Archive for July, 2007

Video game marketing

Posted by admin in Marketing on July 31, 2007

Halo 3 marketing invades BK, 7-11, Pontiac and more – Xbox 360 Fanboy

As a marketer I read this article and think, “how much fun would it be to be one of the guys on the ‘Halo 3 marketing machine’?”

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Video game marketing

Posted by admin in Hobby, Marketing on July 31, 2007

Halo 3 marketing invades BK, 7-11, Pontiac and more – Xbox 360 Fanboy

As a marketer I read this article and think, “how much fun would it be to be one of the guys on the ‘Halo 3 marketing machine’?”

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A datacenter in your home?

Posted by admin in Datacenters on July 16, 2007

HP MediaSmart server powered by Windows Home Server | Crave : The gadget blog

By definition, way of wikipedia, a data center is “a facility used to house mission critical computer systems and associated components”.

I bring this up because my client, DLR, is a major data center provider to the worlds largest corporations. They lease out data center space into the 100s of thousands of square feet to Fortune 2000 companies and the like.

So am I correct to read that computer manufacturers like HP, Dell and Cisco are attempting to take the data center into the home? Yes.

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A datacenter in your home?

Posted by admin in Datacenters on July 16, 2007

HP MediaSmart server powered by Windows Home Server | Crave : The gadget blog

By definition, way of wikipedia, a data center is “a facility used to house mission critical computer systems and associated components”.

I bring this up because my client, DLR, is a major data center provider to the worlds largest corporations. They lease out data center space into the 100s of thousands of square feet to Fortune 2000 companies and the like.

So am I correct to read that computer manufacturers like HP, Dell and Cisco are attempting to take the data center into the home? Yes.

And it makes sense. In fact, I am anxious to build my own data center.

What does this mean?

Well, how many people do you know have their own domain? I own shawnfranklin.com and shawnnashley.com. I am even attempting to acquire shawn.com and ashley.com. Now imagine a data center in your home that houses your domain (e.g. shawnfranklin.com) where your website is designed to be your own “MySpace” like website that contains:

your blog

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Latest blog post for my company

Posted by admin in Marketing on July 6, 2007

Starr Tincup: The ever and ongoing battle of print advertising

Thought I should add a link here to a post I recently created for our company blog.

Please read it above before continuing with this post…

My secondary thought I had that I did not add to my company post was:

- Is this divergence from print advertising a generational thing?

Today, we have Digg / News, Google Reader, FeedBlitz – The Leading RSS and Blog to Email Service, del.icio.us, and countless other news and RSS feeds.

But how much advertising do you get through those RSS feeds? NONE. That’s right; and that is exactly why so many people have opted-out of receiving the news paper at their front door and, instead, have chosen to receive their news and information via the Internet.

So, I wonder if a driving force of this abandonment of the magazines print edition is ‘generational.’ More than likely, yes.

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