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A Eulogy for Lala

I went to log in to my Lala account last week and was greeted with the heartbreaking message that Lala service would be terminated on May 31 after having been purchased by Apple in December of last year. Needless to say, I took the news pretty hard. I’ve been a Lala user since September 2008. [...]

Oy-Pad

If you’re planning a trip to Israel, be sure to leave your iPad at home.  This week, Israel became the first country to ban the import of iPads – even by tourists bringing in their own personal devices. Israeli technology and communications officials are concerned that the iPad uses higher Wi-Fi signals than Israel and [...]

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Highlights

xiik Interactive Marketing goes international! Yep, just recently I had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to represent the xiik geeks at my 4th SIGGRAPH conference ever and my second in Asia (last year I visited Singapore for the first ever SIGGRAPH Asia). This year the conference was held in Yokohama, Japan — an absolutely wonderful [...]

Loyalty: A Little Simple Can Go a Long Way

I wouldn’t say I travel a lot.  But I probably travel more than the average guy.  For those of us who are cost-concious, we definitely know there are a lot of sites out there trying to get us to use them to plan our flight, hotel and car rental.  Well, the primary vendors (the actual [...]

Everybody Else Is Doing It…

You may ask yourself , “Geez…why does xiik have a blog??”  Is it because it makes us seem hip?  Is it to grab another spot on the main page of Google?  Is it simply because everybody else has one, so why shouldn’t we? We’re a interactive marketing firm.  It seems like what some of the other companies [...]