I read the headlines too, and yawned just like you did. But I took it one step further…I clicked. High Def Tubes Dude, it looks good! It really does. Not sure if you can see it here - but this looks good, at regular scale and also at Full Screen. Yes - it looks good when you click the window in the window. This was all spurred when I read blogmaverick’s post called “Youtube’s Desperation” Where does that leave Youtube ? Actually in a far better place. Two websites. One of which becomes a video search engine , with out...
It’s the first of December! Christmas is coming and the feel of presents is in the air. Boy do I love this time of year. Can’t wait to see what everyone gets or gives or even see how they celebrate, if at all. Within the WinExtra family we have our own gift giving place called the forums. We pass words of love and wisdom back and forth like little periods of acid or sentences of cocaine. Wow, what a mind-blowing family! With that in mind, we all would like to shout out to Kim, Steven’s better half, and wish her...
Today is Black Friday, a day dedicated to our basest and most pathetic inclinations. The day after giving thanks for all that we have, we turn around and jump through horrible hoops to accumulate more at the insistence of sleazy, desperate retailers. It's a nice summation of everything wrong with this country and the holiday season, an appropriately named cancerous mark on our calendars. Our behavior today is the sort of thing an alien race would use as justification for our destruction. Let's run through the specifics, shall we? 1. Deals in Exchange for Dignity You know what sucks? Not...
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A few short months ago, many of us were under the impression that this year's LA Auto Show would be a great showcasing of a new direction for the worldwide auto industry. Everyone knew about the MINI E and expected to see more hybrids and fuel cell concepts than ever before. How naive we were. No one knew, or even expected that by the time the show rolled around, the country would have plunged into a recession that would see many of the Big Three executives in Washington begging for money rather than in LA promoting their products. That was...
I mentioned this Monday, but it's that time again. SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, has opened its annual State of the Market Survey. Through December, the organization will be accepting responses to questions that, once analyzed, will enlighten us about spending and resources devoted to search marketing across the board. Last year's survey, based on responses from 900 marketers, found that SEM spend in North America was projected to grow to $25.2 billion in 2011 and that Internet marketers were gaining budget by poaching dollars from print magazine spend. It was also reported that paid placement was receiving...
Online retailers are not immune to the current credit crunch and are feeling the heat in a big way. The New York Times says that online spending dropped 4% for the first 23 days of November 2008 when compared to the same period last year. According to comScore, the online spending was about $8.19 billion versus $8.51 billion in 2007. They are forecasting flat holiday season at $29.2 billion. Their estimates are more conservative than $30.3 billion in projected online spending this holiday season by eMarketer which estimated a total of $136.8 billion. In comparison, comScore is projecting $131.3 billion....
Things are bad out there, people. We're going to see a pretty sad holiday shopping season from retailers perspectives. Yet these Black Friday ads we're seeing, they look just like they do every year. I don't think they adequately reflect just how badly they want, nay, they need your money. Let's add a bit of that desperation into their advertising, shall we? For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you to make some brutally honest Black Friday ads. Work your magic up and then send the results along to me at contests@gizmodo.com with "Honest Black Friday" in the subject line....
Rather bizarre Internet meme going around regarding a fellow who owed money and decided to pay it back by emailing a drawing of a spider. Read the email thread here. Now we have folks trying to purchase The Consumerist with spider drawings and a crappy drawing of a spider playing Wii valued at $33,674.23. Yeah, I find this funny, partly because of all the financial turmoil, resulting from people unable to pay back borrowed money. One can see how, as an act of total desperation, you’d resort to drawing crappy spiders and mailing them in as a mortgage payment....
As the Sears ship continues to sink into the depths of devalued stock prices, irrelevancy and non-existent sales, the rats scurrying for dry ground have expanded from executive talent to activist investors. Noted activist investor Bill Ackman has reduced his SHLD holdings by 92.5 percent. When an activist like Ackman dumps like that, he has probably decided that nothing he says or does will make a difference. So why did Ackerman bail? In fairness to Sears, he may have simply decided that the the current state of the retail sector merited a pull out. He however does not appear...
