Today, on PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories—or meet PAC-MAN for the first time—through our first-ever playable Google doodle. To play the game, go to google.com during the next 48 hours (because it’s too cool to keep for just one day) and either press the “Insert Coin” button or just wait for a few seconds.

Google doodlers made sure to include PAC-MAN’s original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts’ individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980’s masterpiece. We also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. PAC-MAN using the WASD keys).

PAC-MAN seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. They’re both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. There’s a light-hearted, human touch to both of them. And we can only hope you find using Google at least a quarter as enjoyable as eating dots and chasing ghosts. You know, without actually needing any quarters.

SO COOL (and perhaps a waste of about 5 minutes of your day, but shhhhh)

Source: GoogleBlog

Keds recently launched a new interactive website, TheOriginalSneaker.com to celebrate their 94-year history and get today’s consumer to engage with their brand. Not only does the site provide daily facts from previous decades marking iconic moments that happened on the current day, it also acts as a forum for consumers to design and buy/sell their own unique Keds Sneakers. In the Keds Collective you can upload your own artwork or select template designs to to transform Keds’ blank canvas into an original fashion statement. You can also purchase kicks that were designed by other consumers, made possible through a partnership with Zazzle, where the original designer gets a percentage of the profits.

Check out the full story from psfk.com or start designing your own shoes at the Keds Collective

Check out this cool interactive website by Wrangler to help promote their new blue bell spring / summer collection. A screen grab won’t do it justice, so click and play.

http://eu.wrangler.com/bluebell/

Dunkin’ Donuts year-long 60th anniversary celebration kicks off with the return of the “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest, along with some help from JetBlue airlines. For the second year in a row, the company is inviting donut lovers to channel their imagination and love for donuts for the chance to win $12,000 and have their personal donut creation sold at participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants nationwide. This year, JetBlue has signed on to be the official airline of the “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest and will offer free airfare to contest finalists flying out of JetBlue-serviced cities to the bake-off.

Visitors to www.DunkinDonuts.com/donut can create a virtual donut masterpiece from a variety of donut flavors, shapes, toppings and fillings through March 8. New interactive elements have been added to the contest Web site, providing entrants with more options to save their creations and share them with friends and family.

Read Full Article

Cottonelle wants to know, America: Should the toilet paper go over the roll or under?

The Thunderdome for this great debate is a Web site, http://www.cottonellerollpoll.com/, that lets visitors cast their vote and then offers a surprisingly full-featured look at how the voting is going both state by state and nationwide. The site also offers video clips assembled by street teams and user comments collected, 140 characters at a time, from an app within the site itself and posted by state.

The national vote is currently running 73% to 27% in favor of the Over faction. Most of the state races are about equally slanted in favor of the front-loading technique. The exceptions, as far as my research took me, are California (68% underhanded, as of last night) and Connecticut, where 60% of voters favor the back side—so to speak.

Read Full Article

Visit www.barbie.com and vote to help select Barbie’s next profession. Options to choose from are environmentalist, surgeon, architecht, news anchor and computer engineer.

Barbie has had over 120 professions in her career, and now you can help her next move.

Save the words is a new way to help you expand your vocabulary, in a fun, interactive way. Scroll around inside the white box, and words will jump out at you, just begging to be used in your next speech or convo. Click on one that looks interesting and it links directly to Oxford dictionary for the definition. You can also sign up for an optional “pledge” that sends you a reminder to use the word as much as possible every day.

Visit savethewords.org now!
Source: GeekSugar.com

Playing off the ever infamous “Kanye West MTV VMA interruption” is Kanye This. Simply visit the website, enter the website you’d like to “interrupt” and voila! Kanye appears to steal the moment.

When will this news become old already?!!?

As you browse the web, it’s easy to forget how many people visit the same pages and look for the same information. Whether you’re researching advice on heart disease prevention  or looking for museums to visit in New York City, many others have done the same and could have added their knowledge along the way.

What if everyone, from a local expert to a renowned doctor, had an easy way of sharing their insights with you about any page on the web? What if you could add your own insights for others who are passing through?

Now you can. Yesterday, Google launched Google Sidewiki, which allows you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage. Google Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar, where you can read and write entries along the side of the page.

To learn more and see a video tutorial, click here or test it out now download the Google toolbar here

Monopoly got a much bigger board yesterday, with Hasbro’s launch of Monopoly City Street, a four-month long global online campaign that takes the game into the real world via a range of Google platforms.

Hasbro worked with Tribal DDB London and Google to bring its concept into the real world with Monopoly City Streets, an online game that expands game play to any street in the world.

Armed with a $3million in virtual cash, players can purchase and construct 3D buildings on any street in the world via Google Maps and then get a bird’s eye view of their empire through Google Earth. They earn money each day through rent collected from properties owned each day they log on. Players can increase the earning potential of their properties by adding structures like schools or eco-friendly wind farms.

Read more at Creativity-online.com or click here to play