Even though the companies sell different products, some similarities are impossible to ignore. “We need a new term for ‘internet-based small businesses that still use global supply infrastructure,’” said my friend, the culture writer Kyle Chayka, when I told him about this story. “We know these minimalist-ish generic aesthetics are not connected to any true local origin, but we see them as indicative of some kind of authenticity. My current thought is that they don’t feel local to a place, but instead they feel local to the internet, which is, after all, where we all live.”

Successfully marketing a product so that it feels local everywhere is an art.

s the frisson of reading these weird corporate tweets happen because we are rating the social-media manager’s performance on Twitter, like an Olympic judge holding up a score at the end of each tweet (and supplying important metrics to the brand at the same time)? Or does the Denny’s brand’s mewling Twitter intimacy make us feel paternal, bound to support and foster our corporate brand children as they speak to us through the web, learning our native medium? That explanation doesn’t seem complete to me, though. I also feel a sinister intimation of power in these new corporate social-media voices. Denny’s the corporation has transformed itself through its tone into a

Interesting insight on today's music business, and its relationship with the internet, especially youtube !

"Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent." - but obviously there's been some sales on those DVDs too

"The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans."

damn... Coelho made something cool.. :o eww .. my.. i'm confused

about the OSX10.5 BSOD

"Logomotto is a very simple page that randomly juxtaposes a company logo with another’s company slogan."

"'Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?' Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb."

...would up the combined companies' share of the all-important search advertising market to 27 percent against Google's 65 percent. It would also narrow the gap in overall online ads with Google to just 13 percent.

"Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare"

the idea is to have a free sponsored parcel (ads on the skybox) - and only the most popular parcels can stay, the others are given to other people

that reminds me of product placement in the Truman Show

about "alliwantforxmasisapsp", and viral/guerilla marketing

viral marketing website for Valve's Portal