DoSomeTalking

Here’s me doing something silly.
I’m going to talk about English. Language evolution. Grammar. Cultural use and meaning. I cannot even talk right. Let alone spell. But me is stupid brave. So here goes.
Language is one of the things defining a group. When you talk the way others talk - you feel part of. But […]

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If they sue me, come to visit in jail. If they come for my family - know I’ll revenge.
But heck. This smells so bad, I had to share what I think.
For a stealth website, NotchUp are doing a hell of a job. I got something like five invitations in the last 12 hours. Some from […]

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This is a fine example of thinking out side the box. Sixt Germany (car rental company) decided to use a novel approach in order to stand out in the AdWords crowd.
They used ASCII art:

If you ask me - plain genius.
Got them 47% increase in clicks.
And Google throwing them down the stairs (for “repetitive punctuation”, which […]

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It’s a lost war.
And one where a lot of money is waisted. For nothing.
There’s a big difference between today’s war of formats and the VHS vs. Beta at the early 80s’. At the old days, the winner (ending an almost 10 year’ battle) gained a market share for a decade. A lot of money […]

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This is no a conspiracy theory. I have proof. First, let’s establish the rules for KGB “running” something:

Shortage in goods.
Long lines.
Creation of black-market.

Now that we agree on that, let’s consider the following facts:
Amazon’s Kindle. Upon the issuing of the Good-Mother-Russia-Quality device:

Ran out of stock within 5.5 hours.
Created long lines:

Sells on eBay for 1,500$.

Nintendo’s Wii:

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