Archive for December, 2005

I have been slow writing posts in the last 2 weeks. Reason being, that the yearend tasks at work have been slowing me down a lot - I guess the same has been happening to a lot of you, too.
During Christmas break I will take a deep breath. A lot has happened this year, [...]

Wow, what a cool move by Yahoo!
Kudos to them for making this move after having bought flickr already. BuzzMachine pointed me to this piece of news, and also to some more info on the del.icio.us Blog and to the blogged “press release” of Union Square Ventures.
Yahoo! is on to the tagged, semantic web. [...]

Search Engine Watch reports on the new Yahoo! Answers, that started just now. Some other comments are here and here.
Questions can derive from all sorts of areas, even things like “where can i get the best coffee in Frankfurt”
The whole system relies on points that are given for each answer and which rank the respondents [...]

CNN launches web-only TV called CNN Pipeline, as Random Culture writes. It costs $24.95 a year, but you can also get a day-pass for 99 cents. Not sure, why I should pay extra, i.e. in addition to regular TV, except for it’s ad-free. But then again, ads on US Television are a lot more annoying [...]

Adverblog just pointed me to a new campaign by Nokia, which is including a blog:
Welcome to the Nokia Nseries N90 Blogger Relations Blog site. Here you will find blogger and media information that you can repurpose and utilize in your blog postings about the N90.
Seems like blogs are increasingly on the list of marketers. With [...]

Quite a few sites pointed me to the new brand image advertising of Honda: The Power of Dreams. While I wasn’t necessarily interested at first, the number of positive reviews changed my mind to have a look. And it is great, no doubt.
What I also noticed, the website showing the webversion of the spot is [...]

Looking for stuff on RSS I came across a range of interesting posts and articles about RSS, it’s relevance for Web 2.0 and the future of content distribution and meshup:
Starting out with the article by Dick Costolo of Feedburner, it becomes clear that RSS ist now widely used, not just in blogs. Dick also talks [...]

Cool. Two new extensions for Firefox 1.5, which improve tabbed browsing (and help all those along, that have way too many tabs open at the same time, like myself.
A tab preview allows to quickly visually see which website a tab is for.

The multi-tab view lets you preview all tab’s content within one browser window.

For your [...]