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Feb29	Google goes medical! George Parker February 29, 2008 Know More: Media ad agencies, advertising, bullshit, creativity, marketing, weblogs The mighty Google machine keeps on ticking, even after taking a temporary licking. Having more or less recovered from Wall Street's infectious doubt about the health of its ad business earlier this week, Google on Thursday offered a glimpse of Google Health, its upcoming personal health records management service. "Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful," said Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search and user products, in a blog post. "Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online." Coincidentally last week, the World Privacy Forum released a report warning that personal health records (PHR) are not protected by federal privacy and security rules and that putting PHRs online raises a number of privacy risks. Knowing Google, I shouldn't think that will slow them down. Pretty soon, Google will be everywhere, and there won't be a thing you can do about it! . Hi, I'm your GoogleDoctor! Posted at 3:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb28	The return of the living, and not so living, CEO. George Parker February 28, 2008 Interesting how two of high-tech's best known company founders have stepped back into the day to day control of their businesses. Michael Dell of Dell and Jerry Yang of Yahoo. Michael is doing a good job, I worked on the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:21 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb27	Microsoft gets hit where it hurts! George Parker February 27, 2008 So, Microsoft got a mighty big rap on the knuckles today when EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, said, "Talk is cheap. Flouting the rules is expensive." How expensive? Well, several years of flouting the rules and talking a storm are... Continue Reading Posted at 7:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb26	Grand Theft Auto goes Ga-Ga! George Parker February 26, 2008 There certainly seems to be a lot of anxiety in Silicon Valley right now because the digerati think Microsoft will take Yahoo to pieces and reassemble it as a Microsoft clone, but they now have one of their own to cheer on. Redwood... Continue Reading Posted at 6:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb25	Did the eBay boycott work? George Parker February 25, 2008 I sometimes wonder how effective boycotts and blog campaigns are at persuading companies to change their ways. Kicking up a fuss worked when Apple reduced iPhone prices a few weeks after the launch. But clever sod GodJobs sent everyone a... Continue Reading Posted at 6:10 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb23	Hey, Yahoo... Resistance is futile... So, have a drink, relax, and enjoy it! George Parker February 23, 2008 It would seem Microsoft is pretty confident its takeover bid for Yahoo is going to succeed. Why do I say that? 'Cos of this memo that Microsoft sent to its employees outlining their vision of how the software giant intends... Continue Reading Posted at 4:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb21	Do out of work Baristas get a grande non-fat severance package?: George Parker February 21, 2008 Interesting to read today that Starbucks has laid off 220 employees who have been working in field operations and at the coffee retailer's headquarters in Seattle. The news was delivered by the company's chief executive, who told employees today by e-mail.... Continue Reading Posted at 5:42 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb20	How to make money at Yahoo... By quitting ! George Parker February 20, 2008 Things are starting to get nasty in Microsoft's bid to take over Yahoo: the latest move being a plan by Microsoft to nominate its own board of directors, hoping shareholder support of its $31-a-share offer will help it take control... Continue Reading Posted at 4:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb19	When it comes to the Microsoft/Yahoo battle... The blood is in the water! George Parker February 19, 2008 You just have to love the news today that Microsoft is planning a proxy battle for Yahoo, just one day after Bill Gates was quoting as saying it would not raise its offer for the troubled company. The New York Times, citing... Continue Reading Posted at 5:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb17	Does Microsoft really want Yahoo? George Parker February 17, 2008 Silicon Valley pundit, Robert X. Cringely, reckons that Microsoft might not really care if its bid to buy Yahoo succeeds or not — Bill Gates just wants to disrupt Yahoo and poach the company's employees. 'Microsoft's offer for Yahoo has... Continue Reading Posted at 9:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb16	The Mini "Clubman." Mini it aint! George Parker February 16, 2008 I'll be curious to see if the Mini screws things up with the release of the "Clubman" model next week. It's a 5 door good bit longer version of the original Mini, so I guess their their going for the... Continue Reading Posted at 5:09 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb14	Why Microsoft will eat Yahoo! George Parker February 14, 2008 You have to love all the crap flying around about how Murdoch's Empire of Evil... News Corp... Is rumored to be making an offer to buy Yahoo. It'll never happen, yesterday's Wall Street Journal played it up big, while inflating... Continue Reading Posted at 1:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb13	Budweiser takes taste to a new low! George Parker February 13, 2008 Today's AdAge talks about the launch of a new Budweiser brand... "BL Lime" which is apparently a lime flavored version of Bud Light. I can't imagine anything more dreadful. Most light beers are pretty tasteless, so I suppose adding some... Continue Reading Posted at 7:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb12	Naked Jessica Alba is totally into stable, semi-Lagrangian fluid flows!!! George Parker February 12, 2008 You have to love it when with all the Oscar hoopla that precedes the event, everyone forgets that they actually award the very important science and technical Oscars about two weeks earlier. Because these are the guys that make all... