Amazing news coming from our good friends and colleagues, Toronto application developers Plastic Mobile who you will probably recognize as the dedicated and extremely talented team who are responsible for the design & development of the newly added iPhone application for Pizza Pizza.

Homegrown talent, Plastic Mobile CEO Sep Seyedi and company president Melody Adhami were ecstatic as this week they revealed to us the awesome news of there apps recent nomination for the 15th annual Webby Awards. For those that may not know, this is one of the interactive worlds most prestigious awards, it’s kinda big deal.

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Pizza Pizza has been serving Canadians since 1967, and recently released their iPhone app. This app allows for orders straight from your iPhone–it doesn’t get any easier than that. The future is here, folks and it smells like pepperoni

Here’s the app description:

Come on board and be a part of the Pizza ordering revolution by:
• Creating your favorite pizza order
• Select your last order
• Specify order type (delivery or pickup)
• Track guarantee time
• Place future orders

The free Pizza Pizza application is compatible with all versions of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and can be downloaded at the App Store.

Features Include:

• Browse through the extensive menu with a flick of a finger
• Variety of payment options; at the door or through the app
• Favorite order feature allows one-click ordering (save a maximum of 5 orders)
• View your last five orders (automatically saved and repeat with a click)
• University students can use meal cards as a payment mode (*limitations apply)
• App only specials
• Ability to view the updated price while creating your favorite order
• Track the time guarantee on your order with a count-down timer; Pizza Pizza provides a 40 min or free delivery guarantee (some restrictions may apply)
• Save multiple addresses on your profile (e.g. work, home, cottage)
• Search for restaurants located near you with the intuitive map application. Restaurant operating hours and a quick call number also available
• The iPhone app is synced with your online web-profile

Bring in an Old Cell Phone, Get a Free Slice of Pizza

Pizza Pizza locations are celebrating Earth Month this April by giving out free slices of pizza to people who bring in old cell phones for recycling. The Cells for Slices program generates revenue for Food Banks Canada. So, if you have an old phone in a drawer somewhere, bring it in for free pizza!

Click here to download the Pizza Pizza app. It’s free. Please let me know how it works for you and please take a moment and vote for the app here.

The boring and non-challenging environment with all its alcohol evenings and sleep-in days had numbed my interests. The 3pm-5am routine has been perfectly compromised by the 7 hour time-difference and finally some other nationalities.

For the past 6 months I’ve been living in Estonia. Only 20 years after gaining independence from Russian control, Estonia is now fully focused on the free-market mechanism and the power of consumption and globalization. All things they relate with westernization are considered hot; Ed Hardy, black mirror ceilings and neon signs included.

Today tourist shops occupy the historically rich buildings in Estonia’s capital Tallinn and all other business has located itself in the shinny buildings east of this old city centre. Girls skipped school when the malls were opened, McDonald’s is a hipsters’ hangout spot and high heels combined with short skirts became uniform in an environment with temperatures as low as -30.

After years of oppression, the people decided to truly deteriorate the little amount of identity and creativity they had left.

When Google-Streetview mapped Toronto with its military efficiency based layout and its skyscrapers I figured I was in for a treat. Ending up in yet another creation of neon advertisement. A city considered the ultimate product of what is desired in Estonia.

How I was wrong.

The culture here is in action rather than in presence. It seems that people are assessed on what they do instead of who they are. A seemingly superficial idea but it allows people to judge only after having talked to one other, creating room for other experiences. I like to believe that this unbiased process that has led to better acceptance of homosexuality and more interracial equality, signs I relate to maturity within a society.

Because of this ability-based judgement the youth here seems to have realized that no one is special until you have achieved something. With all the opportunities in front of them they have to excel in some area in order to become something. It is exciting to see so many youngsters truly believing in what they are doing, especially coming from the Netherlands where sobriety is celebrated and where it is somehow un-cool to sound like you know what you’re talking about.

For the upcoming months I will be working with a Filipino, an Iranian, a Canadian and a Chilean. The chill good vibes and mutual interests illustrates the most stunning thing I noticed about this city; as long as you are truly open for new things, you can inspire each other and create beautiful things.

Jeroen, the intern

Banner is from an exposition called ‘exothermic’ in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
source: http://www.defabriekeindhoven.nl/?page_id=664

photos are from Tallinn, Estonia.