Seems like Microsoft did all the right things: A catchy name without any known meaning, an interesting design, Google like appearance, quick response time, and of course, spent lots of dough on PR.
But people are used to using Google, we’ve been living by it for so long. It’s like going to a different supermarket then the one you’re used to, you can’t find anything.
So should Google be concerned?Sure, don’t forget who invented the wheel(Or in this case the window,) but I don’t think they should panic, Google owns the Internet, and it will be a while before we’ll know if Bing can really challenge the landlord.
Loved the TV commercial though (couldn’t find a link to the video on Google…)
Have you noticed that all the songs in Apple products (iPod, Mac..)commercials sound exactly the same? Is this what one might call Branding? Or is it Over Branding?
And also, my Mac does need to be restarted at times, and while I appreciate it’s quality, it still gets stuck here and there!!!
No, this is not a direct quote from VP ticket Sarah Palin, but might not be far from the truth after reading the “personal, private” blog of Palin’s pregnant daughter’s boyfriend’s blog.
In his blog, Levi Johnston, a high school hockey player from Alaska and our favorite foot-in-the-mouth Baby Daddy, writes about Palin’s daughter, Bristol, and her considering an abortion just days before her mother found out and McCain nominated her.
In his sensitive blog entry Abort! Abort! Abort!” Levi pleas for funds to abort the baby and asks for where the nearest abortion clinic is. Even better someone calls Bristol a “hoor” while another commenter calls Palin out as a total hot “MILF.”
Seriously though, Obama couldn’t have wet dreamt himself a better outcome than this…Parody or not. I prefer to think of it as art.
First, the rag that doubled as every pseudo geek’s wet dream, whored itself out this month to the highest bidder for the mere promise of tail by shamelessly promoting the tech world’s very own Paris Hilton. The only takeaway from Wired’s cover feature being if you’re greedy enough and cocktease make eyes at the right people, there are places you can go online and offline, btw.
Next, MediaBistro jumped aboard the Anderson lovebug by giving us a cheap imitation (you have to pay $15 to preview the whole clip of Chris) of a marketing man’s bible to Web 2.0 social communities in the form of a video clip.
While most of the content on the video is pretty vague marko-babbly, (we are talking about the guy that launched the long tail phenomenon) Anderson is a source for all things innovative by sheer virtue that he works for “the most tolerant site out there.” If only he had been groomed in an elitist French boarding school that taught him proper elocution maybe I could stand to hear about his or anyone else’s “raison d’etre.”
OK, so here is the story: About a year ago we got robbed. That’s a long and sad story, involving an insurance company that gladly took our money when we got the policy, but for various reasons would not pay for our stolen stuff. But let’s not talk about it now. The kind thief who visited our apartment that night did not steal our DVD, but in order to make sure he has the right equipment for the things he did stole, he took away our remote controls, all of them.
So after a few months of running to the TV stand to pause, stop, or fast forward (and after we moved from that place thank God,) and since the device wasn’t doing a great job playing movies, we decided it’s time to get a new one. When we got to the store we had three options: To get a standard DVD (a known brand cost about $50 back then,) a Blue Ray machine (About $350,) or for $75 we could get an HD-DVD device. We got the last one. Both were new technologies, both offered amazing quality. Back then we couldn’t tell which one will dominate the market. Now we know. A couple of days ago, Toshiba announced that it will abandon its HD-DVD format. Now we learn that Amazon.com will stop selling HD-DVD and will side with Blue-Ray. Cnet News reports that Peter Faricy, Amazon’s vice president of movies and music, said in a statement from the company: “The high-definition landscape is rapidly changing, and consumers are looking for guidance on how to make the best high-definition buying decisions, our customers have clearly voiced their support for the Blue-ray format.”
Also, the presence of the format in the popular Sony Playstation 3 game console, and Blockbuster early siding with it, put a lot of weight on the preference to go Blue.
I’m not too sorry for buying the DVD I have now, I prefer it this way on buying a Blue-Ray and then the HD-DVD would come on top. Then I would have lost a lot more… I will buy a Blue-Ray DVD, but not today.
Jerry Seinfeld is in the news again. If it’s his new Bee Movie, his wife’s new cooking book, the release of Seinfeld’s season 9 on DVD, or the controversy about promoting Bee Movie at McDonald’s, Jerry is back. And it’s good because no one is funny anymore (with the exception of The Office of course…) Jerry showed us all and especially all those comedian wannabes what distinguish him from others in his speech when he got the first HBO Comedian Award last April.
So, Bee Movie premiers tonight. If you want you can catch it everywhere, on my end I think I’ll just wait for the DVD…
Mark Cuban, Wayne Newton, Jane Seymour, Tori Spelling and more are among the names that will fill our TV screen on the next season of Dancing With The Stars. According to TMZ, a list of the shows lineup leaked, and got to their hands, while the official ABC announcement won’t be made until Wednesday. I personally don’t like the show, and not going to watch it. However, I can smell a PR spin from miles away…
Enjoy the show.
