Posted by jason@kottke.org on under pepsi logo, billis, sime, time effort, back to the future, pepsi, coca cola, 10 years, decades, feelings, colors, logos | 
What do I think about the new Pepsi logo? Eh. Companies spend way too much time, effort, and money building up feelings about logos -- like decades and billions of dollars -- and then they just go and change it all. Of course the new logo and colors are similar to the old ones and it's variations on a theme but the new designs feel like someone's idea of what packaging is going to look like 10 years from now, an approach that never seems to work out well (see Back to the Future II). Coca-Cola had such success refreshing their brand with a simple take on their classic look and logo, why can't Pepsi do the same with this classic look?
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Posted by jason@kottke.org on under pepsi logo, billis, sime, time effort, back to the future, pepsi, coca cola, 10 years, decades, feelings, colors, logos |
What do I think about the new Pepsi logo? Eh. Companies spend way too much time, effort, and money building up feelings about logos -- like decades and billions of dollars -- and then they just go and change it all. Of course the new logo and colors are similar to the old ones and it's variations on a theme but the new designs feel like someone's idea of what packaging is going to look like 10 years from now, an approach that never seems to work out well (see Back to the Future II). Coca-Cola had such success refreshing their brand with a simple take on their classic look and logo, why can't Pepsi do the same with this classic look?
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link)
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Posted by on under microsoft references, feminine hygiene, microsoft representative, epodes, raw feed, comedy show, ditches, software microsoft, family guy, strg, radars, execs, precedence, caliber, holocaust, incest, seth, peoe, nbsp, 10 years |
Face? Meet palm. Microsoft's decided to pull out of its co-sponsoring of
"Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show" after execs attending the taping came to the sudden conclusion that Family Guy-caliber jokes were to be told, tackling such topics as "deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest." We're not sure how 10 years and over 120 episodes of offensive precedence bypassed Redmond's radars, but man, that's gotta be some strong personal bubble. A Microsoft representative said of the taping, "it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand." The show will still air November 8th, pre-recorded Microsoft references in tow, but with a new as-of-yet unnamed sponsor. All we have of the now-doomed partnership is this brief video from the Windows "741" student site -- it's after the break.
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Tagi: microsoft references, feminine hygiene, microsoft representative, epodes, raw feed, comedy show, ditches, software microsoft, family guy, strg, radars, execs, precedence, caliber, holocaust, incest, seth, peoe, nbsp, 10 years
Posted by on under aol team, frank gruber, media perspective, myaol, fruiti, principal product, anning, techcrunch, mths, bookmarking, launch, 3 years, 10 years, aim, lifestream, faces |
Frank Gruber, Aol's Principal Product Manager of Lifestream Platform, has just
announced that today will be his last day with the company. Gruber's official role at Aol included planning and building products like its
lifestream, but he was also one of the company's few public faces, making regular appearances at tech events. He's also known for regularly writing about the tech industry on his blog
Somewhat Frank (he has contributed to TechCrunch as well). Gruber has been at Aol for over three years now, working in a variety of roles. Here's a recap from his post:
It has been just over 3 years since I joined Aol to help bring some "Web 2.0 & social media" perspective and expertise to the Aol team. In Internet years that is about 10 years. My first task was to join the product development team responsible for the myAOL triple threat including a personalized homepage, a feed reader with bookmarking and an innovate recommendation engine. We then went on to launch it in 28+ countries before it turned one. More recently with the launch of AIM Lifestream I saw about 18 months of planning and strategy come to fruition which included work on AIM buddyupdates and the acquisition of SocialThing.
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Posted by on under red carpet, academy awards, 10 years, decade |
The 2010 Academy Awards are upon us, offering the perfect opportunity to look back at the best-dressed of the last 10 years. There were many, many lovely looks, but here are the 10 that really wowed on the red carpet.
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