These people got mortgages…..
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Nothing about marketing here, really. But I have a simple idea for the NFL, NBA and MLB to stop teams from throwing games at the end of seasons ot get a better draft pick. Instead of making the draft based on worst to best record for the season before, why not define the draft order by worst to best record over the last THREE years.
I have a few reasons for this suggestion:
- This would stop events where a great team has a few key injuries in one season, ends up with the top overall pick, and builds a dynasty out of it (see Spurs, San Antonio.
- It’s hard to tank 3 straight seasons, so individual games are less important for draft order.
- Teams that are that bad for so long need real help.
- You can make your draft choices with some “general” idea where you may end up in next year’s draft, and make some strategic decisions on free agents based on this.
- Having a ridiculous string of unjustified good luck for 1/4 season doesn’t kill you.
Anyway, that’s my big idea for the day.
You have to wonder what the people at PETA are thinking when they have “brainstorming” sessions. It’s like they purposely come up with ways to alienate anyone in the middle 98% of mainstream thought. From WNBC in New York:
VERMONT — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
“PETA’s request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves,” the statement says.
PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.
You may now insert your own jokes and analysis.
Does this make me want to buy a bunk bed? Maybe not. But did it introduce me to a url I had never heard of before? Yes. And am I forwarding said url around to others who might want to buy a bunk bed? Apparently so.
But check out this fun and easy game from Bunkbeds.net.
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“A Nigerian Muslim court Monday detained an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them…..The authorities charged Mohammed Bello with “insulting religious creed” and “unlawful marriages” after local chiefs and Muslim leaders gave him until September 7 to comply with Islamic sharia law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives at a time.”
I see it now – “Elimina-wife.” 82 eliminations to get to the remianing 4. Endless possibilities on an International stage here….
Funny clip from Google News. Notice who the headline is slamming.
I really like what Hulu is doing. If you haven’t checked it out, go to the site and play around one evening. It really seems to be run by some smart folks.
So, I’m not picking on them for launching a promotional TV schedule with graphics that display the wrong calendar dates. It just shows that no one is perfect, so if you are going to launch something on your web site, it’s never a bad idea to have someone review it. That way your boss doesn’t have the chance receive a snarky email froma “colleague” that asks why the creative team can’t read a calendar.
So i won’t be one of those people who pretends to know how the new Google browser, aka Chrome, will affect the stock prices of Google and Microsoft, or what it means to Mozilla and the Open Source Community.
But I think it’s fair to say that the launch of Chrome fundamentally changes the landscape of the how the tech industry will operate. I mean, you have to be curious about what the Google Browser will look like, and how they will integrate Docs, Calendar, mail, etc….
Now, contrary to the Open Source guys, I won’t be saying that a Google Browser is a Microsoft killer. For example, as much as I love Google Docs for collaborating on a shared whiteboard, as an actual device for building a real document, it’s fairly useless. So while there will be a lot of anti-MSFT sentiment that will put Chrome on a pedestal, I’ll test it out with an objective mind.
But my point is, Chrome will be a game changer on the tech environment one way or the other. After years of people saying, “Google will kill Microsoft when they release a browser,” they will finally have to deliver. So mark this date as a critical moment in technology. Chrome either rocks (like Gmail), is ok (like Docs), or becomes irrelevant (like Froogle). Test it out and see what you think.
I stumbled across a cool little search engine in beta, called Viewzi. Now I’m not making this out to be a Google killer or anything, but it’s a kind of fun way to troll through web sites if you are looking for a visual representation of the page.
My favorite of their searching options was the “Web screenshot” view. Now, my take is that this will be less helpful for certain types of searches than others. For example, I think it did better with a search on Cristiano Ronaldo (below) than the Georgia-Russia conflict (above). And the algorithm isn’t perfect. When I searched on my own name, it at first attached me to the usual places, but then attached me to a bunch of web sites with “Spring Creek” in the name. So, it was a good effort to look at say, AndyBoyer.com, see a link to SpringCreekGroup.com and make that connection, but then it took it to far when it surmised I also must be part of SpringCreekFishing.net.
But I’m not here to criticize. It’s kind of cool to play with, and there are a few target markets I’m sure they are already very popular with. Check it out at Viewzi.com
I’m starting a new category, covering some interesting tactics the Presidential campaigns are using when it comes to technology or social media marketing. Here’s the latest email I received from the Obama camp:
People keep asking me if we’re really going to announce Barack’s VP directly to our supporters.
The answer is yes.
Let me be very clear. You are the ones who built this campaign, and
Barack wants you to be the first to know who will join him in leading
our movement for change.So, if you haven’t signed up to receive an email or a text message, sign up now. Or you can text VP to 62262 from your mobile phone.
Make sure to forward this message to your friends and let them know about this special opportunity.Thanks,
That’s a pretty neat gimmick. I don’t know if it means that if you text the campaign, they will call you later to ask for money. But it’s a neat way to use text messaging to communicate directly to their base.