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advertising
Magazine Covers Now Smarter Than Magazine Ethics
Magazine ad revenues are tanking, and many magazines are now selling ads on their covers, despite the fact that it's "not allowed." Seems like a clear-cut case of economics trumping ethics. But what happens when the cover ads are magic?? More »
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technology
Obama's Egypt Speech to be Broadcast Worldwide Via Text Message
At approximately 6AM Eastern time this morning, Obama will deliver his speech in Cairo. The White House will be text messaging the the speech in multiple languages to people around the world. [Mashable]
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Comment by Almostbanned: Wait, what? I can't be the only person who thinks this is idiotic. 4 Responses | Other threads
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media
New York Times Hiring 'Social Media Editor' To...Do Something
The New York Times is charging face-first into the digital age! They're appointing a "Social Media Editor." It's Jennifer Preston, former editor of the recently-folded Regional Sections! Could this be the beginning of the end of the Golden Age of NYT Twittery? [UPDATED below]: More »
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Comment by daveyjonesisdead: If no one can read your twitters, are you a social media editor? 1 Responses | Other threads
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technology
Text Messaging Destroying the Thumbs of America's Youth says New York Times
Teenagers! They're out there, genuflecting at the altar of the Jonas Brothers and finger-banging in the backs of buses on the way to field trips and doing whatever else teenagers do these days. But did you know that text messaging is completely destroying all hope for their future? More »
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Comment by badasscat: How long before we just start masturbating in public and slinging our feces all over the place like crazed mongrels?! How... 5 Responses | Other threads
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any means necessary
Ben Affleck Unwittingly Paparazzi'd By Spy Pen
Ben Affleck was nice enough to give a stranger his autograph in some random store, unaware that he was being secretly filmed with a spy pen. Worse still, Affleck complimented the pen! I mean, I don't endorse celebrity stalking in any way, but this seems especially cheap. -
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Newspaper Twitterers Will Ruin Everything!
If all you newspaper reporters don't stop Twittering every goddamn thing you see, Bill Keller is seriously going to lose his shit. Can you put down the iPhone so we can have a meeting here? More »
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iphone
Stupid Cokehead Toys
Have you always wished you had an iPhone app that made it look like you were sniffing coke off your phone? Now you have one. Happy Friday, you broke bastard. [The iSnort]
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Comment by Nic Fit: The Metro Card was the best gift to cokeheads ever. 5 Responses | Other threads
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from the archives
Bill O'Reilly and Co. Investigate the Nintendo Craze
In 1988, a young Bill O'Reilly and his Inside Edition team tried to answer the question: "What the hey is this 'Mario Brothers' craze sweeping the nation?" They failed, of course. Entertainingly! More »
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Comment by saythatscool: @3:13 Daniel Faraday had a mullet? I'm lost. 5 Responses | Other threads
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trendwatch
Everybody's Hating Voicemail Now!
