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How far will MSN go to get new subscribers? Apparently to the portable potty at your local summer concert or festival.
Full article here [news.com.com]
MSN UK is negotiating with toilet paper manufacturers for special rolls with Web addresses, or URLs, printed on them.
Sounds like MSN has finally got round to offering a serious alternative to adwords...ahem...
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That said though - if I'd had a Microsoft super-loo then I might have seen that post whilst, erm, otherwise engaged earlier.
R.
<added>There we are... Microsoft Toilet Talk: Now Featuring Three Threads in One. :) (edited the subtitle to include title of last thread also)</added>
[edited by: mivox at 6:03 pm (utc) on May 8, 2003]
Gee, It's hard to think up any jokes about this one...
Looks like homegirl beat you!
www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/4797.htm
But tipping my hat for your thread title. Very creative.
[edited by: mivox at 6:44 pm (utc) on May 7, 2003]
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All I know- is I'll be bringing my own keyboard!)
I think at the time it was a joke - I don't think anyone was doing it, but I have seen more and more lately.
This is normally the sort of thing The Onion [theonion.com] would spoof... luckily for us, MSN is there FIRST!
Horribly, this is also surely a part of captive marketing [time.com].
motion-sensor activated recordings on the ads or something
They had these above the urinals at Pravda in Boston. Nice captive audience.
I think internet access would be preferrable, but who's going to spend long enough in a toilet to check their email? And will they provide a box of sanitary disposable gloves next to the keyboard? (Or, to expand on the comment above: an attachment for ultra-portable PDA-style keyboards?)
Where do you want to go today?
ROFLMA
You really should be working for a downmarket newspaper!
TJ
Windows! It BELONGS in your toilet!
"cut to image of windows logo circling down with a bit of paper"
don't get me going about the keyboard/mouse/buttons or whatever this thing has... <snip> samples anyone?
[edited by: Macguru at 2:59 am (utc) on May 8, 2003]
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Gives a whole new meaning to logging on & downloading.
</bad pun>
R.
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=57459
Microsoft: ILoo No Hoax After All [biz.yahoo.com]
Microsoft Corp. Reverses Itself Saying ILoo Was Real but Now Has Been KilledWhat's true with the iLoo? Microsoft Corp. and its public relations firm changed their story -- again -- Tuesday about whether the United Kingdom division had been developing an Internet-enabled portable toilet.
