In a brilliant act of confronting Apple with its own words (and then making them eat those words) a YouTube user with the screen name “KeeptheiPhoneFree” created a video mashup of all the third-party iPhone software that was effectively rendered useless when Apple released the firmware update 1.1.1. The real act of brilliance was in […]
My buddy (and fellow Marketing Geek) Jim Kukral wrote an excellent add-on piece to Steve Rubel’s insight into the newly realized position of “Geek Marketer” in a recent AdAge column. Geek Marketer is as good a title as any (although I tend to prefer my long-running “Idea Guy” moniker.) Jim agrees that the Marketing Geek […]
I accepted an invite to a new social networking site because it came from Hugh MacLeod — turns out it was all a scam (to which he fell victim himself) and now I’ve helped perpetrate the problem. If you just received an invite from me to join Quechup — delete it. It wasn’t from me. […]
NOT an impressive first showing for the new Thursday night series by Simon Cowell. Pretty disappointing. Part of the draw for early episodes of American Idol is watching the dreck and freaks of talentless contestants try to make their way through the judging process and get roasted back into reality by Simon and Company. […]
Bad marketing choices will cook this bird’s goose. I received a telemarketing call this morning from a company called The Dove Foundation. They wanted to speak with the lady of the house (there isn’t one), then launched into an explanation about how they would call back to discuss better entertainment choices for children (there are […]