So much not about Tokyo
I am using a Boeing wi-fi connection in a JAL flight back to Tokyo. If it wasn’t for my battery starting to run out, I could be talking on the phone via Skype for the whole 12 hours, at $9 an hour. I have a cool life. (And JAL rocks)
Google wants to push their instant messenging service Google Talk, nicknamed GTalk by some. SO far, nothing very surprising when you think about the amount of traffic MSN is getting just because people keep using MSN Messenger for their daily I-should-be-working-but-I’d-rather-be-flirting routine… So they implemented a new “Chats” tab in Gmail main menu where you can see your previous chat sessions logs and of course search them via Gmail, and so on. Rumors are that we will soon be able to chat directly from within Gmail too.
What is interesting to me, is that they changed Gmail logo to include “Talk”. And the strange part is that “Talk” replaced “Google” actually… This is how important it is for Google to push this service, even if they don’t even have the available space to sign their own name anymore!
And since Gmail logo was really ugly and not that well done (Google people, if you are looking for a graphic designer, I know a few people for you), they took the opportunity and the time to clean it up a little and give it a little pseudo-Aqua touch while they were at it. Good.
The Super Bowl XL Commercials are available at Google Video. Of course, the Budweiser are funny and “cool”, the FedEx is clever and “cool”, and a few here and there are ok and “cool”. But I was wondering how the GoDaddy ones would be, since the one with the big busted bimbo last year apparently was such a fake “big issue”, even though there was absolutely nothing in it, and the ad was so crappy in the first place. Some will say “2nd degree humor”, and I will respond to them “learn how to spell your own name before you try to use vocabulary you don’t understand”. Anyway, the GoDaddy Superball commercials this year are so stupid and pointless, it’s not unbelievable some people would get money to do something so bad.
I did mention I love Geekko. So I will talk about them for a second, because I just discovered that a search on Google for “guerrilla online” or “guerrilla offline” brings them 1st, even before Jay Conrad Levinson’s official website.