{"id":7454,"date":"2008-02-26T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T11:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brants.wordpress.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-02-26T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T11:57:59","slug":"bill-meets-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/02\/26\/bill-meets-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill meets Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Well, maybe Bill and Mark have met before in other contexts, but to actually have a promo of MS doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heroeshappenhere.co.in\/FBLanding.aspx\">facebook application<\/a> in India is perhaps a first. And thats not all, there&#8217;s a game on zapak too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8216;Heroes Happen Here&#8217; is the theme of the entire promo being done by MS. While the entire deal looks like a mash up (not literally)\u00a0of information disseminaton\u00a0&amp; trials for Visual Studio 2008, Windows\u00a0Server 2008, SQL Server 2008\u00a0(do not close the window, i am as technologically challenged as you are on those)\u00a0and community building, I, for one, am extremely envious of the brand\/product guy who got to do this. It has stuff for IT professionals, developers and enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As you might have guessed, this blog is interested because of the way a social network and a gaming site have been weaved in to\u00a0the communication strategy. Communication strategy, because i saw an ad for this, not on facebook, but on the rediff homepage. Which means that not only have they spent money on the game and the application, but they&#8217;re also spending on advertising the stuff. I say cool!!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I haven&#8217;t been able to add the application, but if you do, lemme know how it went.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u00a0until next time, soft socialism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe Bill and Mark have met before in other contexts, but to actually have a promo of MS doing a facebook application in India is perhaps a first. And thats not all, there&#8217;s a game on zapak too. &#8216;Heroes Happen Here&#8217; is the theme of the entire promo being done by MS. While the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/02\/26\/bill-meets-mark\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,15],"tags":[89,113,170,297],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand","category-internet","category-social-networking","tag-facebook","tag-heroes-happen-here","tag-microsoft","tag-zapak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}