Join The Ford Focus Hunt! Collect 5 badges for a chance to win Ford's IWNY Prize Pack:
2 tickets to the 2011 Webby Awards with a chauffeured 2012 Ford Focus. Show up in Style!
1 Night stay at a Roger Smith Hotel suite.
FIND The QR Codes (released June 6th-13th) to unlock all 5 digital badges.
HINT: Head over to our FORD IWNY Booth from June 6th-13th to collect each badge!
Post your hunting activity on http://www.FordFocusHunt.com, your twitter page, Facebook, and your IWNY Foursquare check in.
Check Out The Winners Of The 2012 Ford Focus Hunt!
2011-06-16 17:50:18
...Tah Dah! We're thrilled to annouce to all of our Hunters, the winners of the 2012 Ford Focus IWNY Prize Pack!!!!
[Drum Roll] Our winners were Georgi Georgiev (Founder and CEO of Languatica.com) AND Paul Gollash (Founder and CEO of Voxy.com). These two truly enjoyed the 2012 Ford Focus experience! Look below to see our winners enjoying the unbelievable WEBBY AWARDS. The boys rubbed elbows with member's of the Facebook team, Martin Cooper (inventor of the cell phone), and the WEBBY AWARDS host of the night LISA KUDROW.
I'll admit it, I don't drive. Yes, I even let my California License expire to purposely pursue a life as a pedestrian. With that being said, I still found a way to demo Ford's new navigation system at Internet Week New York. Ford's SYNC system is complete with voice recognition software that's awe-inspiring. Here are some of it's most notable SYNC features:
Meebo has long been a company solely focused on aggregating different IM platforms so you can chat with your friends all over the web in one place. They have since evolved by adding a browser bar dashboard - the Meebo MiniBar- that allows you to chat, comment and check in to websites to gain badges.
To me, the most interesting thing about their new MiniBar is that it's a non-intrusive always on universal IM. Checking in to the websites is a lot less interesting considering VoyURL passively tracks your surfing habits and then allows you to modify how that data is displayed. I don't really need any more pointless badges. I need something that will save me time not make more work for me.
Make sure you scan all 5 to enter for a chance to win 2 tickets to the Webby Awards, a one night stay in a suite at the Roger Smith Hotel, and a chauffeured 2012 Ford Focus between the Roger Smith Hotel and the Webby Awards!
Pepsi's Social Sharing Vending Machine is Happiness in a Bottle
2011-06-10 14:51:42
Pepsi recently rolled out a new type of vending machine, a social vending machine. This week at the Internet Week Headquarters they debuted it to the tech savvy social media crowd. The great thing about this is that it isn't just another meaningless slogan about how a soft drink will make your life happier - it's actually a way to make you AND your friends' lives happier.
The whole front of the social vending machine is a touchscreen, which makes it really intuitive to most people as most people have touched a touch screen somewhere by now. You have the option to buy, redeem or gift a drink.
To gift a drink you have to put in your name, your friend's name, their phone number and a message for them that they'll see in a text format. Right now you cant send a drink via email, Twitter or Facebook, but you will be at some point in the future. The great part about the whole experience is that it asks you record a short video, which adds to the happiness factor.
Most people trying out the machine didn't expect to record themselves which made for interesting experiences. Being at an event left room for friends of friends and random passersby to make funny cameos in the background, much to the bemusement of all.
I can see these in movie theaters, bowling alleys, concert halls and any event space where people gather for enjoyment. By that time I'm sure all of the social sharing features will be enabled, including posting your recorded video greeting to your friend's social profile.
Well, can you? Everyone has a different interpretation of it, what would yours be? One of the most well received participatory art initiatives this year taps into the creativity of students asking them to capture the boundless pages of the internet with a single image. Here are some of my personal favorite projects:
Pieces will be available on ArtWeLove.com and all the proceeds will be donated to support art education in public Schools through the Fund for Public Schools. I can't think of a better cause or a more prolific integration of art and the Internet.
Internet Week HQ in New York City is a recently popular phenomenon, that is an absolute blast to attend. The first stop on my list was the Metropolitan Pavilion. The expo space is filled with some really fascinating exhibits, one in particular that really hit home was called Digital Archaeology. It's an exhibition that celebrates the past 20 years of the web with 28 different websites that inspired a generation of designers. Subsequently depicting the most profound websites each year on hardware related to that year. seeing the NeXT Station (Steve Job's original creation) circa 1991 is absolutely mind boggling, it's hard to fathom how far we have come in such a short time. A little known fact about the Next Computer: it was a high-end workstation computer manufactured by Steve Jobs FOR $6500 and became the first server to ever connect to the Internet! Along with this historic computer you'll also see a variety of other computers like the PowerMac 6500 (1996), Macintosh Performa (1995), PowerBook 3400c (1994), iMac G3 (1997), and websites that will bring out the old-school geek in you.
#IWNY Conversation: How Apps Can Entertain & Create Value
2011-06-07 21:04:02
Applications are changing how consumers and industries do things across the board. From increasing productivity to enhancing knowledge, the app revolution has become synonymous with a host of life enhancements both big and small. Entertainment and business have clearly risen to the top of the list of app successes -- and mobile store metrics are not the only barometer of this dominance. It's the apps that integrate themselves into our daily lives, working together with the products and machines we depend on, that show the true potential of the technology and deep integration into our everyday.
Join Internet Week NY and Ford as they present a truly compelling group of speakers from disparate industries (but with the Internet at its core), as they discuss the Appification of Your Life and how you simply cannot live without those apps that power your everyday.
Moderator:
David-Michel Davies Chairman of Internet Week NY & The Webby Awards
Panelists:
Jared Hecht Co-Founder of GroupMe
Seth Sternberg CEO of Meebo
Shawn Gunn Head of Strategic Advertising, NAVTEQ
Joe Rork Product Manager, MyFord Mobile Applications
For all of you who missed yesterday's QR Code- here it is! Make sure you stop by the IWNY headquarters to scan today's code and become 1 badge closer to winning the 2012 Ford Focus IWNY Prize Pack!
Matthew Langille, the artist responsible for the Ford Focus Hunt badges, showed up to the IWNY headquarters today to hangout, take some pictures, and sketch the day away.
