This is the latest and greatest in social networking/blogging/picture trading/auction/online marketplace/p2p/moblogging/brand awareness Web apps… [here]
…FREAKIN’ NOT!
Thanks for finding this Joi!
Month: April 2005
GMail Accounts! Come take these Buggers!
I have 50; I need None. Please take the freaking things!
Leave a frickin’ comment to get a bloody invites sent to your spam-o-licious mailbox!
Karol Jozef Wojtyla has Died
May he rest in Peace.
Despite my many differences with him in matters of the world, I always respected him for what his ultimate goal was: peace and brotherhood.
As a member of the great Polish Diaspora, I feel his loss very deeply.
David Sobotta: The View From Inside the Apple
David Sobotta, at his ApplePeels Blog is making some interesting comments on the control Apple exerts on its people and its message. [here]
The more I read about and from the Castle in Cupertino, the more I realize that the products are cool, but the brand management is so 20th Century.
Thanks to David for dropping by and letting me know about his blog.
Brand Management: Apple?
SeattleDuck is up again today with this post on brand management [here]
This goes directly to the heart of the somewhat loosely constructed (ok, when I read it this morning, it had the logical consistency of a drunken llama) rant on Apple and brand management.
I agree with Kevin:
The emotional power of your brand CANNOT be decided in a meeting or a planning doc. Those are wasted words. They may provide a goal and guidance how to get there, but true brand power has always resided with two parties: your customers and your employees that interact with them.
Apple, turn your employees and the fanatics loose! They kept you alive in the times of darkness; let them lead herald your brand from the ramparts.
Let them develop BRAND LUST for you.
Hey! A cool new book on a rocking new Programming Language!
Going off to order this now!
April Fool’s/Poisson d’Avril From Google!
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
All of that Google goodness, now with a refreshing citrus flavour!
How to get Gulped?
You can pick up your own supply of this “limited release” product simply by turning in a used Gulp Cap at your local grocery store. How to get a Gulp Cap? Well, if you know someone who’s already been “gulped,” they can give you one. And if you don’t know anyone who can give you one, don’t worry – that just means you aren’t cool. But very, very (very!) soon, you will be.
Wait, this BETA Program sounds familiar! Wonder where they got it from!
Sero-Tonic Water – Just try to stay down once your synapses get a blast of this bubbly concoction whose refreshing blend of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors is perfect for those moments when all your other beverage options just seem soooo depressing.
Sounds far better than my morning Wellbutrin/Paxil Grande Latte!
Ben Ramsey has 50 Google Gulp Caps to give away! [here]
Scoble may have the inside track to the Microsoft response…ask him; I dare you!
John Battelle critiques this year’s Google Poisson d’Avril. [here]
More here and here.