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At the heart of Brussels, the WingField Corporation Building (still under construction) will cover a total area of 6.845 squared meters on seven floors. You can already check out the website at www.marnix23.be (developed with emagiC CMS.Net).

We just launched a “meta” marketing campaign for Gottabet.com, a web 2.0 start-up specializing in social betting (check out this page to see how it works). The creative concept: our client has one million dollars to spend on marketing to acquire new members. If you have a good, bright idea of bet that could generate new registered people, just submit it and win one dollar for each member you bring in.

Want to participate and win your million dollars? Download the creative briefing on onemillion.gottabet.com. A few good examples (that are not part of the contest):

- Michel Daerden (famous Belgian politician) won’t drink until the elections
- Kim Clijsters will keep playing tennis
- Sego will beat Sarko

Christophe Bourgois, co-founder of Athem, is the latest personality we’ve met for the entrepreneurs stories on Join2Grow. Watch his interview on the homepage of this social network for entrepreneurs.

Since this Friday, we have a brand new website. As always with the applications that start in “beta” mode, we count on the surfers to help us fix the remaining bugs ;-).

Check it out now.

The “Fête du Progrès” (”Progress Feast”) is approaching on the calendar. As every year, we imagined a new design for the official website announcing this cultural event.

After the tremendous success of VW EscapeTV, Emakina launches EmocionTV, a second video-based project made for Seat. Imagine the best party you ever dreamed of and submit your project on the EmocionTV blog. If your idea gets the most votes, you will be granted a 500 euros budget to make it “live” along with two friends. Enjoy the ride!

After Patrick De Schutter, Pierre De Nayer and Cédric van Kan, Michael Vandenhooft is the fourth Belgian entrepreneur we interview on Join2Grow. Mike is the founder and CEO of Extenseo, the leading search-engine marketing agency in Belgium. Join the conversation on this social network for entrepreneurs that already gathers up more than 1.300 members.

He promised, he did it: this Monday, Elio Di Rupo answered a first list of questions submitted by surfers on his official blog. Another good example of video integration we could have shown at our latest Academy.

Yes, the real Josiane from IloveJosiane.be was at the bwards 2006 ceremony that were held last Friday. Check out the pictures taken by eMich.

Cédric van Kan, co-founder of the recruitment website Xpertize, is the latest entrepreneur interviewed on Join2Grow. Listen to his podcast and join the conversation on this social network.

The official blog of Elio Di Rupo, Minister President of the Walloon Region and President of the French-speaking socialist party, is now open. Aside of the template design and the setup the Wordpress platform, special mention to the “Digg-like” voting engine that lets you submit the questions you ever wanted to ask this political leader. Each week in a personnalized video, Elio Di Rupo himself will answer the question that got the most votes in the poll. An interesting, innovative way to fill the gap between the “netizens” and the political elites.

You’re a Proximus or a Pay&Go client? Maybe do you know the MyProximus and MyPay&Go features but… what’s in it for you? Check out this online demo to learn everything about these services.

VW EscapeTV has been selected as “Best Automobile Rich media Online campaign” at the IAC Awards organised by the American Web Marketing Association. These industry-based distinctions honor excellence in online advertising as well as individuals and organizations responsible for the best in internet marketing.

After the Night Of (e-Publisher of The Year) and the CMS Awards (Best Design Gold), this is the third major achievement for our podcasted TV-channel.

It’s time to plug your iPod : VW EscapeTV #7 is out now. Live from Ice Mountain, our team talks about Cinematics festival, Hospital Records, Stijn and Final Fantasy XII.

We created a nice viral game to celebrate the first year of the “state of happiness” campaign by Center Parcs. Your challenge is to blow out a candle with your mouse… or with your own breath if you plug a microphone in your computer. Check out and play:

- Blaas de kaar uit
- Soufflez la bougie
- Pusten die Kerze aus

Belgian driver Pierre-Yves Corthals is a member of the SEAT team that will participate to the new season of the World Touring Car Championship (opening round next weekend at Curitiba, Brasil). We have opened a new “sport” section on Seat.be with everything about Pierre-Yves and the WTCC.

The new website of Touring Assurances / Verzekeringen is online. Emakina took care of the design, the “web oriented” copy and the information architecture that puts forward the services offered by this company. Among the new features to be pointed out, you can now ask for an automotive or home insurance quote through a 5-steps interface that will give you a real-time, tailor-made calculation. Last but not least, we integrated the entire website into the content management system of Siebel 7.0, a CRM platform delivering a 360 degrees view on the overall online/offline marketing (web, helpdesk, e-mailing…). A project we made in partnership with Deloitte.

We just launched the new website of P&V. New design, new content management system (emagiC CMS.Net) and new information architecture that better highlights the services offered by this insurance company.

P&V celebrates today its 100th anniversary. To mark this milestone, we’ve imagined a top topical overlayer that ran this Wednesday on Skynet.be and MSN.be, the main portals on the Belgian market.