Archive for September, 2006

There is one thing I would like to recommend to anyone interested in ideas & inspiration. TEDTalks is a podium for remarkable people who have done or are doing remarkable things. In the words of TED itself:
Each year, TED hosts some of the world’s most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. [...]

I love it. There is always someone in the whole webosphere, who’s got the time, brains and curiosity to dive deep into things that we can’t be bothered with until we see the results.
This guy here, for example, was wondering about the fact that MySpace has 100 mio users. So he looked at a couple [...]

Businessweek Online has a “Tech Special Report” online with lots of interesting articles. And also a slideshow about “Your Favorite Bloggers” - the guys behind boingboing, engadget. People like Seth Godin, Mark Cuban, etc. Nice flick through those slides. Unfortunately, the corresponding list for Germany would be different. We still don’t have that kind of [...]

Just found this on Adjab: Zune on Ellen: Microsoft’s new leaking campaign.
Not bad going for Microsoft. With this kind of advertising they might actually invade the iPod space. I guess they had already practised. At least that’s what it looks like in this video, that was supposed to be “internal” but then hit YouTube nevertheless. [...]

ZDNet writes about Swicki tapping communities for search and really describes a new way of making search more relevant. This is the question most search engines are currently trying to solve and the model of Swicki seems to be similar to Rollyo:
“Rollyo offers the ability to search the content of a list of specified [...]

So, there is a machinima video by the PR company Text 100 filmed completely in Second Life:
Two things I find amazing:

the fact that we will probably see more of these kinds of videos, since it is so much easier to have all the actors and the buildings put together.
the thought that there might actually be [...]

So, Amanda Congdon is back with AmandaAcrossAmerica.
And she has also opened up a wiki, because:
As you may know, we will be traveling across the country in the next few weeks. On our way we will visit all kinds of people and places– we may even run into you. So we’ve created this wiki to interact [...]

We all know and like “cool hunting” blogs like BoingBoing and coolhunting.com. But since recently, companies rely on these sources, as TheAge writes.
blog-watching and mining is big business and companies such as Nielsen BuzzMetrics and Cymfony have developed software to sift through and interpret the millions of voices talking in social network sites [...] their [...]

There is a rather interesting story on Technology Review by James Surowiecki, who wrote the book “wisdom of the crowds” (very recommendable) and is also a writer for the New Yorker. He interviewed Joshua Schachter, who founded del.icio.us and later on sold it to Yahoo!. He was one of the first to introduce the tagging-system [...]

Seth Godin has a post called They didn’t get the memo, referring to Rogers Diffusion of innovations while stating numbers of technology adoption:

31.4% of Americans don’t have internet access.
90% of the people in France have not created a blog.
88% of all users have never heard of RSS.
59% of American households have zero iPods in them.
30% [...]

TV Shows Only Available on the Internet can be found on Jeff Pulver’s Blog. Another site, also by Jeff is Network2.tv, which he apparently put up after his Blogpost.
I know, of course, Rocketboom and Ehrensenf (the latter being a german “rocketboom”), but all the others are completely new to me. Will check them out in [...]