Year: 2007

advertisment, life

JWT Job Site

This is one of the more interesting job sites I’ve seen. It’s a very different take on the company I currently work for who are recruiting entry level people – are you Ready to Sell Your Soul?

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life

Slingbox working

My dad’s finally got the router working at home and now I can log into the Slingbox and Tivo to watch and record Uk programmes. I love technology at times 😉

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web stuff

Widgetised

I’ve updated this theme so I’m now widgetised. Given my general flakiness with CSS and php, I think it’s all OK but not too sure. I’ve tested in Firefox 2 and IE 7 on the laptop; if anyone has other browsers can you take a look and see if the 3 column layout is retained?

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General

Spam Phone calls

I have a landline (or at least a VoIP version of one). The only people who have the number are may parents. And the phone company. Who seem to have no problem giving that number to all and sundry resulting in a multitude of spam calls. Which I thought was not allowed. And the do […]

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life

Searching for fractured neck symptoms

It looks like I’m currently the top search result on Google for ‘how do you know if you have a fractured neck’. I hope the person who came to my site after using that term ended up going to the doctor and getting an X-ray!

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behindthebuzz

Behind the Buzz – the other blog

My other Blog, Behind the Buzz, is where I’m posting more and more of my marketing posts. It’s still not quite ready with the b5media styling, but as I’m busy posting anyway, here’s links to some of the stories on that site: Superbowl Madness: Both the NFL and Doritos chips are running campaigns to make […]

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technology

iPhone lawsuit

I guess Apple never got round to signing those licensing agreements with Cisco for use of their trademark term iPhone. And now they are suing. “Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name,” said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel, Cisco. “There […]

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technology

iPhone reactions

To be honest, I’m not really into phones. I have a pretty good one for the UK, all 3g and live tv and browsing etc but the data plan sucked and it’s no use where I am. And my US phone is just about manages to phone and text, there nothing else really to it. […]

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technology

iphone Countdown

If you are determined to get one and you want to find out how long you have to wait – iphonecountdown.com has the numbers for you. From Mike via Dan.

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advertisment, marketing

The advertising world and the new web

Hugh is offering to help solve the conundrum of meshing big, corporate business advertising as performed by the big corporate advertising agencies with the world that is Web2.0. He has a solution he’s willing to offer you for $100k. And if I had the cash, I might have taken him up on the offer, given […]

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UGC, video, viral

Attracting attention

You’ll have most likely seen the SNL Dick in a Box Sketch. And GETV’s response about Boobs in a Box. Now there’s the one sure way to get a man’s attention in the Valley.

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General

Rav 4 Jousting

Don’t do this at home – Rav 4 (Toyota) have 2 videos sitting out on the web showing people riding along on cars and jousting. Unlike Grolsch Holland, this is completely siloed though and you can only see it on their site. No downloads or embeds for the Rav 4 fans then. No trusting what […]

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UGC, viral

Fighthunger Video competition

I wrote earlier about the UN Fighthunger video competition. Well, they have no released the winner, Kristen Palana. The other winners can be seen be seen here. Let their persuasive powers wash over you and go and donate!

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web stuff

The Orginal Social Networking

I’ve had this open in my tabs for a while but only now got round to blogging it – a critical look at the increase in social networking in 2006 and whether or not this is just a fad. ‘Community’ and ‘socialising’ have been huge in 2006 but the big question is how long they […]

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marketing, PR

Vista Promotion

Dave Taylor has a good take on the Vista laptop promotion being run by Microsoft and Edelman. In his opinion they’re sending out laptops instead of the OS DVD as the upgrade process, combined with the machine specs would mean that many of the target bloggers would not have a good time installing this. There […]

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General

Breaking things

The last thing I did before I left the parents was to set up the Slingbox. After working out I needed to change MAC addresses on the router, I eventually got the whole thing working well and then moved things around and wired them in. (Ethernet to the Slingbox, phoneline to the Tivo, all across […]

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