Saturday Night Live had a sketch this week that takes it to the press for complaining about their First World Problems when it comes to the new iPhone 5. Among the sarcasm and exaggerated problems, there is probably some legitimacy to what SNL points out. Entitlement and forgetting to look at the world around you might show a different world than one where complaining about … [Read more...]
Microsoft previews Windows 8 ad campaign
Windows 8 general availability is coming October 26th. To promote it, Microsoft is giving it an ad campaign all of its own. You can preview it with the 30 second video embedded after the jump. … [Read more...]
Facebook’s first ad and its parodies
Facebook recently crossed the 1 billion user threshold. That puts their membership at 1/7th of the world's population. Despite the quantity of members, the company has not been doing so well since going public (though they're still doing better than Zynga in the stock market). Last week, Facebook put out a video to promote the company. It doesn't focus a whole lot on selling … [Read more...]
Symantec throws server off a building in high availability demo
To demo their high availability product for Linux servers, Symantec had two servers hooked up, operational, and using their service. They then threw the primary datacenter server off the top of the building to smash into the sidewalk below. According to the guy giving the thumbs up symbol, their services were still up even though they had just lost a datacenter. … [Read more...]
Don’t sell your soul cheap with Facebook Apps
I was recently recommended a promotion from Amazon and Unilever for a $2 MP3 credit. I don't buy a whole lot of music and these small promotions are great because they tend cover a song or two on the rare occasion that I have a song in mind to buy. This promotion is easy enough. You just answer a question about what you would include in a care package. However, after you answer … [Read more...]