Chris Saribay

Aloha Airlines, after over 60 years of serving Hawaii, unexpectedly ended all passenger service on Monday. After several last ditch efforts to save the carrier to no avail, there was little choice left but to call it quits. While there’s certainly some hope that Aloha may one day emerge and take to the skies again as a passenger airline, most of its 2,000 laid off employees have moved on. Aloha’s shutdown marks the end of an era, one once marked with great triumphs and success, and as of late, great challenges and hyper-competitive moves by entrants into the market.

Aloha’s ad agency and several partners have started running this spot on local television. The spot, based upon Aloha’s last ad “Anthem”, is a certainly a fitting emotional memorial for the defunct airline. I’ve flown Aloha in the past, and I will definitely miss the spirit and service that this company and its employees embodied. It is a shame that this had to happen.

Mahalo nui loa, Aloha. A hui hou!

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Wall•E, Andrew Stanton’s latest film from Disney/Pixar, is inching closer to its June 27th release. What appears to be the full-length theatrical trailer has been released, and it looks really great. Be sure to check it out.

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Apple had their press briefing on the iPhone SDK Roadmap today, and I think it’s going to be pretty tremendous. There’s a lot of power, especially with what they’ve demo’ed so far- some pretty intense apps were shown by developers who had just two weeks to develop their apps on the iPhone, including AIM and Spore. Along with the SDK, Apple announced the 2.0 version of the iPhone software, which includes real enterprise support for Exchange servers- I’ll be able to access my corporate email now! Goodbye Outlook Web Access, and good riddance!

Unfortunately it won’t be out until mid-June, but when it hits, the iPhone is going to be a huge player in the enterprise telecommunications department. I can’t wait for this to drop.

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Gary Vaynerchuk is a 32 year-old self described master of wine. Recently speaking at Strategic Profits 08’, he talks about the power of branding and marketing, and the most important concept that any one person could take away: your own brand. His speech is a powerful lesson of what is, and is not important in today’s landscape. You are own brand; and you need to differentiate yourself from everything else, and everyone else’s brands. Check out the video below for an excerpt from his speech.

A lot of the public communication devices that I have are synchronized- that is, they all match each other within some varying degree. This video is the ultimate explanation of why things like personal branding, what I attempt to accomplish this website and most other things I do publicly, are important.

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As you all may have noticed (as evidenced below) I’ve made a lot of posts on this blog concentrated on my experiences as an intern on the Walt Disney World College Program. In anticipation of further movement in that direction and requests to put more of my experiences down to paper (er, bytes), I’m spinning off all future discussion on this topic to a new blog on this site: Irrelevant Ramblings: Disney Edition.

At some point, I may merge these two blogs, and I’m sure there may be some overlap, but with the amount I’m planning to post on the subject in the near future, I think it’s better to split it off for now.

More personal posts coming to this blog, later.

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I’m off to the city by the bay for a week to attend the all-things-Apple tradeshow, Macworld Expo. I’ll be back in Hawaii next Sunday. If anyone needs to get ahold of me in the meantime, you can give me a ring at 407-361-0274 or email me at my first (chris) and last name (saribay) at mac.com.

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There’s been a lot of rumors of a Disney owned and operated resort in Hawai’i, and this is the day those rumors die. Disney has spilled the beans on their latest Parks & Resorts product offering: a highly themed Disney Resort on 21 acres in Ko ‘Olina, a costal area on the island of Oahu. I’ve always believed Disney would build a resort in Hawaii, and they’ve finally headed in that direction.

Now will I be working there? We’ll see. (Direct Link to Video)

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