Unlike a Thanksgiving dinner, this buffet isn’t going to weigh you down or put you to sleep. It’s a sampling of my best bits of content this past month. Check out: what great brands do — a recap by Annette Franz Gleneicki of the talk I gave at the SoCal Customer Experience Professionals Association event why windows 8? — a […]
Microsoft
11.12.12
Why Windows 8?
While Microsoft’s new Windows 8 has received an unexpected share of positive press, many skeptics aren’t convinced that the new operating system has been designed or is being launched properly. Of all the criticisms leveraged against Windows 8, the one that resonates most strongly with me was a comment in a recent Bloomberg Businessweek piece: […]
07.20.10
mirror universe
Those of you who are Star Trek fans would have felt right at home with me the other day. I went to check out the new Microsoft store which just opened at Fashion Valley mall here in San Diego because I wanted to do a compare/contrast to the Apple store in the same mall. My […]
12.21.09
i’m a vivienne tam
I’m fascinated by the recent flurry of activity of designer PCs. Having worked at Sony during the early years of VAIO (perhaps the first fashionable PC line, launched with its distinctive violet color and sleek features and all), it’s pretty amazing to me to see how the category has developed. […]
Once again Microsoft’s ad strategy is off-base. Their newest ad criticizes Apple for being expensive by “documenting” one woman’s quest to find a laptop that […]
12.29.08
trends we watched in 2008
Before we quickly toss aside 2008 with the carelessness due a former lover, I thought it might be enlightening to look back on the predictions that were made at this time last year — […]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Jerry Seinfeld has signed on as pitchman for Microsoft’s Vista. The $10MM deal is reportedly part of a $300MM campaign from Microsoft to counteract the damage […]
07.20.08
big brands’ blogs
In preparing to launch my blog, I researched a lot of existing ones to get a sense of what works and what doesn’t. As a brand person, I was particularly interested in whether or not brands themselves had blogs. I looked at a sampling […]