Anna Malczyk

Quirk's Inspiration Reads for the Week

by Anna Malczyk

2012/05/22

Think

Research
By 2013, there will be over a billion HTML5-capable browsers in use – time to consider a switch?
Shared by Kurt Muller.

ReadWriteWeb

Great campaign
The Hellman’s mayonnaise campaign in Brazil detecs what you have in your shopping basket and suggests recipes based on that – cool!
Shared by Daniel Neville.

Food for thought
Here’s a great list of resources on mobile geolocation.
Shared by Teresa Pechau.

Dzinepress.com

Brain power
Meet the datasexual – the urbanite who’s obsessed with their personal digital data.
Shared by Carmia Lureman.

BigThink

Create

Great campaign
Nike turns users’ ‘sweat’ into currency – the more you run, the more credits you get towards Nike’s online auction.
Shared by Matt Wilkinson.

PSFK

Cool idea
To raise awareness for the Free Zimbabwe campaign, Facebook Friend requests were sent  from Robert Mugabe.
Shared by Teresa Pechau.

10and5

Fun stuff
What would happen if the characters in Game of Thrones had Instagram?
Shared by Daniel Neville.

Gram of Thrones - Tumblr

Engage

Research
It turns out people don’t like advertising, and are leading to its decline.
Shared by Catherine Scott.

Pandodaily

Great campaign
O2 achieved an incredible 117% engagement on their Priority Moments campaign.
Shared by Maryam Samee.

Mediaweek

Inspiration
Take a look at some of these awesome mobile designs.
Shared by Kurt Muller.

http://www.meer.li/

Lessons learnt
Take some valuable lessons out of this list of social media catastrophes (PDF doc).
Shared by Matt Swarts.

22Squared.com

Optimise

Research
Facebook has revamped its Success Stories tab with a new look and updated case studies.
Shared by Samantha Jackson.

Facebook Studio

Performance
Google’s adverts perform much better than Facebook’s – and here are some stats to back it up.
Shared by Stefan Schoof.

Business Insider

In fact, some companies – notable automotive giant GM – have decided to pull their Facebook adverts altogether.
Shared by Jason Warner.

NY Times

Mobile tech
FNB has pioneered a new way of cashless payment – based on mobile phone GPS.
Shared by Samantha Jackson.

ITweb.co.za

About The Author

Anna Malczyk joined the Cape Town QuirkStation in March 2012 as a Knowledge Officer within Quirk Education. Holding her MA in Media Studies, Anna brings huge wisdom to the Education department.

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