Voicemail is totally dead. It takes too much listening. Is this just some fancy notion, or the truth? Either way, it's a New York Times trend story, blammo! More »
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: I haven't listened to a voicemail since about 2002. I just call whoever it is back and say "what... 10 Responses | Other threads
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media
The iPhone Now Ready to Save The News Business
Some 'What Will Become of Newspapers?' thinkers believe that the iTunes model is the future of the news business. Well, with one software upgrade, paid news is now an iPhone app! Will this matter? More »
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Comment by fuzzywhat: They should focus on making it work really well and fast, so they can find a larger audience and then... 4 Responses | Other threads
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video games
'Resident Evil' Forces Reluctant Nation to Address Zombie Racism
"Is it racist for white people to shoot black zombies?" asks the prestigious Wall Street Journal. It's a touchy issue, and we all have our opinions. But are those opinions stupid? More »
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Comment by pattycakes: and we wonder what would possess a young child to pick up a real gun and kill real people when... 10 Responses | Other threads
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wtf
Dude Turns to Twitter As Guy Breaks In His House
Well, our array of omnipresent blinking gadgets has officially rendered us totally incapable of normal human action. The proof: David Prager, whose reaction to having his home broken into was to Twitter about it: More »
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Comment by WindowSeat: # smelly intruder is stabbing me repeatedly should I call ambulance? will set up poll on my blog 5 Responses | Other threads
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advertising
The Future Was Grander in 1993
The practice of predicting the future in ads has always been dicey. But in 1993, AT&T got damn near everything right! Present-day dreamers Microsoft would kill for this record of adverfuturism accuracy: More »
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Comment by Kid Twist: Never mind this stuff: The year 2000 came and went and I'm still waiting for my flying car. 8 Responses | Other threads
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nypd
YouTube is Destroying Good Old-Fashioned Police Misconduct
Thanks to the internet, dirty New York cops can no longer go around busting up bars and robbing them, because the surveillance footage will wind up on YouTube, then in the tabloids, and finally here: More »
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Comment by bytememehard: They could have at least added a sound track to make this 10 minute video marginally watchable. 4 Responses | Other threads
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remixes
Awful Product With Awful Ad Makes Awful Music
Earlier we showed you the horrifying, adult Mouseketeer-like "commercial" for Microsoft Songsmith (do not click that) that could drive the gentlest among us to murder. But at least it's inspiring a YouTube artistic explosion. More »
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Comment by mmstk101: The Roxanne music is amazing(ly bad). Like, actually laugh out loud bad. 8 Responses | Other threads
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whiners
Technology's White House of Horrors
Staffers plucked from Obama's campaign operation, used to cutting-edge technology, are finding the White House to be a Mac-free technological museum. In other words, they're learning to work like the rest of America! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by thedecider: Here's a suggestion for the Obamans: Stop whining about the tools taxpayers have paid for, and get to work learning... 18 Responses | Other threads
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advertising
Microsoft Ad and Product Advertised Could Both Conceivably Make You Want to Kill Your Family
If you thought Microsoft's Seinfeld ads were bad, then you really don't want to see this new four-minute Microsoft "Songsmith" pseudoinfomercial. Because it is a descent into child karaoke hell, is why. Very bad. More »
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Comment by Pope John Peeps II: Two and a half second and I'm out. Someone should get burned at the stake for this. 7 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
David Karp
This kid, David Karp, the Tumblr founder—he's now a confirmed (notional) multimillionaire! That means it's time for a field guide, in case you need to hit him up for money soon. Which you will. More »
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Comment by BadUncle: He does have pretty eyes, which I hope to wear around my neck on a chain of keepsakes after the... 6 Responses | Other threads
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tivo
Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
The nifty technology of TiVo is killing the advertisers that subsidize free television, which is why TiVos are so widely used by greedy socialists such as yourself. The friendly Domino's Pizza corporation, however, has figured out a way to work with TiVo to both enrich themselves and serve you, the lazy American consumer. Aren't you tired of having to push buttons on a telephone to summon a pizza to your doorstep? More »
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Comment by ginger rant: Actually, Dominos apparently gives scads of money to anti-choice organizations, so we shouldn't be ordering our pizza from them any... 12 Responses | Other threads
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cnn
Anderson Cooper Blooper Ruins CNN's Magic Invisibility Technology
Boy, CNN's election-night magic hologram technology was a hit! And all for the low, low price of $300,000 to $400,000. Money is no object in these times of plenty! Today, CNN boy wonder Anderson Cooper learns how the magic was made—and then is treated to the amazing sight of his colleague Erica Hill disappearing with a snap of her fingers! Too bad CNN moved AC's laptop in the jump cut, or it would have really looked convincing. Click to watch the poor trickery of cable news in action.
