Archive for June, 2006

As video on the web evolves into a fairly standard medium, it starts to offer some real benefit for TV. On the one hand, you can show/sell shows on the web, that are not successful enough for TV placements or that are so successful, that people will pay a couple of bucks per film or [...]

A couple of weeks ago I noticed skypecasts for the first time. An amazing concept. You create a skypecast to which up to 100 people can join in. As the moderator you can decide who gets to speak (you could also decide to have a monologue for 2 hours - might be your last cast [...]

The Kinsey of Clicking is a very interesting research into todays love&web culture by Wired author Momus.
He asked the readers of his blog a few questions, which he gathered and summarised in a report later published at wired.com.
His questions were:

What are the effects of information addiction on your life together?
Is the internet age less cozy [...]

Crazy, the kind of ads this worldcup inspires.
Advertising for peanuts pointed me to the The Adidas Chapel. They painted the ceiling of the main trainstation in Cologne to look like the Sixtine Chapel by Michelangelo…

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Absolut Vodka has a new online game out: similar to other campaigns I have seen already, this one is once again about spotting things in a large messy picture.

In this particular game, you need to find 82 of the typical Absolut bottles within 2 minutes. I guess with some practise you can do that, [...]

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, has a video-podcast since today. Her first vidcast was FIFA Worldcup message, no surprise.

Now that has got to be a first. Or is there any other country whose Nr. 1 politician has a video-podcast?

The first time in a long time, that I actually really appreciate something my government [...]

In Germany, a pizza delivery service now created a selection of worldcup pizzas. Each participating country is represented by one pizza on the menue.

(Here you can find the whole menue)
Interesting, what this german pizza delivery thinks about the Germans - or the German football team. Especially if you compare the German toppings with the numerous [...]

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ffm - skyarena fußball wm 2006 (01), originally uploaded by bembelkandidat.

I wasn’t able to take pictures myself, but this one here from Flickr shows the magnificent installation that was done in Frankfurt. A video installation [...]

I have just opened up a new category: Football Worldcup. As things get chaotic here in Frankfurt due to the worldcup, there are also numerous ads and marketing things happening. I will try to display as many as I can in this category.
On the 9th of July, when the worldcup is finished, this category [...]

An interesting experiment by the organisation “Future of the Book” and University Professor McKenzie Wark is the new book GAM3R 7H30RY

It’s completely web-based and the reader can flick through cards of content when reading the book. This way, the user can easily find content again, but the main benefit is that users can comment on [...]