Beyonce Knowles wants to get away on a boat with American Express and the people she loves

In following up on the question of how rich people should act vs. how they actually do, Beyoncé is being featured in one of the American Express ads where they ask the celebrity to fill out who they are and what they love.  Her photo features a jet, a limo, and a shiny gold dress [...]

Google wants Facebook to meet their Maka

Apparently Google has code named their Facebookesque social networking site "Maka-Maka."  If you look it up on the Hawaiian Dictionary Library site as "makamaka," you find out the word basically means "friend."  Of course, others in the comment section at this Techcrunch post point out what it could mean in other languages too.  This [...]

Hulu.com ~ NBC and Newscorp’s baby set to launch

Hulu, whose name must come from something between "hula" and "zulu" (i.e., between aloha and safari) is set to launch soon according to Brad Stone at the The New York Times in his article called, "Hulu Readies Its Online TV, Dodging the insults."
"Hulu" apparently means various things, such as "butt," in different languages.  It’s definitely [...]

Zrii ~ for the low, low price of $179 per gallon!

After the Zrii post, I read some information online about The Chopra Center’s endorsement of the amalaki-based drink out of Utah.  Zrii and its independent agents are marketing this endorsement as huge because Deepak Chopra’s Center has supposedly never endorsed a third-party product.
Well, it’s not hard to understand why they might endorse this product when [...]

CVS happy-place, caregiver ad that Bob Garfield says "makes you want to puke"

Bob Garfield, blogger/critic at Advertising Age, really hates the new CVS ad with this happy little scene in it:
 
He says of it, "…how often it is that you see a TV commercial that makes you want to puke?  Well done, CVS. … You want your customers to love you. Alas, flattery will get you nowhere, [...]

CNN: Pool saves couple from California fires

A couple in Southern California sat in the deep end of their pool for three hours as their lives burned around them.  Watch the video here.  This survival method is a last resort; this couple had no prior warning that the fires were coming.  Don’t try it at home if you can avoid it.

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Palm trees after the destruction ~ Bush visits 2007 California fires on cover of The New York Times

On Friday, October 26, 2007, The New York Times ran a photo of President Bush walking through some of the destruction from the fires.  In the background are two scorched palm trees:
 
Seeing one of the symbols of Southern California in disarray like this still provides a powerful image with a link to place — sort [...]

How can Hawaii market itself when we use Hawaii to sell everything else?

I rarely post images from travel ads because we know what to expect.  If you’re marketing a beach, then by all means PLEASE use a picture of that beach.  With any luck, it’s beautiful enough from 360 degrees, so you can give us a realistic view of it.
Anyway, last night this ad for Pleasant Holidays [...]

How the rich are supposed to act vs. how they actually do act ~ a lesson from Reddit links

You will often see large numbers of get rich expeditiously programs, such as multi-level marketing companies, touting their plans in tropical locations.  Many of them will show flashy pictures of exotic places and activities to entice new recruits.  Yet, you don’t often hear about business people who are super rich and how they spend their [...]

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