NimbleMachine

Brick-and-mortar casinos are poised to enter the 21st century by beginning to use online marketing techniques to attract new customers. To be fair, it is not entirely the casinos' fault, as rules set up to protect online advertising from a deluge of online gambling advertising have made it difficult for legal, physical properties to use the same kinds of tools that all other kinds of businesses have been using for the last decade.

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If you have never heard of Empire Avenue, it is a stock market simulation/game that rewards social network activity. It's been in the news quite a bit today for raising $1 million. If you use social media, you should check it out. Let me know what you think.
(BTW...that's a string at the top of this post to verify this site with EA, so that my activity posting here counts more towards my online activity.)

Mashable reports in two recent stories: New Balance Offers Free Shoes If You Can Find Virtual Batons [VIDEO] and Automaker Creates Giant Hide & Seek Game Using Google Street View [VIDEO], about phone-based augmented reality games by big brands, both taking the form of a scavenger hunt with some big prizes.

I just watched a time-lapse video that does the best job I've ever seen of capturing the positive side of the energy of New York City. Once in a long, long while I miss it.

Check it out. Make sure to have your sound on, the music helps.

NimbleMachine is a technology consulting company and software developer that is focused on meeting the needs of North American Indian Tribes and government communications and collaboration processes. We specialize in web-based application development on multiple platforms that support internal communications as well as wider community systems. Our technology experience is both deep and broad, and we are constantly educating ourselves to remain on top of current technologies.