Saturday, December 26, 2009

A Very Webby Christmas: Santa 2.H0

We hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and will continue to enjoy the holiday and New Year =D. We’d also love to take this festive time of year as an opportunity to point out a number of existing and potential examples of how holidays such as Christmas have been helped and are taking a fun role in web 2.0 and social media =) -

How fast does Santa have to work to make it around the world in one night? Introducing the Norad Santa Tracker!

For active Twitter users, it was no easy feat to miss out on one of the top tweeted pages of the last couple of days: the Santa Norad Tracker! This tracker gave a live, visual update of where Santa was in the world:


What if Santa and Co. had Facebook?

Following in the popular meme of the if ____ had Facebook, there are also a number of Santa or reindeer ones floating around the web:

Santa job and present listings?

So while I didn’t actually stumble across anything like this, I think it would have been fun to see a “North Pole” Location listing on Craigslist where people could write notes, gift requests and perhaps fun job listings:

Naughty and Nice Websites

What if Santa, or his human, web-savvy helpers, instead of going around the world were to go around the web and leave thoughts, feedback and ideas wherever they went?


Happy Holidays everyone!

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