Entries Tagged as 'Marketing'

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

The Kin, By Microsoft

I have kind of love hate relationship with the Kin. On the one hand, a phone specifically tailored to social networking sites seems like a sure fire deal, but on the other, it just doesn’t really capture the imagination the way that a lot of similar products such as your basic utilitarian iPhone, the Palm [...]

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

How to Kill A Brand

How Sony Killed it’s Brand. A parody song written by Sarcasticgamer and available on Youtube. Definitely a parody, but kind of compelling, and definitely relevant in todays economy. Just watch.

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Definition of an iKiller

iKiller -Noun, plural-ers. Any device, the marketing or procurement of which, would result in the supplanting of a similar product of a culturally ostentatious or superfluous nature. eg. The HP Slate is an iKiller if it can outsell the Apple iPad.

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Google Changes Name to Topeka

In a rather surprising turn of events today, the publicly traded company (Nasdaq: GOOG) and popular search engine Google changed it’s name to Topeka to honor the announcement earlier this month that the city in Kansas, also of the same name, was planning on changing it’s name to Google. According to the article, the change [...]

Monday, March 15th, 2010

UPS Whiteboard Commercials

I just like these.