In a time when I thought NBC couldn’t do anything correct (Knight Rider) they have managed to do something very cool with the only show on NBC I claim to be a fan of. Tina Fey carries this show and my super crush on her helps me not miss an episode. Who cannot watch this show after Alec Baldwin publically claimed NBC was giving his show the shaft and not promoting it right. If your a 30 Rock fan you need to watch this online and not wait for it on television. Strike this up as a win for Internet TV.
This video is a great reason why I am going to stick to watching TV on the Internet. Hulu is good enough for me! I have never watched the Spike Feresten show but this skit is great. In 2009 all televisions will convert to digital, ABOUT time. I cannot wait for all the people who will be calling Comcast to inform them that they are no longer receiving television.
Forget about real television already! Tune into Hulu or you can catch most new prime time shows at the respective sites like CW, ABC, NBC and etc…..
If you will be at Formula D Irwindale this weekend then please tag your twitter posts with #formulad (without a space). If you use this tag it will be picked up by our live feed and you can contribute to all the action we will be going over for the people who cannot make it around the world. If you cannot make it to Irwindale, you can watch the live updates from the Wrecked Magazine staff and fans by hitting the chat page.
Well I survived Monday of the Search Marketing Expo in New York City and I reviewed the three big sessions I attended. Later on the PM Lifestyle site I will be reviewing some great non session things I have been doing after the conference. The two big things of day one were what is new in video search marketing and what is new and big in social media marketing. I put together three reviews that you should check out over my first day. I also have a Flickr account going for my whole NYC trip that will be updated everyday.
Luckily it’s not 1973 but in Atlanta we are going on a third week of a fuel shortage with no hope it seems in sight. Luckily through Twitter people all around Atlanta have been coming together to help identify in real time where gasoline is available. So if your a twitter fan or you wish to locate gas just simply head to http://search.twitter.com and type in #atlgas and it will pull up people who are referencing gas locations in Atlanta. If your going to do all that make sure you just end up following me at www.twitter.com/joeyredmond as well.
After some re focus of Wrecked Magazine in recent months and the new 2.0 launch we have been looking for ways to help optimize our videos and our clients work that is featured up on our website. We are now optimized and searchable in Google video. Our whole library currently can be found and searchable within the Google video software which should provide huge traffic to our website. Each video even has a link straight to www.wreckedmagazine.com under the player that fans can click to drive direct traffic. It looks like Google reads our sitemap about once a day to add new photos into this program. We are very excited about this marketing implementation we did this week and will update soon on the success of this program. Thanks to the team for all the hard work we have put in to make this happen over the past few weeks.
While I realize I was very quick to say that Jerry Seinfeld was the worst idea ever when it came to making Microsoft look cool it appears after flushing all of that money down the toilet someone learned a lesson in Redmond, Washington. This is a new Microsoft commercial posted on the BBC/Ice Cream American blog mentioned it because Pharrell was in it. So finally Microsoft seems to be on the right direction to success, congrats guys.
If you read my blog frequently you read my comparison of my old G35 coupe to the G37S coupe I now drive. NICO contacted me and asked if they could feature it on the main page of G37driver.com! The piece came out together looking great so make sure you swing by G37Driver.com if you have any interest in the Infiniti coupe. I just got home from San Francisco and will provide some updates as soon as I get some free time!
I definitly like the G37 more as an overall package. I will give you a rundown of my review between the two. I just made a post at G35club.org reviewing my thoughts between the G35 and G37, below is what I had to say:
Factory Options: This is the big winner between the G35 and the G37. Each car I have owned came with every factory option and the G37 takes the cake in the fun toys department.
For audio/visual fiends the G37 winds hand over fist. The navigation screen is finally touch screen and Infiniti manged to integrate the radio into the screen display. The G37 will allow you to rip CD’s to your Music Box Hard Drive and you can also load music in from a Compact Flash slot on the dash. I have to admit I don’t use either of these but they seem like cool options. My big winner is the iPod plug-in that let’s you browse your iPod on the screen and control your iPod with the steering wheel controls. This was a huge plus for me as it allows me to play my iPod and keep it charged with clear music. In my G35 I used a FM modulator which was horrible sounding with that great Bose system. I live in a downtown area and my condo is in a tight parking complex so I love the back up camera they added for the G37. Wrapping up the factory options section the auto tilt headlights are cool and the laser guided cruise control works upon testing in my area but I haven’t taken it on a decent road trip yet to really put it up to the true test. I do live in Atlanta which means traffic is horrible and the NavTraffic is a pretty cool feature but it seems to fail me 80% of the time. It will tell me traffic is in the area when it isn’t or it won’t warn me of traffic ahead, in the systems defense Atlanta traffic is ridiculous!
Power: The G37 has some decent pep to it over the G35 but it’s nothing that is going to blow you away by any means. The powerbands between the two cars seem to act differently however. The G35 seemed to have this strong low end almost like a V8 in the way that you could drive it and it pulled. The G37 has much more of an across the board pull with a strong finish in the RPM’s (similar to dare I say a VTEC motor) which I tend to enjoy since I am a former Honda owner ten times over. The G37 wins this section as well.
Suspension/Braking: This by far is where the G series will win any automotive fan over. The G37 added the 4 wheel active steering which the first time I really did some spirited driving it kind of freaked me out as it is adjusting your steering angle, ratio also your rear wheel angle which sometimes you can feel. It almost gives a simulated feeling that your car is starting to slide out deep into a turn and then just get this feeling that the turn isn’t being over driven at all. Kind of a creepy feeling but you can easily disable the 4 wheel steering with a button next to the VDC if you must. I love it but I would say the cars are equal in this point. Regardless of tweaks that the G37 made over the G35 both cars are equipped with overkill for street performance and I just love it!
Trunk Space: No more hope in the G37. They both lose in this category.
Overall Review: With all this being said the car is generally the same, especially for an “average” driver. I am a huge sucker for cool electronic options and horsepower so the G37 heavily wins my heart on that note. If you just want the basic mid range luxury ride then the G35 should fit your own needs just fine. The extra money for the G37 really comes down to the little add-ons and cool features and if you think they are worth it.
This story should surely leave you scratching your head. Apparently Microsoft is tired of not being the “cool” brand that people seem to label with Apple and are taking a huge new marketing project to make Microsoft a hip brand. So they are paying $10,000,000 to Jerry Seinfeld to do some commercials with cool former founder of Microsoft Bill Gates. This comes as part of Microsoft’s new big marketing push estimated to be around a $300 million dollar project. Somehow a 90′s comedian/TV star and Bill Gates don’t seem like they will quite make the “hip” or “cool” bar that Apple reaches but it should be entertaining none the less. They couldn’t of found anyone else, really?
