Looks like LJ is actually trying to recruit new users again (and not just in Russia and other Eastern-European countries). Here Here is a new video ad they put out recently:



I like this one. Playing up LJ's strengths is a good idea, and it DOES indeed have many strengths, especially compared to other social media sites. So I'm definitely ( Read more... )

From the "what-the-buck-are-they-thinking" department...

I knew that being purchased by Microsoft would mean that Skype'd go from bad to worse, but I really didn't expect what they apparently come up with now: advertising in your calls. porsupah has the scoop:

Have you ever used Skype to make free calls to someone else, and thought, "What I could ( Read more... )

Spotted at the local supermarket a week or two (it's still up, BTW):


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I really don't exactly like the smell of Old Spice (at least not on myself), but the commercials they're doing right now are so (intentionally) overdone that they're actually really amusing. This one has a few rather quotable lines ("The tickets are now diamonds!"); this one is so over the top I really couldn't help but laugh. ^^

Better yet, the ( Read more... )