Socialblood: blood donation via social media

Launched 4 months ago, Socialblood uses Facebook as a platform for blood donation. It matches blood donors and recipients through a Facebook app and a series of eight Facebook groups, one for each blood type.

The Grid

[vimeo width=”600" height=”340"]http://vimeo.com/31355402[/vimeo] I love grids. I’ve found that when I use them, almost fanatically, a design falls into place much more easily, the restrictions of a grid allow you to focus on the content and expressing the idea.

Webicina: Health and Medicine meets Social Media

I just found out about a website that pulls multiple resources together including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and groups the information by medical condition. It then offers the information to health care professionals and patients with a…

200 people in skin-colored body suits

Pfizer UK created this giant hand in a public square to raise awareness of Dupuytren’s disease. The disease is a connective tissue disorder that affects the hands, making it so the fingers can’t be fully extended. Pfizer makes a drug called XIAPEX that offers an…

Grocery Shopping Far From the Store

The below 2 minute and 30 second video tells the story of Korean supermarket company Tesco and how it changed its name to Home Plus and eventually grew to become the #2 company in Korea. They then thought about how to become #1 without building more stores. Their…

Speaking of QR Codes

There has been some moderate excitement over QR code possibilities but I have yet to hear about an overwhelming successful campaign using them here in the United States.

I’ve always thought that the key to its success would be in the campaign that it connects the…

Vital Signs Taken by an iPad

Philips created an iPad app that takes your vital signs. You can then email the results to anyone you want.

For the heart rate measurement, the app detects small changes in the color of your face through the iPad’s camera. You have to set the iPad down…

‘Girl with Cancer’ asks ‘50/50’ star for a Date on YouTube

Lindsey Ann Miller would like to have coffee with Joseph Gordon Levitt. This has all the potential of going viral. Check out the video. Who wouldn’t want to have coffee with her?