Tweets for treets
15-12-2010
Christmas twitter action: between 11 and 23 December, residents of U.S. cities New York and Los Angeles could earn different sweets Delivery. To join tweeps had to retweet the tweets from the Magnolia Bakery. Each tenth retweet received a treet, like cheesecake, fudge brownies or cookies delivered at home.
Hotel Daaldersplaats in Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands
13-12-2010
Hotel Daaldersplaats Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands uses social media. In an inspiring movie they show how they do it and they do encourage their guests to do the same! in the hospitality industry use different social media.
Google is about to serve the restaurant guests
12-12-2010
Google wants to serve information to users without them searching for something, but based on their browsing or location profile, “contextual discovery”. For example: If you’re in a restaurant, Google can, based on the location of your mobile, provide you automatically a message with a link to the menu, along with indications of what your friends like to eat. Coming in 2011.
New Heineken bottle
10-12-2010
Heineken will soon introduce a new bottle. The new bottle will get a slightly longer neck with a slight indentation where the name Heineken vertically is shown. The bottles serve as black lights in the dark.
Art on roasted bread
1-12-2010
Nathan Wyburn, a young artist from Ebbw Vale in Wales, has created some remarkable works of art. Using jam and syrup, he made several portraits of famous people on toasted bread. His latest artwork hangs on the outside of the recently opened Costa Coffee in the UK.
Skype with wine makers
1-12-2010
The Dalles Grande Winery offers wine advice through Skype. Through Skype people can ask questions and advice on which wine best suits the occasion or their meal. Consumers who want skype for 10 minutes, have to buy a minimum of three bottles of wine.
Dr. Oetker pop-up pizzastores
30-11-2010
In Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Rotterdam and Groningen Dr. Oetker temporary opend Italian ‘Tradizionale’ stores. In these pop-up stores, Dr. Oetker’s new brick oven Tradizionale pizza are introduced. In these stores dr. Oetker want to offer customers the experience that comes with the new pizza. The brick oven pizza is available at the pop-up stores in two flavors: Speciale and tuna.
Crowdsourced restaurant in 90 days
30-11-2010
A bunch of creative people from Lansing, Michigan aim to give a restaurant a complete makeover within 90 days. Through crowdsourcing on social networks, they hope to get as many ideas as possible about the interior, the facade, color and menu. Every week they post online polls to determine the final concept of the restaurant.
The Break Up
25-11-2010
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The Break Up by Geertdesager. A clip from 2007 but still relevant to the break up between consumers and advertisers.
#durftezetten
24-11-2010
This article is only available in Dutch