Tweet-a-Beer: Buy Your Friends a Drink via Social Media

Web app Tweet-a-Beer lets you buy a drink for your Twitter friends, using ecommerce platform Chirpify to sync your Twitter account with your PayPal account. This development in the payment ecosystem means you can send money in $5 allotments to share a pint with another Twitter user. The online networking app was developed by agencies tenfour and Waggener Edstrom from Portland,...

Instaprint – The Location Based Photo Booth For Instagram

For Instagram addicts who want to be able to hold actual prints in their hands, New York-based startupBREAKFAST has unveiled Instaprint. The wi-fi enabled device is a mobile photo booth containing a printer that can be assigned a specific hashtag or location, allowing it to print out all Instagrams with those specific tags, comments and all. There’s a quaint Polaroid aspect to...

Social Media x Savings: American Express Sync

American Express introduces a new experience for cardmembers that utilizes the power of social networks. U.S. cardmembers can now sync their card with Twitter accounts, allowing them to turn customized Twitter hashtags into couponless savings. Once they log on to Twitter via any devices, they will be able to tweet the special offer and instantly load the savings into their cards. After...

MBA Online ‘A Day in The Internet’ [Infographic]

MBA Online has created an interesting infographic on the current state of the internet. The numbers and statistics are astonishing for daily data on the use of the Internet. Have a look below and remember that, to date, only one third of the world’s population is connected. Its only going to get bigger....

Jay-z to Perform ‘Interactive Concert’ at SXSW, Amex to Provide Live Stream

SXSW has a jam packed line up music line up which just an added hint of star power. Jay-Z will be heading down to Austin, Texas for a performance like none other. Jay-Z has teamed up with American Express to live-stream his performance for everyone who isn’t able to attend the highly anticipated music melee to see. Jay-Z will perform on Monday, March 12 and his performance will...

Social Media x Fashion: Volga Verdi Offers Discounts Based on Your Social Influence

Marketers have long known that consumers vary widely in terms of their influence over others, but today’s social networks are making those differences plain for all to see. Aiming to zero in on the shoppers with the widest social clout, Volga Verdi is a California-based fashion brand that offers its customers discounts depending on the number of friends, followers or fans they have...

Can’t Make it to Carnaval this year? Google+ & YouTube Will Take You There

This year, Brazil’s Carnaval will be hosted on Google+ and YouTube, giving the local event a global audience. Viewers around the world will be able to see the festivities, chat with bands and watch live celebrity interviews. From February 16th-21st, anyone will have the chance to experience the sights, sounds and energy of the Brazilian Carnaval directly from the streets of...

#18DaysInEgypt [Interactive Documentary]

18 Days in Egypt is an interactive documentary that looks at the recent revolution through thousands of perspectives. This extremely diverse and fragmented content is powered by Groupstream, a platform conceptualized and built by Jigar Mehta and Yasmin Elayat. It provides viewers with an immersive documentary where the storyteller is the collective of protestors. The title references...