Pandora, the music discovery platform that I use nearly every day and love, has recently started showing ads from Jameson’s new ad campaign: customized t-shirts with your name instead of the first four letters of their name. Now, I’m not in the market for that sort of shirt, but I do know a nifty application of the web 2.0 when I see one…
It would be interesting to see the final numbers from this campaign - I wonder how many people will order. I imagine we will know if it is incredibly successful, as there will be copycat campaigns everywhere (personalized Captain Morgan shirts first, probably).
I dislike MS Office, both because of the price and the bloated feature set, and have tried and hated most of the alternatives, including OpenOffice, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and Zoho. OpenOffice is free, but poorly constructed, and thus solves the wrong half of the problem. Google D&S (and all the other online html-based office suites) make efficient working impossible and simply don’t export well.
That leaves iWork, which I can no longer ignore because Apple just added a spreadsheet app. The price is right at 5 licenses for $99, and if this new “Numbers” is anything near what Scoble is hyping it up to be I think I may finally settle on a productivity suite.
