Archive for the 'Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious' Category
South Park creators fill niche left by closing of South Park pirate site, AllSP.com
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 25th, 2008 in Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Conjecture, Fun with PR, TV, great ideas, viacom.South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have done what no other content creators have been able to do online, until now. They launched a site where fans of South Park can legally watch every episode of the show, so long as they are in the US. International fans will have to [...]
Aviary: Online Photoshop is no simpler
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 5th, 2008 in Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, DIY, Reviews, hot betas, hot invites.For a last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with Aviary, a new online image editor, in the hopes of adding more realistic wings to my headless profile picture. Alas, after two weeks of intermittent experimentation I’ve met with next to no success. It appears that putting a complex image editing application online does not [...]
Trendwatching: Eco-fatigue, Gen Z and Pet-Passe the future of marketing!
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 7th, 2007 in A-List Blogs, Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Conjecture, Fun with PR, Futurist, Humor, Innovation, Market Research & Intelligence, Research, Research Summary, TrendSpotting, Viral marketing, a-list, great ideas, parody, social ideas, tech humor.As someone who watches for trends in technology one of the many sites I frequent is Trendwatching.com. They offer a bevy of free research reports on global Trends with pithy insightful commentary and links. If your not getting their free reports or buying the paid stuff, then your missing out. Their most recent Trend Briefing [...]
Pandora and the Future of Advertising
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello October 6th, 2007 in Advertising 2.0, Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Pandora, advertising, great ideas.This morning while listening to my Feist radio station on Pandora something unusual caught my eye. Like everyone else, I’m fairly ad-blind and tend to ignore everything on the right edge of the screen but for some reason this ad caught my attention. It could have been the sultry looking brunette, but I like [...]
BGO: No DRM Infection = Higher Sales
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 20th, 2007 in Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Digital Music, Digital downloading, EMI, anti-drm, copyright, drm.Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious
For some reason folks are acting all shocked that sales of digital music seem to go up when you dont cripple it with DRM. In a piece thats all over the net right now (here, here, here and here) Bloomberg (the news service not the recently independent, non-presidential candidate) [...]
