Driving home today I saw a sign that made me realize how overused yet utterly meaningless some common company names are.
Tag: marketing
How the Internet of Things Will Change the World: Not by Much
Are you ready for the enormous, revolutionary, ground-shattering changes coming with the IoT? If you said “yes” and by “yes” you meant you were prepared for breathtaking changes, you are a naive child wading in a murky pool of lampreys, your will putty in the hands of the same charlatans who brought you terms like […]
We got a different StarWars Trailer in Japan
I live in Japan. The new Japanese trailer for Star Wars that I saw today was not the same as the new English one that I was shown on a website. Huh? Disney is apparently doing a striptease by varying what they show in different language versions. Sneaky — and probably a really good strategy. […]
A Note to a Web Retailer about JavaScript-or-Else Pages
I was cruising computer hardware retailers on the web today because I’ve got to make a few orders. Not so many that I need to pester the manufacturers directly, but a large order compared to what most folks buy online with a credit card. Specifically, I need to replace one motherboard and build six new […]