LOS ANGELES — November 26, 2013 — Balloon 27 (B27) and MildMania, a team of independent game developers today announced the highly-anticipated mobile game, Darklings, will be available in the Apple App Storetomorrow — Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. Darklings (view trailer — view presskit) is an epic, endless adventure through magical worlds, where the player experiences unique, gesture-driven gameplay blended with unique […]
Why Praise from “Friends” Is Worth Its Weight in Gold (and 7 Ways to Keep It Coming)
Here is a guest entry that’s really important to our friends who are trying to market by word-of-mouth. It’s from Annie Tsai is the author of The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook: Converting Online Conversations to Offline Sales (Wiley, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-118-61538-6, $25.00). She is chief marketing officer at Demandforce, an Internet marketing and communication […]
Experience: HelmetHub vending machines installed in Boston
Improving the bicycling culture of Boston was a major priority for Mayor Thomas M. Menino, especially during his fifth term, when Boston launched the New Balance Hubway bike sharing system and announced a comprehensive plan which will add 75 miles of new bike lanes in five years. The plan hopes to grow Boston’s bike lane […]
Experience: A chair that charges your smartphone
Just because winter in Boston lasts forever doesn’t mean the sun goes away. In Boston, we wanted to give people something to make the cold, sunny, winter days more enjoyable. So we teamed with the MIT Media Lab to put solar-powered chairs that charge your smartphone, right on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The pair of […]
Experience: Urban Shield Boston
Around the nation, first responders are training to respond to disaster and terrorism. One of the most high-profile training operations you’ll see is Urban Shield. In Metropolitan Boston, Urban Shield means bringing 1,800 police officers, firefighters, medics, and even Coast Guardsmen together, along with transit authorities, hospitals, Boston Harbor, an abandoned movie theater, a college […]
Experience: “Pep” Conferences and Boston Sports
Boston sports fans are a very lucky breed. We’ve seen World Series trophies, the Stanley Cup, Superbowls, and a 17th green banner in the Garden, and that’s just in the past decade! Boston is also a world-famous running city — a fame that is growing every day as people are training for the 2014 Boston […]