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Bennifer at DEMO
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That's my fellow Mashable editor, Ben Parr. He hates it when I say "Bennifer." :P
(fab photo by Ken Yeung)
Mashable writer @benparr puts his foot in his mouth
Naw...just kidding...though I do know a LOT of Mac owning straight men who might feel rather effeminate right now ;)
Why am I never on these influential blogger lists? I want creepy packages too!
One thing we’re starting to see more and more is the use of Facebook Connect for clever, and in the case of the Disovery Channel’s Frenzied Waters, exceptionally unsettling marketing campaigns. A couple of weeks ago, the Discovery Channel sent out packets to a handful of bloggers containing some gnawed swim trunks, a key with a floating keychain, a warning sign advising against swimming at the beach, and a copy of an obituary customized with personal details about the blogger the package was sent to.
One final item in the package was a shark tooth attached to a piece of brass with the web address “FrenziedWaters.com” stamped on it. It was clearly an invitation to visit the web site, where of course, the ghoulishness continued. Frenzied Waters is an interactive flash movie designed to make watchers feel like they’re in the water being attacked by a shark. If you click on the floating jar all the way to the right (on the splash screen), the application will ask you to connect with Facebook, where it will pull photos and information from your account to create a montage about your death by shark attack.
Our best guess is that Frenzied Waters is a promotional campaign for the Discovery Channel’s upcoming Shark Week (which runs on the network annually in August). If that’s the case, it is definitely brilliant — very, very creepy, but brilliant nonetheless.
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TweetPhoto to Lure Developers from TwitPic With Revenue Program
http://mashable.com/2009/06/23/tweetphoto-revenue-program/ 
When we said that TwitPic finally got a real competitor in TweetPhoto, we may have spoken too soon. The reality is that even amidst the heavy competition from arguably better photo…
We #BlameDrewsCancer for This Addictive Tetris-Inspired Game
http://digg.com/playable_web_games/We_BlameDrewsCancer_for_This_Addictive_Tetris_Inspired_Game
Now whether or not you’ve tweeted in support of #BlameDrewsCancer, you can take the lazy way out by playing the new Tetris-inspired Twitter game called TweetBricks. Built by Mike Demers of…
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