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Iron Week: Marvel’s IRON MAN App Looks to Redefine Branded Mobile Applications, Awesome

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Comics, Marketing, Movies on May 3, 2010

This mini-promotional Iron Week is picking up steam. The more we browse our Internet feeds. The more stuff we stumble upon.

Mashable reports Marvel and Zumboi got together and birthed a monstrously interactive free iPhone/iPod Touch app promoting that new IRON MAN II movie you may have heard about.

Zumobi designed the app to fit in with the existing Iron Man motif. The graphics and colors match the film and comic series, and elements of the apps control panel mimic the HUD (heads-up display) that resides inside Tony Stark’s Iron Man helmet.

From the main screen, users can choose to view videos, news, wallpapers, the origin of Iron Man, buy tickets and access other Marvel links.

The video clips feature a variety of TV commercials for Iron Man 2 and its tie-in sponsors (like Dr Pepper and Audi) and there are also links to clips from the film, which match up with what Marvel has been posting to its official YouTube (YouTube) page.

Mashable also talks about Marvels future plans with Android and that an iPad application is coming. More importantly, something we almost skipped over, this Iron man application extends beyond simply building hype for the IRON MAN II movie. The Iron Man app will continue to feed you information on all things Iron Man after the movie is but a (hopefully) pleasant memory.

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The X Days of Xmas: Have Yourself a Nervous Breakdown / Doctor Who Christmas

Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Holiday on December 23, 2009

You really should read more.

A Nervous Breakdown Christmas
A quick search on The Nervous Breakdown gives you a handful of authors willing to share their Christmases with you.

Below lay an excerpt from Will Entrekin‘s “The Evolution of the Christmas Jollies”

Tim’s voice remains clear: “You still get the Christmas Jollies?” No eleven year old should be able to manage such derision, but as Timmy’s height was ahead of his years, so was his condescension. I was only eleven or so myself, and I didn’t exactly know what the Christmas Jollies were, but somehow I sensed from the tone of Timmy’s voice that having them was akin to having cooties. Maybe worse.

Now you’d better finish that story. You know what they say will happen if you don’t finish.

Paul Cornell’s The 12 Blogs of Christmas
Paul Cornell, writer of one of our favorite Doctor Who two-parters “Human Nature/Family of Blood” has been in the holiday spirit over on his blog.

…welcome to the first of my 12 Blogs of Christmas, where, as in the last few years, I’ll be presenting hopefully exciting new stuff over the next twelve days, covering, in a festive manner, the three worlds I move in: science fiction; comics and Doctor Who.

He started this on December 12, so if you’re behind, like us, you got a lot of reading to do. Like this short story Doctor Who, professionally written piece of fan fiction “The Last Doctor.” Free fan fiction from a professional writer who normally gets paid to pen Who stories. These are blessed times we live in.

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Google Tracks Your Disease, All of Them

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Google-fied, Intertube Madness on July 10, 2008

A new website, HealthMap, addresses that challenge by siphoning up text from Google News, the World Health Organization and online discussion groups, then filtering it and boiling it down into mapped data that researchers — and the public — can use to track new disease outbreaks, region by region.

“There is so much information on the web about disease outbreaks but it’s obscured by garbage and noise,” said John Brownstein, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of HealthMap.org. “The idea of HealthMap is to get filtered, valuable information to the public and public health community in one freely available resource.”

(via abc news, healthmap)

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