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Comment by Aaron Altman: In his spare time, Anderson also likes simulation 02-500. With pain sticks. 6 Responses | Other threads
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flexible displays
Our Flexible Future
One of the newspaper industry's great hopes for the last several years has been that one day, technology geniuses would develop a flexible, paper-like display screen that people could roll up and put in their pockets. Then newspapers could beam their content to your magic screen daily and, voila, print survives, in a way! Well now Wired says that such flexible displays could be a mere two years away, thanks to a generous research investment from the US Army. And by then the Army Times will be the last newspaper left, so everybody wins! [Wired]
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Comment by Sproing: I look forward to the publication of A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. 1 Responses | Other threads
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advertising
Microsoft's New $300 Million Strategy: Random YouTube People
Everyone is basically in agreement that the advertising market next year is going to suck—even your precious internet ads! So I guess it's appropriate that Microsoft's $300 million ad campaign, which started out with such an ineffective burst of star power, has now been reduced to using videos submitted by you, the idiot consumers. This is all part of a grand strategy by a brilliant ad agency and not at all a harbinger of Microsoft getting its ass handed to it on a national stage, okay? More »
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Comment by Ha Ha Sound: Actually, the woman who says "I'm a PC and I don't like tweed" in the TV commercial is kind of... 2 Responses | Other threads
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miley cyrus
'Somebody Ended Up Ratting Me Out': Miley's Naughty-Photo Hacker Speaks
In a sneak attack befitting the kind of malcontent who would dare despoil America's slutty sweetheart, FBI agents this week apprehended the man they say hacked into Miley Cyrus's e-mail account and posted scandalously skin-baring, kiss-blowing, shirt-gnawing private photographs. The feds brought a search warrant to the Murfreesboro, Tenn., home of Josh Holly, 19, who watched them cart away three computers and a cell phone — thus forcing the admitted hacker also known as TrainReq to find alternate means of spilling his virtually unabridged story to Wired.com. And are we ever glad he did. More » -
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Outrage: Apple Continues To Mock Microsoft!
Oooh, ad war escalation! You remember how Microsoft got so mad about Apple's ads that they had to run out and spend $300 million on a fancy ad campaign consisting of Mac lovers declaring their love for PCs, as well as celebrities doing things seemingly unrelated to computers. Meanwhile Apple has just been sitting back chuckling, and now they've released a new ad making fun of Microsoft's ad spending. Which is too insidery, but very entertaining to people forced to write about ad campaigns. Apple's only problem: the people who buy PCs, such as myself, don't even know what this "Vista" thing is. (If we knew about computer things we would have bought a better one!). I imagine that Microsoft grows ever more apoplectic, though. Full ad below: More »
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Comment by Aaron Altman: @Hamilton Nolan: When it works, Vista is a good operating system, but really, XP worked just fine. If all... 6 Responses | Other threads
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advertising
Ads Are The New Subway Graffiti
Just this week, I saw an NYC subway train plastered with ads on the outside of the cars for the first time, up close. And you know what? It's not that bad! Kind of new and exciting and eye-catching, like graffiti used to be, except less so. That sentiment will wear off within a week or so, and the ads will recede into the category of tiring visual assaults on our collective serenity. Too bad, because more and more and more are on the way, everywhere!: More »
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Comment by bringmemyTofu: If they were really smart, they would forego all of this crap, and just sell the naming rights to the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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marketing
Your Cell Phone Can Now Snitch On You To Faceless Corporations
Although companies can measure how many TV commercials, radio commercials, and internet ads you're exposed to, it's just not enough. What about snatches of radio ads overheard through the windows of passing cars—do they affect your shampoo-buying habits? When you were at the gym and walked briskly past a television showing a "Synecdoche, New York" preview—did you write any Philip Seymour Hoffman fan fiction in the following six months? These details are important. Luckily one firm has figured out how to make your cell phone snitch on you to the marketing Matrix: More »
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Comment by Unfun: Will it hear me crying myself to sleep every night? Will it care? 6 Responses | Other threads
