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“Product placement beats the 30 second spot”
Vindicated
I wanna join this company! Nextmedium
See my earlier post: Where will the ads go?

Prison Break Season 3 is ON! 301 kicked ass. They killed Veronica! The PB recipe, of disturbing key pieces of the puzzle just as things start falling in place, still works like magic. I know, everybody uses that recipe. PB just does it better than most other shows. Anyway, the subtle product placements were there. […]

When Google apologized for the startup prefetching times even before I installed the extension, I didn’t think much of it. I thought they were satisfying the finicky 1% of the users who will complain despite your best efforts. Was I wrong or what… well, or I belong to that 1%.
Gbrowsersync is slow as hell. So […]

Google will launch a web based spreadsheet appplication in the near future. This is in keeping with the trend of moving traditional desktop applications to dedicated, remote servers. Though this is a fantastic paradigm for ubiquitous computing, privacy issues remain. That is a discussion for another time.
What I’m interested in right now, is a post […]

GM just anounced its IT outsourcing plan for the next 5 years. Click Here
Now here are some of the headlines:
1. GM to invest billions in IT (London Free Press, Canada)
2. GM Awards Contracts to Tech Companies (Los Angeles Times, CA)
3. Wipro signs deal with GM (Sify, India)
4. EDS Keeps GM Pipeline Turned On (TheStreet.com)
5. […]

Case in point: Gmail
The “More Actions” drop down menu used to have an option called “Move to Trash”. Getting to that option became second nature. Then they changed it and called it “Delete”. Now it a separate button… not on the menu.
Interface changes are interesting… wonder what they do to customers. I’m suprised to find […]

Om just posted about TopTenSources, an aggregator that picks a subject and grabs entries from 10 “editor’s choice” news feeds and replicates them on toptensources.com.
The issue with this is clear: “Should toptensources be allowed to get search engine juice by replicating other people’s content?”
But does TopTenSources itself bring anything to the table? Does it […]

MicroAppli is another company which was, until recently, in the NUS School of Computing Business Incubator. MicroAppli’s tag line:
Bringing the best services to connect millions of people: mobile content at your fingertips.
Interesting. They have partnered with another Singapore based company TagIt which also offers mobile services; their product KoolTag links mobile content to image tags […]

I signed up for a TheFaceBook account in a blink when I first heard about it. This was way back in 2003 when I was in the Bay Area. Today the company is worth over a 100 million dollars. When I first read […]

Flock is incredible because it lets you publish content from within the browser. Performancing is Flocks content publishing capabilities on steroids! It is a small firefox extension that opens a split pane in your browser window and lets you edit Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal […]