Tittle-Tattle

Today, I was reading an article on Windows 7 on indiatimes. An ad showed up on the website indicating (Nikon) Digi Cams are available starting Rs 5800/-. Sounds interesting, so I clicked on it... The click took me to the camera section of the seller website but the first page showed lots of Kodak and Canon cameras. Where is that Nikon of the Ad? So I checked on the checkbox on the left to see Nikon only section and here's what I got - Lesson Learnt (Again) - WYSIWYG rarely works in the Adv+shopping world. Indiatimes needs to catch up on Google Chrome. My suggestion to Indiatimes - You may want to put a "* conditions apply" tag on those ads.

I have been watching Joost for some time now (Ok, few weeks!). And all I can say that its been an experience so far. The ad-free viewing experience is great (save for that Coke text-ad which I noticed yesterday evening). The other day I and my son were watching that continuous burst of cartoons when my wife came and remarked - "No Ads!". Apart from the No-Ads thing, the choice of channels is also good. So many things to watch and explore, Joost has the potential to revive my interest in watching TV (on computer of course). And my 2Mbps connection is also managing it well, now I need one with no limits on downloads/uploads ! By the way, going by Text-Ads thing, why can't the TV channels do the same thing for themselves. Tickers are already part of the news channels these days. This way they can have ads coming on the screen all the time while the programs carry on with their stuff in the main viewing area. At least the channel which starts this experiment can boast of...

Microsoft agrees to buy aQuantive for $6 billion, compare this with google's acquisition of Double Click for $3.1 billion. Other such acquisitions I heard of - Yahoo Inc. buying online ad exchange Right Media Inc. ($680 million), and WPP Group PLC buying ad firm 24/7 Real Media Inc ($649 million). Baba re! kitna paisa hai advertisement mein!! (Gosh! there's so much money in advertising business). This one is from GigaOm - Alltel, one of the smaller mobile carriers has decided to go private in a deal that values the company at $27.5 billion ($71.50 a share in cash), a 23% premium over Alltel’s closing price on December 29, 2006. The company is being acquired by two private equity players, TPG (Texas Pacific Group) and GS Capital Partners (private equity arm of Goldman Sachs). Baba re! Mobile business mein aur jyada paisa hai (Gosh! Mobile business involves even more money). Vinnie Mirchandani discusses salaries and billing rates of Indian Offshoring companies in his blog po...

Remember that Tata Indica Liar ad, my son used to come running from anywhere in the house just to see this ad and he must be just one or one and half year old at that time. I was wondering if I could find it on youtube and yup, it is there, here you go - ~mks

My son (2 months to 3 years now) is growing up - Last night he said "Mummy, dimag ki batti jalaani hai kya?" (Do you want to light up your "head" light?). It took her some time to understand that he picked it up from the Mentos ad. ~Mks