Simple, and to the point…
The advertising that Volkswagen ran in American magazines and newspapers in the 1960s was legendary, perhaps the greatest ad campaign ever.. This is a great little documentary about how the ads came about — pitching “a Nazi car in a Jewish town”..
Source: Those great 1960s Volkswagen ads
Now this is one of the better offbeat advertising campaigns I’ve seen for enterprise software:
Tibco, a major player in the SOA space, came up with the Greg the Architect campaign. It’s a pretty funny look into the world of the IT foot soldier in a big company. I particularly liked the episode I embedded above, as I used to do a lot of ROI analysis work for software deployments. The latest episode, which pokes fun at analysts, is also really funny.
[Found via: Jeremiah Owyang]
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With all the free office clones floating about, including Google’s Docs&Spreadsheets, you knew it was just a matter of time that Microsoft would have to offer something to counter. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley is blogging about such a move. Apparently, the new Microsoft Works will run on an advertising supported model, and will be available as a free application when released later this year. This is not Microsoft’s first foray into free office applications, as the company released a free version, but highly restricted, of its accounting software recently. While this is not ‘official’ news, the move is not at all surprising.
Michael Arrington broke the news yesterday, Performancing – makers of the excellent blog posting add-in for FireFox – has been acquired by PayPerPost. PPP has been very controversial in the blogging world, as it operates a service whereby bloggers get paid by product companies to blog about their respective products. Hired guns, essentially. Many have argued that this amounts to blog spam…others are less kind. As for me, I’m sad that Performancing sold itself to PPP; I can’t imagine they were the only offer around for this toolset. I’ve been using Performancing to post for a while now, having switched from BlogJet (which is excellent too, but not as ‘in-line’ as Performancing is), but I may consider leaving it as my blogging tool of choice given these turn of events.
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They will be announcing the acquisition of blogging tools and services company Performancing
UPDATE: It looks like I, and others, may have come to the wrong conclusion on the PPP acquisition of Performancing. As Matt states, PPP is buying some of the assets of Performancing. This deal does not involve the Firefox add-in. That’s great news. I guess all’s well on the blogosphere this evening.
