Steampunk Chic
Thursday November 01st 2007, 7:40 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology, Random Musings

Tired of high tech designs that look hopelessly dated in just a few years? Longing for a more Victorian sensibility? You may need to get up to speed with steampunk, a design movement whose participants hack new tech devices (and more) into steam-era exteriors. The photo is ...

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Verizon XV6800 - They Couldn’t Hear Me, or Anyone Else
Friday October 26th 2007, 9:25 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

Verizon finally managed to push me into the arms of the competition. I was a fairly happy voice subscriber. I tested an XV6700 way back in March, and liked it. I decided to hold off, though, since the release of the XV6800 (pictured months earlier in various ...

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AT&T Tilt: Why AT&T Isn’t Apple
Friday October 05th 2007, 8:59 pm
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

Apple’s not perfect - I just chronicled a couple of their miscues in Apple iPhone: Turning Off Fans. Despite that, Apple looks like a PR and branding genius compared to AT&T. Compare the introduction of Apple’s iPhone to the AT&T Tilt. Apple announced a launch date with ...

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Apple iPhone - Turning Off Fans
Tuesday October 02nd 2007, 7:45 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

No company in modern corporate history has developed a more cultlike, devoted customer base than Apple. I’ve often cited them as an example of what other firms strive for, or should strive for, in bonding with their customers. Now, Apple seems intent on turning the iPhone, which began ...

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Crowdsourcing Corporate Identity
Wednesday September 05th 2007, 8:12 am
Filed under: Community Building, Marketing & PR, Web 2.0, Web Design

The concept of crowdsourcing - letting a bunch your users create your product, or at least enhance it - is a staple of Web 2.0. Now, we see that European social networking site Mister Wong is crowdsourcing their corporate identity by holding a logo design contest. The contest ...

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PR Disasters Lurk in Web 2.0 Chicanery
Thursday August 23rd 2007, 10:23 am
Filed under: Community Building, Marketing & PR, Web 2.0, Internet

The good news is that companies, even big ones, are waking up to the power of online communities, and that they are taking steps like starting their own communities for discussion, ratings, reviews, and social networking as well as participating at other sites. The bad news is that sometimes ...

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Google Phone: New Ad Platform
Thursday August 02nd 2007, 7:40 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

The tech world is buzzing with rumors about a Google phone. The Wall Street Journal ran an article today, quoted at SearchEngineLand, that provides some details of the development process. Apparently, Google is taking a two-pronged approach: developing their own handset, but at the same time opening up ...

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Google Helps Burglars Crack Safe
Tuesday July 10th 2007, 12:15 pm
Filed under: Search Engine Marketing, Marketing & PR

Even stupid criminals know how to use Google, according to a report from Colorado Springs: First, the burglars, dressed in black and with their faces covered, tried to disable a security camera by repeatedly spraying it with WD-40, only to have the lubricant clean the lens, police detective Chuck Ackerman said. ...

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Page Views Don’t Count - It’s Official
Tuesday July 10th 2007, 8:02 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Internet

The pageview is officially on its way out the door as a web site performance metric - Nielsen is dropping page view measurement in its Web traffic reporting. Instead, they will report the time visitors spend at sites. (more…)


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XV6800: Verizon Misses Opportunity
Monday July 09th 2007, 3:36 pm
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

Way back in March, I evaluated an XV6700 smart phone from Verizon. I liked it almost enough to keep it - I liked its screen better than its pancake-style competitors, I was starting to get used to the slideout keyboard, and I was able to get its “unsupported” laptop ...

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