by Bruce Turkel | May 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Google manipulating their Artificial Voice (AI) voice recognition software. Specifically, the company added “ums” and “ahs” to their robot voices to make them sound more human.Google was doing this to make their interactions...
by Bruce Turkel | May 15, 2018 | Branding, Building Brand Value
For years Google has crowed about their code of conduct, “Don’t be evil.” In 2015 they doubled down on the concept, if not the actual words, when they introduced their new tagline “Do the right thing.” As the company explains in their code of conduct,...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 3, 2018 | Bruce Turkel, Marketing & Advertising
It’ll be on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen. Did you hear it? The opening shot of the revolution was just fired. And most of us pretended the sound was business as usual. A few years ago, way way back in 2008, Dave Carroll had his guitar broken by United...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Seeing Through Transparency Legends and fairy tales have always been a great way of looking at what society finds both frightening or exemplary. For example, back in Medieval times, the plagues that spread unseen contagion fed the original vampire legends. And as...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 14, 2018 | Branding
Metaphors and allegories are often great ways to make complicated examples simple. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” the philosopher used the idea of prisoners chained to a wall and seeing only the shadows of other people to express the concept of actual and...
