In just over two-and-a-half minutes, Jim Henson produced one of the best TV pitches I’ve seen (I’m biased because I grew up on this show), and must have been a hard sell considering it’s a primetime series starring puppets. Today, of course, he would have needed to include a blurb about the digital, cross-media plans. Would he have called us digital lovers egg-heads or  ”Freaky long-haired dirty cynical hippies”?

Do you think this would have worked today?

While a lot of people in the tech industry are on the receiving end of these three words, it can happen at any time to anyone. “Can’t you just use Photoshop?” “Can’t you just do just hire the writers from the Simpsons for your new TV show?” “Can’t you just build another Facebook?”

What are your best “Can’t you just” moments? Share in the comments…

Thanks for providing 26 songs for free to highlight the upcoming Pitchfork Music Festival. Your site, however, is downright horrible: Urban Outfitters – Features – Pitchfork Playlist.

Now, I know the garish stuff from the ’80s and ’90s is a popular fashion comment today, but let’s keep it to only clothing, ok?

Please, oh please, let us not soon see the return of the dancing baby, or anything resembling a GeoCities site from the late ’90s in the name of irony. We can do it for fun using the GeoCities-izer online. It shouldn’t be part of your online strategy.

Thanks,

Lianne

Via TheDailyWhat

This will be a top question on content farms soon when kids lose the stylus for Crayola’s upcoming, very cool looking app – Colour Studio HD.

Airlines and hotels are increasingly encouraging the public to book directly on their corporate sites rather than through third party aggregators to offer additional buy-ins like hotel room upgrades and airline seat choices to the consumer. This trend could force Expedia, Travelocity and others to change their business models slightly in order to stay in business.

While Global Business Travel Assn says booking directly with the airline and the hotelier may increase costs for the customer, other sites are popping up to help you compare prices and make sure you’re getting the bang for your buck. Here’s one to show your colleagues: Hipmunk.com is a very easy-t0-use site that organizes its search based on time, price and agony. It doesn’t support all airlines, yet. Toronto’s Porter Airlines for example, wasn’t appearing in any of their beautiful charts.  Upon chatting with their very helpful live help chat, they thanked me for letting them know the airline was missing. How nice!

Bonus: OK, so say you’re flying to the U.S. and you want to check up on an airport’s hands-on TSA review process, look no further than this TSA Status site, created and updated by its users.  This heavily rainbowed site doesn’t have the cleanest of interfaces, but it is handy. It’s also a great place if you feel a compulsion to complain about a TSA agent online.

So next time you need to book a flight for work or pleasure, impress everyone with your knowledge of these two handy sites. Got others?

Yep.

Now, when you check-in using Facebook’s Places, some retailers will offer a discount… and they’re pretty good coupons, too (damn it). In Canada, Indigo/Chapters will give you 40% off the price of a book, you can buy $5 jeans from Joe and H&M gives you 30% off regularly prices merch. Not bad.

This type of couponing will definitely encourage more users to check-in using Places, and may create more Sponsored Stories for Facebook’s advertisers. At least, if you appear as part of a sponsored story in your friend’s wall, you got something out of it.

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