Burberry has introduced another tech innovation to the world of fashion. To showcase the Burberry Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2013 collection, the brand has reportedly developed its own technology (although, referred to as RFID technology at the official website) to enable “Smart Personalisation” service to let tech-savvy fashionistas order custom-made bags and outerwear with engraved nameplates on them right from the catwalk. The service is available for two weeks until March 3.
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Dell has released a spot titled “Meet Thomas: Creator of an Alternate Universe,” which inspires people to go creative even if they lead ordinary lives and don’t create much at their work. The advertisment, developed by Y&R NY, comes as a tribute to visionaries and game-changers, who live within each of us.
Google has lent its homepage to promote a movie—the upcoming comedy film “The Internship” got a huge marketing support from the web giant, which placed the announcement of the Google+Hangout with the film’s co-stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson right beneath the search box on its main page, Google.com. The movie tells a story of two laid-off forty-something men, who are interns at a successful internet company (apparently Google), where their managers are in their 20s.
Twitter is stepping into a new area of e-commerce by partnering with American Express to enable its consumers to buy goods by simply typing in a hashtag of an item they want to purchase. To start using the micro blogging service for shopping purposes, users are invited to sync their Amex accounts with their Twitter profile here, at sync.americanexpress.com/twitter.
Microsoft is focusing on businessmen in its latest campaign, aimed to promote MS Dynamics, a family of EPR and CRM software applications for business. For the new multi-media effort, which is rolling out across the U.K., the computer giant has teamed up with international business analyst The Economist Group and London-based media communication agency UM London. They helped the company launch a new competition, which seeks new creative minds in the U.K. business field.
Facebook wants to make its platform as developer-friendly as possible. The social media giant launches Developers Live, a Facebook app, which provides valuable curated content (tutorials, live and recorded speaking sessions and other visual educational pieces) and also helps them keep up to date on the latest Facebook news. The new hub targets mobile and game app developers as well as website managers and publishers, who will learn how to make a better content for the web and how to use the platform to maximize their profits.
Google continues to share some magic and fairy-tale spirit with unparalleled online experience. Following the launch of Cirque du Soleil “Movi.Kanti.Revo” project, the tech giant unveils its latest Chrome Experiment, which its tied to the upcoming release of Disney’s Oz The Great and Powerful. This project, created in collaboration with Disney and UNIT9, opens a door into the world of the new story, which is inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and enables users from all around the globe to explore a dusty Kansas circus as well as the magic land, which is full of miracles and unexpected twists.
Google has changed its search engine ranking algorithm to help fight with spam and make the results of users’ searches more organic and relevant to their query. The latest global 24th update of Google Panda algorithm was introduced in late January this year and affected 1.2% of the English-language queries. This generated much talk in the professional web optimization circles, so PM Digital has studied the new changes and released a report titled “30 Ways to Move Beyond Traditional Link Building,” which outlines the strategies to improve today’s SEO performance in the re-shaped world of Google search.