How IKEA Helps Make Facebook Less Valuable
Chase Turner dropped this video over on his Tumblr where IKEA’s advertising agency, Forsman and Bodenfors, shows how they managed to exploit Facebook’s photo tagging functionality to promote the opening of yet another IKEA store. For the handful of non-Facebook using readers out there, here’s the deal: When someone uploads a photo into Facebook, people can tag themselves within the photo. This is an awesome piece of technology because it makes it easy to find photos that you, friends, and family are in. Whenever you’re tagg

Tofurky Time
Seward Coop is stocked up with Tofurky for Tofurky day. I’ve never tried it. Does the vegetarian giblet gravy kick it up a notch?

News Corp’s Google News Training
Bill Tancer has some interesting stats on the Hitwise blog about the potential impact on News Corp’s traffic we may see if Rupert Murdoch really does pull their sites out of Google’s search engines. One nugget I found particularly interesting is this morsel about WSJ.com’s higher than average Google News dependence: The potential loss of Google News traffic is potentially more serious. As reported here, over the three years, WSJ.com’s traffic from Google News has grown from 2% to over 11%. As we see in the table below, the Journal is receiving mor

W Hotel Chicago TP
Ben from BenCredible.com spent some time in the W Hotel down in the Windy City. He described the quality as, “Disappointing TP folding from a hotel where it really should be world class.” He didn’t elaborate on what he didn’t like about the fold, but clearly his standards were high by the time he arrive at his room. This place does not mess around. They also

Websites That Help Twin Citians Do Their Thing
Here are a few sites people around town may find valuable for getting stuff done, connecting with others, or improving the interestingness of their day. The inspiration for this is a couple high school friends who’ve recently moved back to town and are painfully out of touch with the various ways people are connecting in the Twin Cities. 1. Twin Cities Transit – Mobile: (tctransit.mobi) is a mobile-optimized version of the Metro Transit bus schedules. This easy to navigate system is a welcome alternative to the official transit system’s site navigation. If you have a web-friendly phone and use our local transit system, bookmark