Ramble by Sunil Bahl
29Jul/110

HTML 5 YouTube Banner

At the recent DoubleClick HTML 5 Banner Challenge, Biborg Interactive & Alpha Layer from France came up with an innovative HTML 5 banner demo that invited users to fly over France by hot air balloon, discovering famous places, such as the Effel Tower, Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseille or Le Château de Versailles from the sky.

The rich media banner utilised a number of HTML 5 features, like the W3C Geolocation standard, WebGL, Audio and Video tags, along with some great Google Maps integration, to help bring the idea to life.

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14Jul/110

Unleash Your Fingers

For the launch of the Galaxy SII in France, Samsung brought JayFunk, the internet Finger Tutting phenomenon, from Los Angeles to Paris to deliver an incredible and surprising choreography.

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30Jun/110

Google Maps Racing Advergame

Mini France has managed to successfully offer a virtual Mini experience with the help of a Social / Google Maps mash-up advergame called "Mini Maps".

With DDB Paris and Unit9 they created a Facebook app that lets you customize a virtual Mini and then challenge Facebook friends to time trials around the world through Google Maps. In the challenge you are racing your friends over satellite images of your favorite locations around the world!

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5Apr/110

Renault Espace

The Renault Espace is a large MPV from French car-maker Renault. With their new iPad app they have given users an onboard view of the Espace like never before.

The application is a 360 degree interactive video, where all the user needs to do is tilt their iPad and explore all the angles as if they were right there.

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4Apr/110

The Escape Service

DDB Paris has created a new service for the french railway booking site - Voyages-sncf.com. "The Escape Service" lets people escape to any destination they want by the simply pushing a magical red button.

Together with french collective Pleix, they designed three celebrations that emerged out of a 3x3 meter black box that unfolded like a huge jack in the box.

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