I could not help but see all the marketing around Michael Jackson lately. Movie goers will see a film that is a documentary on Michael's life entitled "This is it". A CD release of the same name is also out to possibly accompany the movie. Let's not get to crass, Michael is a phenomenal writer, sing and dancer. But man the amount of marketing in the latest ploy leads me to think is there better marketing than dying?

Look at other artists that are celebrated only after dying. I guess the challenge for a brand is dying and evolving into it's next iteration. A few examples come to mind with Apple introduction of the iMac and iPod. Other examples I would include Stussy, Puma and Target. For sake of space I will not list out the reasons. But a dyeing brand could be poised for a rebirth.

Here are 10 brands that would be interesting to see reborn... 1- GM 2- Doc Martens 3- Snapple 4-AAA 5-KMart 6- Casio 7- My Space 8- Beanie Babies 9- Nordstrom 10- Eddie Bauer.

So you think MSN/Bing are a good search source. Well you might be in the serious minority. Accordong to hitwise.com (national leader in web traffic tracking) Google has amassed 70.93% market share for search engine. WOW! If your site has been doing well in the MSN/Bing category but not Google  you might want to think hard about getting us to help you.

http://www.hitwise.com/us/datacenter/main/dashboard-10133.html

Turns out that AT&T is ticking off customers with bad service. (You probably knew that already). Well now you can point and laugh a little harder considering a new study that says they have had a hard time subsidizing the iPhone. Well we can all hope that Apple will make them bleed so much they will want to give up their contract and the world will finally get a piece of the "Apple" pie, the iPhone.

Check it out...
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10371785-233.html

In case you have born recently as my daughter has, you might or might not have heard about Twitter. The unique service that lets users text anyone "following" them, in answer to the question, "What are you doing?"

Well as everything goes you're in one day and out the next. Twitter is not immune to this either.

Has this new trend gone unnoticed until recently (2 years)? Hardly ...
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