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google
Maybe Google Will Advertise Everywhere Now
Google is, like, everywhere. It tells you how to find everything. It runs everything on the internet. Happily for human sanity, Google maintains its status as massive dark lord of information without running a huge amount of normal consumer advertising, or plastering its logo over every bus stop and baseball stadium. Because the company is smart enough to know that if it advertised at a level proportional to its scale, everyone would get sick of it. But maybe Google's changing its mind! More »
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Comment by BalknChain: As long as they hire the old guy from the commercial that says "Great googly moogly" after writing Chefs on... 2 Responses | Other threads
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new york times
A New Way For Times Reporters To Track Their Own Status
The New York Times launched its "social networking" feature TimesPeople months ago for no particular reason, and with no particular effect. Back then even top editor Bill Keller wasn't using it. But now he is! You know what this means, don't you? It's one more way for suckup Times reporters to track who the boss is favoring. Almost as good as looking at the front page! So what is Keller recommending? Let's see: More »
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Comment by thenicechubbygirlintheoffice: You know, big o'corporate types have been doing this for awhile. Check it out: [community20.blogspot.com] more » | Other threads
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technology
Metallica's New Album: Too Loud; iPod's Fault
Everyone knows that audio quality has gone down the tubes since people stopped listening to vinyl records. Fans are hating the metal band's new album, reports the WSJ. They're "complaining that 'Death Magnetic' has a thin, brittle sound that's the result of the band's attempts in the studio to make it as loud as possible." See, everyone's trying to make their music sound louder so that it sounds better on iPods. The result is that details get erased and it all sounds like crap. More »
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By SheilaComment by Truculent: Jeebus, someone is still clinging on to the "loudness" thing? In the 90's all the metal radio stations used to... 3 Responses | Other threads
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facebook
High School Reunion Knockout Punch Highlights Imaginary Danger Of The Internet
Once again, the internet is causing humanity to be beaten up. A high school (on Long Island, strangely enough) organized its five-year reunion using dangerous internet site Facebook. But when Adam Lynn, a derivative trader (ha) from Hoboken (ha) arrived at the bar where it was being held, he was attacked by two of his fellow classmates! The dispute was traced back to "a hotly contested gym-class handball game during their junior year." When will the internet stop being so dangerous that the press has to issue ominous warnings whenever anything vaguely internet-related happens? More »
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Comment by Weegee's bored: Fifth year high school reunion? Fifth? At age 22 people want to hang with their old high school mates? Why... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Gospelr
The Christian Twitter Is Here
Do you like microblogging, but always found Twitter to be too full of godless heathens? Well rejoice, because Gospelr is here! It's the Christian version of Twitter, and do we need to explain anything further? Praise god no. The founder says he hopes it will be "effectual in regards to sharing the Gospel," but then admits "I have no idea how Gospelr might eventually be used." Hopefully not by Julia Allison! Let's take a look at the holy activity going on at Gospelr right now: More »
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pmc
Patrick McMullan Sweats Out His iPhone Magazine
PMc is here! (Pause for applause). That, of course, is the name of the new iPhone-only magazine founded by nightlife photographer and long-aspiring celebrity Patrick McMullan. For only 99 cents on iTunes, you can now have a piece of this revolutionary bit of media progress. And McMullan himself is absolutely sweating to bring the latest in celebrity ruffle-wearing to his (dozens of?) readers: More » -
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Facebook Proves People Are All Alike (Dumb)
Islam people: they're just like us! They go on Facebook and start groups and then spend hours and hours arguing with each other over bullshit. Except they're arguing about, like, god, instead of The Hills or whatever. You thought that the battle for Arab hearts and minds was playing out in the slums of Iraq? No, it's all about some upper middle class grad student nerd in Egypt talking shit online! More »
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Comment by misssgolightly: Sometimes, just for fun, I search "Sarah Palin" on facebook. There are all sorts of glorious groups, like "Barack O-BOMB-A... 1 Responses | Other threads
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coffee
Will Broke Americans Turn To Cheap Coffee?
