Watch Super bowl Online — on Justin TV??
February 7, 2010
Evidently Justin.TV is running a live stream of the Super Bowl here
I am not sure of legality surround it, I didn’t know Justin.TV got a license to display it. The embed code is there, but I’m not going to post it here… honestly because I don’t want some superbowl lawyer calling me if it’s not legit. Regardless the word on the street is that Justin TV will be displaying the game for free.
Regardless it’s supposed to be a good game Super Bowl 44 | Superbowl 44 Saints vs Colts @ 6:25 PM ET Sun Life Stadium, Miami, FL
Enjoy the game.
Also for the record, I myself cannot verify if the stream works, mostly because I never watched a full game in my life, and my first experience won’t be on my monitor.
Twitter is the new MySpace
February 7, 2010
Only 17% of all Twitter accounts Twittered that month. Which is down from more than 70% in early 2007 according to George Parker.
If this pattern holds, you’ll be looking at another MySpace within a matter of 2 years. You know, the social media site that no one goes to.
This is the typical rise and fall of any social media site in recent history, Facebook most likely will be following a similar pattern, though it’s rise wasn’t as quick as twitters, so the chances are it’s fall won’t be as fast either.
Yes the law of Gravity applies here.
This recession will last 15 years
February 6, 2010
Mrs. Newby and her husband were forced to walk away from their home in suburban Detroit and are now living here in a rented house with their three children. They are bracing for a huge tax bill in the spring because of early withdrawals they made on her 401(k) and taxes they still owe on unemployment benefits. Their credit is in tatters, and their 16-year marriage showed cracks they are still trying to repair.
“We’re not done living through the fallout of all of that,” Mrs. Newby said, four months into her new job as an account director of an advertising agency here. BlueRidgeNow is reporting.
There is so much wrong with this picture now, with that many people unemployed they shouldn’t have to worry about at tax burden regarding the 401k … this is completely wrong at this time. Making them pay extra taxes at this moment is only going to make retirement even worse later in life.
If you have your life set on 60,000 a year with 2 kids at home.. that unemployment check isn’t going to cut it.. and it REALLY won’t cut it when those benefits run out.
Those 401k issues need to go away for some sort of temporary measure.. IE: if you withdrawal early from Dec 2008 to now you don’t have to pay penalty taxes or something along those lines.
In this case the IRS will be the one sending these people into bankruptcy…
I have posted 743,013 times on twitter
February 5, 2010
Clearly the Twitter Inflation Bug is quite comical. Twitter has acknowledged the bug and will address it “at some time” but made it a low priority since it’s not stopping people from posting to twitter, just making them look like thats ALL they do 24/7/365 (366 leap year) ..
The Twitter inflation bug isn’t affecting everyone, but some people are seeing literally zeros added to their twitter post count.
MICHAEL
Well, technically it did work.
PETER
No it didn’t!
SAMIR
It did not work, Michael, ok?!
MICHAEL
Ok! Ok!
SAMIR
Ok?!
MICHAEL
Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place
or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane
detail.
PETER
Oh! What is this fairly mundane detail, Michael?!!!!!
Enjoy the twitter inflation bug.
Why the NSA needs Google — it’s deeper than you think
February 4, 2010
Why does the NSA needs Google? The answer is much deeper than you think, and it goes much further than Cyberattacks. In fact, we were told that NSA employees regularly search for valuable intel on Google because it’s “more reliable and faster than what we have here” … literally a direct quote from a long time friend that now works at the NSA, and to boot he said ” all the intelligence agencies use it for the same reason”
And it’s hard to argue with a blog going from post to indexed in 2 minutes, a tweet going from post to indexed in 10 seconds. The issue believe it or not is that Google’s technology is years ahead of what the NSA or CIA or any other intelligence department or agency has at their finger tips.
This is amazing. A private company has more intelligence gathering resources than our intelligence offices. Now Granted, Google’s reach, though powerful is limited.. For example Google Earth doesn’t display real time images.. but for example a blog post somewhere a forum post, a tweet.. something along those lines Google clearly has a superior advantage.
Story of course developing….
Steve Ballmer, did you ‘fucking kill Google’ yet?
February 3, 2010
Steve Ballmer, you know the guy that made this advertising agency quality TV ad.
Well About 1/2 a decade ago, a key individual defected from Microsoft to Google that lead to one heck of lawsuit. According to official documents, Steve said he was going to ‘fucking kill Google’ as he hurled a chair across the room. literally.
You’ll want to click to enlarge the image.
And a cut and paste of the Statement:
Prior to joining Google, I set up a meeting on or about November 11, 2004 with Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer to discuss my planned departure….At some point in the conversation Mr. Ballmer said: “Just tell me it’s not Google.” I told him it was Google.
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.” ….
Thereafter, Mr. Ballmer resumed trying to persuade me to stay….Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that “Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.”
We were just wondering Mr. Ballmer, did you ‘fucking kill Google’ yet? We figured 1/2 a decade has passed now and we were just wondering the status of it.
