Category Archives: Entertainment

Marketing January 27, 2011

Love the PLAYR, Love the Game

Well, this kind of blows my old Super Nintendo soccer game out of the water. Check out the trailer above for I AM PLAYR, a game that’s currently in development, but slated for a beta release this year. There’s a … Continue reading →

Sociocultural Trends January 21, 2011

Electronic Gladiators on Four Wheels

Since it’s Friday, and since we just filled your head with a TON of content in our 2011 Trends Smartshot webinar, we’ll stick with the shiny stuff for now. Enjoy the video above, which equips skateboarders with the tools to … Continue reading →

Entertainment January 10, 2011

Crazy Coinage

D’oh! Apologies for the lag on updates over the past couple of days. We’re in the trenches with our 2011 trends in preparation for some client presentations, so we’re admittedly a bit short on time. So, it’s only appropriate that … Continue reading →

Marketing January 6, 2011

An Epic Mix of 2011 Trends

What’s better than spending an epic day carving up fresh powder on the mountainside? How about turning that mountainside into a networked, interactive, social playground? And what’s better than nailing one of our 2011 trends? How about showing how four … Continue reading →

Marketing January 3, 2011

2011 Looks Beautiful So Far

Welcome back, friends of The Awesome Blog! Hope you’re as rested and refreshed as we are, because we’ve got a big year ahead of us. But, since you’re probably easing yourself back into the swing of things, we’ll go light … Continue reading →

Technology December 21, 2010

Best of 2010 on The Awesome Blog – Part 2

Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s Part 2 of The Awesome Blog’s greatest hits from 2010. The launch of our Upshot Smartshot series of 15 minute webinars has been a huge success so far. You can see the past webinars … Continue reading →

Sociocultural Trends December 17, 2010

Look What Ya Did You Little Jerk!

Oof. Post-holiday party, it’s probably not the right day to continue our in-depth discussion about location-based services and shopper marketing applications. Nah, it’s the kind of day where we need something a little more lighthearted. Like, say, a retelling of … Continue reading →

Design December 13, 2010

So Fresh and So Clean

Yes, we’ve fallen a bit behind here at The Awesome Blog. (As our regular readers no doubt know, that always means we’ve got something good in store.) Here’s something sweet to tide you over in the meantime: a collection of … Continue reading →

Sociocultural Trends November 30, 2010

Food-Less Food Trucks

We all know that tweeting food trucks are the hottest thing to hit the streets since rollerblades (wait, when did those stop being cool?), since they provide restaurants with a fantastic opportunity to offer limited-quantity, location-specific, and exclusive eats directly … Continue reading →

Sociocultural Trends November 22, 2010

“Like” On Location

In the six months since we first covered Facebook’s social plugins and instant personalization features, over two million sites have implemented these services. It’s safe to say that Facebook’s little experiment is going well. But while the Like button has … Continue reading →