With the passing of the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock Music and Art Fair on August 15th, I thought I pass along this piece of Woodstock history.
Via the Fake Steve Jobs blog. Enjoy.
Archive for August, 2009
Woodstock 1969: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child
August 31, 2009Domain Renewal Problems Update
August 30, 2009In a previous post, I wrote about my domain renewal problems with a registrar who hasn’t responded to my emails or returned my phone calls about their website not processing renewal orders.
It appears I have already lost one excellent domain and others are at risk.
I wrote the post in hopes it would be discovered by someone who could help me get my domains renewed and out of the control of what appears now to be a defunct registrar agent.
Indeed within twelve hours of writing about the problems I was experiencing, I was contacted by someone offering to help solve my domain registrar problems.
At this point it looks like my domain registration headaches may be over.
If so, I will report who helped me solve my domain registrar problem, how they did it and what others who may have experienced the same problem can hope to solve theirs.
Domain Registrar Complaint
August 29, 2009Several of my domains are with a domain reseller who hasn’t renewed their site’s security certificate.
Consequently, I haven’t been able to renew my domains online and the regsistrar won’t return my phone calls, emails or respond to a trouble ticket I submitted several weeks ago.
As it turns out, the “registrar” who isn’t allowing me to renew my domains is actually a reseller for Tucows.
I submitted a complaint today to ICANN about the registrar.
ICANN Complaint Form
I also contacted Tucows “customer service” to see what their procedures are for remedying problems like mine caused by their customers.
In an auto response email, Tucows said they would get back to me with 24 hours.
I am looking forward to seeing how my domain renewal problem will be resolved to my satisfaction.
Correction 09-01-09: After several email conversations with the proactive staff from Tucows, it was determined my domain registrar SRS Renewals is an affiliate of Network Solutions not Tucows. Tucows has several resellers with similarly spelled names with SRS in their title. Thanks to Bill Sweetman from Tucows for all of his efforts to try solving a problem that wasn’t ultimately his problem to solve.
Show More Results Site Links
August 28, 2009Google results for some websites are now including a show more results plus box.
Show More Results Site Links
What do all sites carrying the show more results box share in common?
Blog Monthly Stats
August 27, 2009This blog’s monthly visits are seeing an increase with each new blog post.
TimothyCohn Monthly Stats
However, I think switching the WordPress subdomain to a private domain via their domain mapping service ultimately cost the site more traffic than what it would have enjoyed as a subdomain otherwise.
Nielsen Product Placement Recall Score Cracked
August 26, 2009Nielsen IAG released its Top 10 Most Recalled In-Program Placements focused on brand/product placements that occurred in new summer series on the broadcast networks during the July 13 to August 16 period.
Nielsen’s definition of their Recall Score:
The percentage of television viewers who can recall within 24 hours the brand/product of an In-Program placement they were exposed to during the normal course of viewing new summer series. These scores are then indexed against the mean score for all placements occurring in these programs during the time period (Recall Index). 100 equals average.
Recall Score: In Program Product Placements
As you can see from their list, Coinstar far outdistanced the other brands.
Was it because their brand demanded more viewer attention than the other brands?
Or was it because the show’s setting was more conducive for creating the context necessary for brand recall?
An interesting footnote from Nielsen about their Recall Score:
For this analysis, In-Program placements were only considered if the occurrence had visual elements (i.e., was “seen” on-screen) or both visual and auditory elements (i.e., was both “seen” and “mentioned”). Only first-run episodes were considered. Both planned and incidental exposures were included.
I think it would be instructive for Nielsen to delineate their recall scores by which brands had either a visual brand cue or both visual and auditory brand cues.
By the looks and sound of Nielsen’s summer series period results however its obvious to me Coinstar placed first because it employed both visual and auditory brand cues – not just one.
Cha-Ching!
Donald Trump Brand Dilution
August 25, 2009I thought I had seen all of the possible businesses Donald Trump could lend his name to from Trump Water to Trump University but this one takes the cake.
Donald Trump Network Marketer
I had seen several Tweets pushing a similar message and thought the Tweets might have been exaggerated.
However, if there are ads running the same message – it must be true!
I think there are two takeaways from Donald Trump’s latest business venture:
1. A brand can over extend itself and stray far enough from its place in the consumer’s mind as to actually lose its place in the consumer’s mind – thereby diluting any brand equity it may have had.
2. There is no easier mark than a salesman.
I would have loved to have witnessed the process where the network marketer who sold Donald Trump on lending his name to a multi-level marketing scheme closed that deal – it had to have been a doozy.
