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A TED Talk by Dan Ariely that I found on Trizle. How often do you think this happens to us? How often are we slanted in one direction or another by information design?
A certain employer from my past should read this. I always used to cringe when he would talk about getting eyes on our client’s products.
I am not sure at all that Microsoft will get a win in Windows 7 because of this ad, but it is pretty good. The ad and Windows 7 that is. I agree 100%, but also know something that many marketers/brand experts fail to remember. If the product has “suck-suck” you can only cover it with great marketing for so long.“You can have the world’s greatest features (e.g., the Zune, the Palm Pre), but you will see the SUCK-SUCK unless you make your prospects/customers feel good/happy/awesome/[insert-any-positive-emotion-here].”
I like this short write up on the effects of Kanye’s newest outburst. If Ms. Swift can get over the onstage humiliation and look at dollars she has a reason to be happy. Of course if I were Taylor Swift I wouldn’t care about more money, I would just want to dent Kanye’s skull with my new award. Either way… interesting read.