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Sitting at vida cafe in camps bay reading The Times
Funny ad next to BA strike article which will ground the whole airline over Xmas stranding a million passenger.

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Sixt Advertising Munich Airport

Clever ad from car rental company Sixt promoting their parking support system that comes with most of their cars.

Don’t worry – Sixt has cars with parking support!

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Google will promote its Chrome browser via TV channel – a first for the Internet company. The ads are also released on Youtube’s Chrome Channel.

Interesting to see if Google will gain momentum in the browser war for market share. When they launched Chrome, it was quiet disappointing that Mac users had to wait for the beta to come out. At the same time, Mac’s Safari update – which is incredibly light and fast – will most likely keep most Mac users to remain loyal to the native Apple browser.

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Quoting from a blog in Dubai:

As expected, FP7 Doha was named Agency of the Year. With 100 entries in Print and Outdoor each, they had their path to the stage all marked out. And if you thought they had a quiver full of big brands last year, take a look at the heavy artillery they brought in this year: Samsung, Heinz, 3M, Toys’R’Us, Higeen, Rakha Nissan Motor Co., WWF. Nothing could stop them. Stellar work on each brand came through from the fertile environment of Doha, whose citizens are known to have the same IQ levels as Nobel Laureates and award show judges.

But behind that gold-sequinned veil lies a story that I couldn’t make up even if I wanted to. What follows is not the Gospel truth. It is only a map that you could follow, if you want to find the Holy Grain of Truth.

Continue to read this article at this http://bloganubis.com/2009/03/21/enough-is-enough/

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