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Gas Station

Gas Station
Originally uploaded by kr8ztoesucka

Looks like the 1950s. To think, it was only in the last two years.

Why certain companies make such great bozos

Want to see some major corporate twaddle? Check this out. It's the fake blog of a fake persona, along with fake profiles littering the web from Facebook to Twitter. All brought to you from the company headed by this guy.               

In case you'd rather keep reading than clicking for the reference points, what I'm referring to is an online Microsoft "campaign" that's nothing less than a sterling waste of dollars on drivel.

Harry Potter and the circulation of markets

Titus' last post, focusing on circulation, gave an important look at how local economies can stagnate because of compartmentalized thinking and cultures. When people within larger communities self-stratify, narrowing their focus, they may create vibrancy within their own orbit but fail to benefit from the network value of tapping into others around them. The end result are cities like Los Angeles,which is as equally, if not more ethnically diverse than New York City, but because of dependence on cars limits cultural cross-pollination.

If politicians, businessmen, even community developers could take a look at the online world, they might learn something about prospering through eco-system iteration and extension. Take Google. It has no obvious branding campaign, but beyonds it ubiquity in search, it has grown into one of the world's biggest companies by inviting outside, non Google developers, to borrow its code and develop applications of their own. That they can indeed develop their own markets around. Google's code is intellectual property for which Microsoft - in a very different business model - might sue those same developers for using, thus limiting its broader usage. And that brings us to Harry Potter.