Android

In the office, I've been accused of being a bit of a Google fanboy.

It's true... I am. As such, I had been planning on putting together some thoughts on Android and whether or not I think it will succeed.

At Giz, John Mahoney has done a much better job than I'd be able to. It's worth a read if you have a few minutes.

MySpace Music Launches- but Amazon is the clear winner here

The tech world's been buzzing with MySpace music officially being launched.

My personal opinion of MySpace was best summed up by John Paczkowski when he mentioned its:

deceptively flattering photos and seizure-inducing Web page design

In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I decided that I had all I could want and no longer needed my space (funny story... deleting a MySpace account takes up to 48 hours... seriously????).

That said, this week's announcement is a big win for one company... and it isn't MySpace or any of the record labels... it's Amazon.

At it's heart... MySpace Music is an affiliate marketing campaign. In case you don't know... this means Amazon will pay a referral fee to MySpace for every song sold through MySpace Music. While I have no ideas what the numbers are... let's make it simple and say that every song purchased is $1, and MySpace gets a $.05 cut. It's very much performance based marketing, and Amazon has made a killing doing this for years.

So in other words.... Amazon just got in front of 120 million people... with the agreement that for every $.05 they give MySpace... they get $.95 back (again... hypothetical numbers).

Again... if there's a winner in this announcement... it's Amazon.

My entry for the Sarah Palin Look Alike contest

Much has been made of the Tina Fey impersonation of Sarah Palin.

Yesterday, JR Raphael at the Inquisitr threw up a vote for his Palin look alike... and it got me thinking that there's a glaring omission in the blogosphere about someone who looks like Palin.

I give you my vote: Gabrielle Carteris (Andrea Zuckerman from 90210)

Check out this comparison... it's downright eerie.




Not enough for you? Fine.

Based on a recommendation, I went to YearbookYourself.com to find out what Palin would have looked like as a character on 90210, based on when the show was airing.

Here.... now tell me you don't see the resemblance:

Are you for real?

A while back, the company I work for made the decision to let a person go. I wasn't planning on mentioning this, or pointing him out, but he's done that for me.

Recently, we put out a press release, and in the PR field, when you drop an announcement, you also tend to monitor and search for places that the release was picked up, look for stories that were written, etc.

Anyway, during that process, one of our rockstar employees (you need to be a Mediapost member for that link to work... but check out the 4th paragraph) stumbled on to this little gem from our fallen hero:

At DPR I sat next to a guy who ate apples and nuts at his desk all day long. I mean, when he wasn't stuffing his face with some leftovers in a tupperware or a huge sandwich he got from Subway and insisted on bringing back to the office. I mean, this guy ate all day long. He must have eaten four or five apples daily. Plus half a bag of cashews. It was like sitting next to a horse and a squirrel. Made me sick and I had to hold myself back from telling him to knock it off. He was new, I was on my way out, what good would it have done?

Given that I now sit next to the "Squorse" in question... I thought I would provide an update:

He's recently switched over to eating Sour Grapes.

Chrome Rocks.... and Microsoft Irony

Like everyone else who's a fanboy.... I downloaded Chrome today.

Here's some fun irony from Microsoft (click on the picture and read the fine print)

Yeah, but would anybody want to live there?

Green is still the rage in the tech space right now. Telsa, Telepresence, Sustainability, Wind power, etc.

The folks over at Giz pointed out a neat idea for a city, which would be full self sustaining in terms of power.

In theory, this is a really cool idea. But somehow, it reminds me an awful lot of the spaceship from Wall-E.... a place that you'd never have to leave.

So, if given the option, would you live there?

Leave one in the comments.

What ESPN doesn't get

So, last night was a fairly large regular season baseball game between the Redsox and Yankees. Me, being the proud owner of a subscription to MLB.tv, was ready to log in, sit back, and watch on my laptop.

One problem: ESPN had the rights to the game, and it was blocked out on MLB.tv.

So look, without going into all the hack available to work around this silly little problem, I had a thought.

We know the technology is out there to stream baseball games... we know ESPN has a huge web presence, and that there is a generation like mine (and immediately following mine) that isn't really into cable. We get our content via the web, on our terms. Want to watch Family Guy? Hulu.com. Rent a movie? Netflix streaming (soon to come to an Xbox near you... they finally got that one right).

So, ESPN... on behalf of every person not willing to pay for cable, I'd ask you this: Why don't you stream the game that you already have the rights to? You've already got a ton of page-views coming to your site... imagine if you could keep your audience there for 3 hours at a time.

I mean heck... even the NFL gets it these days.