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Vista prices cut due to Linux Inroads
February 29, 2008
Microsoft announced price cuts for Windows Vista on February 28, but only for standalone boxed copies sold at retail and only in areas where Linux has made inroads with market share.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky just won a 300 million dollar nightmare.
Linux has been making inroads everyone on the Desktop, this post brought you via an Ubuntu Laptop posted on Redhat server running PHP scripted WordPress driven by a MySQL database.
Microsoft free for years now………
Women begging someone to buy her Vista Machine
February 29, 2008
We just got this e-mail from a friend of ours. Pretty interesting, it’s exactly why Linux and Apple should be gaining market share. The problem is we feel that her mindset is not the oddball of the group, but rather the norm.
It’s a marketing problem, it’s an OS problem, and it’s more so a PR problem. Microsoft’s new Advertising Agency Crispin Portner + Bogusky will be facing this as their adversary. A women that just doesn’t want to relearn a new ‘clunky interface’.
Before you go about saying ‘why doesn’t just just use her XP license from her old machine or buy a new XP license?’ .. the average user doesn’t exactly understand Microsoft Licensing.. they use whatever is installed on their box.. you are not looking at it from their point of view.
These are the people that use IE 6.0 because it’s what was on their machine when they bought it.
Hi Everybody…
Well, I bought this beautiful new (white) HP Pavillion 15.4 widescreen Entertainment Laptop in December (did not open the box til mid january) and I am looking to sell it. There is nothing wrong with the pc, rather the owner. It is packed with all kinds of bells and whistles that may excite the nerdie computer whiz but I am just not that individual. It has taken me light years to learn what I currently know and I just don’t appreciate the new Vistas operating system. I hear it’s great from others but I am just not comfortable with it. The computer has been barely touched. I do not have files saved on it, etc. I’ll even throw in my “vista for dummies” book and dvd. It’s very pretty, the keyboard is regular size and the keys are a very smooth silver…typing is a breeze.
Details:
* Intel Core 2 Duo T5250
* Built in Wireless
* DVD and CD Burner with lightscribe(burns labels on the disk)
* 250GB hard drive
* 2GB of DDR2 memory
* Built in webcam
* KW Network Ready
* Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher already installed(I think it’s the office pro package)
* Vista Operating System
* Extended 12 cell battery (it actualluy elevates the unit)
* Extended (I think 2 years)Full Warranty!!I paid 1,271.97 not including Reppert Factor and installed programs. Make me an offer (a kind one please), so I can purchase another XP.
Thanks for your help…
Heather XXX-737-XXXX
RPA is now the agency of record for Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
February 28, 2008
RPA is now the agency of record for Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The agency will handle all integrated marketing for the property. Scott Voeller, vice president of hotel marketing for Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Full Story on Agency spy
I hope RPA knows how to use the internets and ‘the google’ :)
Cronin and Co. Inc. sold to insider executives
February 28, 2008
Cronin and Co. Inc., the Glastonbury advertising and marketing communications firm, will announce today it is being sold to two of its executives.
What? Not sold to a holding company? Are you kidding me? Oh Noes!
Crispin Porter + Bogusky wins Microsoft
February 28, 2008
You heard it here first – our sources were right. On February 11th we notified the public that (eat that Steve Hall) The Tribble Advertising Agency had Microsoft Insiders tell us that Crispin Porter + Bogusky ‘s pitch was far superior to what Fallon delivered. The Major sticking point was the perceived superior Interactive base that Crispin Porter + Bogusky has over Fallon.
What else we heard “They should of invested more on the InterActive side… a few million buying a strong interactive firm would of allowed them a better chance of getting our 300 million account” that came from an insider….
Pretty Amazing stuff…
DDB and Microsoft fund and dictate grade school classes
February 27, 2008
Nofsinger said Topics was chosen by Microsoft’s advertising agency DDB in Seattle, Washington back in August. Topics has past experience creating student courses for various organizations, such as financial literacy awareness for Citigroup and Wachovia, and a classroom program revolving around Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
In the Classic Register format, of course a picture is attached.
The New York Post calls Agency Spy the ‘blog of death’ regarding Paul Tilley
February 27, 2008
In perhaps the most stunning example of Yellow Journalism, the New York Post calls Agency Spy the “blog of death”
We are sorry regarding the tragic death of Paul Tilley .. his children now face a future without him.
