Entries Tagged as 'russian'

Friday, July 16th, 2010

What The F**K Is Social Media NOW?

For the past two years, Espresso has taken a stab at answering a simple, compelling question: “What The F**k Is Social Media?” The answer has turned into a series of presentations that have been viewed over 750,000 times, translated into about 10 languages (including Russian, so I’ve finally been able to explain to my parents [...]

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Monday, June 29th, 2009

The Right to Empathy

Oh boy. This is not typically the kind of stuff I write about here, but it is something I feel quite strongly about, and, if nothing else, it makes for a case study in cross-cultural communication — not to mention some interesting neuroscience. Last week, as the New York Times reported, French President Nicolas Sarkozy [...]

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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

stargate costumes, and russian hats

NOTE: These two items are actually unrelated, I just figured I’d kill two fashion birds with one post. Stargate Outfits: Watching Hulu’s recommended shows scroll by, it suddenly dawned on me that the outfits that the cast of Startgate: Atlantis are wearing in the promo shot look incredibly familiar: Particularly the leather jacket, second from [...]

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Friday, June 8th, 2007

bad identity marketing strategy

this is what the bottom shelf in aisle 8 at ralph’s looks like: uh… which one am i supposed to buy? i iz confuzled. Like this? Share it: Tweet

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Saturday, December 9th, 2006

get familiar

how’s about an introduction? before i tell you what i do, i’ll tell you about who i am, and you’ll understand where my sensibilities for marketing come from…. i was born in the former ussr to a jewish family. by the time i was six my parents had been “refuseniks” for nine years. the ussr [...]

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