Bing It On !

No I didn't spell it wrong. (But my auto correct kept telling me i did)

This is Microsoft's new marketing campaign Launching tomorrow. They are trying to encourage searchers to give Bing a try.

Supposedly people prefer Bing web search results over Google nearly 2:1

http://www.bingiton.com

- Mike Nichols,Corporate Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Bing

After you take the Bing It On Challenge, we hope you will become a frequent searcher on Bing. It’s time to break the Google habit – you deserve more from your search engine. Not only are our web search results better than Google’s, we also offer a rich search offering that brings together great search results with friends who know about the topics you’re searching for. Our social search features allow you to search with advice and input from friends and experts, providing a new take on search. Now is the time to spend less time searching and more time doing. If you want the best web search results and a new, more useful way to search with your friends, try Bing today.

They are giving away Microsoft Xbox's to some lucky folks that use Bing. Count me in!

My last two Xbox's took a crap after just 6 months of play each. I deserve a XBOX Microsoft! You Hear Me?

Mirror Mirror On My Facebook Wall......

      I decided to start my own blog so that I can post to my social websites, forums and discussion groups under my own branding, ME! Who knows where Facebook and all the others will be in the future?

     I read a very interesting article for school recently called “The Facebook Mirror” that really got me thinking why I don’t want these social sites “Mirror Ware” to own all my evidence of my self-projections.  And it is this mirror, the seductive invitation to reflect us and only us back to ourselves that will damn us.

     On Facebook, We post everything that is happy, pretty and proud. Or we post some object or person as an icon. Puppy, baby (MY GOD SO MANY BABY PICTURES), Kitty, our high school pictures.  Like the article says “Identity Airbrushing”.  We trade the pleasure of imagining the absent reader for the imagined adoring gaze of ourselves. And then we expect our friends to “like” our posts, pictures ect. Immediately, and to shower us with praises.

     Couldn’t we all have blogs? You can subscribe, post pictures, chat. Everything Facebook offers.  Imagine: no more dull status updates with shameless self-promoters, and people of a friends that send you game invites every day.

I wonder if I will be guilty of the same thing on my blog? Here are some promises that I WILL NOT DO:

·         * Let me tell you every detail of my day. “I had a pop tart for breakfast”

·        * Self-Promote myself with every update on what I have achieved

·        * Be the Town Crier – Breaking news

·        * Details of my sex life, marital troubles and bodily functions

·         *The sympathy-Baiter “Man, Am I glad that’s over”

·         *Sell, Ask for support for a cause, Sign my petition, Ask to Play Sim Social with me. Tell you the top five *cars I have owned, poke you, Ask for a quiz, ask for your birthday, phone number, personal information or             to join a group.

Let me know what you think.  Now excuse me while I go post this story to my Facebook page.