While you're in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages. It's travel made social and it's easy to set up. Let's get started.
- Irene Tien
Gucci plans to launch an 'Icon-Temporary' flash sneaker store that will travel the world starting this October 2009. To coincide with this, Creative Director Frida Giannini has collaborated with musical artist Mark Ronson to design a limited edition collection of sneakers.
- Irene Tien
Mika is launching a loyalty scheme via his website which will enable fans to earn points that can then be traded for rewards. Points are awarded for creating a profile, uploading content, adding comments and buying products. Points can be used to acquire free music, video downloads, screen-savers and even a private acoustic gig from the artist.
- Irene Tien
But as marketers scrutinize shoppers in greater detail, they're edging closer to their ultimate goal: teaching computers to blend data smarts with something close to the savvy of a flesh-and-blood sales clerk. "In the first five minutes in a store, the sales guy is observing a customer's body language and tone of voice," says Mark A. Nagaitis, CEO of 7 Billion People, an Austin (Tex.) startup that competes with ATG. "We have to teach machines to pick up those same insights from movements online."
- Irene Tien
SweetFM switches seamlessly between Last.fm and iTunes. Tune to any station and you can control Last.fm with SweetFM's interface - stop the stream and you can use it as an iTunes controller!
- Irene Tien
"Live music has yet to move online in an aggregated, structured way. It continues to be an industry driven by passion, providing a unique connection between a fan and an artist. The web can deepen this engagement at a time when recorded music is tending towards being free."
- Irene Tien
"But more than anything, I am looking forward to hanging out and watching the drama of the city unfold. Whenever I return from a week in New York I am buzzing, full of ideas."
- Irene Tien
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"The Shift Index is focused on three sets of main indicators: * Foundations, which set the stage for major change * Flows of resources, such as knowledge, which allows businesses to enhance productivity * Impacts, which help gauge progress at an economy-wide level"
- Irene Tien
On Wednesday all service fees will be waived for millions of lawn tickets available for purchase at the Web site livenation.com. Tickets for acts as varied as New Kids on the Block and Nine Inch Nails (whose frontman, Trent Reznor, is above) will be available without service charges.
- Irene Tien
For example, bands that have built fan social networks on Ning — like Good Charlotte and 50 Cent — can begin offering ticket sales through apps created by Ticketmaster and Live Nation (for large acts) or through Amiando and other event ticket sellers (for smaller acts and other events).
- Irene Tien