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To celebrate singer Example’s latest single (where he mentions Elastoplast in the lyrics) we’ve been working with Elastoplast to promote limited edition packs featuring the artist. Nzime have produced an ‘example’ page on the Elastoplast website and set up a competition to win one of the very limited edition packs.

Recent social activity on Twitter has seen the hash tag ‘examplaplast’ trending worldwide and ultimately driving traffic to the competition pages. So any fans of Example should take a peek at the Elastoplast site and enter the comp now to be in with a chance to grab one of the cool new packs!

Usually when we finish a new digital project it goes online for all the world to see in all its glory. With one of our more recent projects however you will have to be one of the lucky people that own an Xbox 360 Kinect and Xbox Live. There is no need to worry though, we have taken the time to put together a collection of images walking you through each section of the application giving a glimpse of the magic it has to offer.

I’d like to introduce you to to the Official Kinect Sports Facebook Application.

Whether your specialty is Bowling, Table Tennis or a spot of Beach Volleyball (bikini not required) you can put your skills up against anyone and everyone with international leagues. You have the option to simply join the current weeks league or subscribe, which will automatically enter you into your selected leagues every week.

If you prefer competition on a more personal level, invite your Facebook friends to your own personal weekly league. You choose the Sport, Number of Games, League name and Start Date.

So you’ve joined a few international leagues and invited your friends to the bowling league to end all leagues you can then keep track of everyones progress in My Leagues. After joining a league you have been invited to you can also keep a track on the progress and how long you have to get your games in. Once leagues are finished they are fully archived for you to reminisce on your achievements.

If you have played Kinect Sports you will be fully aware of the hysteria generated by seeing your game highlights. If you were daring enough to upload your videos to Kinect Share you can view them all in My(your) Videos.

My Records: See how you compare against your friends, find out who’s been practicing a little too much and if it’s your thing brag to your Facebook friends about how great you are.

We couldn’t resist registering nzi.me as a url shortening domain. With the BBC, Twitter, Facebook already taking advantage of custom short urls it seemed a shame to let such a perfectly branded name go to waste.

It was simple to setup with bit.ly providing a pro service that lets you link your own short domain. Now we can track the response to any url’s we post with the added bonus of the nzi.me brand.

Manufacturers of sticky labels for some of our favourite brands in the retail industry Label Apeel’s new website was designed with a view to creating a horizontally scrolling homepage with samples of their product whilst staying compatible with non-Flash enabled devices. Check out the full site at www.labelapeel.co.uk

As a little experiment in awareness of QR barcodes we decided to erect our own, we then track the number of links generated by the passing traffic outside the office. However, if you’ve been intrigued enough to follow the link and you just so happen to require creative marketing talent then while you’re here have a snoop around our web site.

Thanks for your contribution to our little experiment.

The secret’s finally out! Over the past year we have been working with Rare and Microsoft Games Studios (MSG) on building  Rare.co.uk and now the official Facebook application to support the Xbox Kinect launch title Kinect Sports.

The press release went out just moments ago and we couldn’t be happier with what we have all achieved working alongside everyone at Rare and MSG. Rare have done an amazing job building a fantastically enjoyable game, leaving some of us in the studio resorting to deep heat after getting a little too competitive playing Kinect Sports yesterday (UK launch day).

The Facebook application allows anyone with Kinect Sports to join international leagues to put their skills up against the rest of the world,  create and join custom leagues with friends and view their Kinect Sports videos which can be uploaded via Kinect Share.

Just our long jump skills to work on now….

Press release: http://rare.co.uk/news/introducing-kinect-sports-facebook-app

Yesterday Knox announced their latest innovation Kinesis at Intermot Cologne.  Motorcycle News has already named the announcement product of the week (View the MCN article).

Check out the new Knox Original Equipment site on the Knox Lab.

Always looking to offer our clients the latest in cutting edge design and development, we’re currently putting the finishing touches to our latest iPad application coming soon to an app store near you!

Rare gaming is quite possibly one of the best websites on the internet ever. Well, we would think that as we designed it! (Click here to see more sites built by Nzime that we’re rather pleased with too!)

After sleepless nights, working Sundays and ordering pizza to the Nzime offices we are proud of our efforts. So much effort went in to designing, building and launching the re-branded Rare that we think we should win the .net award for best redesign of the year! If you agree, you can nominate Rare here: http://www.thenetawards.com

I am under strict instructions not to reveal too much as this project is currently secret…  but there is certainly a buzz in the Nzime office. We have been asked to develop a Facebook application. We’re absolutely thrilled to be asked and we’re already beavering away to make this app as great as it deserves to be.

Brands are always trying to find new ways to interact with their customers and enhancing user experience by incorporating tools into social media platforms is a way for brands to make their products far more accessible and exciting.

Well, at least now we’ll have an excuse to be on Facebook all day now. No, I really am doing research…