Tuesday October 28th 2008
9:15PM | Marketing Fail
t the beginning of last week, Google released its first competitor to the iPhone: the Android-powered G1 is its name. T-Mobile is the only service provider for this phone right now. Curious to see the G1's features (again), I clicked through a link to the T-Mobile website for a G1 feature tour. The T-Mobile website was using an embedded Youtube video to show off the G1's features, and that is appropriate since it's a Google phone and Youtube is owned by Google. But the funny thing is that on this big release day for Google's hyped entry into the superphone market, the T-Mobile webpage with the embedded Youtube video served up this:
FAIL
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Wednesday October 22nd 2008
10:36PM | Politically Confused
fter two weeks of hearing the media, blogs, and peasantry proclaim McCain's bid for the White House dead, and Obama's coronation inevitable, today I read that an AP Poll (if I am not confusing polls with the college football top 25) has McCain and Obama in a dead heat. This puts me in a bind. I don't know what to think when I let the mainstream media do my thinking for me. I am lost without the media's color commentary keeping me apace with what is going on in the reality that surrounds me.
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