Now That's Talent!

On this Friday - I end the week not with a promo but with a cute video.  This kid puts me to shame when it comes to playing the ukelele(or any other instrument for the matter) -- but I'm WAY better at something this kid CAN'T do well.  You'll see from the video.  Enjoy!

Apparently - there's already an app for that.

KARE 11 proudly showed off their new iPhone app in a newscast recently.

They left WCCO, their main competitor's app on the screen as well.  

Tivo article

Am I the only one who doesn't understand Tivo's thinking????

TiVo getting its wish, as more people warm up to 'DVR' as a verb

For a while, TiVo had achieved what some marketers think is a worthy goal: Its name became shorthand for the category, the same way Kleenex is for tissues or Coke is for cola. TiVo wasn't too happy about that, though, as it feared brand dilution. The company notes on its Web site: "Consider the following now-generic nouns that were once trademarks: Escalator, Linoleum, Kerosene, Cellophane, Thermos, Aspirin, Yo Yo and Bikini. The importance of correct trademark use cannot be emphasized enough." TiVo even used lawyers' letters to get journalists to stop using the term to represent the category. Well, the company seems to be getting its wish. Have you noticed how more people are now saying they "DVR" their favorite shows, despite having to utter that extra syllable? A search on Dow Jones' Factiva service brings up 58 mentions of people having "TiVoed" something over the last 12 months, compared to 77 a year earlier. Over the same time, "DVRed" inched up slightly, from 26 to 28 mentions. The term is also losing ground in Google News search results, where "DVRed" had nine recent mentions compared to seven for "TiVoed." More ominously, there are 118,000 Google results for "DVRed," compared to 37,000 for "TiVoed." There's a fairly simple explanation: TiVo's market share is now less than 8 percent of the DVR category. Microsoft would like the same thing to happen to Google, and would love to hear that people "Binged" stuff they wanted to learn about. Quantifying Bing's influence will be tricker, though, as it shares that past-tense form with the verb "to binge." As in, "I binged on turkey over Thanksgiving." Or should that be, "I binged on Butterball this Thanksgiving"?

Happy Holidays... from 1966?

A holiday promo from CBS in 1966:

We've Got that B-Roll!

Something fun for this Sunday night. I hope you all have a great week.