Apr 23, 2009
Sorry, but I'm with someone new, and it's better (photo by Michael Sarver)
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer IE 8 showing up now is like an unfaithful ex-partner showing up a long time after you’ve found someone better looking and less likely to break your heart.
Wrote this post after Amnesia Razorfish asked me to write about IE8, for Microsoft’s http://microsoft.com.au/ie8debate. You...
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Internet Explorer 8: the unfaithful ex-girlfriend
Sep 8, 2008
Tweak o’ the knob to Gavin Heaton for locating Chris Schaumann’s recent presentation on digital brand advertising in the Asia Pacific region (see the presentation below.) Only 5% of advertising budgets in the region are spent online so it’s no wonder that Schaumann finds 65% of all marketing spend in 2007 had no effect on consumer behaviour.
For me, the numbers that really struck me were...
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Mobile ads are working for brand advertisers
Apr 1, 2008
Email Australia – creating more junk Hotmail accounts
Originally uploaded by thatjonesboy
Initially I assumed the Powerhouse Museum’s plan to print out and archive hundreds of the ‘best’ emails from around Australia was just an April Fool’s joke.
After all, it’s never easy to sort the real news stories from the pranks on April 1st. Journalists have too little...
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Your tax dollars at work: Powerhouse Museum promoting Hotmail
Feb 2, 2008
Microsoft swallowing Yahoo! is either going to be fast and ugly, or slow and ineffective. And I’m being positive! Scott is even less hopeful.Good friend Goonker said it best. Referring to Steve Ballmer’s quote that he feels “putting these things (Microsoft and Yahoo!) together with a great integration should be quite an accelerant to progress.” Goonker says, “accelerant as...
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Can the snake swallow the elephant?
Feb 2, 2008
Microsoft swallowing Yahoo! is either going to be fast and ugly, or slow and ineffective.
Good friend Goonker said it best. Referring to Steve Ballmer’s quote that he feels “putting these things (Microsoft and Yahoo!) together with a great integration should be quite an accelerant to progress.” Goonker says, “accelerant as in: flame out quickly?”
I appreciate that Microsoft...
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MSFT & YHOO: can the snake swallow the elephant?
