Go tiny or go home. That's the Spore marketing philosophy apparently, as the folks from EA have installed what is probably the world's daintiest billboard in San Francisco's Union Square. At just 14" by 6", the Spore billboard requires a telescope to see. Fortunately, they've positioned just such a telescope!

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Category: Music
Released: Jul 31, 2008
Price: Free

Description:
Top 40 lets you view the US Top 40 music chart on your iPhone, and lets you tap any entry to be taken straight to that song on the iTunes Music Store, where you can listen to a 30 second preview, and buy the track. Top 40 is based the Billboard US charts. You may have trouble opening the iTunes store links outside the US. Due to a copyright claim from the Official UK Charts Company we have been forced to remove the UK Chart, this app will remain on the store to allow viewing of the US chart, and will soon be updated to remove the country option. If you would like to see the UK charts in an iPhone friendly format, I recommend you contact the Official UK Chart Company and let them know there is demand for an iPhone app.

Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.

Get it on iTunes: Top 40 Chart

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Last month, we posted about a marketing campaign for LittleBigPlanet which involved spreading hidden yard sign-sized LittleBigBillboards around major cities such as L.A., San Fran, and NYC. The hidden signs are small enough for someone to pilfer and, in fact, Sony encourages you to do so. However, how will you be able to go about your thieving, ***in-like ways if you have not a clue as to what these miniature billboards look like? Perhaps the above image is legit enough to point us in the right direction.

It sure does look legit; it's got the ladder and lights which match the description. But that's not good enough for us; we need a bit more than that. Let's say ... send us a pic if you yourself find such tiny billboards in your city. We'll also be keeping an eye out over here in NYC. If the billboard is the real deal, then that "October 21" release date plastered on the sign has got us quite excited for next month. See more images here.

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Go tiny or go home. That's the Spore marketing philosophy apparently, as the folks from EA have installed what is probably the world's daintiest billboard in San Francisco's Union Square. At just 14" by 6", the Spore billboard requires a telescope to see.

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Go tiny or go home. That's the Spore marketing philosophy apparently, as the folks from EA have installed what is probably the world's daintiest billboard in San Francisco's Union Square. At just 14" by 6", the Spore billboard requires a telescope to see.
Fortunately, EA has installed said telescope and aimed it directly at the wee Spore advertisement, giving passersby a chance to enjoy some smartly conceived marketing. If you happen to be in the Bay Area, specifically Union Square, you have a brief opportunity to check it out. Everyone else can live vicariously through pics after the jump.




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DENVER (Billboard) - When Napster reported its fiscal first-quarter results in August, it tried to paint a positive picture to investors who were growing increasingly nervous about the company's future.

DENVER (Billboard) - When Napster reported its fiscal first-quarter results in August, it tried to paint a positive picture to investors who were growing increasingly nervous about the company's future.

In Japan, when you want to get off a bus, you press a little button with the words "will stop next" on it. The button lights up, a beep goes off, and a robotic woman's voice says: "We will stop next." Mr. Bus is a quirky guy who dedicates all his free time to collecting these bus buzzers. He started 25 years ago and now has over 200 different ones, some of which he has wired into this giant billboard so he can light them up. He finds them at bus depots and by scavenging through discarded vehicles at dumpsters. "It's a very Japanese thing, the polite exchange between passenger saying 'I pushed it' and the bus buzzer saying 'I have received your request,'" he says. "It's such a thoughtful invention." Mr. Bus' web site (via The Almanac of Weird Hobbies)( Lisa Katayama is a guest blogger.)...

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In between making the news for her romance with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, making movies like the Dukes of Hazzard, and wondering if Chicken of the Sea Tuna is fish or chicken, Jessica Simpson also occassionally makes music.  This is her first album since she has reinvented herself, going from a pop star to a country star.  It’s already doing very well in the charts and I’m sure it will find an audience.

Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. She has also begun working as an actress, and is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, an internationally successful pop rock singer and actress.

Track Listing:

1. Come On Over 2:51
2. Remember That 3:43
3. Pray Out Loud 3:44
4. You’re My Sunday 4:39
5. Sipping On History 4:13
6. Still Beautiful 3:43
7. Still Don’t Stop Me 3:26
8. When I Loved You Like That 4:05
9. Might As Well Be Making Love 3:51
10. Man Enough 4:19
11. Do You Know (with Dolly Parton) 5:04

ARTIST : Jessica Simpson
TITLE : Do You Know
LABEL : Sony BMG Nashville
GENRE : Country
BITRATE : 205 kbps avg
SOURCE : CD (LP)
PLAYTIME : 00:43:38
SIZE : 67.3MB
STORE DATE : 2008-09-00

Release Name: Jessica_Simpson-Do_You_Know-2008-SHESTHEPRETTYONE
Links: Homepage, Myspace, Wikipedia, .NFO

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According to Billboard magazine, SLIPKNOT has scored an instant No.

Le rappeur T.I pulvérise actuellement les records aux Etats-Unis avec son single "Whatever You Like", passant de la 71ème à la 1ère place du Billboard Hot 100, battant le record détenu jusqu'alors par Maroon 5 avec "Makes Me Wonder"...

Downtown Records has inked an exclusive distribution deal with Fontana and has also entered a strategic relationship with Interscope Records, Billboard has learned.

Downtown Records has inked an exclusive distribution deal with Fontana and has also entered a strategic relationship with Interscope Records, Billboard has learned.

Downtown Records has inked an exclusive distribution deal with Fontana and has also entered a strategic relationship with Interscope Records, Billboard has learned.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Target and Target.com (http://www.target.com/) will be the sole retailers to carry Christina Aguilera's first greatest hits collection, "Keeps Gettin' Better - A Decade of Hits," due November 11.

Co-organized by Conflux
Moderated by Wooster Collective, with CutUp Collective, Leon Reid IV (of Darius + Downey), Betsey Biggs, and Roadsworth

Friday, September 5th, 7:30pm
the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members, $8 General Public

Join us this evening at 7:30pm for this month's New Silent Series program at the New Museum, entitled "The Scale of Intervention." Co-organized by Conflux, an annual festival dedicated to psychogeography, and moderated by the founders of the celebrated street art website Wooster Collective, this panel will look at possibilities for artistic disruption within urban environments. Taking its name from a film by the London-based Cutup Collective, which plays with the viewer's perception of a street scene, the panel will feature artists whose work ranges across a variety of mediums and materials. From reformulation of billboard advertisements into powerful, politically-oriented collages to the subversive reformulation of street signs, such as pedestrian crossings and bike lanes, the featured artists will demonstrate how they dislodge the customary navigation and perception of urban space.

Image: Roadsworth, North American Footprint (Parc Ave., Montreal, Quebec, September 2004)

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/245