Posted in Outrage from the Trenches | Friday, December 15th, 2006 | Trackback
- Sony, our favorite clueless consumer hardware manufacturer, just wanted to get a little love for its maligned handheld device, the PSP. A little viral campaign is just what’s called for, right? Wrong. Turns out all viral marketing is good for is making people sick of your shenanigans. The FCC is now investigating. Bravo Sony! That’s something that not even Wal-Mart’s disastrous fake PR blog (called a FLOG) could do.
- In other Sony news, the company is complaining that TV prices are dropping too fast. “We simply can’t be expected to make as much money when competitors are offering similar products for less money. We demand the free market system to reimburse us for our holiday shortfall.” The fictional exec then donned a grinch mask and began shoving children’s presents into a comically large bag.
- While Yahoo has enough soul left to keep layoffs from happening until after the holidays, AOL doesn’t have such hangups. Nothing says Christmas like a pink slip.
- It doesn’t take a team of geniuses to see that Microsoft’s Zune is in trouble. Recent lagging sales and a promise to increase the ad budget (above even original Xbox levels) both point to the writing on the wall: the Zune is a bust.
- Flock, the little browser built on naivety and little else, has lost another birdy. Just another in a long line of people who have realized that working on a project that no one wants isn’t great job security.
- Yahoo’s UK holiday staff party was… SURPRISE!… a yawn. Nothing like a corporate reshuffling, pending layoffs, and no open bar to bring an event to snooze-level red.
December 27th, 2006 at 7:48 am
[...] That Joster waited until after the holiday season to let people go. It’s pretty easy to do, but that puts them ahead of AOL in my book. [...]