What could be more fun than a couple of babbling babies? This has been all over TV and the web but just in case you missed it:
Fun on a Friday – Twins Talk
April 1st, 2011Fun on a Friday – More Angry Birds
March 4th, 2011For my Angry Birds peeps . . . HOW FREAKIN’ DEAD ON ACCURATE IS THIS??? Genius!
Charlie Sheen Should Have Been Fired a Long Time Ago
March 2nd, 2011He’s been accused of felony assault for attacking his wife in December, 2009. His previous wife requested a restraining order after he threatened to kill her. He hires prostitutes (or “paid escorts”) and flaunts his drug and alcohol abuse. Can you imagine if Charlie Sheen worked at your company and did any of those things? I don’t care if he was our top producer, he would have been fired at any company I worked for, and I’ve worked for some that looked the other way a LOT. (OK, maybe WCW would have let him stay, but I digress.)
So what’s it take to get fired these days? Threaten a woman? Nah. That’s kid’s stuff. TALK BAD ABOUT YOUR BOSS? Oh no you didn’t. Apparently, that is the line in the sand that CBS and Warner Brothers drew.
Fun on a Friday – Angry Birds Edition
February 25th, 2011Any Angry Birds fans out there? Angry Birds is an addictive little game for your mobile phone and one of the most popular apps available. Cheap for iPhone users, free for the Droid. My husband plays it. I play it. Lots of other people play it. This guy likes it so much he turned his children into birds and pigs to recreate a bird suicide mission in photography.
Or how about this guy who created a set of Angry Birds out of Legos? (My husband will love this!)
If you’re a fan, or know someone who is a fan, I’ve put together some links to Angry Bird merchandise for your shopping pleasure.
- The official Angry Bird shop. i-Phone cases and plush dolls.
- Looking for something hand made? Check out these crocheted angry birds. My husband wants this pig and I think it would look great in the built-ins in our living room. I think home decor should have a sense of humor, don’t you?
- Or maybe you need a t-shirt. Spreadshirt.com has several and even has kids’ sizes.
- Amazon also has a plethora of good shirts and accessories like these:
- Or what about this little plush clip on? Do you think it would ruin the look of my new Coach bag?
Now if that isn’t some serious fun on a Friday, I don’t know what is! Hope you all have a great weekend!
Fun on a Friday
February 18th, 2011Check out this one minute infographic video from some Vancouver Film School students. Everything you ever wanted to know about kissing! I should have posted this last Friday – in advance of Valentine’s Day – but it’s still Valentine’s Week – so enjoy!
Can You Trust Search Engine Results?
February 14th, 2011
Can you trust those search engine results? When you type in “best restaurants” and your city name, are you really getting the best ones? After all, marketers (including us) work hard to get their clients’ businesses listed higher in the search rankings. There are tips, you see.
And then, there are tricks. Naughty search engine malpractice tricks, also called “black hat” techniques. If Google catches you, they’ll slap you down, or even remove you from their results altogether. And if you’re not on Google, DO YOU EVEN EXIST AT ALL? That’s a serious question for businesses today.
So it was with great interest that I read this article in the New York Times on J.C. Penney’s search engine subversiveness. It seems that my grandmother’s favorite retailer has been up to no good. During the holidays, if you typed in “little black dress,” guess who shot up to the top of the rankings? J. C. Penney. Really? Really? Cuz when I think of a little black dress, that’s IMMEDIATELY who comes to mind.
Obviously, Google wants their results to be relevant, not head-scratching. I won’t bore you with all the details of how Penney’s managed to pull off this feat (read the article for more), because you shouldn’t be doing what they did! And they did get caught.
Also, I wanted to point out that I was thrilled to see this in the mainstream media. Search engine optimization is one of the most important marketing tactics for any business today – in fact, one could argue that it is THE most important thing a business can do – and I rarely see it written about outside of the marketing pubs and blogs. EVERYBODY writes about Super Bowl commercials but very few businesses ever have the chance to run an ad in the Super Bowl. Most of us do our marketing in other arenas. So kudos to the Times for this and keep ‘em coming!
Fun on a Friday – Great Moments in Texting History
January 28th, 2011Mashable is up with some funny little cartoons on how history would be different if we’d had texting way back when. A sampling:
Listening to Pandora Yet? (Fun on a Friday)
January 21st, 2011Have you tried Pandora yet? Pandora is an Internet music station that figures out what kind of music you like and serves you up more of it. They call it the music genome project. As I understand it, they analyze the rhythm, beats, instrumentation, etc., of artists you like and create radio stations for you of similarly styled music.
I have to say it works great. I love music by the Killers and so I set up a Killers station. The way Pandora works is when you click on one of your stations, it first plays a song by that artist. So I’m listening to a Killers song right now. But next, it might play something by Coldplay or Muse or Queen – and nine times out of ten, it’s a song I have on my iPod or wish I had. It’s a great way to have a mix tape without taking the time to put it together. And of course, you get introduced to some new songs and artists in the process.
You can set up as many artist stations as you like. They’ll serve up a quick ad every 5 or 6 songs or so. They also have their own created stations by genre. When we were in the mood for some Christmas music over the holidays, we just quickly surfed over to Pandora and played their holiday station.
They have great apps for your phone, too.
I honestly have no idea how they mapped my music genome (for real?) but somehow they got inside my musical head and nail it every time.









