yahoo avatars

I began reading the current assignment and thought to myself, I have a yahoo messenger account but I'm not sure if I have an avatar or really what an avatar is, because I rarely use the account. So I began a yahoo search to come across these avatars where the sky is the limit. You begin with hair and eye color, then proceed to pick an outfit, then choose a background...and the possibilities become endless, or so I tought spending over an hour messing around with all the different looks.
It is very hard for me to say things that I believe they could change to get more college students involved in using avatars, I would suggest to add more variety. However I will say that I think the fact that yahoo incorporates branding and causes into the t-shirts and backgrounds you can choose from is brilliant. Many college students now are becoming more aware and involved in things like breast cancer and aids awareness and things like one.org to fight the problems going on in the world today. I believe that it would be beneficial to add more printed t-shirts to the avatar choices. They also have a lot of backgrounds in certain locations on campuses, building off that, they could start having backgrounds with college sports teams or pro sports teams to get more people using yahoo avatars. I believe they could also create a make up application, more creative hair colors and just a few more choices and styles to attract a younger audience to yahoo avatar.

"Live the Flavor"

The 2007 Dorito's super bowl commercial was, by far, one of my favorite Dorito's commercials. When the man and in the car and the woman on the street both with Dorito's catch eyes and the commercial exclaims "Spicy" for the woman and "Cheesy" for the man, I thought that was pretty clever. Most men are pretty cheesy and get distracted by "Spicy" women, which is exactly what happened to this man. He was soo distracted by the "Spicy" woman, that he crashes in the car in front of him "CRUNCHY". The then woman runs to aid the man the commercial exclaims "bold" and "smooth?", as she trips and hits her head on the car door! This commercial i found extremely entertaining and very clever, as they made their chips attributes extremely memorable by embedding a memorable picture into our brains. Now and forever, when i bite into a dorito and hear the "CRUNCH" i will think of the man driving into the back of the car in front of him.