Friday, September 05, 2008

Shoe Circus - Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates



Saw this last night during the NFL season opener and thought it was pretty funny. I hope Microsoft can open their eyes and make their products better than what they have been doing lately. Some may call me a Mac Fanboy, but I still enjoy clever marketing and this commercial did just that by its pure genius of putting Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in a commercial together.

[update]

David (my commenter) - I think they have good chemistry together. But then again, I am a huge Seinfeld fan and my opinion might be skewed a little.

Also, regardless of what this commercial does for the product name exactly doesn't matter. It is causing an uproar and at the end of the day good publicity, bad publicity anything will make people remember. To the common consumer, which these commercials are directed towards; will remember Microsoft and that is pure GENIUS.

I wanna go fast!


Thursday, September 04, 2008

Tivo on the brains


No wonder why I have Tivo on the brain. First I see that Tivo released the new HD XL and now I read that DirecTV and Tivo are developing a new box that will be released in the second half of 2009. I loved my HR10-250 and was very disappointed when DirecTV went to a generic DVR.

Google Chrome

Google has added a new weapon to their arsenal of apps. It is a lightweight internet browser called Google Chrome. I have only been using Google Chrome since yesterday but I wanted to let you what my initial thoughts were. So far it is running fine for me and does everything it should, but I haven't figured out how to print something (probaly hiding from me). The funny thing is that it is different than any other browser I have ever used and yet I find it simple. Now all Google needs to do is sell a cheap and small computer that runs this browser and you pretty much would be set with Gmail and Google apps for word and excel.