{"id":7217,"date":"2008-09-10T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/dvorak_on_bill_gatesseinfeld_ad.html"},"modified":"2008-09-10T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T11:37:24","slug":"dvorak-on-bill-gatesseinfeld-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/dvorak-on-bill-gatesseinfeld-ad.html","title":{"rendered":"Dvorak on Bill Gates\/Seinfeld Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just couldn&#8217;t help busting out with laughter as I read the John Dvorak analysis of the Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates ad which I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/the-jerry-seinfeldbill-gates-commercial.html\">wrote about<\/a>. If you are looking for humor mixed in with your tech, it is worth a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2329941,00.asp\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>The sad part is the analysis makes sense but just can&#8217;t be correct at the same time. This just can&#8217;t be the type of viral marketing the company was looking for. Can it?<\/p>\n<p> Are these ads a good counter to Apple&#8217;s campaigns? What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just couldn&#8217;t help busting out with laughter as I read the John Dvorak analysis of the Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates ad which I recently wrote about. If you are looking for humor mixed in with your tech, it is worth a read. The sad part is the analysis makes sense but just can&#8217;t be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,188,206,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}