Vibes

Vibes may refer to:

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Vibes (company)

Vibes is a mobile marketing company that provides a variety of mobile marketing products and services, such as text message marketing (SMS/MMS), mobile wallet marketing, push notifications, and mobile web experiences. It is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Technology

In 2011, Vibes coined the term "Mobile Relationship Management," a framework to help marketers personalize mobile content for their customers. Vibes uses its platform Catapult to manage these relationships.

In 2013, the company launched Wallet Manager, which lets company create and manage mobile wallet campaigns using Apple's Passbook and Google Wallet.

At the 2013 Google I/O developer conference, Vibes was introduced as one of the first Google Wallet Objects API integration partners.

In 2014, the company launched Vibes Connect, making Tier 1 mobile messaging aggregation services available to everyone.

In February 2015, Vibes announced WalletAds, a new product that enables advertisers to integrate with Apple's Passbook and Google Wallet. This allows consumers to save branded coupons and offers to their Passbook and Google Wallet apps, directly from a mobile banner ad.

Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

The vibraphone resembles the xylophone, marimba, and glockenspiel. Each bar is paired with a resonator tube that has a motor-driven butterfly valve at its upper end. The valves are mounted on a common shaft, which produces a tremolo or vibrato effect while spinning. The vibraphone also has a sustain pedal similar to that on a piano. With the pedal up, the bars are all damped and produce a shortened sound. With the pedal down, they sound for several seconds.

The vibraphone is commonly used in jazz music, where it often plays a featured role and was a defining element of the sound of mid-20th century "Tiki lounge" exotica, as popularized by Arthur Lyman. It is also the second most popular solo keyboard percussion instrument in the realm of classical music, after the marimba, and is part of the standard college level percussion performance education. Additionally, it is a standard member of the modern percussion section for orchestras and concert bands.

Lego

Lego (/ˈlɛɡoʊ/) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Lego pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct objects such as vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects.

The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Since then a global Lego subculture has developed. Supporting movies, games, competitions, and six Legoland amusement parks have been developed under the brand. As of July 2015, 600 billion Lego parts had been produced.

In February 2015, Lego replaced Ferrari as Brand Finance's "world's most powerful brand".

History

The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". In 1947, Lego expanded to begin producing plastic toys. In 1949 Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based in part on the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were patented in the United Kingdom in 1939 and released in 1947. Lego modified the design of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample that they received from the supplier of an injection-molding machine that Lego purchased. The bricks, originally manufactured from cellulose acetate, were a development of the traditional stackable wooden blocks of the time.

List of Lego video games

Since 1997, 57 video games based on the Lego construction system have been released. After the first game, Lego Island, developed and published by Mindscape, The Lego Group opened publishing subsidiary Lego Media to further release Lego-themed games based on their production line. In 2005, Lego Videogames licensed Giant Interactive Entertainment to publish from that point on, which is was then bought by Traveller's Tales and became TT Games Publishing. TT Games Publishing has since licensed several properties for use in their video games, including Star Wars, Batman and Rock Band, among others. In 2007, Traveller's Tales bought developer Embryonic Studios, reforming it into TT Fusion. Traveller's Tales and subsidiaries were bought-out by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on November 8, 2007, who are now in charge of the publishing.

Original games

Licensed properties

All games based on licensed properties were developed by Traveller's Tales and TT Fusion, and are being published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since 2007.

Lego (musician)

Lego is a Sakalava musician who performs accordion music in the traditional style of the coastal regions of Madagascar. In addition to his acclaim as a musician, Lego is also known for having lost his sight as a child, and for being the half-brother of Malagasy superstar Rossy. Lego has released numerous albums and has toured regularly on the international world music circuit.

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