Archive for May, 2010

Opera's funny advertising "Potatoe slow. Opera almost "as a parody of Google Chrome advertising" Speed Test ". Witzig-made video!

Many of you will know the advertising for the Google Chrome browser, called "Speed Test". Here the speed of the browser in a variety of absurd tests is shown. For example, measures whether a potato gun is faster than the browser.

Competitor Opera takes this spot now with a lot of wit to poke fun and make a slightly different potato test.

Here is the commercial for Google Chrome "Speed Test":

1stAveMachine Chrome Speed Test from MotiongraphicLAB on Vimeo .

And here Opera's funny response to "Opera World Record Speed Test" (video after the jump): Read the rest of this entry »

I have over 100 million just the other Euro Vision Song Contest as follows. Besides, I've got in our star-for-oslo.de the live comments from Facebook users and Titter-tracked. One even wanted "more" Lena Meyer-Landrut :-)

The highlight of the discussion was very clear during a performance by Lena Meyer-Landrut. The live ticker, with little behind and I almost missed this great Facebook status update:

A real Lena Meyer-Landrut Fan :-) The fact that thousands of other Facebook users to read this post could also be affected less discreet, well not really.

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Saturn in Austria has launched a TV spot, which a lot of humor for the "World Cup at home" with a full-HD flat-screen television advertises.

It is much wit the withdrawal of the Austrian team in the qualifiers for the FIFA 2010 World Cup up with.

"In Africa it's going to rain anyway, it's awfully loud in the stadium and the Germans are still there - luckily we do not have to go there!" :-D

We Germans are not necessarily the preferred neighbors of the Austrians. Especially when the sport (and least during winter).

Spot advertising technology that is a clear 1-0 to Austria Saturn!

Advertising with grammar and spelling

Spelling and grammar mistakes in advertising? Banners, posters and ads with the wrong spelling? It is not uncommon.

Advertising - THE point of contact between manufacturer and consumer brand - should enable us and our influence in purchase decisions accordingly. Directs advertising but for spelling errors, it helps not just a competent image with the brand.

The following AdSense ad is just struck me at one of my articles:

"Our e-Power Back links take you to the front" would have the hot! I would not fire here, the SEO agency, but condemn the writer again for grammar lessons.

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Even if a blog has only a hobby, it's still a brutal thing, if it fails for technical reasons.

If one with the Latin at the end is yourself, are good forums or the support of the hosting company A and O.

As horrible as it looks when the blog is not a day to reach:

What happened:

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Austrian Airlines is currently promoting the slogan "The densest network in Eastern Europe since the KGB." Funny or precarious?

After me the current economic Week (05/10/2010 issue; # 19), the display image of Austrian Airlines is noticed in, I'm also after a short search on twitpic on schomberg @ 's photo billboards with such a motif encountered one.

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Machete the Tarantino film, from which we thought it was only a fictional movie trailer for a film in the film really comes to the cinemas. And yet there are a least as good remake in Lego style.

Hardly a day goes by where you do not stumble across a video clip in Lego style. Among them are really good movies, most fully in the original bearings. An example of this class is machetes . Here's the trailer in the original:

And here the remake in Lego-style (after the break):

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[ Trigami Review ] Everyone who has already moved, can sing a song about it. Everything must be organized: boxes packed obtain, vans, organize volunteers, dismantle and furniture - to re-register!

With all the stress, one may of course not forget the new address of insurance, banking, insurance, ADAC, Payback, and so reported. But wait, this can be helped: Single ummelden.de is the service that the annoying writing letters, pick out the postal addresses and the sending of letters or emails a decline.

I angetestet the service. Because the service is Immobilenscout24 to where I already had an account, I was able to via "Move" to register also pretty fast with easy-ummelden.de. Ok, now signed, I was very taken by the user structure. From the application and the re-registration is one time by just three steps:

Step 1: Registration. I said earlier.

Step 2: You will enter the old and the new address. This is nothing spectacular, just a form, so I must not dwell on it since.

Step 3: Now you get a list of ~ 6000 (!) Providers, sorted by sector, ie health insurance companies, banks, phone companies and so on. That's great. I have personally because it would always forget one or the other provider. The companies, which the service should now inform you about the move, it marks quite easily.

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