Monday 22 September 2008

Top 2008 brands

1901 Coca Cola calendar

Interbrand announces the 2008 best global brands, they listed the top 100. Here you can see the top 10 (i added the year):

Brand - year - 2008 brand value $ mil - country of origin

1 Coca-Cola - 1886 - 66,667 - USA
2 IBM - 1924 - 59,031 - USA
3 Microsoft - 1976 - 59,007 - USA
4 GE (General Electric) - 1878 - 53,086 - USA
5 Nokia - 1865 - 35,942 - Finland
6 Toyota - 1937 - 34,050 - Japan
7 Intel- 1969 - 31,261 - USA
8 Mc Donald's - 1940 - 31,049 - USA
9 Disney - 1923 - 29,251 - USA
10 Google - 1998 - 25,590 - USA

the first british is
27 HSBC - 1865 - 13,143 - UK
the first italian is (actually today Gucci is owned by french PPR)
45 Gucci - 1921 - 8,254 - Italy

year means the year when the name was adopted

in the press release we can read:

Coca-Cola (No.1) remains the best global brand for the eighth year in a row. Yet, a notable shift in this year’s rankings was made by IBM, which took over the No. 2 position from Microsoft (No. 3). Google also moved into the top 10 brands, at No. 10, after ranking at No. 20 in 2007.

It's possible to download the full report (pdf file, 85 pages)

The brand Google: in 10 years from nothing to number 10!! It would be interesting to know how much money the corporations spent for advertising. How much money has Coca-Cola been spending since its foundation?

Tuesday 16 September 2008

Tag cloud of Obama's and McCain's acceptance speeches

Tag cloud of Barack Obama's acceptance speech, 23 August 2008; Denver, Colorado
You can read and watch the speech (about 42 minutes) here



Tag cloud of John McCain's acceptance speech, 4 September 2008; Saint Paul, Minnesota
You can read and watch the speech (about 50 minutes) here



Scheduled debates between Obama and McCain:

- 26 September 2008 - foreign policy and national security
- 7 October 2008 - anything
- 15 October 2008 - domestic and economic policy

The tag clouds were created using Wordle net
Click on the images to enlarge them

Sunday 7 September 2008

Telecom Italia in trouble


ownership of Telecom Italia on August 2008


value of Telecom Italia stocks from january 1998 to 5th september 2008

Telecom Italia entered in Milan stock exchange on 27th October 1997, when the government (Prodi was PM) decided the privatisation. The highest
value was on 13th March 2000, during dot-com bubble. The last trade on 5th september 2008 was made at 1.037 Euro per stock, the lowest value since 12th January 1998 (1.009 Euro). Somebody thinks the Telefonica isn't unhappy about this: they'll be able to buy Telecom Italia at a cheap price... Anyway, something is going to happen soon...

Dab and Dab+ test in Rome


Now it's possible to hear DAB test of Rai (in 2008!!) in Rome.
In channel 9D they are testing DAB+ (DAB with new codec) as well.

Channel 6A 181,93 MHz

ClubDab - RaiWay

Radiouno 160 kbps stereo
Radiodue 160 kbps stereo
Radiotre 160 kbps stereo
Rai Fd4 96 kbps stereo
Rai Fd5 96 kbps stereo
Isoradio 96 kbps mono
Grpr 48 kbps mono
Radio Radicale 64 kbps stereo
Radio Maria 64 kbps mono

It's also possible to hear:

Channel 9D 208,06 MHz

Eurodab

Radio Radio 128 kbps stereo
Radio Radio +
Rtl 102,5 128 kbps stereo
Rtl 102,5 +
Radio Vaticana +
Radio Padania +
Rtl Italian Style
Rtl Clas +
 
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