POST DIGITAL

ON: Ikea's Back-To-School Edge

                                                                          

IKEA encourages college students to get freaky in dorm rooms.  IKEA has viral videos, music downloads and product specs galore to get those dead brain cells ready to return to school. 


Throughout the Ikea promotion, students are provided with ways to "unpack" the items, as well as style and price points that appeal to them in a fun and clever way. Opportunities to check out various rooms seem consistent with both Ikea's variety of furnishings and college students' wishes to individualize their surroundings their first time out of the nest.

What it is lacking is a FaceBook application that allows you on collaborative shopping with your roommate.  Or perhaps a MySpace widget that allows you to use the items you bought to decorate your MySpace Page.

The videos were a bit creepy (in a good way). I think they could have added a few touches that would be really fun.  For instance, if I could upload my friends faces and insert them into the videos for a bit of some community pass along.

Check out the site at: http://www.roommateliving.com/

                   

ON: New Skins for iGoogle

Bored with your iGoogle's default cartoon-y themes and want to spice things up a bit on your homepage? The Custom iGoogle Skins gadget adds a directory of 12 new themes ranging from the summer and aquatic themes to the Denver Broncos and a few darker, eye-friendly themes like the Dark Skyline theme in the screenshot.

If you're feeling up to it, you can even design and share your own skins using this gadget. To use it, just click through on the link and hit the Add to Google button.

Custom iGoogle Skins [via Google Blogoscoped]

ON: StubleUpons New Look

Have you seen the new look that StumbleUpon has launched for your user profile. Similar to Yahoo Mail, it’s testing this look out in “beta,” letting you toggle between the classic and updated look for your StumbleUpon site.

The big difference between the two pages is simply the layout. With the updated look, you’ll get more of a social networking feel, benefiting both yourself as a StumbleUpon user, and those that visit your StumbleUpon page.

There’s also more access to other users on the site, including those that have recently visited your profile. This adds more networking capabilities to StumbleUpon, and makes it easier to share content and make more friends.

In general, it seems that StumbleUpon is looking to incorporate more social networking into its service. It recently launched a Facebook application

ON: Widget 101

I created this presentation for digitally challenged creative, account and planning directors.  I also used it in my meeting at MTV with the amazing teams in Viacom research and MTV Digital and the MTV Generator today.

ON:Wikis

The other day an unnamed marketer asked the following: What is a wiki and wny are you so crazy about using them?  Here is my reposnse: A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.

I love wikis because you can work across a large network of users to contribute to the same project or cause.I have been thinking about creating a wiki that allows fellow creatives to submit and edit advertising scripts and content ideas.  I am thinking of calling ScriptThis.

ON: Adrant's Portfolio Service

Adrants offers a creative portfolio service which provides creatives a place to showcase our work in a searchable database promoted across several advertising industry websites.

Check it out at: http://www.portfolios.com/adrants/index.html

ON: The Great Internet Crash of 2007

Just passing this on for a Monday night chuckle!  This is just plain funny. The last line is the best - “Coming up next, One man’s heroic struggle to pick up the pieces, and rebuild his flickr album.”

ON: Skype Outage

enough said!

ON: My iTunes Library Debacle & Rant

  Steve Jobs' Grave 
  Originally uploaded by donatreides

I am normally an Apple evangelist and rarely use this blog as a forum to piss in the wind.  But here it goes.  Last week I got my bright shiny new Apple iMac.  after loading it up with all of my applications, pictures and music, I went to listen to a few of my oldies but goodies that I had purchased from the iTunes store back in the day with my email was [email protected]. 

To my dismay it prompted me for a password associated with that account.  Grrr.  The security application embedded in your music files was not recognizing my new email account association. (so i have all my music but cannot unlock it on this computer)

I went though the motions of trying the my new account info, several different of my old passwords...then proceeded to email the iTunes Help desk.

One week later I have not had a response from Apple (despite the 24 hour guarantee) and cannot access half of my music library. (aggravating cause i work to my music)

I cannot imagine that I am the only user out there who has changed her addresses over the years.  When I went though the XML files what I learned is that apple associates songs with your email address and the system you buy them from.

So what I need Apple to do is re-enter 2 of my old email accounts back into their database and give me a password so I can activate the music on my new Mac. 

Does anyone out there have Apple contact I can call or a recco on how to resolve?

ON: Ronald McDonald's Eating Habits

Our friend Ronald has resorted to cannibalism after having to eat McDonald's all day.