I like profits, but give me some cool product packaging!

Product Packaging, whats that? It’s something that can seperate your product from the rest. It combines Marketing and Sales into one. CNN Money has a great article on this (link below). it showcases the new types of technology, just like the new ketchup problem we all had to endured all of our life. I dunno why it took Ketchup so long to think of this.

good product packaging can be something small like logo on your pizza box to something new and hip like Domino’s Sugar container (less sugar = bigger profits).  it can easily set you apart from your competitors. even if your a small deli or small pizza store on the container, have a competitor across the street you want to destroy like your microsoft on a rampage? get some sandwich paper wraps that have the name of your store on it, get custom soup containers. what else? seperate your pizza shop from the others, get some cool packaging that keeps your pizza warmer but  heat resistant on the outside (don’t burn your hands). don’t forget the big cool logo on your pizza package :).

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/06/technology/packagingthatpays.biz2/index.htm

Cuban says don’t buy YouTube, I agree

Mark Cuban, the owner of the mavericks and owner of HDnet says that anyone who buys Youtube is a moron. why? because the company is just a here today, gone tomorrow website. I’m still angry over the myspace sell, and the Billion dollar skype deal (total waste of money).

Like I said about other companies, they will get sued eventually. It’s the same war the Music and Movie Industry is fighting. can YouTube still be bought? depends, if a investor or business thinks Cuban is wrong (he isn’t) and might want to prove him wrong.

short opinion : The only companies I like are companies that care about profits, not revenue. I don’t like companies that have 15 million in revenue and only 1 million in profits. Wal -Mart is a example. It’s a big company yes, 300Bn but look at the gross difference in revenue.

Vonage = Great Marketing

*opinion is only based on commercials not financial so please don’t buy the stock on my opinion*

so I was watching my CNN, what comes on? the vonage commercial. this one is where the stereotypical geek programmer is breaking up with a supermodel in her ferrari. well yes just making the commercial funny isn’t going to create revenue or a very good bang for the buck marketing dollar but why is this commercial good marketing?

Vonage actually gets its point across. having a Vonage box thrown at you after you did your “idiotic” act clearly shows what Vonage can do for you.  I wonder how Vonage is doing in the market…

HP = Disgraced

My take on the whole HP mania.

this is why investors should sell their HP Stock, This Country has been under the influence that laws don’t count if no one catchs you. well fortunately HP has been caught. I don’t like it when Companies\Politicians put up a big smiley face, say everything is A-OK yet while you inspect the front of the house they hide everything at the back of the house. we should not focus all of our time on a single HP case, say “this should never happen ever again” but find out what other companies are doing this. their are legitimiate ways to “spy” on competitors, thats business but its different to lie to customers, break laws and spy on employees, especially high Executives and reporters.

how many companies are paying reporters to promote the company and its products?

I’m so angry that I will never buy HP Stock or any of its products. EVER!

tell me what you think readers

TVU – watch tv on your computer through the net..for free

okay okay, I will stop with the negative views on some so called fly by night companies. here is one unknown legal or illegal company out in China, the wild wild east I call it. this company has a desktop player that lets you allow to watch television (cable or network) on your channels. It looks like a legit start up, and thats what it is. its a start up and the program isn’t ready. as usual,

I wouldn’t suspect people to get irritated with it at first but you’ll be surprised with some of the performance.

I’ll probably have companies emailing me hate mail for having their employees loose productivity.

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IronPython, something valuable or is it a “me too” language?

I was bored as usual and was wondering what the new release of Iron Python is all about. Does anyone know what you can do with Python?, is it like php, asp.net? I’m looking for answers from people who had experience using it.

Tell me what you can do with it and why would someone want to learn a new language and can you really learn it in a few days?

I’m asking this question because when C++ first came out, it was the talk of the town, what happened next? well SUN Microsystems got jealous and created a lets say, flawed “me too” language.

– Thanks , Digi Tig

Flock – “social webbrowser”?

I dabbled with the Flock social webbbrowser, BUT I don’t see whats the big deal about it. to me it looks like flock’s features could easily be added on to the Firefox codebase rather than needed a whole new browser (almost most of it is using Firefox code).

I will parrot Rick Segal on this one. “where’s the profit?” eventually Investor money will go away, would donations take up the slack for costs of development, rent, equipment?..

but what do I know, I’m only the 900lbs gorilla in the room

(I hate non profits)
PS : eventually the market will balance itself out.

Microsoft – Paper Tiger?

A few days ago I was talking to The Scoble about MSFT because I heard the uproar about the non optional and now optional start up sound about the yet unreleased Vista.

I was surprised that It took a 40+ Billion dollar company to get a big consumer reaction for such a little thing. with it’s millions of dollars into product development, marketing,focus groups Microsoft needed a uproar for such a single thing? It might look like the once efficient msft has become a heavy giant. too slow to react until it feels fear.

so I come to the conclusion that Microsoft is not really the big giant that everyone thought was invincible. all is needed is to cut profits into Office and Windows and the big gorilla won’t be able to concentrate on other areas.

if I was Google I would be taking notes.

Wow, I’m a noob

okay, My name is Giovanni and this is Digital Tiger or Digi Tig. This blog will be about Business, Business History and Technology and some programming if I find a cool widget on the net.

This would be my first blog. I don’t read alot of blogs, only Scoble’s (who doesn’t?) and Rick Segal & Mini MSFT.

also , I like to warn my technology people that I do read Slashdot.org. (site traffic comes to a halt).