Tag Archives: Sweden

Tram Sightseeing

Tourists in Gothenburg, Sweden pay good money for sightseeing tours. So Västtrafik created an app that for the price of a tram ticket converted the cities tramway service into a sightseeing service. After installing the “Tram Sightseeing” app, tourists just needed to put on their headphones and listen to the app telling them about the [...] Read More…

Blog-Up Stores

In the last months, I have written various blog posts on Social Commerce…including one on Facebook Newsfeed Stores. Keeping this growing trend in mind, I came across what is being called “Blog-Up Stores,” by a Swedish interior design retailer Lagerhaus. Instead of creating a temporary pop-up / newsfeed store on Facebook, Lagerhaus has created a [...] Read More…

Easier Parking

Mobilia Shopping Mall in Sweden built a new parking house. But people still preferred the small and crowded outdoor parking. So to promote their underground parking they placed one car on top of another and left it there for the media and the public to jump on. Of course, blogs and social media picked it [...] Read More…

The next wave in digital: Face Recognition

9to5Mac has discovered that Apple is planning to include face detection capabilities in its next version of iOS5. It is still too early to say how it will all work, but Apple has plans to open it up to developers via various API controls. That means the below social augmented reality concept created by Polar [...] Read More…

Multi-Player Swedish Horse Racing Game

“The Race” is a real-time, multi-player virtual horse racing game that has recently been launched by swedish ad agency Akestam Holst. The game utilizes a few extra senses to help players win the race, including your computers microphone to help cheer your horse on, and even webcams, to add a bit of personal spice to [...] Read More…