Google's 'Search Plus Your World' was rolled out this month to US users, and it's already come under fire for pushing Google+ results, and choosing to ignore other data and networks in search results. But thanks to a bookmarklet developed by engineers from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, called Don't be Evil (boom boom), you can now bypass that and get full, unedited results from your Google searches.
Via Brand Republic
This won't last for long, so you might want to place your orders asap. Orders for hash, weed, or pre-rolled joints that is. A nice/evil (delete according to your opinion) Dane has started up an online shop on Facebook through which you can purchase your hash and have it delivered directly to your door.
It is illegal, Denmark's not quite that liberal.
Personally I'd have gone with a less stereotypical picture, but there you go.
Via Signe
Sweden has a history of being pretty cool with their marketing and branding. They have had some good fun with a few viral videos (or maybe they're just 'videos' now) from Visit Sweden, and have attactive people, which was clever of them.
Now, they've decided to use Twitter in a pretty unusual and interesting way. For a week at a time, a random Swede will be the curator of their Twitter account, @Sweden (with a thorough disclaimer, naturally).
It's certainly an interesting idea. It's sparked a lot of Q&As over on Reddit (a couple even seeking genuine advice about moving there), but has of course spawned a lot of nonsense.
From what I can tell, people are selected on a tipping basis, so the agency behind the idea, Volontaire, has been behind the first few curators, and presumably friends of theirs will be up next and so forth, so at least there is some kind of screening process.
Interesting idea, of that there is no doubt, but also pretty risky. I love that it shows the face of Sweden, good, bad and ugly, but then again, if I wanted to see that I could just follow a bunch of random Swedes. I'm not sure I'd take quite the same approach as them. I'd like to think that I would try to promote the country at least a little. Maybe the novelty effect is a little too exciting and people just get carried away?
Provided it's temporary, I can't see too much harm coming out of it. It's a great idea, a daring idea, and a good bit of fun. It's Sweden, for crying out loud. They do stuff the rest of the world think is weird.