Okay, I started trying…

May 8, 2008 by fredvw

Okay, I started trying to network with some people I met at the Unica conference in New Orleans last week. I called the gentlemen from desk(?) side(?) and a lady from Discover Card. Actually, I didn’t call and I(?), Julie(?) sent e-mail to them. Hopefully, I’ll get some hits on my blog. listen

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Asking the question behind the question

May 2, 2008 by fredvw

Okay, I was in Bryce’s Lights-Out Affinium Campaign session at MIS on Tuesday and I asked if there was any way to get the full campaign name to a trigger variable.  We have established a convention for the campaign name and I wanted to pass it to the trigger script so I could parse it and retrieve our promotion code (this is what we did for eMessage 3.7.1 triggers.)  Well, Bryce couldn’t answer my question (I get the <CAMPCODE> and <SESSIONNAME> { flowchart name } but not the <CampName>).  However, I could pass the promo code in as a command-line argument, assign it to a user variable and pass the user variable back to the trigger script.  This saves me from having to parse the campaign name.  So, this is an example of asking the question behind the question and finding what may end up being a more elegant solution.

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Today in Ironic Marketing

May 2, 2008 by fredvw

“Free $500.00 WAL*MART Gift Card - Participation required.”  You keep using that word (Free). I dunna think you know what it means.

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Okay, I need to get…

April 25, 2008 by fredvw

Okay, I need to get all my things together to go to New Orlean next week. I’m looking forward to the Unica(?) conference but it’s still a few days away. listen

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Nutritional Information via SMS

April 24, 2008 by fredvw

Here’s a link to a LifeHacker article which says Diet.com will post nutritional information.  I just sent [mcdonalds big mac sandwich] to [34381] using a mobile phone to test it out.  Unfortunately, they must be overloaded since I haven’t gotten an answer yet.

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I know why people host WordPress on their own websites

April 23, 2008 by fredvw

While I’m grateful for the free wordpress account, I think people want more flexibility (i.e. add-ins) than they can get with the hosted (free or paid) sites.  For now, FUBI will continue to be hosted here, but in the future, I may consider moving it to a different URL.  Keep that in mind (both of you readers ;-)

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Olive Garden Birthday Song Revealed

April 23, 2008 by fredvw

Well, it took a couple of days, but I finally found out that the music behind the Olive Garden birthday song (Buona Festa) is actually called “Feniculi, Fenicula” and it comes from a musical written in Italy during the late 1800’s.  Apparently, you can find it on YouTube with a performance by Pavarotti.  My son can now stop calling it the “Kriketskibar” song and bug cleanup in the house will take on a more mundane sense.  Oh, the shame of it all ;-)

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Video On Demand links

April 21, 2008 by fredvw

Okay, I was talking with Rob in the office today and I realized, I haven’t included a lot of links since I just expect people to go out and get their own links.  At the risk of being redundant, I use the following two links for video-on-demand:

  • http://www.hulu.com (actually you can use www.openhulu.com to avoid needing a membership, but the content is more limited and I encourage everyone to use the system.)
  • http://www.joost.com - This is a separate application that you use to view flash video.  We used this one to watch a Star Trek episode called “A Piece of the Action” when our kids were going to do a 1920’s-era murder mystery.  My wife was also happy to watch the pilot episode of MacGuyver, too.
  • http://movies.aol.com - Okay, this one isn’t really video-on-demand in the same way, but they did have some cool videos (include the aforementioned MacGuyver video and some old Bugs Bunny video)

Enjoy,
Fred

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Thinking about the Wii Fit

April 17, 2008 by fredvw

Here’s the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-RVLRRFNE-Wii-Fit/dp/B000VJRU44/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1208463641&sr=8-1

It seems intriguing….

It turns out you *can* open eMessage6 and campaign 6 in Firefox

April 11, 2008 by fredvw

I added a Firefox extension called “IE Tabs” and it works pretty well.  I really prefer Firefox to IE, and I guess that the IE proxies inside the tab.  Tres chic!