Good luck Donald Trump Network Marketing Company!
The Press Release announcing the launch of the Donlad Trump Network Marketing Company:
Donald Trump Network Marketing Company
Associated Press on Twitter?
August 24, 2009The Associated Press has had an account with Twitter for a little over a month now.
Associated Press on Twitter
Sometime ago I suggested whoever controls Twitter will control the news.
I wonder what the Associated Press would think about my thesis?
Since they haven’t Tweeted much since they opened their account, I wonder if they are working on finalizing their corporate social media policy before they engage Twitter’s services any further?
Searchable Tweets
August 22, 2009The following is my eighth installment of Tweets from my Twitter account.
I am uploading all of my Tweets to WordPress because they aren’t searchable within Twitter but are once uploaded to a WordPress blog.
@wpblogger any experience with their domain mapping service? Nearly six months and no re-indexing of searchmarketingcommunications.com2:00 PM Jul 14th
RT @Ustream Live Fireworks at the Eiffel Tower for Bastille Day! http://ustre.am/3ZHr1:49 PM Jul 14th
RT @yahoosearchdata Trying to get skinny? Houston is – they searched the most on Y! this month for “weight loss” followed by NY, ATL, CHI11:25 AM Jul 14th
Happy 1st Birthday Bit.ly http://bit.ly/Bitly1stBirthday11:18 AM Jul 14th from bit.ly
RT @forrester Principal Analyst David Cooperstein (@minicooper) wants help from marketing leaders to guide his research http://bit.ly/7FlvQ11:08 AM Jul 14th
RT @dholamahesh @josebarreto: SB: 20 years from now, will all company data be in Azure/Google/Amazon? No,it will be a mix with on-premises.9:11 AM Jul 14th
RT @mhindsbo wpc09 steveb: if we cannot really take share together (relative to the economy) this year we never can!9:09 AM Jul 14th
RT @Pribnow SB@ WPC09 For every thing that looks like it is getting smaller, 2-3 more get bigger, let’s invest in things that get bigger…9:05 AM Jul 14th
RT @NHMicrosoft All of the servers & storage & computation of the world in future will be a compilation of services. MS not sole provider9:04 AM Jul 14th
RT @InterDynBMI @ServicesReady: wpc09 SteveB: Lessons learned in consumer social media world provide framework for enterprise social media.9:02 AM Jul 14th
RT @DrRez WPC09 LIVE: Steve Ballmer says no one buys technology. They buy solutions. Sell to business problems.9:00 AM Jul 14th
RT@rokory @msPartner: @EricLigman: 100 Million rows of data demo on laptop in Excel 2010 by Bob Muglia @WPC09! Nice. wpc09 microsoft8:58 AM Jul 14th
RT @madvil Ballmer for piracy : “The solution is to bring a product that delivers it’s clear VALUE” – Clarify this statement?8:56 AM Jul 14th
RT @rdgreen @WPC09 Business customers don’t want software. They want higher margins, stronger revenue, lower costs. Tech enables. wpc098:55 AM Jul 14th
RT @HilbertV @andrewmccann: Ballmer -“Battle Software Piracy with selling value vs the issue of piracy.”Much better approach than RIAA8:54 AM Jul 14th
RT @MaximizerCRM “With less, do more” is today’s business dialogue not “do more with less”. $ is @ the forefront. – Steve Ballmer at WPC09.8:52 AM Jul 14th
RT @glennsc “The best solution to piracy is to deliver clear value.” Steve Ballmer at wpc09 http://bit.ly/gCD6F Could someone clarify?8:50 AM Jul 14th
RT @mwherman2000 WPC09 Competing and competitive products. Microsoft has competitors but few competitors have any competitive products.8:50 AM Jul 14th
@Ballmer I am Ballmer’s Twitter account or not?8:49 AM Jul 14th
RT @pbarone As usual Steve shares his email address with the audience: steveb [at] microsoft.com… and he DOES read it!!! wpc098:46 AM Jul 14th
RT @Ballmer – “50% of time on PC isn’t in the browser. Need OS that provides rich offline and online integration. Windows is the OS wpc098:43 AM Jul 14th
