I'm dry

Like a prune.
I think I've basically had a few things i wanted to say pile up and now that I've blogged them I have nothing.
Should I be worried. or will I get interesting?
Or am I screwed?...
Oh - I changed my mind a bit about twitter today.
I found out that if you want you can read what Stephen Fry is doing.
Today he went to the lawyers.
Great.

Better than Google?

Have you seen this?

Its a new search engine.

Apparently, this was created by two ex-Google employees and they are allegedly the “world’s biggest search engine”. It claims to monitor more pages (three times more…) than Google and (ten times more….) than MSN.

I can't help but think about the betamax vs VHS battle that raged in the 80s.

Betamax was the better technology - it should have won the video tape race.

But VHS had massive marketing and technology partners behind it (and was quicker to market). So it won the race.

Another reason was thet you couldnt get porn on Betamax...

I have a sneaking feeling that Cuil may go the same way... appart from the porn bit...

Obama

He's everywhere. A software company jump on the bandwaggon with this beauty... Really, really blatent sponsorship prompt at the top of this game featuring everything including Nokia and UPS to Casino gaming vendors.

I don't like it (its a bit club-footed for me). Sponsorship in this manner is un-targetted and non-relevent (and frankly p1sses me off).

I'm a fan of sponsorship and there are some really good/obvious/relevent marriages.

Obama, 1983 arcade games and UPS ain't one. Sorry.

Twitter

Am I allowed not to like Twitter? I'm a fan of Facebook (I get it) - but Twitter has skipped past me merrily. Though on Twitters homepage they have a testimonial that reads:

''If you aren't familiar with Twitter, it is one of those things, like MySpace, that sounds totally ridiculous and stupid when you first hear about it. But once you start using it, you realize how much fun it is.''

Some people... (tut)

Just right?

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I'm currently eating Kellogg's 'Just Right' cereal (excited yet?). Its the cheapest healthy choice down at Saino's at the mo (gotta watch the figure!).

It got me thinking about product naming (my mate works for Kellogg and spends a great deal of planning time looking at this very thing).

I can't help thinking that my box of 'Just right' needs to be straddled on the shelf by a box of 'Really sh1t' to its left and 'Absolutely Brilliant!' to the right.

Gives the thing some context non? Goldilocks needed some!

Have Argos gone mad?

Have you seen the new Argos Xmas TV ads? Sadly I cant point you to them online, however the proposition seems to be 'Why go to a nice department store and get your gifts beautifully wrapped this year when you can come to Argos and we'll give them to you ..... in a brown box!'. Brilliant.

Code Computerlove are Digital Agency of the Year

According to the Dadi Awards. And who are we to argue? :-)

We didnt win for our work on Crown or HMV sadly :-(.

Looking forward to seeing how our new Original Source site performs at the Big Chips. We love it.

PS: I'm not the 'awards type' to be honest - but its a great reminder of how lucky we are to work in the digital creative sector.