Now we never met Eric Schmidt, so I can’t tell you if he’s a “fucking pussy” but we never understood the term anyway? Are you talking about cats mating?
Regardless, we just wanted to know the status of the “house of cards” company called Google. Is it still around?
Why Pepsi dumped Ad Agency TBWA
February 2, 2010
Agency Spy has the article, but this tidbit completely makes the entire article.
It’s not just digital strategy and production that TBWA is lacking — but social strategy/execution, too. Proof of this, since the agency would never admit it, is in who they’ve hired to execute those portions of their business. For example, HUGE handled social media/site development and design, according to the Times. Sources tell us Chiat has also partnered with Undercurrent and MIR, too, though not on this project. It’s an all-too-common practice for bigger agencies.
Word on the street is Chiat tried to buy a smaller social media agency, probably in a bid to prevent Pepsi moving business away (WPP’s VML got the business, btw). But the deal went south, as did the relationship with that shop.
That’s a shocker… oh.. wait.. it’s not. They didn’t try to buy a search social marketing agency because they had forsight to head off the incoming problem (to put it lightly) they instead went half cocked trying to scoop up ANYTHING possible in the last 5 minutes to show Pepsi they had digital skills.
These big advertising agencies are completely clueless when it comes to search and social media. Personally I am amazed that they even are in business.
5 years ago I told you that this would happen
From the link directly above:
The problem however are these pesky SEO firms that seem to be growing faster than the ad agencies are, in fact many consider them the ad agencies of the future. This doesn’t matter for now as we can still make these expensive print media ads and still design sites in unspiderable ways for now. We figure we have at least 5 years left to rake in the cash.
Like clockwork it happened over and over again
You advertising agencies are amazing. You think it’s 1985.
You pride yourself in being creative… cutting edge.. but in fact you guys are a bunch of dinosaurs that even when told it’s happening you just ignore it.. until the client leaves you… and another.. and another..
Well since I was right on the last one… I am going to be right on the next prediction.
Within 5 years from today.. one large advertising agency (or holding company) is going to be bought and virtually dismantled by a search social marketing agency and raid whatever clients are still left. This company that will do it most likely won’t even be on your radar screen now… like how Google wasn’t on you radar screen before…
I am also willing to state that most likely it won’t identify itself as an “advertising agency” because honestly it has a sigma of being behind the times.
You holding companies should be buying every single search and social marketing agency with even a modest client list… it’s like do or die time.. and last minute “we’re gonna buy some tiny digital firm to say we know how to FTP into a website” isn’t going to cut it.
Because if you don’t do this now.. and I mean literally yesterday now.. your firm most likely will be bought and dismantled within 5 years… mark my words.
Apple iPad ‘in deep shit’ Google Tablet to launch
February 2, 2010
It appears that Google is REALLY gunning down Apple on every single front. These images were released today
They were released by the Chromium Project, the open source side of the Google OS (Chrome OS) and The Google Chrome Browser.
The Concept art we are told isn’t all “artwork” in fact this project is much further along and we were informed that we will be seeing this in the wild this year. It will be based of course on the Google OS (Chrome OS) , Support Flash, replaceable battery and of course be open source. The Flash issue is becoming so big of a problem that Apple was forced to take flash out of their advertising regarding the iPad.
This is going to be bad for Apple before it’s first unit is even shipped.
“you just can’t say cut everything but NASA”
February 1, 2010
Rep Gene Green — why can’t we say “cut everything but NASA”? Seriously why can’t we say that? In our opinion, NASA is the pinnacle of American beliefs. It’s the single agency that most Americans don’t mind funding. Sure there are some of us that would rather “see that money used for greater good” but when you get down to it, they still secretly enjoy the fact that the US was the first to reach the moon.
Another fact, cutting the space program WILL lead to a brain drain in the US. Taking an approach like that will force our brightest individuals to move elsewhere. You think the term “He’s a rocket scientist” doesn’t have roots in our early space program? Let’s face it, people will move to where the jobs are, and in your infinite wisdom, cutting the smartest out of the bunch isn’t exactly the right way to get this country out of a recession. It sort of leads us into an idiocracy style of life. Because that guy watching the monitors there is what we’ll be left with by the time this is done.
U.S. Rep. Gene Green, whose district includes most of eastern Houston, said North Galveston County could not have it both ways regarding funding for Constellation and the current $1.4 trillion federal deficit. “The good people in North Galveston County are talking about the deficit, and we’re hearing it from our people, too,” he said. “But you just can’t say cut everything but NASA.”
Why not? seriously why not?
Steve Jobs : Google do no evil is bullshit
February 1, 2010
It doesn’t just stop at Google, he goes on a rant about Adobe as well. Calling their developers “lazy”. It’s a classic triad on par with any human being with a small tool set.
Nice Watch
Regarding Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Audience roars.
Regarding Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
pretty funny… well not really… see it would be funny if the iPhone, iPad, iTouch actually supported Flash… but it doesn’t… yet the Google Android does.
So the insults flying from Jobs mouth are more along the lines of Apple’s personal failures… rather than the companies he is targeting.
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