Tag: funny

AOL Powerpoint paralysis

Ever wonder precisely why big companies such as AOL are so painfully sluggish? Here’s an insight from AOL. The company engaged a top-tier naming agency, evaluated 120 different options, tested the finalists with focus groups in Denver and Chicago, checked on the meaning in 16 languages — and the brand strategy group explained its process in a laughably belabored 20-slide presentation.

heh. i bet that company in sunnyvale is pretty much the same

Subprime

it might be that the default risk is only $300b. by comparison, the tech crash was $9t.
2007-12-05: this is hilariously funny

2008-03-16:

a newsteam ventures to one of LA’s new shantytowns made up of people who’ve lost their homes in the subprime meltdown and now live in tents, improvised shacks or RVs on abandoned land. It’s the contemporary Hooverville, and, as the Subliterate Cinephile notes, I wonder why I found out about this from the BBC and not US media.