Today’s Google Doodle dedicated to Edison

As usual, Google’s Doodle are something special: today it marks the 164th birthday of great inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Google Doodle dedicated to Edison

The Edison Doodle showcases his major inventions like the electric bulb, the phonograph and the kinetoscope among others. The online search firm never forgets to depict its name, ‘GOOGLE’, on the Doodle.

A close observation of the Doodle reveals the consonants of the world’s most popular search engine morphed on several instruments that had been invented by Edison.

Shiny, inventive, creative!

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QR Codes Marketing 101 or How QR Codes Can Grow Your Business

qr code marketingCool site SocialMediaExaminer just published a great post about “QR codes and real business“.

After a few years of buzz in mobile marketing circles, QR – or “quick response” – codes are finally starting to pop up in the United States and elsewhere, thanks in large part to the proliferation of smart phones, namely iPhones and Blackberries.

While they’re still not exactly mainstream, QR codes are appearing in major print publications and plastered on storefronts and buildings. At this rate, it won’t be long before most people can immediately recognize and use QR codes. So how can small businesses take advantage of this emerging technology?

Check full story here.

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Startuppers, what about a lunch with some business angels, VIPs or VCs? Letslunch.com!

lets lunch startup meetingSounds simple: a startup to help meet startup-wannabes with VCs, business angels, great entrepreneurs or just Valley movers&shakers!

Meet Letslunch.com: get an invitation, set a profile, go to lunch and do your best (between salads and desserts) with your VIP to get your idea started (and financed)!
Letslunch.com’s own matching method and social karma of each user will do the rest so, it’s up to you!

LetsLunch.com was founded in 2010 in Silicon Valley by Syed Shuttari and Alain Raynaud and, right now, has some 1,000 users.

The LetsLunch service right now is free — and each user pays for his or her lunch — but eventually the startup may introduce premium accounts at a monthly subscription rate.

Check them here: http://letslunch.com/.

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Today’s Google Doodle: Jules Verne

Let’s call it “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Google Sea”!
Today’s Google Doodle is dedicated to Jules Verne’s birthday (in 1828, by the way) and is truly amazing!
I guess it’s a masterpiece of Javascript, AJax, CSS (and a bit of sorcery too!) and one of the very best of all time!

Check the right bar and get ready to get into deep oceans or fast surfacing while the oceanic landscape keeps moving, simply great!

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Super Bowl XLV ads: what remains after Christina Aguilera? Darth Vader and VW!

Ok, now that you’re done blaming on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Christina Aguilera flub on National Anthem, we can take a look at the clear winner of the Super Bowl XLV: the VW Darth Vader TV commercial!

It’s funny, it’s got a great soundtrack, it’s so familiar: it’s great!

Public ranking?

USA Today’s Ad Meter, which tracks second-by-second reactions from a panel of viewers, has a tie for first place: A Bud Light ad, with a bunch of smart dogs catering a party, is in a dead heat with Dorito’s door-crashing pug. In that ranking, VW’s Darth Vader spot came in third.

BrandBowl, which ranks ads on a combination of tweets and whether it generated positive or negative sentiments, is ranking the Chrysler Eminem spot in first place, followed by VW’s Darth Vader, and then Doritos.

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