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Nov

20

Two Weeks With the Drioid

Filed Under Google, Marketing, personal | Leave a Comment

Well, two weeks in, I still can’t say enough about it and I still keep finding new features. Is it as good as an iPhone? I don’t know, I don’t care. Does it make calls, keep my schedules in sync, organize all my emails, appointments and tasks? Yes.

Is it easy to type on? Yes.

Are all [...]

May

12

Web Analytics: To Google or Not to Google

Filed Under Google, Internet Marketing, Marketing | 3 Comments

The world loves Google, right? How can you complain with free Web search, free email, free blogs, free picture sharing, free video sharing and all the disk space in the world with which to do it? So when Google released Google Analytics, we all said, “why not?”

Apr

16

Time Warner’s Turbo Flop

Filed Under Marketing, Misc Internet, Nonsensicals, PPC | Leave a Comment

Time Warner really needs to get their collective heads on straight for their future. The defense of “those who use more should pay more” is fine until they pair it with the lie that their costs go up when their customers use more.

Using publicly accessible financial statements filed with the SEC and readily available on [...]

Feb

1

Micro-hoo! Can Microsoft really buy the world?

Filed Under Internet Marketing, Marketing, Search Engines | Leave a Comment

Apparently, Microsoft is frustrated with being #3 behind Google, offering today to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 Billion in cash and stocks. this bid came right after Yahoo! reported a weak fourth-quarter, saw its stock price close at its lowest in four years and announced a plan to cut 1,000 jobs.

If Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang finally [...]

Jan

24

Lego Finds New Niche with Console Gaming

Filed Under Marketing, games | 2 Comments

Marketing 101: How does one get more people to buy more of one’s product? Lego’s knows.

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game hit the scene in April 2005. It rode hot off the heels of the popularity of LucasArt’s movie release of Star Wars Episode III. LucasArts and company followed the game up with [...]

Jan

8

When a well placed ad is REALLY worth its price…

Filed Under Google, Marketing | Leave a Comment

A while back, a colleague passed me a link to an article about the math problems in Excel 2007. In and of itself, it seems quite amusing that Microsoft continues its self-incriminating trend of distributing broken software, seemingly not even trying to break the stereotype or the techie world jokes we make at their [...]

Jul

28

In Your Face Marketing Still Works

Filed Under Marketing | 2 Comments

Ok, so I’m usually the cynic on thowing a big sign saying “buy me, I’m cool.” If someone approaches me with a truly good product, I’m still the jerk and don’t bend easily.

So why is it then that on a late-night run to Wegmans for only milk and cat food, am I so tempted [...]