However that being stated, if Agency Spy and George Parker kill themselves over this.. should Gawker and The New York Post be the ones to blame? Evidently they reported a story on the bloggers.
These people are reporters doing their job, as we stated before, DDB has refused to comment if Paul Tilley was fired on Friday….
The Sun Times reported that Paul Tilley’s girlfriend was on the scene (something they later removed from their site WITHOUT a retraction)… not his wife. However Google did catch the page.
The point is people, there were other issues at work… you can’t assign blame to a random blogger… We read nasty stuff about us every day… killing ourselves was not ever considered.
We will never know what killed Paul Tilley … what we do know is that assigning blame to a blogger for reporting a story is a cop out… it’s not the truth.. it’s a made up excuse for something far bigger than anyone will ever know, as the source is no longer with us. However if people won’t accept this, and blame is to be assigned, we feel that people that have questions should get DDB to answer definitively if he was fired on Friday.
EDIT: We just got word that DDB has denied that he was fired.
Rick Carpenter, the CEO of DDB Chicago, said Tilley’s job was secure and he seemed happy after a big client presentation went well on Wednesday.
Oh Noes! Google isn’t recession proof
February 26, 2008
It appears that Google isn’t recession proof, as Google’s January paid click growth was flat on a year-over-year basis, down 7% from December and down 12% from the fourth quarter.
Now that’s something… 12% down from fourth Quarter … roughly the same decrease in spending as the increase in inflation … about 12% a year in the United States if current trends hold.. as they appear they are.
The comScore data provide further evidence that Google is not recession proof and it looks like somebody got wind of this report as GOOG shares were notably weak Monday in an up tape. This decline probably represents an opportunity for believers in Google’s long-term story but the short-term pain isn’t likely over yet.
Wayne Spilove, Philly.Com and Eric Grilly
February 26, 2008
It is almost a year since Eric Grilly, former President of MediaNews Group Interactive, left to take over as president of Philly.com for Philadelphia Media Holdings. This locally owned independent media company bought out the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News out of the Knight Ridder dissolution.
If you don’t remember, Grilly’s boss at MediaNews, Dean Singleton, pushed a major deal with Yahoo. Singleton forced the newspaper industry to face realities: Yahoo, Google and MSN have beaten the newspaper companies in the games of audience-building and channel creation. The consequence: Newspaper companies had to partner with the competition to make a new future.
So Singleton pushed a major deal with Yahoo. The first step was around recruitment ads, and Yahoo! HotJobs. While Singleton did the pushing, Grilly has done a lot of the pulling. Along with other leaders in the media industry, they’ve pulled enough newspaper companies together to get a doable deal done with Yahoo.
So why move on to Philly? Philadelphia is the country’s fifth largest city, home to beautiful architecture and history, being preserved by the Philadelphia Historical Commission, with help from community leaders like Wayne Spilove and Governor Rendell. (There are too many achievements by Wayne Spilove and the Historic Commission to list here. They can be found on Mr. Spilove’s site.)
To Grilly it was a gift of liberty. “It’s about independence,” he says, going to a company that has fewer legacy ties to old ways of doing newspapering. With Philly’s large regional market, it allows for quicker innovation. Grilly wants to be the first in innovating new solutions to the problems in advertising revenue and editorial value for many newspaper companies. One of Grilly’s first plans was to have the philly.com website redesigned. (Here are screenshots from Jan 2007, and one from today.)
When Grill took over in March 2007, we were all wondering?
- Can Grilly help Philly.com find a new way to make media pay?
- Can he win back readers and lure local advertisers to up their spending with the papers and its website?
- Can a Grilly help the website find its own path, mixing and matching its partnerships (currently with Monster on recruitment, for instance) to maximize the value of Philly-created journalism and advertising?
- How will his departure affect the Yahoo/newspaper consortium? Even in the beginning of 2007 Yahoo’s future was uncertain, but it appears this consortium is moving forward.
The improvement since Grilly took over is already evident.
The newspapers are seeing the reality of online marketing; The BIGGER question is… has the legacy “advertising agency”?
Print & Television are OUT and online marketing & interactive online marketing are IN. Ad agencies need to look at the cold hard facts, audience-building and channel creation are VERY successful online.
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