| Local Searchers Hunt for Ideas, Not Categories
In recent weeks, bloggers and others have discussed how consumers are adopting a new way to use local search engines, Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), and local directories. Actually, it's not so much how consumers use local search products but how their search queries are adapting to the changing landscape brought about by technology. One such interesting blog post by Jennifer Osborne discusses how millennials, the generation born from roughly 1980 to 1995, no longer think in terms of categories like previous generations. This is no small observation, considering there are about as many millennials as baby boomers. Marketers who don't understand millennials may be turning off a large segment of their audience. Millennials Use Local Search Differently As Osborne notes, the generations preceding millennials were conditioned by yellow page directories and similar printed directories.
Man who organised theft of own Porsche exposed
A judge has rejected a Christchurch man's story that he got back his Porsche 911 after it was car-napped and sold to him on a riverbank for $2000. Instead, Judge David Saunders has found police had proved a charge that Carl Edwin Loader was a party to the burglary, where his Porsche was taken from a garage where it was being repaired and payment for the work was in dispute. But he has not convicted Mr Loader for taking his own car. In the Christchurch District Court today he discharged the 43-year-old car salesman without conviction on condition that he pay $9508 for the work done on the Porsche, and another $500 for the cost of the prosecution. The case had a hearing before Judge Saunders on Monday and he gave his reserved decision today. He ordered that Mr Loader pay $2000 of the outstanding bill within a month, and have the rest paid by January 31.
We go behind the scenes for a look at filmmaker Robin Cowie's family ...
We wanted a unique house, one that felt different when you walk in. It so reflects our tastes and interests."
Cowie was a teenager when his family moved from South Africa to the United States. Since graduating from the University of Central Florida's film school in 1993, he has worked on a variety of film and TV projects, including for Nickelodeon and the Golf Channel. He also launched Worldwide Brands, a company that finds products for people to sell on the Internet, and co-authored the primer eBay Performance!
He and Sarah met on the set of It's Relative, the film he directed for his senior thesis. "She was my leading lady," says Cowie. "It's a clich�, but that's how it happened."
Sarah has since switched from acting to helping run her husband's businesses.
Jan. 28, 1807: Flickering Gaslight Illuminates Pall Mall
1807: London's Pall Mall becomes the first street anywhere to be illuminated by gaslight. The gaslight was developed in the 1790s. The credit usually goes to Scottish engineer William Murdoch, but it was Friedrich Albert Winzer (sometimes anglicized to Frederick Winsor), a German entrepreneur living in London, who lit Pall Mall. In 1804, the same year he patented coal-gas lighting, Winzer demonstrated the technology during a lecture at London's Lyceum Theatre. By 1807, he had moved into a house on Pall Mall, one of the city's most fashionable streets. He followed the illumination of Pall Mall with a special exhibition on June 4, 1807, in honor of the birthday of King George III, using gaslight to superimpose images against the walls of the buildings along his street.
Kucinich Starts New Impeachment Drive
Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio may get excluded from Democratic presidential debates, as he has been recently, but no one can deny him the floor in the House. And today Mr. Kucinich took to the floor to fire off his latest salvo at the Bush administration: his plans to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush on Jan. 28 - the day of Mr. Bush's State of the Union speech. Accusing the administration of lying about the need for the war in Iraq, Mr. Kucinich said he did not need to hear the president's assessment. "We know the State of the Union," he declared. "It's a lie." He also fired a volley at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California who has maintained that impeaching Mr. Bush is not on the table for Congressional Democrats.
NJ Senate approves abolishing death penalty
He was arrested Sept. 6 along with 10 other public officials and one private individual. The arrests resulted from a public corruption investigation that progressed from southern to northern New Jersey, snaring state assemblymen, mayors and city council members along with several members of the Pleasantville school board. Continue reading "Pleasantville school board chief admits bribes" » .
Jaguar extends luxury saloon range with XJ Sovereign
The XJ Sovereign is the natural choice for drivers who are looking for cars that offer the best of driving dynamics, luxury, comfort, high technology and top performance. It complements the existing XJ range of the XJ standard wheelbase and the XJ Long Wheelbase renowned for their luxurious driving experience. 'The XJ Sovereign represents contemporary automotive luxury at its best delivering a blend of attractions that Jaguar customers expect: elegance, style, comfort user-friendly technology and spirited performance. The addition of this nameplate reiterates Jaguar's ability to deliver some of the best luxury saloons in its category,' said Andy Gawthorpe, Managing Director, Jaguar Middle East & North Africa. The powerful XJ Sovereign model is available in a V8 engine with options of a 3.5 litre or 4.2 litre.
Audi A3 Cabriolet: One for the ladies?
It cannot simply be that the TT Cabrio costs a bit more, or that the A3 Cabrio offers slightly more practicality in the form of rear seats, although (as in the TT Coupé, another nominal 2+2) that space is best regarded as tiny tot/dog territory. Perhaps it is the severe pseudo-Bauhaus lifestyle statement the TT makes, which appeals strongly to some chaps, but far less so to young women. Well, that's enough psychosexual analysis, what about the subject in question? This is Audi's first entrant in the open-top "premium compact" class. Open-top and compact you can figure out, but what does "premium" mean? Well, its only direct rival is BMW's forthcoming 1-series Convertible, and here it means a starting price of £20,740. At first glance this looks expensive, but Audi is on a roll.
Rolls-Royce Appoints New Head of Marketing
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars today announced that Graham Lenden (41) will join the company as the new Head of Marketing. He will assume his position at Rolls-Royce later this month, replacing Paul Ferraiolo, who was recently appointed President of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars North America. .
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