My Run In With Fake Steve Jobs

• Apple
• Fakes
• News Media
• September 21, 2009

It’s not the first encounter. But this time, I fought back.

Last week, someone tweeted that I had been Fake Steved. Last week, at Betanews I blogged: “Why I chose Windows 7 Over Snow Leopard (and you should, too).” For Fake Steve (aka, journalist Dan Lyons) that translated into post title: “Borg lapdog says you should choose Windows 7 over Snow Leopard.”

Megawoosh: Slip Slidding Fake

• Fakes
• Marketing
• Microsoft
• Video
• August 20, 2009

“What’s more popular than ‘Roller Babies’?,” Advertising Age asks. “The world’s largest Slip ‘n Slide. Microsoft’s ‘Megawoosh’ campaign has successfully displaced Evian at the top of the Viral Video Chart, with almost 2.3 million views.”