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Coca-Cola video clip-culture 'craziness'

Coca-cola: If you cant beat em, join em, video clip culture, that is.In June, Coca-cola dismissed the Diet Coke & Mentos videos as “an entertaining phenomenon," saying "We would hope people want to drink [Diet Coke] more than try experiments with it." The company found the "craziness with Mentos ......

Tags: video, Coca-Cola Co., Diet Coke, Mentos

Blog posts 2006-12-18

Revver: advertiser-driven videos?

Revver is unusual for a Web 2.0 service: it was created with a revenue generating business model, and developed with advertisers’ points-of-view in mind.Steven Starr, Founder and CEO, was co-creator of MTV's "The State" and worked as a Hollywood agent, and now applies his advertising savvy at Revver.Revver describes itself:...

Tags: Revver, video

Blog posts 2006-07-30

A mint version of the Bellagio Fountains

Crafting a replica from Diet Coke bottles and MentosStephen Voltz, co-producer of "The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments", talks with CNET News.com's Michelle Meyers about how he and a friend created and choreographed a version of Las Vegas' Bellagio Fountains with only 101 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke and...

Tags: Diet Coke, Mentos, Bellagio Fountains

Videos 2006-06-12

Additional Resources

Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?

Is the last bulleted list a joke??That last bulleted list is a joke. It worships a model, and is not the best tool for the job.Keep in mind through all this:-The problem is going to be network congestion. Therefore steps should be taken to [b]REDUCE[/b] network usage."Monitor your VPNs. Make...

Tags: NETWORKING, H1N1 flu, network, marketing, network congestion, flu, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Can green tech help save nature's biplanes?

Can green tech help save nature's biplanes?Yet another doom and gloom article?I swear.... there have been many species that have gone extinct in the history of the world, and no one worried about them!Stop taking a bunch of species dying out as a sign that humanity is doing something to...

Tags: Dragonfly, biplane, green technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-26

Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....

"Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase.  That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...

Tags: Facebook, Fan, Coca-Cola Co., Beverage, Customer, Machine, Coke, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Food & Beverage, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Bull market for SOA emerges -- or should that be Red Bull market?

Dave Linthicum really has a way with expressions, and I can relate to his latest admonition -- forget the endless hype and discussion around SOA and cloud computing, and just sling down a few Red Bulls and start rocking and rolling. I, too, am getting tired, just...

Tags: SOA, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Do you have to be fat?

Do you have to be fat?Starting from factsIs there any longer a dispute that people are born with a natural weight and that they will, all else being equal, remain within a range of that weight?Is it surprising that many people who could be classified as overweight - the topic...

Tags: Tarot Cards, BMI, meal, gene

Discussion threads 2008-12-15

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessoriesWater. Orange Juice. Red Wine.Title says it all :-)RE: Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessoriesSorry Zoli - I felt you'd strayed too far off topic with that one ;) I even exempted my watercooler :) :)Why, do you prefer white wine? ...

Tags: Startup Essentials, accessory

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... again

Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... againDellI have always owned Dell machines. Although I have never had to have one of them replaced, I have heard fro mothers that it was a painstaking process. So it makes sense that they are 10 points behind Apple. My friends that have had...

Tags: Linux, Product marketing, Operating systems, UNIX, customer satisfaction, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe

Swaddled in air-conditioned comfort, sipping a Diet Coke I hardly noticed the late afternoon thunderstorm that blew in last Friday. They're a common occurrence in central North Carolina in the summer time; so I continued with my work secure in my technological web. In the background I could hear the...

Tags: Lightning, Tree, Mississippi, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-18

The customer is not always right

How many times have you heard the old adage, "The customer is always right"? If you're like me you just took it as an axiom, something that was beyond questioning. I think it's time for software developers and project managers to start questioning it. Now, I'm not...

Tags: Google Inc., Result, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Hey genius, they want you.

Microsoft are probably the biggest and most influential software company in the world. I know, I don't like it much either but it hasn't done bad now, let's admit. Whilst trawling the student pages of Microsoft, I came across another patronising, fake esteem building, crap student oriented promotion, essentially advertising...

Tags: Job, Microsoft Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Prevention killing the health care system

Prevention killing the health care systemPrevention costsThe one change that would have a dramatic impact in lowering health care costs would be to outlaw malpractice cases against hospitals, doctors and drug companies. As an example OBs spend 15-30K per month for insurance.Second, streamline drug development pipelines. five to ten years...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, health care, health care system

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

The artificial sugar study

Yesterday's release from Purdue University, showing that rats fed yogurt with saccharine gained more weight than rats whose yogurt had regular sugar, did not surprise me. Diet Coke has always made me hungry. Of course, I also claim to be able to feel my high blood pressure....

Tags: Body, Beverage, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Facebook Ads: Monetizing the social graph and social graft

The blogosphere is loaded up with all flavors of Facebook Ads analysis, and much handwringing over the notion of users expressing their enthusiasm for Diet Coke or "American Gangster" on their Facebook page and Coca-Cola or Universal Pictures placing ads in the newsfeed as the items are spooled to their...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Blogosphere, MySpace, Facebook Ads, Cluetrain, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-07

What was Microsoft thinking?

What was Microsoft thinking?Home Basic is a way to obtain Vista...... on underpowered computers. Is that transitional? Yes, in the sense that many/most of the computers now in use can run Basic better than Premium.If Microsoft were interested in selling upgrades, then Basic would be better. But...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DX10, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Thinking, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-06-08

Michigan man busted for stealing Wi-Fi signal; could have received five years

Michigan man busted for stealing Wi-Fi signal; could have received five yearsA stupid law....And I just finished writing to the MI legislature telling them so. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(sz24fm45lefset55jmhr0o55))/mileg.aspx?page=CommentFormAnd I wrote:This is a dumb law and should be repealed. (http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(sz24fm45lefset55jmhr0o55))/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=mcl-752-795)I'm referring specifically to the case involving this guy: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1640If people don't...

Tags: Wireless LANs, NETWORKING, network, Wi-Fi, wireless, cafe

Discussion threads 2007-05-22

How YouTube lost its video soul, big time

Can YouTube make revenue sharing work? I asked in January, upon the worldwide transmission of King Hurleys’ snack-sized (87 seconds) utterance straight from an elevator bank in Davos, Switzerland.The Chad Hurley induced euphoria over power to the people, monetary power to the supposedly “little” video people that is, caused many...

Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Google's YouTube divides community: Advertising rules, not users

Google’s YouTube blog post headline says it all: “YouTube elevates most popular users to partners.”There goes Chad’s pet “community”?While Google YouTube will undoubtedly be lauded for “finally recognizing” the hard work of dedicated YouTuber legitimate uploaders, the video sharing picture is not as pretty as it is painted.YouTube on its...

Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Amateur Content, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-05-04