Want proof that JibJab Jr. Books are adored by children?! JibJab Jr. are personalized books for the iPad, updated monthly with new stories, and they now include sound.

Note: Polaris is an investor in JibJab

The world’s first offline social network.
From FX’s The League. This is terrific.

Please excuse the poor quality… home video =)
And please excuse some slight profanity – but still kosher for TV!

Continuing the theme of posting about TV commercials… here is the latest spot for Adam Sandler’s new movie “Just Go For It.” The entire spot is created around Facebook: it opens with a Like button (on Brooklyn Decker) and then narrates the story through the Facebook newsfeed and profile.

Clever and it will clearly resonate with Adam Sandler’s core audience.

Also, instead of promoting the movie’s website (http://justgowithit-movie.com/), they promote the Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/justgowithitmovie). In the other TV spots – including the original trailer – JustGoWithIt-Movie.com is promoted…. I give them credit for continuing the Facebook theme and promoting the movie in context.

The new season of Mad Men premiers on AMC July 25th…
But why wait until then to get your Mad Men fill?

JibJab’s latest Starring You video features highlights of last season’s Mad Men series and includes roles as Don Draper, Betty Draper, Joan Holloway, and Roger Sterling.

As with other JibJab videos, you can easily include photos from Facebook (either photos from your profile or from your friends’) and can share via Facebook (the feed, wall, email, etc). Enjoy:

Last time NBC’s The Office poked fun at Facebook, it was over a geeky Halloween costume. In The Office’s season finale, they did it again… and it’s great:

HP’s newest commercial features Sarah Jessica Parker (which is very good)… but if you weren’t familiar with the campaign, you could easily mistake it for an Apple advertisement (with its tablet references, swiping and floating applications):

Facebook’s F8 announcements featured prominent partner integrations with Pandora, IMDB, ESPN and Yelp… but Levi’s quickly demonstrated that the Open Graph and web-wide Like functionality are highly applicable to e-commerce and social shopping. Just as Pandora uses Facebook to personalize music (artist & channel) through your social graph, Levis allows shoppers to like, view and filter products based on social input / preferences.

Shoppers can either view top products from “everyone” or specifically visit the “Friends Store”: a storefront with content chosen by your Facebook friends. You can also invite friends directly to shop alongside you and provide their feedback.

Cleverly, Levis also features friends’ upcoming birthdays, showcases their favorite Levis products and encourages gifting.

My two current infatuations:
1. The iPad
2. ABC’s Modern Family (best comedy on TV)

Microsoft clearly understands that the platform element of Xbox is as much a selling point as its game titles: in just the first week of being live, 10% of Microsoft’s Xbox Live subscribers connected their accounts to Facebook. The platform represents new online content (such as Netflix) and the ability to make console gaming more social and viral.

Furthermore, the association with big brand names like Facebook, Netflix, and Pandora is an effective sales tool that is appealing to all console owners (whereas games and their audiences vary dramatically: Madden Football vs. Call of Duty vs. Little Big Planet).

So in Microsoft’s most recent Xbox advertising campaign, the ‘platform’ is a major theme: “more games, more entertainment and more fun” and “plugin to the endless entertainment of Xbox Live”.

This clip from the office is great. And if you don’t find this funny, then you clearly aren’t as geeky as I am: