At first I wasn’t too sure about how fun a game would be that has something to do with search and its a game, sounds like something you’d get when on detention at school!

But Microsoft is really been impressive with pushing the boundaries in trying to get more market reach for its search engine, Bing. And they have created this game which could actually help them give better results and this is how…

The game shows a series of web pages and asks users to guess which query would show each page in Bing’s top 5 results. Users score points based on their answers with 100 points if you guess a query that shows page #1. This is how ever time limited to just 3 minutes.

MIT has even looked at this and commented that
“The idea is to gather useful information on user search habits which could be used to fine tune search algorithms and ranking scheme … Page Hunt is a clever twist on “human computation”–using people to perform tasks that computers find difficult to do.”

Thanks to Mashable for the content and great adverts (quite large pics of a woman looking seductive)

This is the 2nd wedding video I’ve seen from the States that is brilliant and ballsy, if I was the groom or one of the bestmen I might have had one or two beers before hand to help me through the routine – but its very good! And well done to them, it even got Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz interviewed on the Today show in the States. It has been viewed 12million times already in a pretty short amount of time, take a look!

The new Ferrari 458 Italia berlinetta was unveiled this week and WOW I want one now! Image the girls down in Camps Bay, they would come running out of Caprice and line up to see who could get in… or they would just be blond and all try at once… who knows!

Anyway, its the successor to the F430, but the 458 Italia is only the new entry-level V8 in Ferrari’s range – I promise I won’t complain if I have to take the entry level model!

You can read more about it here.

Samsung is jumping onto the band wagon of providing some good viral marketing for us to spread around, the elephants look a little fake but its still pretty funny. Think I prefer the flash mob adverts…

View specs on the phone here.

Ok, we all by now know that I am a fan of Lance Armstrong (did you see how he managed to get back to the lead group yesterday, awesome!)

Anyway came across this video of him giving the smack down to a cheeky reporter, take a look!

The reporter is Paul Kimmage from the Sunday Times in the UK, dude you really suck for what you wrote about Lance!

The iPhone has been so successful mostly to its brilliant Apple App Store that has already racked up over 1 and a 1/2 billion downloads generating lots and lots of money for developers (the iPhone is also a really nice phone!)

So far I’ve resisted getting one but I’m more and more tempted to get one, now Sports Illustrated may have hit a new mini goldmine in their ‘Worlds Sexiest App‘ they’ve just released at $2.99!

I’m not sure how well the print magazine is doing but there are going to be lots of people around the world downloading this App that is for sure! The App provides photo’s of 20 models in bikinis and body paint plus videos of them. It also has a sports calendar for sports fans to keep track of up to 6 different pro and college teams.

Apparently this is also coming to the Blackberry but only in August, dam us Nokia users! Info via TechCrunch.

This is crazy, can’t believe I can still remember some of these adverts and even the words – just like songs it just comes back to you when you hear it. Also the clothes they wear are ridiculous! Maybe they’ll come back into fashion soon…

In America and elsewhere where allowed companies can run adverts and in the adverts openly mock, ridicule or downgrade their competition by naming and shaming. In South Africa this is not the case, as far as I am aware!

Now to my shock and horror this has slipped through on Facebook Advertising and I know that Facebook won’t have any problem with it as it doesn’t go against any of their T&C’s etc but I’m sure its now allowed in South Africa.

So I clicked through to GymForLess.co.za (not via the Facebook advert as didn’t Zuckerberg to earn some more bucks) to check it out. And basically its not really another gym competing against VirginActive but rather a Financial Services company by the name of True2Life.

Now they are just trying to earn commission on contracts they send through to Discovery Health Insurance as once you sign up there and then get there extra Vitality package you get free or actually gym at R80. The contract says R400pm for gym but in all if you get the Discovery Health Insurance and Vitality package you’ll be paying at least R800 a month, so you double your monthly payment but get health insurance.

I’m not sure what deal Discovery has with Virgin Active which allows for the discounted membership fees but I’m sure that there are so many members who joined Discovery just so they could get the ‘free’ gym but then never actually really use it. I’m one of them, need to use it more!

So is this advert misleading? In away its not but it is done via another Finacial Services company and not direct.

Well today seems fitting to post this as I flew up to Joburg for meetings and busy in the airport waiting to fly back. Though I must say Kulula were pretty innovative with their safety message before the flight and throughout the flight tried to make jokes and just keep it light hearted. The attendant was very good, but these New Zealand girls are also pretty good and its just one safety video you might want to watch and the whole thing at that!

Talk about taking things to the ultimate social integration… Lance Armstrong and the LIVESTRONG team are on the ball and hats off to them. Apologies for soo many posts on the guy, really look up to the guy and what he’s done and what he’s doing for cancer sufferers around the world!

Watch the video and see what you can do via Twitter to get your personal message written onto the roads in France to inspire Lance to push harder and achieve his goals and hopefully encourage you to push HARDER to reach your goals! I know I need to do a lot more exercise to curb the rising weight plus launch my new sites I’m working on!

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