RT @lizasisler Ballmer @wpc09 MSFT approach -longterm, tenacious, partner centric, virtualization, security, Bing, Bing, Bing!8:37 AM Jul 14th
RT @djdaveet “we can’t fix the economy, but we can innovate and help customers”. – Ballmer wpc098:36 AM Jul 14th
RT @HilbertV RT @OrganizeFISH: MSFT’s vision includes the cloud, TVs & phones alongside PCs, the tech used in XBox’s Natal WPC09 WPC_MSP8:36 AM Jul 14th
RT @EricLigman MS spending $9.5B on Innovation this year in R&D! Drive, drive, drive! wpc09 microsoft8:34 AM Jul 14th
RT @mhindsbo wpc09 the IT industry is the enabler of productivity and innovation gains that will drive us out of the economic “reset”8:34 AM Jul 14th
RT @DrRez WPC09 LIVE Steve Ballmer speaking NOW: “There are still things we can control. We can control & increase customer sarisfaction.”8:34 AM Jul 14th
RT @Friebs SteveBallmer: IT is key to renewal and economic recovery. WPC098:29 AM Jul 14th
RT @mobileentree “Productivity will Fuel Economic Growth.” ~ Steve Ballmer @ WPC098:28 AM Jul 14th
RT @klulue Ballmer: “IT driven regrowth as source to drive economic “reset”” @ wpc098:27 AM Jul 14th
RT @DrRez WPC09 LIVE Steve Ballmer speaking NOW: “Innovation is key.”8:27 AM Jul 14th
RT @andrewmccann Ballmer – IT driven recovery & growth opportunity for the future. Drive efficiency & intelligence through tech. WPC09 yam8:26 AM Jul 14th
How Brands Should Use Social Media http://bit.ly/SocialMediaBr…2:40 PM Jul 13th from bit.ly
A First? The Bit.ly, Twitter & WordPress Mashup by Email http://bit.ly/BitlyTwitterW…2:28 PM Jul 13th from bit.ly
How Can adCenter Users Get More From Bing? http://bit.ly/GetMoreFromBing2:19 PM Jul 13th from bit.ly
Moonfruit Accuses Twitter of Pulling Viral Campaign http://bit.ly/MoonfruitSpoiled2:02 PM Jul 13th from bit.ly
President Obama logging into the White House IT Dashboard: http://bit.ly/WhiteHouseITD…1:58 PM Jul 13th from bit.ly
RT @GuyKawasaki 15-year-old’s controversial report on how teenagers consume media: http://om.ly/?qdp AC1:00 PM Jul 13th
“The trend is your friend.” quote10:30 AM Jul 13th
“…the reason that people don’t innovate is because they follow their customer group to the bottom of the ocean.” Erik Noyes via WSJ10:29 AM Jul 13th
RT @shelisrael McGraw Hill puts BusinessWeek up for sale. http://bit.ly/1w8xpv10:25 AM Jul 13th
How Senior Citizens Spend Their Time: Not on The Internet http://bit.ly/Pharmmercials12:15 PM Jul 12th from bit.ly
@ej Piiirates & First Draft Movies are spamming Trending Topics.3:39 PM Jul 11th
Pirates Pushing Illegal Movie Downloads Via Twitter http://bit.ly/TwitterMovieD…3:28 PM Jul 11th from bit.ly
My Google Voice Account Activated http://bit.ly/GoogleVoiceIn…7:04 PM Jul 10th from bit.ly
RT @KentHuffman How marketing pro @Aaker and 37 other leaders and innovators define marketing: http://tinyurl.com/kent1276:17 PM Jul 10th
Global Advertising: Consumers Trust Real Friends and Virtual Strangers the Most http://bit.ly/NielsenAdvert…5:00 PM Jul 10th from bit.ly
New product ideas that won’t sell: “Stop shopping watches” for the man or woman who doesn’t yet have it all.2:18 PM Jul 10th
@ Crescent Court Hotel Dallas, TX. Rosewood Hotels / CC don’t have a Twitter account(s). Remodeled suites are nice. Off to @Mortons next.3:49 PM Jul 9th
Best Buy crowdsourcing ideas and job descriptions: http://bit.ly/BestBuyDigita…11:34 AM Jul 8th from bit.ly
RT @BestBuyCMO Looking to hire an Emerging Media Marketing expert. Help write job description. See post at http://bit.ly/wbcRd10:14 AM Jul 8th
RT @KentHuffman MarketingMonday: @MarianBWood, @ScottDavila, @ValerieSimon, @JCousineau, @BirdBathBuzz, @GranerCreative, @TimCohn Thx!5:42 AM Jul 7th
Attention book authors and publishers: Will Amazon make more money off your content than either of you? http://bit.ly/eBookAdvertising5:39 AM Jul 7th from bit.ly
