Posts Tagged ‘ideas about interactive’

Suggestion boxes in NYC

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

suggestions?There are three suggestion boxes in New York located in Park Slope, on the Manhattan Bridge, and at Stanton and Allen. You can see the suggestions collected so far on the site here.

Pretty cool idea. I think people could use a bit more guidance though–asking for suggestions on a particular thing, theme, or aspect of the city.

My friend Abe did something similar called I Am Awesome Because. He posted paper and pen with the prompt “I am awesome because…” and people filled in the blank lines with everything from props to a wife to sobriety.

Just this morning I got an email from friends about all the summer activities we can engage in including lemonade stands, baseball, picnics, and water balloon fights. Maybe we will run a summer fun suggestion box, too.

Hide an Easter Egg in the world, win a flight from Lufthansa

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

swankyLufthansa has been big on the interactive marketing lately, but their last game, navigating the Frankfurt terminal for dropped items, was as boring and post-tramatic stress inducing as it sounds. For Easter they’ve release a game that’s much more fun, Worldwide Egg.

Players can design an egg by selecting a color, pattern, and accessory. Mine is above, in a swanky hat. Then you use a Google map to scan the world, drop your egg, and email a hint to a friend. If they find the egg from your hint, you’re both entered to win a flight to Europe.eggy oh eggy where are you?

The sender hides the egg at the first or second zoom level on the map, which is the city level or closer. Mine is at left on the second zoom level. Depending on the hint, it could be totally obnoxious for the recipient, who would be click-dragging all over a wide swatch of map.

It’s unfortunate that you can’t mass send an egg, because I would launch all sorts of people on the hunt. So you’ll all have to guess from this picture and theseĀ  hints: It’s somewhere I’ve been, and if the egg were in the water it would float high up and be slimy.