Next time you’re having a hard time coming up with a name for the next online failure, make to use the dot-o-mator to generate a Web 2.0 company name.
Category Archives: Lost n Found
Creativity & Time Management: The Maker’s Schedule
Wow.. Finally someone nailed the "Creativity" time management method, the reasons behind it and how to interface. Brilliant! Paul Graham writes: "One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more. There are two types of schedule, which I’ll call the manager’s schedule ...
Stealth Starbucks Sneaking Though Your Backdoor
Is Starbucks sneaking into your cup? Instead of working on their image, and creating sub-brands, they’re “dumping it and duping us”. Nice. Popular knowledge of this tactic seems likely to backfire very-very badly... Therefore I'm sharing this with everyone! Take a look at the Chicago Tribune Article In full disclosure... I drank a LOT ...
eMusic Audiobooks
Nifty system at eMusic.com, no DRM (Digital Rights Merde) on the files, nice selection. Clearly not as large as Audible.com but definitely worth a look, especially since there is no crazy protections on it that might prevent you from playing it on different places or devices.
WTF Moments in Advertising
Snapped this pic from a Wired magazine ad for Belvedere Vodka a few months ago - It made my marketing bone go "WTF??". So you grab the ideas based on the product and the audience and try to convey the feeling of the product in an image - Challenge #48: The image should evoke the feeling ...
Surreal Story by Nicky Sortheix
Nicky Sortheix -a friend- used to write these incredible surreal stories. Found one from 1993 in an old backup. Its every bit as good as I remember it. I love the creativity that inspires the mind while stretching the everyday probable into the ...
Personal Branding – Whole Foods
Old news... But still. Refining the Personal Branding pitch. Working on the Trust section. Bumped into a Reuters video on Whole Foods CEO impersonating someone to post disparaging remarks about Wild Oats, a competitor, over a period of several years. Worse than the Whole Foods CEO, David Rogers from the center of Brand Leadership ...
How did we get to Facebook?
How did we get here? I mean to Facebook. This is my timeline.. or something like that... 1993 - The FidoNet & BBS fiefdom 1995 - Geocities homepages 1998 - Blogs on Blogger.com 2000 - Dark ages of pop-ups 2002 - Online forums rulez 2005 - MySpace swallows Generation Y 2008 - Facebook assimilates Gen X, the Borg are next Did I forget ...
Infinite loop… loop… loop
Oh-oh… I think I set up a feedback loop. My blog gets imported into Facebook, and my facebook gets imported into my blog. The blog sucks up my Twitter updates every week and creates a post with them. The blog also tweets about every new blog post. The status updates from Facebook go straight to Twitter, which like I said get picked up by the blog, then imported into Facebook as a post, then sent back to the blog…
I’m pretty sure this is going to explode… Probably with this post. So I’ll go to bed right away and tomorrow morning I’ll discover the weak link.
SPIM
ICQ SPIMmers are getting very annoying… Come on comrade, I can’t read your SPIM! This one says the names of some multiplayer online games and WebMoney (a dark-alley payment system).