Top models, beware. It’s nothing out of the ordinary when we see a movie star or an athlete advertising a product. But it’s not every day that a former leader and a Nobel Peace Prize winner becomes a model. In a campaign to promote the company’s luggage and travel accessories, Luis Vuitton, hired former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the man and the map-like birthmark. Gorbachev will join Scarlett Johanssen, Catherine Deneuve Andre Agassi, and Steffi Graf who also model for the luxurious French company. Gorbachev’s first gig as a model was in a Pizza Hut commercial.
For some odd reason, even though I recall unsubscribing quite a few times, I’m still on the email list over at Savvy Miss-the website that claims it’s For Intellectually Curious, Fun-Loving Women.
Don’t get me wrong. Really I like to think I straddle the whole “fun-loving” and “intellectually curious” pretty well, though admittedly most often I find myself teetering in the “intellectually curious”/”analytical kvetch” category. The point in all this is that female categorizations or gender qualifications of any sort tend to lend themselves to stereotypes.
So today I look at my gmail inbox and see Quiz: Are You The Office Brat and the actual exercise is “Are You The Office Bitch” and I can’t help but find this subtle semantic substitute just a wee bit reproachful.
Inappropriate conduct explicitly aimed at female bloggers is populating all the social criticisms of today’s media and yet some site that claims it’s for me written by people like me is demanding that I classify myself in terms of stale archetypes: The Corporate Dominatrix, the Goddess (the spiritual you), the Governess (the schoolteacher and mentor), the Queen (the sovereign) or the Schoolgirl (the student and apprentice).
I’m still trying to figure out how many market research focus groups Savvy Miss commissioned to come up with these catch-all titles (kinda like how many Poles does it take to screw in a light bulb?), but I’m missing out on how all this doesn’t somehow undermine the plight of the female blogger. Thinking in terms of social schemas is easy and it’s convenient, but ultimately its cost can be greater than we’re willing to pay.
Besides, so what if I’m The Office Bitch. Does that mean that I don’t crave a good, hard spanking once in a while?
Ah. Silly Savvy Miss. Didn’t cha get the memo? Tricks are strictly FTB (for the boys).
As I’m watching the 11:00 News with my husband and his lovely sister this evening (or night, for those of you have to get up for work tomorrow morning) we saw a segment on Ron Jeremy, multi-talented porn actor and recent recipient of a new online tech show. Seems like the celebrity wants to pad his scholastic credibility and/or up the social responsibility ante by engaging in what has become a controversial lecture on pornography at an all-female college in Boston. Jeremy’s Porn Debate Tour kicks off at Simmons College tomorrow night. Jeremy was paid $6000 for the lecture.
Considering the caliber of Jeremy’s publicity as of late, he’s gotta be jonzing for this upcoming gig.
I got to hand it to the guy. Donald Trump may not be the reliable, yet quirky businessman he’d like everyone to believe, but the man sure knows how to pimp himself for a piece of billboard. First he fights with Rosie O’Donnell, then being the busybody she is, Barbara Walters gets involved, and before you can say, “Joy Behar isn’t the only one who loathes Elizabeth Hasselbeck,” Trump is betting his luscious locks off to the fate of a wrestling match.
Trump’s hijinks i.e. the last-ditch pathetic attempts to gain some sort of attention/notoriety is playing itself out. Donald needs to know by now that no actually cares about business anymore. The economy sucks so we’d rather forget about money. And focus on food, dancing, and pretty shallow girls. Although we do find it very curious that billionaires like to shave each other’s heads (and who knows what else). The fact is maybe Trump isn’t quite ready to face the music yet. And maybe we’re not either because when it comes down to it, we really do want Umaga to win.
Smut aside, the American Apparel ads are so much more alluring and of higher quality than the clothes the store sells. Having said that, I’m not sure this billboard ad (on the corner of Allen & Houston) isn’t towing the fine line or propriety just a bit too closely, even for the Lower East Side, that is. There are religious people still left there right?
Gothamist had a valid point though: “Must be hard for the people across the street to stare at a 40 ft beaver shot day in and day out.” I might add that the dudes loitering on the corner at all hours (and in the above pic) won’t be put out too much either.
Seems like Microsoft did all the right things: A catchy name without any known meaning, an interesting design, Google like appearance, quick response time, and of course, spent lots of dough on PR. 
OK, so here is the story: About a year ago we got robbed. That’s a long and sad story, involving an insurance company that gladly took our money when we got the policy, but for various reasons would not pay for our stolen stuff. But let’s not talk about it now. The kind thief who visited our apartment that night did not steal our DVD, but in order to make sure he has the right equipment for the things he did stole, he took away our remote controls, all of them.
Jerry Seinfeld is in the news again. If it’s his new Bee Movie, his wife’s new cooking book, the release of Seinfeld’s season 9 on DVD, or the 
Johanssen awaits Mikhail.
For some odd reason, even though I recall unsubscribing quite a few times, I’m still on the email list over at 
As I’m watching the 11:00 News with my husband and his lovely sister this evening (or night, for those of you have to get up for work tomorrow morning) we saw a segment on Ron Jeremy, multi-talented porn actor and recent recipient of a new 
I got to hand it to the guy. Donald Trump may not be the 
Smut aside, the American Apparel ads are so much more alluring and of higher quality than the clothes the store sells. Having said that, I’m not sure 