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I've been using your Triple Play service since I moved up here in September.
I'm a bit befuddled how a company that provides HD TV, On-Demand services and broadband internet can't find a way to remove current customers from various sales materials mailing lists.
Quit wasting paper, money and your customers' time.
You're not making many friends, let alone fans, these days.
Figure it out.
Can't wait for the walk today!
Oh, and if you've not used simple weather yet, you might want to check it out. Much more to the point than some weather sites.
Apple is being accused of playing Big Brother on people using the iPhone (and possibly Leopard) through a couple of the widgets. The post on 9to5Mac states that they are collecting info on individual users that could be used to build user profiles that includes data on travel, financial and banking preferences, work details and even personal browsing information.
Some Apple fans are rising to their defense saying that there is no harm being done here by Apple. I'm not an expert on what different bits of code mean, so I can't say who is right. Very ironic though that the company who took a jab at their competition using the Big Brother idea is now being accused of just that.
What's becoming more and more interesting to me is how apparent it really is that marketing and advertising have become the evil empire. Verizon faced some of this same scrutiny a while back when it sent out a letter letting it's customers know they would begin sharing information from their calling records with its “affiliates, agents and parent companies.”
Now that technology is getting to a point where we can start being served up relevant information to our lives instead of being barraged with a million things we don't care about, we're too jaded and distrustful of marketers too allow the sharing of our information that would enable this. I can't say I blame anyone for not wanting to share their information. There are plenty of bad things that cold happen from this.
I just find it interesting that by sharing this information, we could be relieved of some of the annoyance of having advertising that means nothing to us shoved in front of us; yet we don't trust companies enough with this information to make that pain go away.
We've seen some fan videos posted for this song before, but this one takes it to an entirely new level. In the "About This Video" section on the video's YouTube page, you'll see that they say they were inspired by the girl who wrote on her hands.
Right now, it's only available through Amazon UK. But you can pre-order it in the U.S. store.
My copy arrived late last week. Just started reading it last night. When it arrived, I was second guessing myself on whether or not I should have waited to get it. Only because I wasn't sure if it was worth paying the extra shipping and an unfavorable exchange rate for. (Now seeing what the U.S. store is charging for it, the exchange rate bit is negligible.) I've only gotten through the introduction, other preface stuff and chapter 1, but that thought now seems laughable.
I think this is going to supplant Truth, Lies & Advertising as the first book I recommend when someone tells me they want to be a planner and asks, among other things, for a recommendation on what books to read.
Here's a couple quotes from the dust jacket by people whose books I have also recommended previously, and will continue to recommend:
"King writes of our industry, at its best, as representing "Creative imagination subjected to critical control." He could have been describing his own mind and approach, which have inspired generations of brand managers and planners and remain deeply relevant today. This book should be required reading for everyone entering the business, and serve as a reminder to the rest of us that however high we think we have set our standards, they are probably not high enough." - Jon Steel, Planning Director, WPP
"King's relentless thirst to understand, rigour of questioning and breadth of learning remain an inspiration. A profoundly rewarding, and rather humbling read." - Adam Morgan, Eat Big Fish
I happened across the new Wolff Olins site back in October sometime and mentally flagged it because the topic of their home page is one I've been noodling around since before getting up to Minneapolis and am going to put up a post about soon. (Posts are still slow and short due to spending time working on establishing a new life up here. I'm going to start getting back into the swing of things soon. Promise.)
Anyway, explore their site when you get a moment. I really like what they've done with it.
Interesting work for Orangina coming out of France. The web site is also worth a peek.
15 November 2007 update: English version also available.
Meant to share this one last week, but didn't get to it. So, here it is now...
Poke has created a fun site for Orange that pays off their new campaign idea "Good Things Should Never End." Thanks to Iain Tait for pointing it out last week on his blog and via Twitter. Good work, Iain & Poke. Good work.
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