Sunday, December 16, 2007
Awesome Powers, Intenet Man of Mystery
Capitalizing on the popularity of Austin Powers, TimeStep Corporation (a company I worked for) launched a campaign with a character named Awesome Powers.
Awesome’s job was to protect data from his nemesis (whose name I forget at the moment) using TimeStep’s IPSec Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology, and like his inspiration, save the day. His tagline was “Email me, baby!” Yeah.
Sadly, TimeStep, it’s incredible product line and Awesome himself are all historical accounts on the Internet time line. Its website — and Awesome’s — has been scooped by a click-through company.
The image in this post shows both sides of Awesome’s business card, which I found while cleaning my office.
