Weezer’s new video will go viral
Leave it to Weezer to put together the king of all viral music videos. They took the internets biggest viral videos, added their song and now they have their own viral video. I love that they how they have K-Fed, Miss Teen South Carolina, the Numa Numa guy, changing the words and actions to fit this video. Makes it even better.
[Update] Just found a montage of all of the videos referenced in the video, for those of you not up on your viral videos. Couldn’t embed it, so head over to Valleywag if you want to see it.
http://valleywag.com/393048/weezers-pork-and-beans-deconstructed
Two of my favorite things should come together.
Tomorrow is the Starbucks Annual Meeting, which I really wish I was going to. I’m a shareholder, but with just recently taking a vacation, decided I should be at work, rather than checking out what Howard talks about tomorrow. He’s typically not rolling out as many new and noteworthy things as Steve Jobs, but since it is his first meeting since retaking his role as CEO, it may be the biggest meeting in recent history.
Then this coming Thursday is the beginning of March Madness. The best sporting event of the year that typically does not have Oregon State in it. With the tournament comes office pools and many many brackets being filled out, distributed, and talked about with almost every person you know. I have what I think is my final bracket, but with UCLA having two potential game changing injuries, I may have to change it again tomorrow.
As there is a rumor that Starbucks may be unveiling a customer loyalty program tomorrow it got me thinking as to what this program can, will, and should look like.
The Southwest “Productivity” ads actually mean something.
I found the Southwest Air productivity line of ads they’ve been playing during the NFL playoffs funny, but I wasn’t sure how they really were tied back to Southwest Air. I have a jaded memory of Southwest, based on a cross country flight probably 10 years ago where I think we made 3 stops to get to Baltimore from Portland. Not a fun trip, and definitely not a trip that would help with a business travelers productivity.
Well Southwest has now announced that they will be rolling out full on wifi in their planes, which will be the fastest wifi in the US. Jet Blue has been praised for their wifi, but from all reports I have heard, it’s a very handcuffed wifi that is more frustrating than it is worth. If Southwest rolls out fully functioning wifi there might be a reason for me to start traveling Southwest again, and there is definitely a reason for the productivity ads they have recently been running.
I got more than double billed…and I’m not even mad.
So this morning my hosting company Dreamhost sent me an email saying that they had billed me for the next year of web hosting, plus updating some domain names, and that my credit card had been billed. Well, I was at work so didn’t look into it much, but I thought I had been billed a few months ago and that I wasn’t due to pay for the service again for another nine month. Well a few hours later I found out I was right.
Dreamhost sent out an email, posted a blog entry, and many other blogs started writing about the mixup. The billing team at Dreamhost has taken a very non-chalant tone in all of their customer contact pieces, and they continued this tone, even in a HUGE mixup that they made. They actually billed $7.5M to customers today, which isn’t bad for a single day of billing I guess.
The honesty and humor was a perfect mix of being up front as well as keeping their same tone to keep me feeling good about hosting my domains with Dreamhost. A great company who I highly recommend… unless they triple bill you.
For a good reach check out their blog entry addressing the issue: Dreamhost Blog- “Um, Whoops”
“Something in the air…”
But first, Netflix. Tonight (Sunday), Netflix has announced that starting tomorrow all their subscribers, except for their cheapest level, will be able to watch streaming movies online. Over 6,000 movies will be available by the time anyone reads this which is a first and major step in saving Netflix money and making membership to Netflix more important.
The obvious reason they are announcing this in a press release is to beat the thunder that Apple will be announcing tomorrow. Nobody knows exactly what Steve will be announcing on screen, but most people think that one of the minor announcements will be that you can rent movies through iTunes. Not a bad move, but if they only have one or two studios on board and Netflix has over 6,000 movies, well I think we know who the winner would be. However, if Apple were to announce some other new offerings to help people watch more movies through the iTunes rental store, it may put their limited selection in high demand.
The title of this post refers to the banners that have been hung outside of the Mac World Expo which begins tomorrow. The predictions for what it means are all over the place, from WiMax, to Slingbox, to computers that don’t need any cords for charging or connecting to other machines. My predictions are an ultra slim macbook (under 12 inches), an updated appleTV (maybe stream HD to your tv from your computer), updated cinema displays (with isghts built in), and for good measure lets hope that this MacBook Air is happening.
I doubt they will be announcing anything that I will be NEEDING, but who knows what my reaction will be once I see the new toys. Last years event almost sent me to the U Village Apple Store during my lunch break…if only the iPhone had have been available that day, I would have been $500 poorer.
Any guesses what will be announced today?
Jawbone, pulls a sweet PR move
Jawbone, is representing at CES with a booth, and not only that, they are using up some of their new money on an amazing PR move. Jawbone, is accepting any other phone headset as a trade-in for their amazing headsets. I have one and LOVE it. It has made using a bluetooth headset bearable and actually very enjoyable.
This move puts the amazing headsets in the right ears as CES is mostly attended by bloggers and reports, so therefor the loss leader will quickly turn into alot of written words about how peoples lives have been changed since they started using their free Jawbone headset.
About Otis
I live in Seattle, Washington. I am passionate about working with and interacting with others. My work experience includes marketing, account management, and sales.
I am a huge sports fan who on top of cheering for my favorite teams (Go Beavs!) also appreciates coaching strategy, as well as the marketing behind teams, players, and events.
Personally, I enjoys exploring new cities and areas (particularly small towns) and getting outside and playing.