RT @holeinhiseye From George Parker: The End of Publishing, Book Selling, and Reading, As We Know.. http://tinyurl.com/nlgmhu4:53 AM Jul 7th
@lorenbaker Wow!4:10 AM Jul 7th
New: How to search for real estate listings in your neighborhood on Google Maps: http://bit.ly/RealEstateLis…5:14 PM Jul 6th from bit.ly
RT @OGILVY 10 Stunning (& Useful) Stats @Twitter: Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos release.. http://bit.ly/z8Lg84:02 PM Jul 6th
Content distribution costs move closer to zero as more visitors spend more time on the Internet.11:25 AM Jul 6th
RT @the_gman Now even houses can ‘tweet’… as homeowner wires his cottage to Twitter http://su.pr/1YbAMg9:37 PM Jul 5th
New product ideas that won’t sell: Weigh Stations @Restaurants.9:26 PM Jul 5th
@ej Search working again in both places – enjoy the steak!8:55 PM Jul 5th
Is free the new barrier to entry?9:10 AM Jul 4th
The Web is Editorial.9:09 AM Jul 4th
RT @gfulgoni Freemium and freeconomics. Fred Wilson has ignited a firestorm with this post. See my comments http://bit.ly/DycXJ9:07 AM Jul 4th
Happy July 4 from President Obama. His Independence Day 2009 White House Video: http://bit.ly/PresidentObam…8:07 AM Jul 4th from bit.ly
Google Ad Planner As A Competitive Intelligence Tool http://bit.ly/GoogleAdPlann…3:50 PM Jul 3rd from bit.ly
@ej don’t think can dm u. 67.142.130.36 At my Tenkiller lake house. Using Hughes satellite. Had same problem with DSL at office yesterday.2:14 PM Jul 3rd
@ej Firefox 3.0.11 Mac search box on twitter.com and http://search.twitter.com Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html1:56 PM Jul 3rd
Like the branding direction of @Ask_Erik_Dalton Ask insert your name here is great option for generic name accounts already taken @Twitter.1:52 PM Jul 3rd
If Twitter is supposed to be the definitive real time search app; how come Twitter Search doesn’t work half the time? @Twitter Search Fail1:49 PM Jul 3rd
@dannysullivan Have you seen the Video Egg restaurant locator banner ad overlays on your Twitpics from McDonalds?1:39 PM Jul 3rd
RT @dannysullivan @DannyDover: Wow! CNN – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will resign http://bit.ly/DpdUj1:30 PM Jul 3rd
@Twitter Search fail9:07 AM Jul 3rd
Gaming Twitter Trending Topics… moonfruit9:29 AM Jul 2nd
RT @eSuiteOne The Federal IT Dashboard http://ow.ly/gncK9:28 AM Jul 2nd
RT @JonSymons in my Godaddy domain detail page, I can now “check to see if domain name is available as a Twitter account” automatically.8:32 PM Jul 1st
RT @newsycombinator Spezify (interesting new visual search engine) http://bit.ly/LJzm48:08 PM Jul 1st
Free: Wall Street Journal Online today courtesy of Bing: http://bit.ly/FreeWallStree…6:23 PM Jul 1st from bit.ly
RT @mashable Twitter Promotion Done Right: moonfruit ” – http://bit.ly/aACTA12:58 PM Jul 1st
@JeffreyHayzlett I should have had a V-8. What ad slogans do you remember best? “Diamonds are forever” marketing12:50 PM Jul 1st
RT@ajmunn Most view marketing as driving product. Part of shift is using sm to inform product smchat Twitter is useful in this regard12:15 PM Jul 1st
RT @jowyang Interesting thought – “Brand is a lagging indicator of a company’s culture” from Tony Hsieh @zappos12:11 PM Jul 1st
RT@JonSymonss Very cool. The staplelesss stapler: http://cli.gs/PEGW211:56 AM Jul 1st
RT @JohnAByrne Wired.com Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson is our featured video today. He’s talking about the free economy. http://is.gd/1kvKy11:32 AM Jul 1st
New Twitter.com Followers Layout http://bit.ly/NewTwitterCom…4:19 PM Jun 30th from bit.ly
New Twitter Followers Layout…3:56 PM Jun 30th
@StefanieatDell Thanks the info about Dell’s $2 Million in Twitter Sales: http://tinyurl.com/nh6a823:55 PM Jun 30th
Restaurants finding Twitter a cheap, effective marketing tool – The Boston Globe http://bit.ly/TwitterRestau…3:52 PM Jun 30th from bit.ly
