Archive for January, 2006

This blog launched 1 year ago out of pure curiosity. I already read blogs, I had read about blogs and at some point I was wondering what it was like to have and maintain a blog myself.
So I started this one and decided that I would blog about anything related to web culture, web2.0, [...]

Just a quick update on a recent post: The Honda choir spot apparently had 800.000 viewers last week, as the wieden&kennedy blog states.
Not bad considering the fact that the distribution (=media) costs for this 2 minute piece must have been minimal compared to regular TV rates. Plus the fact, that many have blogged and/or talked [...]

Ad Blather pointed me to a great OOH ad:

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Simon Dumenco writes, that a Blogger is just a writer with a cooler name.
Now, I would like to discuss with Simon, whether “blogger” is such a cool name in the first place.
But since Simon “posted” his article in the so called “traditional way”, even though already in the digital space, I can’t comment [...]

While Mercedes Benz amazes me with a fascinating microsite, BMW fascinates me because of the way they are testing new channels of interaction and user involvement:
I already knew for a couple of weeks about their
RSS Feed.
Then I found out about their vodcast,
as well as their podcast.
Now I found, that they even supply you with [...]

This is clearly one of the smartest and best brand microsites I have seen in a while: From A-Class to S-Class by Mercedes Benz.

With each letter of the alphabet (but only until S) this site shows one of the features that prove that Mercedes Benz pays a lot of attention to detail. This alone doesn’t [...]

Here is a Honda TV Spot that is currently making it’s round across several blogs.
I am curious to learn about how many views Honda gets with this spot - as it seems to be quite well promoted via a choir of word-to-mouth propaganda.
On some blogs, people ask what does it sell or achieve?
What does [...]

Here is another list of predictions for 2006. Most of it sounds interesting. But here, I just couldn’t help a big fat grin:
Speaking of a higher purpose, Google, NASA and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos will shake hands on an agreement to collaborate on space missions.

Web content shifts from PC to all sorts of other devices [...]

OK, this took a few seconds, but it sure did make me laugh!
I just wonder how much they had to photohop those cup-handles, because once you get it, they don’t look like ordinary handles any more at all…

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Just a short note: Don Dodge has an interesting post on what’s The Next Big Thing in 2006. Summarised:
Communication and connection are the big opportunity areas for 2006.
But there is more in his post, go read it. 2006 will be a good year!

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A lot of sources have already talked about this site: The million dollar homepage, where a guy is selling off 1 million pixels of his homepage at $1 per pixel. By the way, he needs more than the average screen resolution of 1024×768, because that’s just 786432 in total - that means more than 200,000 [...]