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My favorite Super Bowl XLV (2011) commercials
In: Marketing
9 Feb 2011These are my favorite commercials aired during Superbowl XLV, between the Packers and the Steelers: The Force by Volkswagen Love the body language and determination of the kid. We communicate more than what we are aware, with our bodies (that is why email sometimes sucks). I guess many people feel identified with the kid: we [...]
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- Tags: BestBuy, Eminem, Pepsi, Super Bowl, Volkswagen
The power of flash: Tipex’s the hunter and the bear ad
In: Marketing
22 Dec 2010A “hunter shoots a bear” ad by Tipex (developed by Grouek ) shows how you can build viral branding campaigns on Youtube. The video takes interactivity to a new level by letting the viewer finish the ad. In addition they embrace the freedom of of the internet by dealing with humor with typos (with a [...]
Remake of 1993 McDonald’s commercial
In: Marketing
9 Feb 2010Got to love the remake of the 1993 McDonald’s Michael Jordan vs. Larry Bird commercial, this time it features Lebron James and Dwight Howard. Although they are not as accomplished as Jordan and Bird, they are representative of the NBA today and are possibly the future, so we have the star power. The new commercial [...]
Coca Cola vs Nike
In: Marketing
22 Mar 2009In this corner “The impossible made possible”, wearing black and white trunks Coca Cola Zeroooooooo! In the other corner, the step counter and music gadget, wearing red and white trunks the Nike Plusssssssssss! (Actually is Men vs Women and the winner takes on Zero). Yesterday I was walking and I saw this two ads, one [...]
It was reported on monday by notebookreview.com: “Asus shows off revolutionary new dual-display concept notebook”. Asus concept (source notebookreview.com) My question is: how come it wasn’t revolutionary when One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announced a very similar concept almost a year ago, called the OLPC XO-2. Actually the the one by OLPC look cooler than [...]
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- Tags: Asus, Asus Eee, Guitar Hero, iphone, netbook, notebookreview, OLPC, Wii
What is a Trend?
28 Sep 2008Source The other day I was in a lecture about trends. The presenter was talking about what he does in his company, identifying trends and his theories, I came to realized that I didn’t have a concrete definition of a trend. So, turned to Google to find out and got to a point that all [...]
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- Tags: trend
Reciprocity
In: Marketing
14 May 2008Today I was checking an email account that I log in occasionally or when I remember, and not as a habit (it used to be a habit). I saw an email from a presenter at a workshop I attended some months ago (I think it was in February). We had a conversation in the event [...]
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- Tags: Marketing, mensching, reciprocity
Recently I wrote a post on the Kobe Bryant Jumping over a car video, in addition to other stuff concerning viral videos. As you can see, that video has created some buzz like or not, good or bad, the buzz is there. But when such video, event or “thing” starts to appear as “spoofs” around [...]
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- Tags: Inside the NBA, Kobe Bryant, NBA, nike, spoof, TNT, YouTube
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- When to go native or HTML based App
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- Last day at Yanzi
- Objects as a hashmap in Javascript
- Emergence of patterns in mobile app design
- Executive Insight on data from Google’s Think Quarterly
- is Today method in java (and python)
- My favorite Super Bowl XLV (2011) commercials
- The bad side of Interfaces