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hot or not? apple.com

Sahadeva sounds off: “I’m not one to criticize, but apple’s website, both its store and its general experience, pales in comparison to their physical stores in terms of experience.”
Apple’s website surely lacks that ‘omph’ (or ‘YO’ if you’re a Randy Jackson kind of guy) of their physical store. But I remember going on [...]

Benjamins Everywhere

Back in June, we ran a series of ads for our time tracking service, Harvest. We came up with a few fun ads for the Deck, one of them being this with ‘ol Ben:

More recently we saw this little ad pop up over at the popular web2.0-absorbed-tech-lovefest known as TechCrunch:

Our Ben looks [...]

Adsense nonsense

Wow, I think I’ll go with the 25 billion songs site instead of these other two, despite all three ranking equally lame on account of their domain names. So these are the “highly relevant” Adsense ads I should be seeing in my Gmail, Google?

More NYU Ads

Another day on the subway, another day of NYU continuing education ads. This one I have not seen before: “The class is two hours, the post-class discussion - 3 cappuccinos.” I’m not sure what the marketing geniuses at NYU are trying to tell us. Post-class discussion? Is that a date? [...]

The missing course

On the F train this morning, I saw an NYU Continuing Education ad featuring a lady reading what seems to be NYU’s course catalog, with this sentence floating next to her head,
There are already five courses I want to take, and I’m only on page twenty.
Holy schnizel! Somebody get me a copy of that [...]

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites
The Google marketing/PR department has a good sense of humor as we can see from this frequently asked question:
Is Google Moon a result of your Copernicus initiative?
Glad you asked, and yes, the development of our lunar hosting and research center continues apace. We usually don’t announce future products in advance, [...]