Corus to create online multiplayer games based on popular TV programs

Corus Entertainment Inc., owner of channels like YTV and Treehouse is expanding into interactive online games. They are planning on launching as many as eight, multiplayer online games based on virtual worlds around its successful programs such as 'Jacob Two-Two' link

NCC scores with $4.3 million dollar bequest

Roberta Langley spent her career an unassuming elementary school in Toronto. When she died last year at the age of 89, her death revealed a financial secret. In what is believed to be the largest donation from an individual - Miss Langley asked that more than $4.3 million of her estate be given to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. NCC buys environmentally sensitive land and turns them into nature reserves. Link

Life After Advertising

What would you do if it all ended tomorrow? Is there a place for you in this crazy world when the ideas have dried up? Try the career-o-matic to see where you're going.
http://lifeafteradvertising.com/indexflash.htm

The fine art of MySpace 'Friending'

Are you a MySpace loser if you only have 100 friends on your list - Brittnie Sarnes has 5,000 friends, about 1o people a day ask to 'friend' her - and the competition is becoming fierce as ad-supported websites and scripts fight to generate 'fake friends' for the status-obsessed.
From USA Today

Levi's Next Great Model Search

You could be the next face in Levi's Advertising. Prospective supermodels can submit their own photos through the website or show up at one of the campus Levi's Pop-up stops. One guy and one girl will be selected at each of the stops plus two winners selected from the online entries.
http://levis.eprize.net/stylesearch/

And if you're like me and asked, what the 'heck' is a Pop-up shop - check out the information posted at Trendwatching - http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/POPUP_RETAIL.htm