To commemorate the launch of its new ultra-low voltage processors, Intel collaborated with Lenovo and Singapore’s most famous department store TANGS, for a 24-hour nonstop Intel-powered blogathon. Ten leading bloggers from the country were placed in TANGS’ window displays and were required to blog for 24 hours without sleep. This blog, with a lifespan of merely 24 hours, was engineered to host the blog posts generated by the 10 bloggers that day.

Why it’s in the Showcase: On the frontend, the microsite design applied a highly interactive 3D sphere that symbolized Singapore’s blogosphere with a Flash-based platform. Blog posts were generated using WordPress over the 24-hour period, programmed with a time-sensitive user experience.

OnStar offers the most comprehensive safety, security and convenience services to help keep you and your family safe while traveling. OnStar Connect is an online community where subscribers, enthusiasts and friends connect by sharing stories and learning about our latest technologies and services.

Why it’s in the Showcase: OnStar Connections uses WordPress and bbPress to power blogs, discussions, a members section, provide news, and more.

Why it’s in the Showcase: While the main part of VW’s TankWars site is powered by WordPress, the most interesting aspect of the site is its use of BuddyPress. Each driver’s profile (see the site’s “Leaderboard” on the right) contains their best milage score and rankings. Users can upload photos, vote on profiles, and leave comments.

Best Buy is the largest speciality retailer of consumer electronics in the United States. The company, which is based in Minnesota, has more than 150,000 employees and $40 billion in revenue.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Best Buy uses WordPress MU to power 1050 local store blogs, empowering more than 1m500 store associates to blog about store location data, events, announcements, and happenings. Using WordPress, Best Buy has been able to aggregate important store data and pass it back to key enterprise applications via custom web services. Best Buy also uses WordPress’ theme capabilities to experiment with Microformats, RDFa and RDF.

Note: The “visit site” link is an example site. More sites can be seen by changing the number in the URL. There is no central portal for all of the stores.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Ford is one of the largest companies in the United States and its decision to use WordPress to serve as the cornerstone of its initiative towards reaching out to social media is notable. Ford’s use of WordPress as a CMS is also well done and features a seamless integration of static content, videos, photos, and dynamic updates.

BLogitech contains Insights from Logitech employees into the company’s products, technologies and the digital lifestyle.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Logitech is a major technology company and its decision to use WordPress to power its growing corporate blog is a significant one.

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