This weekend I learned of the unexpected passing of my youth club’s top coach (trainer), Dieter Beckmann. Dieter made a monumental impact on not only soccer in the Charleston area and the state of South Carolina, but also most importantly on a generation of players at Charlestowne Soccer Club that went on the play at top colleges at a time [...]
I keep wondering where the ‘A’ game is from Microsoft? They totally own the desktop and server markets; are competitive in gaming; but getting their butts kicked on mobile and content (especially apps) with Apple; and now possibly with entertainment! One of my favorite Microsoft products is media center. However, they have left some gaps like no Zune integratin in media center! Why [...]
Shepard Fairey, most recently popularized from the Obama campain’s HOPE poster was recently intervied by GritTV. Sheperd is from Charleston and his presence was felt everywhere here from his ‘Obey the Giant’ campaign. One in particular was on the old Cooper River Bridge heading into downtown which I would see just about everyday.
I just read an interesting article on Egadget about the HP & Palm deal. Anyone interested in these large scale deal plays might find it interesting!
After a quiet period of some pending transactions we re-launced midosm.com over the weekend. We migrated from Blogengine.net, which we used for the last few years, to WordPress as our platform of choice recently. Many of our sites will be coming back online on that platform shortly after strategic announcements.
With the World Cup comes marketing opportunities galore including co-marketing between brands. However, like many big corporations, sometimes they aren’t the most synergistic. Take for instance a recent co-brand with adidas and VW on the VW GTI adidas when adidas’ biggest partnership with the German National Team which is sponsored by Mercedes Benz!
Today was a day of doubles. Both Chelsea and Bayern Munchen completed succesful doubles (League and Cup wins) by both winning their domestic cup competitions. Chelsea ended their season at Wembley with a 1-0 over Portsmouth. Bayern routed Werder Bremen 4-0 in Berlin to line up a potential treble when they face Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League final [...]
Where do you go when you when a championship? US teams would say Disneyland/Disney World. If your Leeds United after winning the League One Championship and getting promoted to the Championship League you go to the Atlantis at The Palm Hotel in Dubai!
Using its own balance sheet as fungin, Boeing has produced a new recon/intel drone which will most likely be updated with some firepower post test flights potentially as a light support aircraft to ground troops. “We are on a fast track, and first flight is in sight,” said Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works. “Phantom Ray is on schedule [...]
I picked up on this from Alexander Kotler’s Football Partnerships. Its a movie called After the Cup, The Sons of Sakhnin United about Jewish and Arabic players in the same team in Israel and what the future could look like as only sport can demonstrate. Here is the summary: There are over 1.4 million Arabs who are citizens of Israel, facing the challenge of living [...]
Today Southwest announced it will be coming to Charleston with direct service to several key markets! One of the most difficult things about spending time in my hometown of Charleston are the lack of direct flights into and out of CHS. Having a profitable carrier who can fend off the majors, who traditionally drop rates to comepete with low fare [...]