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What to do on SuperBowl Sunday

The SuperBowl is one of those events, like the Academy Awards, that sucks up most of the oxygen in the air. For me, SuperBowl Sunday is a good time to read a book, go for a hike or... write a blog post about the SuperBowl. At the conclusion of SuperBowl...

Tags: General, SuperBowl Sunday

Blog posts 2007-02-04

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What Superbowl viewers did online on Superbowl dat

Three-quarters of Super Bowl viewers said that they intended to log onto the Internet on the day of the Super Bowl. Of those who planned to go online, most said they would do so before the game (82%) or after the game (61%). 30% also indicated they would log on...

Tags: Super Bowl, Games, Personal Technology, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-29

If you don't like a Facebook advertiser, defriend them

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk has spent years creating award-winning advertisements to motivate buyers. Facebook's ad platform simply reaffirms that individuals are media. Everything is now a pair of boxer’s shorts. Even Facebook. When Mike Tyson was around those shorts, if they had a...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Brand, Advertiser, Chris, Branding, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-08

Why the titans of tech should start playing ball

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... “I’d run any company; it’s completely irrelevant to me. It’s really about this drive...

Tags: Bay Area, Champaign, Chris, Dan Farber, Gentleman, Management, Team, Team Management

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Are faux-Zuckerbergs a threat to corporate harmony?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk wonders whether Generation Y is Cartesian with a twist: I think, therefore I am great. I had dinner with someone significant in the tech world the other day. Desdemona (guess what, not her real name) had a problem she wanted to share with...

Tags: Dinner, Advertisement, Harmony, Chris, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Microsoft-Tellme: How the deal went down

News.coms Ina Fried has some of the inside story on how the Microsoft-Tellme deal went down on Superbowl Sunday. It was only a few hours before kickoff on Super Bowl Sunday, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasnt at home getting ready to watch the Bears take on...

Tags: Tellme Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp., News.coms Ina Fried

Blog posts 2007-03-15

Super Bowl stadium site hacked, seeded with exploits

The official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday's Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws.In the attack, which was discovered by malware hunters at Websense Security Labs, the server hosting the site was breached and a link to...

Tags: Spyware and Adware, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms

Blog posts 2007-02-02

HP enlists Orange Country Choppers for SuperBowl ad

Hewlett-Packard is one of the seminal Silicon Valley companies, rooted in the nerdy engineering-driven culture that also spawned Intel, Apple, Sun, Google and other legends in the neighborhood. Unlike Apple, which has become synonymous with cool consumer tech, HP is still mostly iconic as an engineering company that happens to...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Roman, advertisement

Blog posts 2007-01-28

Photos: Origami handheld devices

Photos: Origami handheld devicesUMPCshould stand for UGLY moblie PC.Has no one learned from apple, RAZR or the new PSP?it seems that nintendo has since they are already restyling the DS.it seems the ROKR and its ugliness were duly noted by the SLVR.Get these devices some cosmetic surgery ASAP!UMPCIs the really...

Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), PRODUCTIVITY, Handhelds, Notebooks, Fujitsu P1510, ultramobile PC, Motion Computing Inc., handheld, photograph, computer, handheld device

Discussion threads 2006-03-09

SuperBowl ads increase traffic to GoDaddy by 260%, Cialis.com by 155%, Tabasco.com by 119%

Do SuperBowl ads improve Web traffic? According to HitWise, domain name registrar GoDaddy.com experienced a 260.21% surge in Web traffic after its controversial ad aired on SuperBowl. HitWise tracked the Web traffic on SuperBowl Sunday vs. the day before. One-day Web traffic increases to SuperBowl advertisers' Web sites Rank Site Increase 1. www.godaddy.com 260.21% 2. www.cialis.com 155.41% 3. www.tabasco.com 118.57% 4. www.dietpepsi.com 94.32% 5. www.nfl.com 90.95% 6. www.cadillac.com 74.82% 7. www.olympus-global.com 73.69% 8. www.lincolnvehicles.com 57.86% 9. www.frito-lay.com 57.28% 10. www.tacobell.com 48.74% Source: HitWise

Tags: Web-traffic, Hitwise

Blog posts 2005-03-18

SuperBowl ads increase traffic to GoDaddy by 260%, Cialis.com by 155%, Tabasco.com by 119%

Do SuperBowl ads improve Web traffic? According to HitWise, domain name registrar GoDaddy.com experienced a 260.21% surge in Web traffic after its controversial ad aired on SuperBowl. HitWise tracked the Web traffic on SuperBowl Sunday vs. the day before. One-day Web traffic increases to SuperBowl advertisers' Web sites Rank Site Increase 1. www.godaddy.com 260.21% 2. www.cialis.com 155.41% 3. www.tabasco.com 118.57% 4. www.dietpepsi.com 94.32% 5. www.nfl.com 90.95% 6. www.cadillac.com 74.82% 7. www.olympus-global.com 73.69% 8. www.lincolnvehicles.com 57.86% 9. www.frito-lay.com 57.28% 10. www.tacobell.com 48.74% Source: HitWise

Tags: Hitwise, Web-traffic

Blog posts 2005-03-18