Posted in Advertising, Business on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Cheescake Factory is celebrating its 30th anniversay on July 30th this year. To celebrate they are going to offer a slice of any of their cheescakes for $1.50 on the 30th. This is the price of a slice when they opened 30 years ago. It’s limited to one per person, but if you bring [...]
Posted in Advertising, Television on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Those of you who have DVR/Tivo probably have gotten used to skipping the commercials. Obviously, advertisers and TV stations don’t appreciate this, as alot of their revenue because of this.
Advertisers have found ways to include ads in new ways. Product placement comes to mind, where they put a pepsi can in the scene of your [...]
Posted in Advertising, Technology on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
sort of.
NASA is launching a new mission to the moon late this year. They will be sending a satellite to orbit the moon. In order to promote the new launch they are going to send a memory chip into orbit with the names of all the people who enter their name into the form here.
Not [...]
Posted in Advertising, Humor on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Hilarious. Sorry for the short posts lately.
Posted in Advertising, Fitness and Health, Humor, Law, Sports on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ll have to try this once I get into actual practice:
Posted in Advertising, Business, Relationships and Sex on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two different studies discuss what makes men and women more likely to purchase things. Stores know this, and use it to influence their shoppers.
What makes men purchase things might not surprise you, but for women the primer surprised me.
First the guys:
The study showed that when heterosexual men are exposed to positive emotional stimuli — in [...]
Posted in Advertising, Humor, Internet, Relationships and Sex, Society, Technology on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite true boredom hobbies is checking out the missed connections section on Craigslist. For those of you who don’t know, Craigslist is an online classifieds system. They have all the traditional sections like things for sale, job posting, etc. They also have personals.
Some of the most hilarious ads are found in the [...]
Posted in Advertising, Entertainment, Humor on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Guinness has a cool promotion going on where they are trying to convince Congress to make St. Patrick’s Day a federal holiday, where you would get the day off, kids would be out of school, etc.
You can sign the petition online here.
Posted in Advertising, Business on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Really neat article at neatorama (given credit to its name) about the evolution of logos at tech companies over the years. Go see the article for analysis, but I just like seeing the changes.
Apple
IBM
To see more follow the link
Posted in Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Movies, Technology on February 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The HD-DVD v. Blu-Ray format war is almost over. Blu-ray signed 80% of major movie studios to exclusive deals, so soon the choice will be made.
Why did Blu-ray win? Just like the Betamax v. VHS war of years past, the technology was not the driving factor. Also, strangely, the more competitively priced product lost. So, [...]
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