Marketing
Randy Pausch got a role in upcoming Star Trek movie
A few months ago, I (along with most of the rest of the blogosphere) was moved by Randy Pausch’s last lecture at Carneige Mellon. Pausch, you may recall, has a terminal diagnosis from an aggressive cancer, and has just a few months left.
Not surprisingly, many people were moved by his lecture. Here’s the transcript, it’s […]
Here’s to the crazy ones
I don’t have an iPhone – I must be getting older (come to think of it, I do turn 36 later this month which is starting to sound decidedly un-young), but it just doesn’t hold much fascination for me. Sure it’s an elegant piece of equipment, but I just need my preferred phone/device to make […]
Tracking Twitter
Twitter’s new track feature is really remarkable. Back in March, I asked (on Twitter, naturally):
So… if I wanted to monitor the twitter public timeline for mentions of “FeedBurner”, how would I go about doing that?
I ended up answering my own question, and it […]
Residence Inn Balance
I saw a shorter version of this ad at CNN.com and had to find it on Youtube so I could share it:
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
VW Phaeton ad
Few people know that Volkswagen has a super-luxury sedan called the Phaeton (in the US, it’s no longer sold, and only a few thousand are on the road here). Its price tag was north of $75,000, and most US buyers think of VW as the Jetta/bug/Cabrio company, not an Audi A-8 competitor. I saw one […]
Flagpole Sitta
This may be the best recruiting video ever made. Tell me you wouldn’t kill to work here (btw, it’s Connected Ventures if you’re wondering) after watching this:
Memo to Intuit PR
Listening to this piece on NPR yesterday, I had one reaction to Intuit’s spokesperson’s claims that Intuit’s problem of handling tax filings on the evening of 4/17 was the fault, in the words of Harry Pforzheimer, of “late” filers and “procrastinators”.
Hey, Intuit: here’s a few other words I’d use: “customers” and “on time”. As in, […]
Conference spam
Bruce Allen wrote about the proliferation of conference spam at this year’s Legal Marketing Association confernece; I noticed the same thing ahead of this year’s TechShow. Bruce writes:
If the LMA had asked me (called opt-in folks) I would have been happy to receive information from vendors with products or services specific to my current needs… […]
Think Different
While everyone’s getting all excited about the pro-Obama remake of Apple’s 1984 ad, I thought I’d share another Apple ad, which I think is the absolute best one minute of video I’ve ever seen:
I can still remember the first time I saw the ad, and every time I see it still provokes the same visceral, […]
Lenovo Rides the Cluetrain
In the Cluetrain Manifesto, David and Chris and Doc wrote that “markets are conversations”. Much has been made of the importance of listening to your customers, and engaging them rather than talking at them. Remarkably, even when the perils of ignoring customer feedback have been made abundantly clear, companies that go the distance in this […]
