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ON: A Thought For Today

“Today I embrace the marvels of science and the great thinkers of our time who continually astonish me.” — Oz Garcia

ON: Gustavo's Arrival to the LA Philharmonic

The LA Philharmonic launched a spectacular micro site celebrating the arrival of Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. The attention to social details is quite amazing.

What I love about the site located at http://www.laphil.com/gustavo, is that it features so much share-able content. My favorite example is this video of Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrities, and LA residents welcome Gustavo Dudamel to Los Angeles in a video shot at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Santa Monica beach, the Griffith Observatory and other L.A. landmarks.

Check out the site at http://www.laphil.com/gustavo

ON: Coke's Facial Profiler

Coke is attempting an interesting social experiment using Facebook Connect.  Are there other's out there that look just like you?  Could their be an impostor JP-B?  

The only way to know is for you to connect with the new Coke Facial Profiler site which seems to be building a repository of social images that will eventually find your twin.

Check it out this cool use of FB Connect at http://www.cocacolazero.com/index.jsp#/facialprofiler/

ON: My Flash Forward

Want to see what your Flash Forward looks like???  Go to http://www.flashforwardexperience.com and click on the Facebook connect button. 

The site uses your public Facebook information and friend data to give you a flash into my future.  The text to voice integration got my last name right and spoke to me. (it sounded better than most real people!) 

This is a lovely way to use people's public info to personalize a web experience.

It would have been interesting for them to have included a predictive algorithm to "predict" who you will be friends with in the future.  They could do this by looking at your friends and looking at common friend characteristics.

Get your flash forward at http://www.flashforwardexperience.com