Selling When Shouting!?
Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1.0
After watching this video it is clear he hasn’t changed his attitude or technique of selling. :)
Fun NEWS
Video: Forget Web 2.0 - Visit Supermarket 2.0
Hilarious comedy making fun of all the typical buzzwords: tagging, feed, community, most-popular, etc. :)
[via technology.iii.co.uk]
Video: I’m A Right-Clicka, I’m An iBook Flippa
Viral rap-video of two guys representing Mac and PC. Check the lyrics.
Macs and PCs - no fight gets bigga, Surf Safari or browse in I.E., Better know what you rep(resent) - a Mac or PC!
Sexy: Get String From Object
Geeky but very appropriate job advertisement by Netherlands based company Virgil to recruit programmers. Apparently getStringFromObject() is a JAVA command but in this context it obviously means something different :)
Linux Detergent + Micro&Soft
Your Name On A Piece Of Toast
Over and over again funny amazing what kind of ideas companies have. This time it is all about toasts and raising money for charity organisations like World Vision, Save the Children or others you can help decide on.
It works the following way: you give YourNameOnToast some money and they write your desired name or web address on toast in order to put it on their website. Your toast will act as a link to your website and the more you pay for your toast, the higher it will appear in the listings.
Have you read our earlier posts about EggVertising or FieldVertising? :)
[via AdvertNews]
The Ad Generator
The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly.
“By remixing corporate slogans, I intend to show how the language of advertising is both deeply meaningful, in that it represents real cultural values and desires, and yet utterly meaningless in that these ideas have no relationship to the products being sold. In using the Flickr images, the piece explores the relationship between language and image, and how meaning is constructed by the juxtaposition of the two.”
The ad generator was created by Alexis Lloyd as a component of an MFA thesis project in the Design and Technology department at Parsons The New School for Design.
Arabic AdSense & Body Bags
Interesting, funny, business harming what I just saw on Brand Infection: Arabic Google AdSense listings. I wonder what Google’s algorithm has picked up to display this ad!?
Dilbert: What Sales People (Usually) Do
Web 2.0 Logo Creator
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Following the bubbly hype around web 2.0 brands, here’s some fun: the Web 2.0 Logo Creator lets you choose a fancy name, graphical effects and of course, a beta-tag.
By the way, if you ever need to come up with a cool name, here’s the perfect fit: a name generator.
Need marketing information, check the Buzzphrase Generator.
All information in one go at bullshitr.
From the website:
1. Devise bullshit-compliant products and services with the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator
2. Go to Brownpau’s Buzzphrase Generator for some excellent catchphrases with which to litter your site and marketing materials.
3. Name your new Web 2.0 site with Andrew’s Web 2.0 Company Name Generator.
4. Go get yourself a snazzy logo with the Web 2.0 Logo Generator.
5. Lather, rinse, repeat.
6. ???
7. Sell your company to Yahoo!
8. Profit!
Rrrring. Pick Up Mouse. Hello?
Funky, dumb, cool(?) gadget by Sony in cooperation with Skype: a mouse-phone, eh phone-mouse, hm.
The Sony VAIO VN-CX1 functions just like any optical mouse, but when you press a small button on the side it transforms into a VoIP phone. Unfortunately not wireless, not that cheap (83$) but maybe still handy.
Why have 2 devices when you can have 1?
Because I don’t want to be tied to my PC? :-)
Simpsons for real
Great work: the intro of the Simpsons. With real people in real cars.