Could the current US economic meltdown destroy expensive coffee shops, as penniless consumers abandon Starbucks in order to huddle in unheated apartments brewing cheap coffee filtered through a sock? Folgers sure hopes so! The middlebrow coffee roaster is about to debut a big new ad campaign, hoping that now that your retirement fund has evaporated, you'll be interested in a lower-cost coffee experience. And hold onto your threadbare hats, newly poor caffeine addicts: Folgers has just made the "biggest innovation since the launch of decaf": More »
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microsoft
Microsoft: Seinfeld Out, Deepak Chopra In
Microsoft is dropping Jerry Seinfeld's nonsensical ass from its massive ad campaign, which they say was, you know, always the plan! The company is actually dubbing the new ads in its $300 million campaign, debuting tonight, "phase two." (Couldn't think of anything slightly less evocative of the Death Star?) The company line is that the "Seinfeld and Bill Gates do the robot" ads were just teasers, and now the real informative spots start. But fuck that; the new ads sound easily just as weird: More » -
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Disaster Ahead For Heavy.com?
Funny video site Heavy.com managed to make it through the tech boom and bust intact. But the site—and its venture capital investors—may have overestimated how popular it could actually get. We hear that Heavy's VP of marketing has left the company, taking two of his top salesmen with him on the way out. His departing words: "Rome is burning." More »
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google
The Google Armada Is Coming
"Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own 'computer navy'," reads the day's most terrifying first sentence of a news story. Christ Jesus in holy Heaven, a computer navy? Is this the part when mankind finally goes up against the massive computer armies run amok? Don't worry: you have nothing to fear except a massive flotilla of untouchable Google supercomputers not accountable to any nation on earth: More »
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Comment by psych101: Also I love all the British-isms of this article. Football pitches, cenTRES. Google's world domination will be classy, with tea... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Twitter
Tweeting Towards Gomorrah
Did you know that any taxi driver in any city on earth is able to sum up the mood of his entire nation on cue with a single pithy yet heartfelt quote? It's lucky, since every foreign correspondent in the world (especially Thomas Friedman) bases his or her understanding of a country on what a taxi driver says. It's the classic easy quote. But now that old misguided trope may be dying! It's being overtaken by something even worse: the Twitter "hypergrapevine." Just what journalism needs, more lazy quote-whoring from a voluble unrepresentative minority! More »
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Comment by friendslikeJimRome: The people who write for "Time" magazine always get those cab drivers, the ones who in one pithy remark sum... 3 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Spit Parties: The Trend Piece That Will Destroy The World
Guess what you're doing about six-to-10 weeks from now? Going to a "spit party!" Thanks to some dynamite PR and one very fancy guest list, plucky young tech firm 23andMe has made DNA testing parties the hottest new trend around. And they're bringing it to the masses—via media moguls at Fashion Week parties, that is. Don't worry, it will eventually trickle down to the rest of us. We say plucky, of course, because the firm was co-founded by the wife of Google oligarch Sergey Brin, and has received "token funding" from Harvey Weinstein and Wendi Murdoch, wife of Rupert, and is having its coming out party this week in the New Yorker and the Times. It's the Little Startup That Could! More »
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microsoft
Bill Gates' $300 Million Gamble: Doing The Robot
Boy, $300 million sure buys a lot of storytelling. Microsoft has released two more 90-second ads starring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, the Laurel and Hardy of... Microsoft ads. More than the first, totally mystifying "shoe store" ad, these new spots flesh out the plan: Bill Gates as lovable icon. He's like Joe Isuzu with a bad haircut! He does the robot! We're still skeptical, but it's progress. You can watch the two official ads here, but we like this version even more: all the footage of the two ads (and some extra that was edited out) in one four-and-a-half-minute long unfolding storyline. Trippy: More »
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Comment by ADismalScience: Maybe this is my naive approach to advertising - admittedly, I don't know my head from my ass marketing-wise -... 8 Responses | Other threads
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