Miscellaneous

I hear this a lot: "We need to be more like Apple." This is understandable since the computer maker has been wildly successful with their products and their brand. Everything from Apple's easy-to-use computers, iPhone, and iPods to their packaging of their products is very simple and clean - yet it evokes Apple's own style and unique identity.

A big part of Apple's branding success comes from their being different. Imagine how Apple might be today if they had tried to imitate Microsoft. A big marketing disaster.

Sigh. I thought it couldn't get any lamer than the Windows 7 launch party videos. But I just came across this promo video for Windows 386, made in the glory days of corporate fashion for women circa 1987.

As the original poster said, "boring until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys."

In a recent blog post at Ars Technica, they detailed how a cosmetic surgery company got slapped with a fine for paying their employees to post glowing reviews of the company's services. The reviews, of course, were online and anonymous. The company, Lifestyle Lift, also went as far as to pay employees to attack legitimate negative reviews, believing that those negative reviews hurt the company's reputation.

...k-i-s-s-i-n-g! Well, at least according to this article over at TechCrunch. Flickr now allows users to link their account with their Twitter accounts through the new Flickr2Twitter feature.

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