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Screw this services bullshit... Let's make stuff!!! George Parker February 12, 2008 Interesting to read in today's issue of Spiegel the comeback of German manufacturing contradicts the commonly held notion, particularly here in the US, that the future belongs to the service industry. When in reality, in Germany, manufacturing firms are currently... Continue Reading Posted at 3:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb11	The current state of the ad biz is great... If you're the CEO of BBDO! George Parker February 11, 2008 I almost blew my third gin & tonic out of my nose when I read this today about the current state of the ad biz... "I personally think there is an opportunity for optimism," said John Osborn, president-CEO of BBDO New... Continue Reading Posted at 7:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb10	Cannes 2008. Forget the entry, just send money! George Parker February 10, 2008 Interesting to read in AdWeek about Mark Tutssel's thoughts on what he'll be looking for when he heads the Titanium and Integrated jury for Cannes 2008. Seems like he gets a bit upset when people enter rubbish. Well all I... Continue Reading Posted at 3:42 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 8	Listen up people!!! George Parker February 8, 2008 Just to make sure everyone knows... All my oovoo sessions are at 10 AM Mountain time... That's mid day in the East and 9.00 AM in the West... In Europe... It's 5.00 PM in England... The Kaiser will have to... Continue Reading Posted at 4:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Me Live... Well, almost! George Parker February 8, 2008 If you've ever had a hankering to talk to me... Joseph Jaffe & Scott Monty of Crayon have come up with a pretty clever idea on behalf of their client ooVoo, a start up company with a group video chat product... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 7	Lipitor... It's good for you. The fake Doctor says so!!! George Parker February 7, 2008 One of the things I am writing about in my next opus... The Ubiquitous Persuaders, is the stranglehold various healthcare and drug companies have on the advertising of their high-priced products to the American public. A perfect example of these... Continue Reading Posted at 8:24 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 6	Marketing to children... There's nothing childish about it! George Parker February 6, 2008 We all know about the hoopla surrounding social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace, and we increasingly hear about how people of 50 and up are joining in and partaking of these networks. But we don't here too much about... Continue Reading Posted at 2:33 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 5	Super Bowl... The final word... Maybe! George Parker February 5, 2008 OK... Without beating this thing to death, the results are in from TiVo as to what were the most viewed ads on Sunday's Super Bowl. And this is actually a pretty good measurement, as TiVo can see how many times... Continue Reading Posted at 6:23 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 4	The ultimate Super Bowl wrap up! George Parker February 4, 2008 There's plenty of sites, AdAge and Adweek for just two, where you can watch all the ads and get reviews. So I'm not going to talk about particular spots per se, more about overall impressions. And to be honest, I... Continue Reading Posted at 2:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 3	Political advertising... Enough already!!! George Parker February 3, 2008 I have to wonder if Barack and Hillary's ad bombardment in all 22 states that have Democratic presidential nominating contests on Tuesday with a combined $19 million expenditure, isn't going to be counter productive. Yeah, it's the most dollar and geographically loaded... Continue Reading Posted at 11:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 2	It's Super Bowl Kool-Aid time! George Parker February 2, 2008 OK... Tomorrow is the big day... It's Super Bowl... Which I think is some kind of football game played only by American teams that upon winning, declare themselves to be "World Champions!" Which I guess is no different from the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:05 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 1	Yahoo/Microsoft buyout update. George Parker February 1, 2008 As more details have come out in the last 24 hours, it's obvious that Microsoft has been trying to sweet talk Yahoo into a partnership since 2006, culminating in a merger proposal in early 2007, which Yahoo rejected because as... Continue Reading Posted at 8:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Yahoo takeover... You heard it here first! George Parker February 1, 2008 Loyal readers will remember my post on Wednesday talking about Yahoo's current problems with layoffs and grim quarterly results. As a result of all this, I prophesied they are a prime take over target and the deal would be done... Continue Reading Posted at 7:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

« January 2008 | Main | March 2008 »

