Archive for the 'Digital Culture' Category

I will be at the blogger gathering in Hamburg today, which is organised by Klaus Eck and Cellity. Let me know via Twitter if you’re there (@webjungle). It’s my first blogger gathering, so I am already looking forward to it!

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An update on latest usage numbers, especially about social applications dominating web usage:

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Seth Godin, godfather of good quotes, recently wrote this:
The best time to look for a job next year is right now. The best time to plan for a sale in three years is right now. The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to [...]

Courtesy of one of my colleagues who sent this around today: Social Media always existed in one or the other form. Sometimes the means of communication were a little complicated or indirect, but there was no excuse for not having been able to communicate the way you can today.
Well, I am still happy to have [...]

Just a quick one: Joost shuts down its global operations and focuses on the US only. Shame, I liked the idea of Joost. But in the end, it was brought down by two main factors that even a technologically smart way of streaming videos can’t solve: first: trying to buy global rights for content that [...]

This is a strange but rather interesting idea: Modernista, an ad agency, doesn’t actually have a real website. Instead, the just provide a navigation layer that sits on top of various websites that have the relevant content, i.e. a flickr gallery of their work, a google news page with news of the agency, a wikipedia [...]

Just the other day I posted this graphic at my german blog:

The graphic is from this place here. Just today I found the ‘corresponding article’ about ‘how google and apple dominate‘ whatever field they are moving into. Written by Umair Haque, this article goes into the “no compromise for bucks” philosophy that is at the [...]

Adage published a “digital issue”, which seems to be completely accessible online. (Why wouldn’t it, anyway?) I haven’t read through the entire set of articles just yet, however there seem to be some interesting thoughts. Things like the 70/20/10 rule for marketing budgets, a short article about what the h*** are widgets, and a little [...]

Ben Hourahine, Futures Editor at Leo Burnett explains his vision of future advertising, media usage, etc.

Sounds like that could happen. But then again, nothing of this really struck me as a new thought…?
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Guy Kawasaki just launched a new feed aggregator for various topics, 40 different topics sofar. My favourite, of course, is a Social Media news aggregator. The site is full of headlines from many different site, the concept was inspired by popurls. Mashable has a video interview with Guy Kawasaki, which is worth watching.

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A new part in the series of “explanations in plain english” which I currently enjoy, is all about twitter:

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