Advertising in the corporate world has largely been spit into "family safe brands" and the risqué. The family safe contingent peddles their good citizen status by association with environmental and child safety.  Your beer companies, energy drinks etc who tend towards the risqué...

Browsing through the web I found an ad for a search appliance from Microsoft.  This I think has some potential.  Microsoft as a company has always excelled at enterprise engagement - making software for big business. One of the chief problems in the enterprise world as is communication: how...

While having a conversation with one of my googler pals - I noticed that gmail still bears the "beta" moniker.  WTF Google.  <rant> Gmail was released in March of 2004 - meaning it's been in Beta for FOUR YEARS NOW - little lengthy UAT (User Acceptance Testing - what public...

In our quest for hearts and minds, Microsoft has traditionally been VERY successful at minds (making the intellectual value proposition), but not so successful with the hearts part (emotion - making you feel for our products).  However, I just saw the digital lifestyle presentation (on youtube ...

A recent comment on my Women + Tech Post from the Geek Girl Blogs site caught my eye.  Never having heard of it - I went to take a look.  VERY cool idea = aggregate the blogs of female developers from around the world.  Excellent :) I know so many talented women in technology my mind is...

The Zune team is marketing a art consumption device by using art? o rly? ya rly! no wai! <insert owl pictures here> Check it out: Zune - Intergalactic Swap Meet Uploaded by firat

It's kinda scary how much thought and time is invested in wringing the wallets and buying the minds of 20somethings these days: http://adage.com/cmostrategy/article?article_id=122041 One of the Implications raied by this article got me thinking: "Facebook is of the people, by the people,...