Google’s Super Bowl Ad
If you were watching the commercials during the third quarter of the Super Bowl yesterday you may have noticed Google’s ad “Parisian Love,” where a user longs for love in Paris. The ad is a part of Google’s “Search Stories” campaign.
Many viewers weren’t too surprised to see the ad because Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) hinted at it in a Twitter post on Saturday:
Can’t wait to watch the Superbowl tomorrow. Be sure to watch the ads in the 3rd quarter (someone said “Hell has indeed frozen over.”)
Ironically, the ad was published on YouTube on November 19, 2009, which Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) commented on in a blog post Sunday evening:
“In fact you might have watched it before, because it’s been on YouTube for over three months. We didn’t set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search. Our goal was simply to create a series of short online videos about our products and our users, and how they interact. But we liked this video so much, and it’s had such a positive reaction on YouTube, that we decided to share it with a wider audience.”
You can watch “Parisian Love” below:
Charlie Rose Talks iPad
On Thursday (Feb. 4), Charlie Rose hosted a discussion about Apple’s iPad. It included Walt Mossberg (The Wall Street Journal), David Carr (The New York Times), and Michael Arrington (TechCrunch).
Super Bowl XLIV — Saints vs. Colts
Today’s Super Bowl Sunday. The Big Game. The Grand Finale.
While kickoff isn’t scheduled to occur until 6:25 PM ET tonight, the Wire has been heavy with Super Bowl coverage and analysis over the last couple of weeks. From score predictions, to player, team, and coach analysis, to Super Bowl recipes.
Prestige
Pursuing prestige is dangerous.
I used to want to be famous so bad. I’d watch all the award shows in awe.
I’d watch the Golden Globes and Oscars and get it in my head that I should move to Hollywood to become an actor. And not next week, month, or year, but the next day. I never physically packed up my car, but I did for hours and hours in my head. Every year, every awards show.
Twitpics From Space
(Haiti From Space; Soichi Noguchi)
I just came across some beautiful images. They’re actually 9 Twitpic images from space via Japanese aeronautical engineer and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
You can view the images here.
We are the World
So Michael Jackson said, and so the guidance counselors extolled onto every last pupil.
We children of the 90s up through the 0’s were raised in a world of posts: post-racial, post-soviet, post-modern. No more status quo- everybody is equal and happy and cares about each other and everything is gonna be fine. That was just how it was going to be.
So this golden generation of Barney’s kids soaked it up- little Jesuses with an idea ingrained in their minds that their lives were going to mean something and the world was a nice place.
Johnny Cupcakes
The other day I wrote this post about the essence of real-world experience as oppose to formal education.
Well, I just stumbled across someone who jumped right into the real-world and has had great success. His name is Johnny Earle and he started a t-shirt company in 2001 — Johnny Cupcakes (or JC for short).