Knowledge Hoover

The Culture Hoover is the slightly more sensible (less of a brain dump) blog that I write. It mostly features marketing, advertising, social networking and general digital stuff that might be useful. There’s a slightly music-related slant as I write it for work, but mostly it’s just a bunch of helpful hints & tips and good ideas by other people. Tweet @culturehoover if you want me to add you to the digest email, and please feel free to check out the blog: http://culturehoover.tumblr.com

This week’s updates:

-              Gigantic curved touchscreen by the University of Groningen puts whooshy things at your fingertips

-              ‘Russian Facebook Roulette’ by Russian Standard Vodka is the first social media game where you can lose your virtual life

-              New from Orange: The Feed this week is ‘Lucky Likes’ – either win big, or Like something rubbish. Your play.

-              Pummelvision gathers your online photos and edits them into a tight music video

-              Lady Gaga teams up with Farmville makers Zynga to create Gagaville, almost too ridiculous to be true…almost.

-              EMI (US) takes control of its own digital music licensing

-              Anatomy of a Mash Up: Daft Punk Visualised is a clever visualisation using HTML5. And Daft Punk.

-              Vodaphone’s Pixel Hunt was a great exercise in engagement

-              Google Music launched in the US this week. Here’s what’s being said about it.

-              Moby’s new album comes with pictures at 2am, courtesy of Instagram

-              Fast Company on why Facebook photo tags are the new ‘Likes’

-              Making a music video for a web browser - ROME: 3 Dreams of Black for Google Chrome is made by the same people as Arcade Fire’s the Wilderness Downtown

-              Google Think Insights is wonderful brain food for data nerds

-              Roadrunner Records creates SignMeTo to fill a MySpace shaped hole

-              Social Memories lets you create a personalized 28-page book based on your Facebook profile

-              TopShop uses a Kinect dressing room. A little bit smart, if we’re honest.

-              Bla Bla Bla is an iPhone app that reacts fairly intelligently to sound

In other news, want to see two women play Bach´s Toccata & Fugue on a giant foot piano inside a toy store? Sure you do. Click HERE.

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