Feb29	Google goes medical! George Parker February 29, 2008 Know More: Media ad agencies, advertising, bullshit, creativity, marketing, weblogs The mighty Google machine keeps on ticking, even after taking a temporary licking. Having more or less recovered from Wall Street's infectious doubt about the health of its ad business earlier this week, Google on Thursday offered a glimpse of Google Health, its upcoming personal health records management service. "Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful," said Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search and user products, in a blog post. "Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online." Coincidentally last week, the World Privacy Forum released a report warning that personal health records (PHR) are not protected by federal privacy and security rules and that putting PHRs online raises a number of privacy risks. Knowing Google, I shouldn't think that will slow them down. Pretty soon, Google will be everywhere, and there won't be a thing you can do about it! . Hi, I'm your GoogleDoctor! Posted at 3:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb28	The return of the living, and not so living, CEO. George Parker February 28, 2008 Interesting how two of high-tech's best known company founders have stepped back into the day to day control of their businesses. Michael Dell of Dell and Jerry Yang of Yahoo. Michael is doing a good job, I worked on the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:21 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb27	Microsoft gets hit where it hurts! George Parker February 27, 2008 So, Microsoft got a mighty big rap on the knuckles today when EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, said, "Talk is cheap. Flouting the rules is expensive." How expensive? Well, several years of flouting the rules and talking a storm are... Continue Reading Posted at 7:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb26	Grand Theft Auto goes Ga-Ga! George Parker February 26, 2008 There certainly seems to be a lot of anxiety in Silicon Valley right now because the digerati think Microsoft will take Yahoo to pieces and reassemble it as a Microsoft clone, but they now have one of their own to cheer on. Redwood... Continue Reading Posted at 6:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb25	Did the eBay boycott work? George Parker February 25, 2008 I sometimes wonder how effective boycotts and blog campaigns are at persuading companies to change their ways. Kicking up a fuss worked when Apple reduced iPhone prices a few weeks after the launch. But clever sod GodJobs sent everyone a... Continue Reading Posted at 6:10 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb23	Hey, Yahoo... Resistance is futile... So, have a drink, relax, and enjoy it! George Parker February 23, 2008 It would seem Microsoft is pretty confident its takeover bid for Yahoo is going to succeed. Why do I say that? 'Cos of this memo that Microsoft sent to its employees outlining their vision of how the software giant intends... Continue Reading Posted at 4:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb21	Do out of work Baristas get a grande non-fat severance package?: George Parker February 21, 2008 Interesting to read today that Starbucks has laid off 220 employees who have been working in field operations and at the coffee retailer's headquarters in Seattle. The news was delivered by the company's chief executive, who told employees today by e-mail.... Continue Reading Posted at 5:42 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb20	How to make money at Yahoo... By quitting ! George Parker February 20, 2008 Things are starting to get nasty in Microsoft's bid to take over Yahoo: the latest move being a plan by Microsoft to nominate its own board of directors, hoping shareholder support of its $31-a-share offer will help it take control... Continue Reading Posted at 4:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb19	When it comes to the Microsoft/Yahoo battle... The blood is in the water! George Parker February 19, 2008 You just have to love the news today that Microsoft is planning a proxy battle for Yahoo, just one day after Bill Gates was quoting as saying it would not raise its offer for the troubled company. The New York Times, citing... Continue Reading Posted at 5:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb17	Does Microsoft really want Yahoo? George Parker February 17, 2008 Silicon Valley pundit, Robert X. Cringely, reckons that Microsoft might not really care if its bid to buy Yahoo succeeds or not — Bill Gates just wants to disrupt Yahoo and poach the company's employees. 'Microsoft's offer for Yahoo has... Continue Reading Posted at 9:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb16	The Mini "Clubman." Mini it aint! George Parker February 16, 2008 I'll be curious to see if the Mini screws things up with the release of the "Clubman" model next week. It's a 5 door good bit longer version of the original Mini, so I guess their their going for the... Continue Reading Posted at 5:09 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb14	Why Microsoft will eat Yahoo! George Parker February 14, 2008 You have to love all the crap flying around about how Murdoch's Empire of Evil... News Corp... Is rumored to be making an offer to buy Yahoo. It'll never happen, yesterday's Wall Street Journal played it up big, while inflating... Continue Reading Posted at 1:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb13	Budweiser takes taste to a new low! George Parker February 13, 2008 Today's AdAge talks about the launch of a new Budweiser brand... "BL Lime" which is apparently a lime flavored