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Exit point

25 March, 2011 - 289 words
It was twitter‘s fifth birthday last week, which means that I’ve been there for almost five years now. My feelings about it are summed up by Ryan Mickle in his post When free makes your product suck: I realized that Twitter is turni...

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XBox 360 advertising splurge

17 November, 2006 - 136 words
I thought I was going mad this morning as I was reading the metro (a free daily newspaper in the UK) – there seemed to be ads for games *everywhere*. I realised a few pages in that they were all for the Xbox 360. In fact, it was so outrageously obvious (two two-page spreads, including a Dead Or Alive calendar), that

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Real ads - probably not worth it

31 October, 2006 - 83 words
2lmc comment on the current hatred of the new Sony Bravia advert, and link to the Media Guardian article (behind a regwall, so you’ll need BugMeNot) which tells us that … the “Paint” commercial cost about £2m to pr...

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