Why Bing is Gaining on Google
Humor July 10th, 2009
Bing is gaining on Google. Do you know why? Check these Google image search results for the keyword Bing. My friend Chris Yeh could come up with all sorts of theories on why she is winning, but I’ll skip the details.
On a serious note (and it’s not even tomorrow) here’s an easy way to experiment yourself: either use Bing vs. Google online, or better yet, add it as a search provider to your browser and observe the results for a few days.
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Ryanair to Make Passengers Stand
Humor July 6th, 2009
The barebones low-cost airline is considering standing-room flights.
Can’t be much worse than sitting on most airlines today, right?
- says Jeff Nolan.  But wait, these flights may be free!  Says Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary:
Why is this any different to what happens on trains where you see thousands of people who cannot get a seat standing in the isles?
There’s still room for further cost-cutting, like shrink-wrapping passengers and piling them up in the cargo area 
Or do like the Flintstones:
(You can purchase the original here for a lot more than a Ryanair ticket)
Tags: airlines, aviation, flintstones, Humor, ryanair
Promoting SaaS on eBay?
Humor, Personal Productivity, SaaS June 23rd, 2009
This listing on eBay is hilarious, almost makes me wonder if it’s a true listing or carefully planted advertising for Google Apps (and SaaS in general). But the seller appears to be real, has been on eBay for ten years… Here we go, get Microsoft Office w. Outlook for $75, because:
It’s brand new and never been opened. My boss bought it right before I moved the whole company over to Google Apps.
We never looked back, but here’s your opportunity to live it up, 90’s style, with this great, retro piece of Microsoft 2007 software.
Read more…
Tags: auction, eBay, google apps, marketing, microsoft, ms office, Outlook, SaaS, xref
Keep Your Paws Off My PC, Microsoft
Humor, Software June 8th, 2009
<rant>
I’ve had it. I’m tired of Microsoft programs taking over my computer without permission. This time it’s IE7 – yes, I know, IE8 is out, but I could not care less. In fact I have not launched IE7 for a long time. Sticking with Firefox, and if I was not so dependent on several Ffox add-ons, the browser I’d switch to would be Google’s Chrome, not Internet Explorer.
So what happened? Read on …
Tags: default browser, firefox, ie7, ie8, microsoft, windows update, xref
Business Planning on Twitter
Humor, Startups June 4th, 2009
As with all-things-Twitter, you should read this bottom-up:
And the text summary – again, read from bottom up:
- amandagbeals @bencasnocha love the biz idea but dont leave out the gays!!! they wld be ur biggest clients!
- zolierdos @bencasnocha On second thought, this business model is one of the oldest, although not limited to kissing
- djnotfound @bencasnocha but… but can they get pregnant by kissing?
- zolierdos @bencasnocha Haha, will it be bootstrapped or VC funded?
- constantmotion @bencasnocha I have to ask, did a specific experience lead to this idea?
- jeffnolan @bencasnocha you could rely on craigslist as your go-to-market strategy
- msimonkey @bencasnocha Who decides whos the expert?
- bencasnocha Business idea: create a kissing school where people pay to practice kissing "expert" instructor of opposite sex and get immediate feedback.
Tags: ben casnocha, business plan, Humor, Startups, Twitter
Accessorize Your Algorithm, Amazon :-)
Humor, Marketing / PR June 2nd, 2009
I think this email promo I’ve just received from Amazon after purchasing the replacement filters (first item shown) speaks for itself. I guess if I had bought a kitchen sink or some furniture, they would offer a house as accessory.
Tags: adveritising, amazon, online shopping
Twitter Hashtag Streams
Humor May 26th, 2009
Here’s a cleansed (PG-13?) and somewhat humorous (?) sampling of the recently trending #3wordsduringsex and 3wordsaftersex hashtags on Twitter:
You bent it!
is it in?
So it’s detachable?
damn she’s home
episode 3 begins….
who are you?
Got a Sister ?
moneys on dresser
That was all?
what’s ur name
again next year
where’s the exit ?
what was that?!
(Photo credit: Geek Mom Mashup)
Pink Prince of Wales
Humor March 31st, 2009
Not HRH Prince Charles.. but a pub named after the Prince of Wales. Vandals painted the 16th Century building pink overnight – a few days too early for April Fools Day.
Of course what’s vandalism in the good old UK would be perfectly normal in San Francisco. 
Google Thinks They Invented Orion
Humor March 24th, 2009
The Germans beat them to it, 40 years ago:
If the colors are a bit funky, that’s because this is a re-colorized version of the 60’s black & white series, Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion. Here’s a b&w English language trailer:
(Cross-posted from CloudAve)
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Tags: Google, Humor, orion, Raumpatrouille, sci-fi, space patrol
The Obama Administration Badly Needs Google
Humor, Politics March 7th, 2009
The Obama administration wants to reset US relations with Russia, and in a symbolic gesture Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a huge RESET button when the met in Geneva.
Except the button did not really say reset: it said перегрузка (peregruzka), which, as Lavrov pointed out means overload.  Now, we don’t want to overload relations with Russia, do we?
Congratulations for the State Department translatorss for getting it right.  Here’s my bailout proposal for State: fire the translators, just use Google Translate:
Tags: clinton, foreign policy, hillary clinton, Humor, obama, peregruzka, Politics, reset, russa
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