For one day only, Verizon offered New Yorkers 99¢ cab rides and will sell 99¢ soft serves to push its prepaid calling plans.

Debatable if the cab riding demographic is in the market for prepaid calling plans, but who doesn’t like ice cream?

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Here’s a clever promotion idea, offer a free music download to your fans for the low low price of a single tweet. That’s right,  you sign over your twitter account for one advertising tweet.

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In the constant effort to find an advertising model that makes sense in the ever changing stream of consciousness that is Digg, comes Digg Ads. The ads will live on the site, looking like Dugg Items, and will be subject to the same rules. That is, members of the site will be able to “digg” the ads up or down, burying the ones that no one likes. Encouraging good ad content… hopefully.

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You may have seen the posters around town from such disparate companies as Geico and BMW mini with “Vampire directed Ads.” HBO has been virally pushing the second season of “True Blood” with co-sponsorships and clever original websites like a blog and a dating service for vampires.

It may all end up in overexposure, but it probably tripled or quadrupled their  reach.

Sometimes the simplest little things make us happy, like sunsets, puppies, and snowflakes… (For LA residents: snowflakes are a form of icy precipitation that we hear is quite common? Whatever.)

Make your own here

An eye-opening lecture by artist Chris Jordan who uses art to visually represent statistics about modern society. If you have an extra ten minutes, this is a must-watch.

Part of the TED series of talk.

One of the great things about social media is the opportunity to sample the unfiltered outbursts of so many personalities, many of whom have zero sense of humor about themselves… The results? COMEDY. Witness “Tweeting Too Hard,” a collection of smug, insensitive and downright asinine tweets.

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Much like HDTV was coming ten years ago, 3D will make it’s way into our homes eventually as well. In fact the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers announced its standards program began looking into 3D content delivery over cable networks back in February.

Gizmodo gives us a primer on the basics here, but more new stuff keeps popping up every day.

The amazing technology that already lives on most desktops puts the power directly into the hands of the fans. Using desktop editing and effects software, fans of Green Lantern and the Thunder Cats cobble together existing footage from other films to realize their dream of a feature film…. well, a trailer at least!

Green Lantern

Thunder Cats

What happens when you mix satellite technology, a very closed oppressive country, and a little cloak and dagger ingenuity?

On April 4 2007, Curtis Melvin –a PhD student at George Mason University–decided to start the ” North Korea Uncovered” project. Two years later it became the definitive reference for the country’s secrets, thanks to an army of amateur spies.

By starting a collaborative project with Google Earth, Curtis and his team began labeling every detail of the Google Earth image of the secretive country. Using both personal trips and Google Earth’s detailed imagery, the place is slightly less secret now.

Full Gizmodo article here