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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Anonymous Social Messengers – 'Sarahah' Lets Users Send Anonymous Messages Through Snapchat (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) What you say online can permanently impact how people perceive you in the real world, a concept which ‘Sarahah' is attempting to alter. The recent Snapchat update allows users to post…
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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Dancing Emoji Websites – Charlie Clark's 'Emoji Party' Generates Customizable Emoji Raves (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) Emoji party is an audio-visual emoji experience that's emblematic to today's internet culture. Just when it seems like the warranty of emoji-based entertainment has run its course,…
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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Social Media Restaurant Kits – 'Dirty Bones' is Providing Guests with 'Foodie Instagram Packs' (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) ‘Dirty Bones' is a newly opened London hot spot that's offering guests ‘foodie instagram packs' along with their meals to help heighten diners' social media…
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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –AI-Generated Music Videos – 'Muse' Used AI to Create a Music Video That Changes Every 24 Hours (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) Popular English rock band ‘Muse' used a unique algorithm to create an AI-generated music video that changes every 24 hours. The music video to accompany the band's newly released…
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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Vegan Lifestyle Magazines – MOT MAG Aims to Inspire Conscious Living Through Veganism (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) MOT MAG is a vegan lifestyle magazine that takes a more radical approach to inspire conscious living. The digital magazine publishes quarterly editions, which tell stories from alternative…
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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Quilt Company Web Channels – The Missouri Star Quilt Co. Offers Online Quilting Tutorials (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) The Missouri Star Quilt Co. is a quilting company that offers fabrics, threads and patterns for those interested in this functional art, and also has a popular YouTube channel that it uses to expand…
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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Bedtime Story Video Series – The SacconeJolys are Filming a Series of Story Videos for Young Kids (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) Reading a bedtime story is part the the nightly routine in many households, and now this vlogging family is bringing you story videos to share with your young children. The Friendliest Friends…”
From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Edible Chocolate Websites – Hershey's Brazil Created a Viral Campaign to Promote Its Chocolate (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) In an effort to appeal to Generation Z and Millennial consumers, Hershey's Brazil created a campaign that allowed the users of its website to interact with chocolate objects for the chance to receive them in a raffle. To create the #Eaternet campaign, Hershey’s Brazil joined up with ad agency Aktuellmix to make what users saw on the company’s website much more real. To have the chance to win one of the unique chocolate sculptures on the website, which ranged from smiley face emojis, to oversized mustaches, and sunglasses, users simply had to purchase one of the brand’s chocolate bars, and enter the code on the wrapper to the website.”
From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Meme-Tracking Websites – Me.me Trends is a Search Engine for Popular Internet Memes (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) Even the most embedded internet cruiser is bound to have trouble keeping up with the torrential deluge of memes both generating and evolving constantly, but Me.me Trends is a new tool that can make it easier to track the latter. The website is similar to Google tools like Google Trends or Google Ngrams, but it’s specifically designed to graph the usage of phrases within memes. According to Me.me Trends’ page, the tool “tracks the use of words and phrases…used on at least one day within any meme in the data set.” In other words, the site contains an automatically updating log of memes being created online, and it analyzes the language within these to track the frequency or infrequency of various phrases.”
From Graphics – CreativePro.com –TypeTalk: How to Work with a Lettering Artist:
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The best typographic solution for a design project might not be type – it might be hand lettering. Custom lettering can be a cross between type and illustration; the words (still) communicate the message, but in a more distinctive, unique way…
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