Articles in the Media Category
Posted in Advertising, comics, Design, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, TV on 17 February 2008
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Well, the show doesn’t officially open until tomorrow. Here’s an interesting quote, “Disney’s “Cars,” which, despite no new film or TV content, generated $2 billion in retail sales in 2007 and has become a major priority for Disney that it plans to support with additional content in the future.” HUMM … “The biggest trend industrywide […]
Posted in Computing, Internet, Media, Politics, Science, TV on 8 February 2008
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This is the funniest drawing I’ve ever seen in the WSJ … okay, not exactly much of a competition but still … Some conspiracy theorists have ideas why India & parts of the Middle East have lost most of their internet connection as several underseas cables have been severed. It could be sharks with lasers […]
Posted in Advertising, Computing, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Media on 5 February 2008
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Why MS buying Yahoo will not change anything. INTERNET SEARCH is the purest form of customer service & “sales” EVER. There are virtually zero barriers to entry (there are over 300 by our count). Users/customers can switch in the time it takes to type and bookmark a new url. So, if you can’t deliver results […]
Posted in Advertising, Blogroll, Computing, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Toys on 25 January 2008
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We are getting ready to move! While we had a great time here at WordPress, it was starting to get a little cramped and simple things like posting charts was complicated so we’re moving to … TakeFiveADay.com or if you prefer, Take5ADay.com Don’t worry, we’re packing ALL the posts and even ALL your comments so […]
Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail, Video on 15 January 2008
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Not actually blogging from here since we’re only #72,000 on Technorati 🙂 … there are only about 15 seats … maybe next year. Other than the keynote, there’s not much to see that’s new – I don’t think Adobe is even here. The nicest booth by far is Belkin’s … If this were in Venice, […]
Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Internet, Media, TV on 26 December 2007
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In case you missed it – cute, funny, nicely done! (click on screen shot – Apple.com)
Posted in Advertising, Apple, Computing, Design, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Music, Retail on 2 December 2007
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To some, Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T blabbing that a 3G iPhone is coming is a slip of the tongue, to some, it’s a well planned metaphoric stab at Steve Jobs and to others, it’s old news. The bottom line is it’s a combination of all three but the consequences are very mimimal. Why? Because […]
Posted in Gadgets, Media, Retail, Toys, TV, Video, Video Games on 22 November 2007
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Unfortunately, it looks like we are headed into the 2nd holiday season with Wii’s not readily available. There is nary a consumer electronics store you can go into that doesn’t have a giant pile of PS3’s & XBoxes – both fine systems but who’s got that much time these days – the Nintendo Wii is […]
Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail, Toys on 14 November 2007
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UPGRADE SOME COMPONENTS FIRST You will need to make sure your iPhone is updated to 1.1.2 and iTunes 7.5 & maybe even Quicktime 7.3. Of course, your iPhone upgrade is best handled by clicking on UPDATE after you dock your iPhone and turn on iTunes 7.5. This is a pretty big upgrade including a firmware […]
Posted in Advertising, Apple, Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Retail, TV on 12 November 2007
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NBC decided to dump iTunes because they wanted to go down their own path. Why offer consumers, viewers and customer convenience when consumers will do ‘whatever we at NBC say?’ NBC – we’re so good – people should jump through flaming hoops to watch us! iTunes was oh so simple and boring. Sure, ONE CLICK […]