Archive for March, 2007

This seems so obvious, yet so helpful:

Why haven’t people thought about this earlier - well, probably, because this is the age of endless gadgets with plugs all looking the same…
(found here)

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Ok, I didn’t actually stay until Sunday. I was back Saturday Evening already, since I need to do some work today. Unfortunately, because Berlin is always fascinating, you could spend endless hours walking down the streets in one of the many different parts of the city.
One thing we visited worth mentioning, apart from the huge [...]

As I wrote earlier, it was Internet Shutdownday yesterday. And I decided to take part. When I originally wrote that, I assumed I would be on vacation (sitting on a beach, not thinking about the internet anyway.
However, as it turned out, I wasn’t on vacation, as I had to postpone my vacation by a week. [...]

… we’re going to Berlin.
The German Direct Marketing Awards are being awarded in Berlin tomorrow evening. And we’re on the shortlist…
Since we’re going to the ADC exhibition on Saturday, we’ll be staying until Sunday. So does anyone have a good suggestion for Saturday night in Berlin?

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Doubleclick apparently just published a study on the effectiveness of video ads. Which is fine, it’s a new ad form that needs to be scrutinized. But the first couple of findings really state the obvious in my opinion:
When it comes to grabbing the attention of Web surfers, advertising distributed via online video handily outpaces static [...]

That is the tagline for Zooopa. Another crowdsourcing platform, this time for making ads. As it says on the homepage:
1. I give you a brand
2. You make and ad
3. You rate the best ones
4. I pay you
In essence: You make lots of ads, watch lots of ads, I pay only one ad.
Nice try.

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I know I am fairly late with this, but this is absolutely astounding! Yahoo! Pipes let’s users create their own feeds based on any information on the web. Here is an example of a meta-search-feed:
The pipe you’re looking at demonstrates how to use a few of the more powerful modules. In this example a variety [...]

… a good article about twitter you can read at the wall street journal.
It is, by all means a very polarising service, some hate it, some use it, and most of those using it, seem to be addicted…
These services elicit mixed feelings in the technology-savvy people who have been their early adopters. Fans say they [...]

Wow, this is cool: Schmedley. Sort of like netvibes or pageflakes, but with a much nicer user interface - apple lovers will love this also, as it looks very much like the mac interface, with those widgets, but also with the navigation at the bottom.

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Interesting - someone launched a start up that takes care of your online reputation, called reputation defender.
Or so they claim. A good Idea, I think, since many people will most likely have been careless with what they do online, before they found out that this data will always be visible…
I do it, headhunters do it, [...]

According to nutritionists, constantly eating (healthy) snacks throughout the day is better then indulging into huge meals ever so often.
The same seems to be true about information. David Armano draws some conclusions, all based on an article on wired that says:
Music, television, games, movies, fashion: We now devour our pop culture the same way we [...]

while going through everything relating to twitter, I found this: the twitter buzzfeed.

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