A great ad guy knows his target audience better than they know themselves. So, when copywriter Alec Brownstein went looking for a new gig, he bought Google ad keywords that were the names of …
What is iPad?
"It's already a revolution. And it's only just begun." And it's also shards of glass and aluminum if that's how you insist on carrying it around. Great ad. Great product demo. Lousy example of …
We’re all hyper-retailers now
It feels like something big just happened with the launch of Square, the personal credit-card swiping system that's integrated with iPhone and iPad. Suddenly, anybody can be a retailer that takes …
The Angry Birds fans are angry, and empowered
It's still surprising in this inter-connected age that a company can get caught thinking they can pull one over on people. And yet, they do. Case in point: The wildly-popular Angry Birds iPhone …
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TMI, automated
Given that I've always treated my Facebook account as if it were 100% public, the ever-creeping publicness of Facebook hasn't concerned me much. But if you think -- or worse, act as if -- Facebook …
Hello, future. You look awfully familiar.
Do concept cars look like they do because that's the natural progression of design, or because some Sci-Fi artists in the 1950s decided this is what the car of the future will look like? Either …
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