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3 months ago

in The first Microsoft Seinfeld ad on VentureBeat
It's quite good. A cross between British and Japanese humour.
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Bill G Oh yes - that famous blend of Jap and Brit humour.
If you mean that British humour is sureal and Japanese humour seems to involve lots of pain then you are spot on. This ad has launched a new genre of comedy - BritJap...no..JapBrit...hmm..Jit..almost there...YES - it is completely JIT just like vista.
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MG Siegler Now if the entire thing was in Japanese for no reason, that may have been funny - and it would have had people scrambling to figure out what the hell they were saying.
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1 year ago

in Open Social : The FaceBook Killer? on Vinny Lingham's Blog
The loser is actually Microsoft, who has been trying to persuade users to come back to Windows, which used to be a platform, if anyone remembers. Windows was supplanted by the browser, and now giant APIs which use HTML and javascript. This is going to make it even harder for rich client apps to gain traction.

2 years ago

in Research Assistant Required - The Search Wars on Vinny Lingham's Blog
No where is it more apt to repeat the mantra "Think Global, Act Local". In the overall pyramid of businesses, there are not that many which are global brands that could benefit from a world wide audience.

Case in point is a second-tier search advertising engine, where a recent commentator said that he was getting tonnes of CPC traffic from Korea, non which converted.

In any case, Google groks advertisers, and has been giving away conversion tracking tools to help advertisers fine tune their pitches.

2 years ago

in ICustomFormatter and the ToString( IFormatProvider ) method of Enum on Huddled Masses
You are out of luck.
Decompiling using reflector for Enum type:

[Obsolete("The provider argument is not used. Please use ToString(String).")]
public string ToString(string format, IFormatProvider provider)
{
return this.ToString(format);
}

[Obsolete("The provider argument is not used. Please use ToString().")]
public string ToString(IFormatProvider provider)
{
return this.ToString();
}

public string ToString(string format)
{
if ((format == null) || (format.Length == 0))
{
format = "G";
}
if (string.Compare(format, "G", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
if (string.Compare(format, "D", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
if (string.Compare(format, "X", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
if (string.Compare(format, "F", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
throw new FormatException(Environment.GetResourceString("Format_InvalidEnumFormatSpecification"));
}
return Enum.InternalFlagsFormat(base.GetType(), this.GetValue());
}
return this.ToHexString();
}
return this.GetValue().ToString();
}
return this.ToString();
}
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