version of Bud Light. I can't imagine anything more dreadful. Most light beers are pretty tasteless, so I suppose adding some... Continue Reading Posted at 7:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb12	Naked Jessica Alba is totally into stable, semi-Lagrangian fluid flows!!! George Parker February 12, 2008 You have to love it when with all the Oscar hoopla that precedes the event, everyone forgets that they actually award the very important science and technical Oscars about two weeks earlier. Because these are the guys that make all... Continue Reading Posted at 7:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Screw this services bullshit... Let's make stuff!!! George Parker February 12, 2008 Interesting to read in today's issue of Spiegel the comeback of German manufacturing contradicts the commonly held notion, particularly here in the US, that the future belongs to the service industry. When in reality, in Germany, manufacturing firms are currently... Continue Reading Posted at 3:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb11	The current state of the ad biz is great... If you're the CEO of BBDO! George Parker February 11, 2008 I almost blew my third gin & tonic out of my nose when I read this today about the current state of the ad biz... "I personally think there is an opportunity for optimism," said John Osborn, president-CEO of BBDO New... Continue Reading Posted at 7:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb10	Cannes 2008. Forget the entry, just send money! George Parker February 10, 2008 Interesting to read in AdWeek about Mark Tutssel's thoughts on what he'll be looking for when he heads the Titanium and Integrated jury for Cannes 2008. Seems like he gets a bit upset when people enter rubbish. Well all I... Continue Reading Posted at 3:42 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 8	Listen up people!!! George Parker February 8, 2008 Just to make sure everyone knows... All my oovoo sessions are at 10 AM Mountain time... That's mid day in the East and 9.00 AM in the West... In Europe... It's 5.00 PM in England... The Kaiser will have to... Continue Reading Posted at 4:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Me Live... Well, almost! George Parker February 8, 2008 If you've ever had a hankering to talk to me... Joseph Jaffe & Scott Monty of Crayon have come up with a pretty clever idea on behalf of their client ooVoo, a start up company with a group video chat product... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 7	Lipitor... It's good for you. The fake Doctor says so!!! George Parker February 7, 2008 One of the things I am writing about in my next opus... The Ubiquitous Persuaders, is the stranglehold various healthcare and drug companies have on the advertising of their high-priced products to the American public. A perfect example of these... Continue Reading Posted at 8:24 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 6	Marketing to children... There's nothing childish about it! George Parker February 6, 2008 We all know about the hoopla surrounding social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace, and we increasingly hear about how people of 50 and up are joining in and partaking of these networks. But we don't here too much about... Continue Reading Posted at 2:33 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 5	Super Bowl... The final word... Maybe! George Parker February 5, 2008 OK... Without beating this thing to death, the results are in from TiVo as to what were the most viewed ads on Sunday's Super Bowl. And this is actually a pretty good measurement, as TiVo can see how many times... Continue Reading Posted at 6:23 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 4	The ultimate Super Bowl wrap up! George Parker February 4, 2008 There's plenty of sites, AdAge and Adweek for just two, where you can watch all the ads and get reviews. So I'm not going to talk about particular spots per se, more about overall impressions. And to be honest, I... Continue Reading Posted at 2:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 3	Political advertising... Enough already!!! George Parker February 3, 2008 I have to wonder if Barack and Hillary's ad bombardment in all 22 states that have Democratic presidential nominating contests on Tuesday with a combined $19 million expenditure, isn't going to be counter productive. Yeah, it's the most dollar and geographically loaded... Continue Reading Posted at 11:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 2	It's Super Bowl Kool-Aid time! George Parker February 2, 2008 OK... Tomorrow is the big day... It's Super Bowl... Which I think is some kind of football game played only by American teams that upon winning, declare themselves to be "World Champions!" Which I guess is no different from the... Continue Reading Posted at 7:05 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 1	Yahoo/Microsoft buyout update. George Parker February 1, 2008 As more details have come out in the last 24 hours, it's obvious that Microsoft has been trying to sweet talk Yahoo into a partnership since 2006, culminating in a merger proposal in early 2007, which Yahoo rejected because as... Continue Reading Posted at 8:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Yahoo takeover... You heard it here first! George Parker February 1, 2008 Loyal readers will remember my post on Wednesday talking about Yahoo's current problems with layoffs and grim quarterly results. As a result of all this, I prophesied they are a prime take over target and the deal would be done... Continue Reading Posted at 7:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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