Quad Core Delight

It has four processing cores; they just don't live together. But Advanced Micro Devices is betting that hard-core gamers won't care about the architecture used to build its new Quad FX Platform.

AMD blasts off Quad for PC DIYers | CNET News.com

The AMD Quad Core system is coming, while likely to land in the hands of the do-it-yourself, it's good to have a standard.

It's an interesting positioning in that it's being put forward somewhat quietly, likely to have enough exposure to expose it to those who are likely to be looking for it.

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Nice sweater

Digital Life | CNET News.com

This add is actually really good, it communicates instantly. I knew without any hesitation that I needed to buy the shuffle, and I got the pun immediately. Cheesy, but correct.

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The new 'Next-Gen' systems have hit the promo

http://news.com.com/PS3+and+Wii+create+a+new+playing+field/2009-1043_3-6135603.html?tag=nefd.lede

Ha, check it out. First thing I see - new controlled (kind of bulky but the same old PS1/2/X/3 controller) then an add for free music. That's good targeting. Fortunately they don't "know" who I am, so all they get is the assumption that youth play games and this kind of stuff. Which is in itself pretty much right I think. The field of "legitimate" free music though is a but much, I don't know what the survey sais on that, as it won't be the same as the P2P network crazyness, the minute amount of structuring to it on top of the bureaucracy makes it a bit much - iTunes 0.99C is probably a better bet, simplicity is too much to resist.

Well we'll see what this gen of 'next-gen' brings us, hopefully better advertising than the last one did - their commercials have lacked moi grande.

This what happens when the focus group results say "simple."

It doesn't appeal to me too much, I like the flashy or indrustrial stuff myself - but it definitely is "Simple."

Good thing it's all national

Yahoo!

My first though is I don't know where this thing is being held. The indescriptive national monuments leaves me bewildered. Though the data is useless, I've grown accustomed to knowing where the ceremony is going to be.

Shouldn't be pulling fast ones.

Is this targeted?

I don't know what the deal is with this add. See the Shell gas dropped to the left there. Looks maybe self-serving with the oil ties in the family there, but maybe people who like gas coupons are interested in iraq articles.

Bond News

This is the "news." It is your infotainment?

Well established now as a source of authoritative advertising the in news gives you what you want - they know you didn't know, that's why they are there.

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Buying Bonds: the history of 007

I thought I'd give a bit of flavor to this one, speedo Bond.

This, while an entry for a news story, is really much more of an ad than anything else. The textlinks are ads. The picture is a "click now I'm a buff dude in the water" ad for Bond. The story is review - a long ad.

It's 100% ad. I love the news, don't you?

Dreamy ease of use

"Ah, the light on the other side of the tunnel." There are likely many to feel such a way when viewing something like this.



This actually straight out appeals, if you have a large clear screen or text-to-speech technology you could make real use of this. Listen to your BusinessWeek on the way with none of the troubles of a paper in hand. Good presentation, but the frame is a bit confusing, I don't have something that makes that kind of frame so it's really kind of confusing - seems out of place, but I still want it. Good show.

Community Support

This is actually an interesting model for "advertising," if you want to call it that. It's really goodwill and word of mouth.

The Mozilla foundation, now umbrella over many projects, most notably today is it's Firefox web browser. But also among it's many projects is Thundermail (e-mail client), Sunbird (calendar client, Lightning is it's Thunderbird plugin version), Seamonkey (it's internet application suite), and there are more Navigator (another webbrowser, my current browser of choice).

These are open source and are being added to by the community, and it's all free. When you pick up firefox and you know you just got handed an excellent project, you are definitely going to spread the word. You spread the word, you contribute, you'll talk about it.

You're allowed to devlop for it, make widgets etc., you're likely to be a spokeperson at this point. It's brilliant really. Take in contrat: who talks about Internet Explorer outsite of webdevelopers?

As long as people still care to contribute, they will survive. Pretty cool, pretty cool.

Army Today

Good add-ish.

Attractive design. Nice color scheme, a given color scheme. Doesn't really make any sense though. The want to be in the army is not the appeal, in general, of strength. While we live now in a materialist society, where man said to be an "animal" and bag of chemicals for a pill and the individual is safer an individual and groups are to be feared, I still deep down know that if the ad were appeal to what YOU could be to THE ARMY, or service or anything, you could definitely pull in more. While the level of individualization is immense, if the ads were trying to impinge upon the highest this level of purpose, duty, it would pull it's weight better than trying to not only appeal to individualism (not that of the individuals characteristics, but that of unwillingness to be a part of a group) but propagate the idea of individualism.

Maybe

I'm a bit bored by an add like that, but I'm not the public for a Dodge SUV either, so I'm taking a different viewpoint on this one the best that I can.

The grey does a good job of directing attention, and it handles the concern considering the design of the car. The shell is really nice looking, too nice to assume it has any power at all.

The nitro seems totally random. But may some guy best described as "dude," power to them.

This is a photographers advertisement. Check it out big, it actually communicates real well.

Strikes but in a very high level, not so massy. Very uplifting, it interests and it isn't purely provactive, like many of today.

Check out the Scientology VM theme.

Worth a real plug, check out The Book.