@StefanieAtDell Where can I find more information about the Dell Outlet account on Twitter generating $2 Million in sales?2:35 PM Jun 30th
RT @joshbecerra Steve Rubel says Twitter is peaking & brands should use “embassy” strategy for all social media http://blip.tv/file/2255607/2:41 PM Jun 29th
RT @alleyinsider Google Invites Newspapers To Broadcast Themselves On YouTube http://bit.ly/CVutvless12:17 PM Jun 29th
RT @zaibatsu Supreme Court declines to hear remote storage DVR appeal, cloud recording is on the way http://is.gd/1igpm11:50 AM Jun 29th
RT@UMBFinancialCor UMB Chief Investment Officer pegs economic rebound to housing. Recession will end by… http://bitly.com/RecessionE…9:42 AM Jun 29th from bit.ly
RT @jerrymichalski pdf09 unlike Google, the Govt should always be trying to put itself out of business9:28 AM Jun 29th
RT @beyondbroadcast Jarvis: Stop training people for the industrial age. pdf099:26 AM Jun 29th
RT @nyfi nyfi Coverage of Bloomberg’s keynote speech from pdf09 http://bit.ly/Zxmtq9:25 AM Jun 29th
RT @mpesce Lots of good suggestions coming from the floor. Jarvis is crowd-sourcing the problem of what is a Google government. pdf099:23 AM Jun 29th
RT@mgibsonsf Jarvis: $$ should go to universal broadband, not GM. pdf099:22 AM Jun 29th
RT @jpaddock RT @EricaAmerica What is the “Modern incarnation of white flight?” Dannah Boyd: those who ditched MySpace for Facebook. pdf099:21 AM Jun 29th
RT @danielschuman Google button for gov’t “I’m feeling useful” PDF099:20 AM Jun 29th
RT @nsroka There is an inverse relationship between control & trust. pdf099:18 AM Jun 29th
RT @bivings @Digidave: Jeff Jarvis: How does new world operate: It’s an avalanche – going to hit everything in time, including govt. pdf099:17 AM Jun 29th
RT @willcoley @Afine White flight ghettoization from Myspace to Facebook should scare hell out of us, danahboyd, pdf09, brilliant9:15 AM Jun 29th
RT @SusannahFox Jeff Jarvis: give us control or lose us; may as well be talking about myhealthdata pdf099:14 AM Jun 29th
RT @fedscoop @acarvin Jarvis: we’ve always had the ability to create but now we have the tools to find our audience. pdf099:14 AM Jun 29th
RT @fabriceflorin Jeff Jarvis onstage at pdf09: “We should do what we do best – and link to the rest.” Internet encourages specialization.9:13 AM Jun 29th
RT @mpesce What is government as an API? What is government as a network? What if government was calls for action? pdf099:12 AM Jun 29th
RT @adamclarkestes Jarvis: ‘If MSFT created Craigslist…it would’ve been uglier in a different way and would’ve come with a manual.’ pdf099:12 AM Jun 29th
RT @First_Peoples “There are no masses, only ways to see people as masses.” @jeffjarvis “What Would Google Do?” from Jay Rosen. ” pdf099:10 AM Jun 29th
RT @blakerutherford Jeff Jarvis author of “WW google do?” @ pdf09: next era growth will come from platform & networks. See: Craig’s List.9:09 AM Jun 29th
RT @jonathanpberger @buzzmachine on CL “You know you’ve won when ppl take it over from you and make it their own.” pdf099:08 AM Jun 29th
RT @palpitt Jeff Jarvis: “Government should be by default searchable and linkable.” The real motto of pdf09 (RT @AimeAile)9:07 AM Jun 29th
RT @ericleebow @jeffjarvis “do what we do best and link to the rest” pdf099:07 AM Jun 29th
Twitter: Tweets Per Minute – Tweespeed http://bitly.com/Tweespeed9:05 AM Jun 29th from bit.ly
RT @craignewmark @nextgenweb: Danah Boyd recommends looking to teenagers for trends in how people are using technology. pdf099:00 AM Jun 29th
@raincoaster Who could have guessed Raincoaster’s striking resemblance to Billy Mays?8:23 AM Jun 29th
RT @wunderman Digitize or Die! That’s the message Simon Silvester & David Harris shared @Cannes_Lions http://bit.ly/7dcbd wman8:21 AM Jun 29th
Why Tim Armstrong left Google: http://bitly.com/WhyTimArms…6:00 PM Jun 28th from bit.ly
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