British Tearoom, Prince of Wales
OK, this took a few seconds, but it sure did make me laugh!
I just wonder how much they had to photohop those cup-handles, because once you get it, they don’t look like ordinary handles any more at all…
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: The Next Big Thing in 2006
Just a short note: Don Dodge has an interesting post on what’s The Next Big Thing in 2006. Summarised:
Communication and connection are the big opportunity areas for 2006.
But there is more in his post, go read it. 2006 will be a good year!
Own The Last 1,000 Pixels on MillionDollarHomepage.com
A lot of sources have already talked about this site: The million dollar homepage, where a guy is selling off 1 million pixels of his homepage at $1 per pixel. By the way, he needs more than the average screen resolution of 1024×768, because that’s just 786432 in total – that means more than 200,000 Pixels are definitely not visible when visiting the site!
Now he’s selling of the last 1,000 Pixels on ebay. Which is always good for publicity – selling on ebay, that is.
Amazing fact: the bids are already over $160k!
So I go on to ask myself the same question as probably 1 million other people worldwide: Why didn’t I come up with such nonsense? All my other ideas are usually just as stupid!
Oh, and while we’re wondering who might be the lucky bidder: my guess is that it’ll be the Golden Casino, once again. They already bought the car of the pope, some burned piece of toasted bread, the linconl fry, etc. All via ebay – the must have a coop with ebay on this. (There was once a blogpost by someone on how to create a buzz through useless ebay auctions, but I can’t find it any more – this was definitely before de.licio.us!)
The Online Favor Exchange
TechCrunch had a post almost a week ago about a Favor Exchange called Favorville:
Favorville facilitating the exchange of helpful acts.
Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community.
Of course, the site also has a rating system, just like you think it should have, when you’re used to sites like ebay.
I really like this idea! And apparently, there are a first couple of people in Frankfurt, Germany taking part in this!
Spread the word, this could easily become one of the most useful communities on the web!
Time is Money, especially this Winter
The first rumours about new prices for Superbowle Ads are out here (Joe complaining a „little“ about the new price increase) and here, and some more coverage on CNN.
I am not too much into sports, so I didn’t make the connection immediately, but with what CNN writes, spending that much money on the superbowl does seem like a huge waste:
Still, some advertisers may be wary of spending so much, especially since the Winter Olympics begins just 5 days later in Torino, Italy. NBC will be airing the Olympics from Feb. 10 through Feb. 26. […] Shari Anne Brill, vice president of programming with Carat USA, a media-buying firm, added that the Olympics might be more cost effective, since a company could buy several Olympics ads for the cost of just one Super Bowl spot.
But it doesn’t just affect mediaprices:
…the increased pressure to produce ads that will please critics and viewers has some advertisers nervous. Some companies may skip the game, Scanzoni said, simply because they don’t think their ads are good enough.
Good TV ads quite often also cost a lot of money, while you never know how for sure the broad audience will like them.
I guess we’ll see more of that kind of argumentation in the next couple of weeks.
As mentioned, I am now reading Joe Jaffe’s book „Life after the 30-second spot“, so I follow this debate closely.
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