Well, this goes back to 2002, but I had never seen it. Only marketing and design folks will find this humorous.
Author: Andy Boyer
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TixMob Launches in UK – New Way to Buy Tickets for Events
An old friend from Manchester sent me news about his company, Tixmob, this morning. Here’s a synopsis:
http://www.tixmob.com/ Is a new concert ticket agent, just like Ticketmaster and Seetickets we work directly with concert promoters and event organizers to sell tickets on their behalf. Unlike Ticketmaster, Seetickets etc.. A Tixmob ticket is paperless. Upon purchase it is sent to your mobile phone in the form of an sms message with a bar code. When you get to the event the ticket taker will scan the ticket with our scanner to prove it’s valid and it hasn’t already been used. So ticket touting/scalping is more difficult, you’ll probably get in faster since, for a while at least, we’ll usually have our own que. A big complaint people have about ticket agents like Ticketmaster is all the crazy fees they stick on top of the ticket price. Generally Tixmob will have a booking of 10% of the tickets face value. As some extra incentive for people to try the product, we’ve reduced booking fees on our first few events to as low as 2%.
While it appers to be UK based for now, the US possibilities seem far reaching as well. I would assume sports teams would love the anti-scalping features. Anyway, something to keep an eye on.
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Lumosity – Something to Play With
I will take the leap and say that a small company called Lumosity falls into the world of Marketing. For, positioned one way, Lumosity would simply be entry #3.2 billion in the category of "Ways to kill time online when you should be productive."
But instead, starting with the tagline of "Reclaim Your Brain" and extending through the core messaging, Lumosity is much more than a nice looking version of any casual games portal. According to their literature, I will actually get SMARTER by spending time on their site. The multi-layered exercises and puzzles are designed to actively stimulate regions of my brain that have gone neglected, enriching my overall intellectual capabilities.
So far, I don’t feel smarter, but it has kicked my paranoia level to an all-time high, as I wonder if I am simply a pawn in someone’s giant marketing copywriting experiment. But, I have succumbed to sucker status, and the exercises are fun, so we’ll see where this gets me.
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Phil Yerkes of Movaya on KIRO 710 AM
Phil Yerkes, CEO of Movaya, was featured on Seattle’s KIRO 710 AM this morning. You can listen to the interview over at the KIRO Web Site.
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When You Start to Believe We Are Not Surrounded By Lunatics, Please Refer Back Here
I’ve been doing some political research for a little project that I hope will launch very soon.
But it’s given be the opportuity to read blogs written by supporters of particular candidates. And every once in a while, I run across someone so out of touch with reality, you have to think they could bring down an entire campaign just by being a loud, lunatic supporter. If you were a Brownback campiagn strategist, how do you approach this nut job and say, "Look, we appreciate the support, but Shut the Hell up! You’re killing us!"
Here’s the loony in question. Never have a I seen such a well thought-out and researched blog post that contains such ridiculous conclusions from the data in question.
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News from Prison – no not that prison
I have no interest in adding any comment on the Paris Hilton fiasco. I feel bad for anyone that is that scared and upset.
So instead of talking about a celebrity that wants to avoid her sentence, I want to introduce you to an imate that wants to use his sentence to become a celebrity.
Meet Patrick Knight, a death row inmate in Texas who is quickly giving those who favor capital punishment a poster child to point to. Knight is taking his punishment with such contempt, that his friend has set up a web site asking people to email him jokes. The friend will bring him all the jokes, and then Knight will use his last breath to "leave them laughing" as KLTV puts it.
None of this is illegal. But what a statement about how easy it is to become a celebrity these days, if only for a minute. Had Knight put togther a tearful, remorseful apology to the family, no one would know. But instead he decides that his last act will be one which gets him a little national attention. It’s a final selfish act for someone who has already taken a loved one away from someone else. Some things just amaze me.