McDonald’s Shamrock Shake

16-3-2011

In celebration of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day, McDonald’s created the World’s Largest Shamrock Shake which floats on the Chicago River. The Shamrock Shake is a lime and mint-flavored milkshake, available at McDonald’s during the period of St. Patrick’s Day.

Vegetarian restaurant application

15-3-2011

With the new Vegman iPhone app you can search for vegetarian restaurants. Both the app as the community website are still under construction. At the moment there are over 1.100 restaurants in the database, 50 of those are in the Netherlands.

 

Force soda for men

2-3-2011

Force is the new soda by Jupiler brewery. With this soda Jupiler wants to target men over 30 years old and it is available in The Netherlands and Belgium as from this month.

Daft Punk and Coca Cola

1-3-2011

The French DJ duo Daft Punk has designed two Coca Cola bottles for the campaign “Coke Club. It is still unknown in which country the bottles will be available.

Vivienne Westwood and Chivas Regal

28-2-2011

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood designed the Chivas Regal 18 Year Old limited edition bottle. Only 2,500 bottles will be made and they cost $ 495, =

Social Dipping

28-2-2011

Social Dipping is an online tool to create your own virtual ice cream shop. An ice cream parlor can show online what flavors are available. Customers can keep track of the flavors through social media.

PALMs newest beer needs a name

24-2-2011

PALM beer is looking for a name for their newest beer through Facebook. Facebookers get several clues to guess the right name. Whoever guesses the right name, can win a weekend in Belgium and a visit to the PALM brewery.

A virtual visit to Venice

24-2-2011

If you visit veniceconnected.it you no longer have to go to Venice, Italy to visit the city. De website offers their viewers a boat ride through the canals with 366 degrees HD photo’s.

Being married pays off

20-2-2011

According to the ad, if you are married over 20 years, you receive a 30% discount at Hooters. Ironic? Yes, especially if you know what Hooters-waitresses are famous for…

Times Square to become open air museum

19-2-2011

 A group of Dutch designers and art lovers launched an initiative to turn Times Square into Art Square. For one day, they want to replace all advertisements on billboards by the art from the world’s most famous museums. The project should be financed by crowd funding, and achieved in 2012.

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