Wrath of Cannes Powers into Third Year

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And it’s crass as ever. (Be sure to watch the Firing Squad videos.)

FWA Honors Those That Made it 50 Million Visits Strong

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The Favorite Website Awards (FWA) celebrates 50 million visitors (and counting!) by creating a subsite dedicated to you, the good user.

ad:tech SF: Steve Hayden Replaces Industry Fear with a Wee Bit O’ Wonder

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Ogilvy Vice Chairman Steve Hayden conducted a keynote titled “Fear, Love and Advertising” at ad:tech SF last week.

ad:tech SF: Ryan Holmes Demonstrates Serious Interviewing Fortitude

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Forget, for a second, about the vacuumy café noises and the girl with the crutches in the background. The weather is pretty and we have pistachio and rosewater macaroons.

ad:tech: Jimmy ‘Jimmidee’ Wales, Post Keynote

Shortly after his keynote at ad:tech San Francisco — and David Spark’s timely pre-talk grab — founder Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia sat down with me to talk shop. Expect to hear his dish on where consumer generated media is…

ad:tech Paris: Sitting Down with Robin Sloan

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Last week at ad:tech Paris I had the chance to sit down with VP-Strategy Robin Sloan of Current TV.

Horse Armada Precedes Launch of Lancia Delta

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To promote the debut of the new Lancia Delta, 200 horses appeared in the city of Amsterdam.

ad:tech Paris: Blake Chandlee on Why We Should Bow to Guru Zuck

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ad:tech Paris wrapped up with a keynote called Facebook Today and Tomorrow, conducted by Commercial Director Blake Chandlee of Facebook’s EMEA segment (Europe, the Middle East and Asia).

ad:tech Paris: Evolving Media with the BBC

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Yesterday EVP/GM-Global Ad Sales Chris Dobson of the BBC conducted a keynote on what it takes to succeed in the rapidly-changing media landscape.

Postopolis, Day 2

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Second day of the blogathon in Los Angeles. I’ve lost my notes and my memory is not that great. Still, here’s for you a couple of architecture wonders, a strange floating landscape that makes pollution glow, and a project to turn America into a commune continue

Marketing 2.0 Paris: The Streets by Night (Complete with Incriminating Evidence!)

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It’s weird about Paris.

Marketing 2.0 Paris: Deconstructing Scott Monty

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One of my favourite Marketing 2.0 talks, besides the Paula Berg stuff, was by Scott Monty, Ford Motor Co.’s social media man.

Snapshots from Marketing 2.0 Paris: Wincing Lunch Away with Facebook, MySpace and Fred Cavazza

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This session razed the Awkward Scale for too many reasons.

Snapshots from Marketing 2.0 Paris: Brand Face Fusions, Consistency as State of Mind

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Maybe it’s true what they say about Paris: You get a mite more existential while here. o_O

Snapshots from Marketing 2.0 Paris: Paula Berg, Southwest Airlines

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Marketing 2.0 took place at ESCP-EAP University in Paris this year. It spanned both Monday and Tuesday.

Postopolis, Day 1

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Highlights of Day one includes postborder city, gardening instead of mowing the lawn, temperature architecture, adventures in Kazakhstan and live interviews. Do not forget to bring on the blankets tonight. It’s freezing up there on the roof top continue

Bamboozle by Wonka

event_56143Festivals and Roadshows are among the common recreation and forms of entertainment people love and Wonka knows this all too well. WONKA is once again bringing mysterious and marvelous acts of imagination to the people in the form of Bamboozle, a bonanza of musical creativity featuring never-before-seen WONKA surprises and more than 100 bands.

The Bamboozle presented by WONKA introduces a new invitation from WONKA: “Feed Your Imagination.” WONKA recently launched new electrifying and whimsical packaging, products and Web themes to go along with the new tagline.

Bamboozle presented by WONKA will begin and end with celebratory festivals as part of a multi-week tour, kicking off with Bamboozle Left in Irvine, Calif., on April 4 and ending with The Bamboozle in East Rutherford, N.J., on May 2 and May 3. Both festivals will be preceded by a Hoodwink Festival featuring select acts performing the music of their favorite artists on Friday, April 3, and Friday, May 1. Between these festivals, the Bamboozle Roadshow presented by WONKA will make more than 20 tour stops across the country, starting April 5 in Tucson, Ariz.

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Reminder: Postopolis Los Angeles

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Join us in Los Angeles for a series of discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and presentations about architecture, landscape, urbanism, art and space continue

How to Save the World in 10 Days at Vooruit in Ghent

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The Game is Up! chose a challenging theme: today’s ecological and economical crisis. The festival could hardly ignore that it was stepping on trodden tracks. Yet, the event’s pleasant mix of low tech, no-tech and high-tech installations, performances, graffiti, workshops and debates managed to amaze and inspire continue

Free tickets for STRP festival in Eindhoven

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Live music and cinema shows, performances, talks, exhibitions, films, workshops, etc. I’ve got 5 day tickets for April 8th – 13th for you. Anyone interested, just send me your name and email address continue