Software Marketing Pranks
I envy software marketing types. They get to stay kids forever: pull pranks and even get paid for it.:-) Today’s example comes courtesy of TechCrunch: PayPal competitor WePay dropped a 600lbs ice block at the entrance of the Paypal developer conference. They got chased away and Moscone security removed the ice block. My question: who [...]
Cloud Computing for All Budgets
Previously we shared the secret to Budget Cloud Storage: Now, here’s the deluxe version of the same concept: (Hat tip: Ben Kepes) P.S. No, it’s not a modified Karrar.
Cloud Computing: Arguing With The Laggards
This hilarious video is created on the same platform as the iPhone 4 vs HTC EVO and the HTC EVO vs iPhone 4 . It’s fun and hits many important points, but I do think over-use of the F* word is detrimental here… sporadically dropping it is OK, but does it have to be in [...]
Tips if You Want to Buy a Town
<weekend fun > TorrentReaktor, a (surprise!) popular torrent site supposedly bought itself a town and quickly renamed it after itself. The town of Gar, founded in 1958 by a religious group connected to the Russian Orthodox Church, was bought for 4.5 million rubles ($148,000 or 115,000Eur). Gar is located in the center of Russia and [...]
Unhyping Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Part 2.
Here’s Part 1. The reason I’m doing it again is that Michael Krigsman just published the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad. Still a bit complex. Me thinks the simplified, geekified, scobleized, oprahized, too-oh-ized version of the Gartner Hype Cycle still works: And if it doesn’t – well, it’s almost Friday. In fact for some of [...]
SAP Business ByDesign Video – Plain and Simple, Making Fun of …Wow, ERP!
We’re just having an intense internal debate in the Enterprise Irregulars group whether SAP’s Business ByDesign (ByD) is late to the market and what it all means, when hot off the press here’s a promotional video, that’s not so much ByD advertising but a SMB / SME SaaS 101, and a very good one at [...]
Banned BuzzWords and Dilbert
Dennis Howlett just killed 80% of marketing communication by “banning” these buzzwords: Awesome Cloud Cool Game-changing Innovation Revolutionize Social Transformational With these gone, what’s left to write about? Oh, I know, here’s the solution. In the meantime, some fun a’la Dilbert:
This Reminds Me of My Old Boss (Dilbert)
At least the ‘write down part’. His process for dealing with email was: Have Assistant print and fax email to whichever hotel he was staying in Make handwritten notations on fax, ask hotel to fax it back to his Assistant Assistant would then type it as email using his account The whole process would take [...]
Ungrateful iBozos, Stop the Whining. Get a (i)Life. Part# 2.
<sarcasm> What’s wrong with the iPhone? – asks Mashable. They even created this useful (?) infographic: Well, let’s see: Yellow dots or band – So what? Have you not heard of personalization? Why would you all want the same boring screen? Reception – That’s your $ saver, dummy. Besides, do you really want to fry [...]
