. Called “A Hunter Shoots A Bear”, this interactive YouTube takeover campaign from Tipp-Ex has racked up over 2.5 million views on the initial start video and over 3.5 million channel [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. The Expendables YouTube Takeover
2. Braquo: The YouTube Takeover Experience
3. Google Chrome Launches YouTube Takeover

Vodafone launched a new campaign in Netherlands called: Facebook vs. Hamilton. On September 13, the world’s youngest Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton takes on racing against a virtual race car, composed of profile photos of 28,800 Facebook members. The race is organized by Vodafone Netherlands to mark the release of its upgraded mobile data network. [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Vodafone: BlackBerry Hideout
2. Vodafone: Madame Tresesti
3. Vodafone #ukhols Map: Twitter/Google Mashup

I remember seeing this as it launched last week and was itching to post it, I held back a few days, because I wanted to showcase it as a video so everyone could get the full visual experience (it only works in Chrome browser, so naturally, the demo was built by Google!). This is by [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Wi-Fireworks: Remote HTML 5 Installation
2. Google Chrome Launches YouTube Takeover
3. Google Chrome Experiments

You may remember a video I posted back in Feb, it was called “Augmented Hyper Reality“, Keiichi Matsuda’s vision of what Augmented Reality could become in the future… So, 7 months on and Keiichi Matsuda is back with another Augmented Reality vision, this time, he has blended Augmented Reality into the every day city life [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Nissan 370Z Augmented Reality Website (AR)
2. Zugara: Augmented Reality Social Shopping App
3. Augmented (Hyper) Reality Demo

ATTIK and North Kingdom have just launched a new Augmented Reality game called “Take On The Machine” where you use an AR marker as a steering wheel to steer your car to victory against your Facebook friends or the global leaderboard. Normally AR games show a lot of jagged edges, but because this game is [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Nissan 370Z Augmented Reality Website (AR)
2. AT&T’s Augmented Reality Banner Game
3. Splinter Cell: Augmented Reality Game Launch

For the last three years, Marta Kagan, has produced and updated her famous SlideShare presentation called “What the F**K is Social Media” and for 2010, the presentation has been updated with some more amazing stats and growth comparisons to 2009. Marta has also collected some of the best quotes on social media, from a few [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. SlideShare: McDonald?s Social Media Strategy
2. Slideshare: The Basics Of Social Media ROI
3. Infographic: Social Media In Big Business

Here is a great Infographic that maps out most of Google acquisitions since they started buying companies back in 2001. Interestingly, Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned earlier this year that they were back on the hunt and ramping up acquisitions to just over one per week. For any company, that is a ridiculously tough thing to do, [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Infographic: The Geosocial Universe
2. Infographic: Social Media In Big Business
3. Infographic: The 2010 Social Networking Map

Sony has been running a pretty cool Facebook app over the last few weeks, called Media Monster Wars, featuring Justin Timberlake. It’s a well integrated social game that utilises the content on your wall to power your monster. The more photos, videos, comments, likes, shares and interaction you have, the bigger, better and meaner your [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Who’s Your Sad Friend: Facebook App
2. MySkyStatus: Social Updates In The Air
3. Whopper Sacrifice Campaign On Facebook

So we’ve seen how iPad Magazines work, and loved them, but what about text books, that’s the next big progression for education right? Well, this video from new tech startup Inkling, might just showcase the future of iPad learning with their end to end iPad textbook publishing platform. Inkling looks to have a few great [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Alice eBook For iPad: Simply Amazing.
2. WIRED Magazine: The iPad Experience
3. VIV Mag: First iPad Interactive Magazine

So everyone who reads Digital Buzz would have heard about Facebook Places by now, but really, unless you’re in the US, you’ve not had an opportunity to experience exactly what Facebook Places is. So here is the demo video from the official Facebook YouTube Channel. Facebook Places to me, will ultimately kill off Gowalla & Foursquare over [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Google Maps: Favourite Places
2. Become A Fan Of Digital Buzz On Facebook!
3. Facebook iPhone Apps Get Friends

When you realise there are 4.6 billion mobile phones on the planet, it’s easy to see why everyone believes mobile is the elephant in the room, but when you step back a little further and think about the social aspect of that, and indeed now the Geo Social impact that mobile phones have on our [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Infographic: How Teenagers Use Mobile Phones
2. Infographic: Mobile Is Changing Social Media
3. Infographic: US Facebook Demographic Study

Target launched their Fall 2010 fashion range with a mammoth out door event, the sort of occasion we’ve been seeing some amazing projection mapping come to life at. But this time Mother N.Y and Target managed to create an extravaganza with just as much wow factor, using The Standard Hotel in NYC as the event stage, they [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Follow The Fashion: Brisbane’s Virtual Mall
2. Diesel Facepark: The Analog Version of Facebook
3. NRL: Back Your State Facebook App

4 days and 4+ million views, that’s what you get when you throw Roger Federer into a viral video and seed it to perfection. It’s kind of scary when you take a step back and think about how many of these trick-shot-style viral videos are out there (or have been), and how almost every time, no matter [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Lenovo: Kill Switch Viral Campaign
2. A Unique View On Viral Campaigns…
3. Surely Flash Mobs Are Now Dead?

This is a beautiful behind the scenes video for IBM’s Data Campaign that was release earlier this year, I don’t think it made it to Australia, so it’s the first time I’ve seen any of the campaign creative (sorry if it’s old?!). What I really love about this video isn’t just the fantastic insights and [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. Video: Creating Digital 3D Graffiti Art
2. Audi’s Augmented Reality Calendar
3. The $73k Bar Tab – Guerrilla Marketing Brazil

I didn’t realise anyone was still using Chatroulette since the hype died off, let alone running campaigns through it, but for what it’s worth, this is a pretty cool (but predictable) campaign for “The Last Exorcism” horror movie. It features a girl interacting with people through the web cam, giggling as she looks to unzip her top for the guys on the [...]Related Digital Buzz Posts:

1. The 100th Digital Buzz Post!
2. Jim Carrey’s Crazy New Website
3. French Connection’s New ChatRoulette Comp!