Last September 37signals created “Smiley”. It was an internal rating system to measure customer satisfaction and happiness. In what is a very ballsy move, the Chicago based company has now made its customer happiness ratings public in real time, and you can view themhere. How it works is very simple, at the end of a customer support email there are three faces, one that’s happy, another that is neutral and one that looks mighty angry....

If you haven’t stumbled upon Intel’sMuseum of Meyet, you really need to give it a go. A showcase of everything that’s brilliant and creepy about the social Web, it hooks into your Facebook account to build a museum… of you. Within seconds of authorising your account, you’ll be taken on a video tour of the museum, which has rooms dedicated to your life, your friends, places you’ve been, things you’ve liked and even a huge screen displaying words from your status updates....

Social gaming isbig business, and there’s still huge room for growth. While big names like Zynga get the lion’s share of attention for titles like Farmville and Cityville, small publishers are having big hits too. Dutch developerKalydolaunchedGodswar Onlineon Facebook in conjunction with gaming portalIGGon 26 December, and in the month since, it says it’s accumulated 1.5 million players and was the fastest growing game on Facebook last week. What’s impressive about the game is that it’s the first MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) to use full 3D graphics within Facebook, loading right in the browser with minimal delay....

Improv Everywhere, a New York City-based “prank collective” is well known for its chaotic stunts in public places. The brain child of Charlie Dodd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. For its latest mission, over 3,500 people downloaded an MP3 file and pressed play simultaneously at sunset in two starting points by New York City’s Hudson River. As the sun set, the two groups, dressed in black and white, were led to Nelson Rockefeller Park to participate in a series of synchronized activities involving dancing, flashlights, camera flashes, glow sticks, and tribal masks....

One of the best ways to grow your business is to have quality marketing materials crafted by a professional copywriter. But what if you could get the same results without having to hire a person to do the work? That’s exactly what you’ll get with theWritesonic Starter Plan. Writesonic uses AI to analyze your inputs and pattern matching to create landing pages, ads, product descriptions and more for your business. Writesonic is like having a copywriter on staff at a fraction of the cost and at much faster speeds....