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Here is a viral marketing ploy that I was sent (seeded?) from two different email addresses within  20 Minutes this morning. A couple of guyss purchase a McD burger and find an image of “the king” toasted into the bun. One of the links they sent me leads to a page, where a guy speculates [...]

I really enjoyed the presentation below published by Kai Platschke provocatively titled “Digital is dead”. It isn’t nonsense, of course, instead Kai argues that soon enough, everything is digital. So it won’t make sense any longer to differentiate between digital and non-digital. I strongly agree! Well, see for yourself: Digital is dead View more presentations [...]

The world cup has finally started. Sorry for the long silence, I was quite busy with my new project, the vanille shop e-commerce site. (More about that some other time) Whereas Twitter didn’t exist for regular users during the last worldcup (2006), it is now present – more than ever. And they have launched a [...]

Erik Qualman just released a “refresh” of the socialnomics video published a few months ago. Since the numbers in social media developments are so quickly evolving, this refresh seems about time. If you just want to see the numbers and stats, you can visit Eriks blogpost here. If you’re from outside the US, chances are [...]

Now how is that: you just purchased new shoes from Zappos, books from Amazon or anything else from the mall nearby. Wouldn’t you just love to tell everyone about whatever you bought with your credit card? No? Yes? If so, here is the perfect social network for you: Blippy. Mindsproutmarketing explains the new kid on [...]

Foursquare and Gowalla are continously improving and updating their services. Latest news: Foursquare is cracking down on cheaters. If your phone’s GPS determines that you’re not close to where you want to check in, you are not rewarded any points or mayorships. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work with my iPhone, it won’t let me check into [...]

Finally vacation! The first long holiday since September 2008, when I travelled along the west coast of the US. This time I am going to visit Asia – Thailand to be precise. In the same way I kept a travel diary during our trip in 2008, I will again update www.urlaubsnotizen.de (in german) on an [...]

In a blobpost by Leander I was linked to some statistics published by emarketer.com about the growth of Second Life in the last 3 years. It’s amazing to see how their user base has grown round about 30% since their “hype” in 2007, and time spent within the world increased by ca. 20% during the [...]

So Google has launched “buzz”, which is a social network simulating extension to GMail, if you ask me. You can share photos, videos, status messages – and people can follow your profile, see what you share and comment on it in real time. Apparently. I haven’t found anyone yet to “buzz” with. It’s supposed to [...]

There is a lot of talk about augmented reality. But the following stuff is way beyond anything I have seen sofar, it looks more like science fiction. Pranav Mistry about the thrilling potential of SixthSense Technology: Let’s hope that technology makes it mainstream within this decade… For your bookmarks:

Continuing on blogging about trends for the upcoming year/decade I just stumbled upon a paper by Edelman about ten ideas for the new decade. Steve Rubel has an embedde scribd in his lifestream, as well as a short video about 4 of the main points underlying the 10 ideas mentioned in the paper: Global (technology, [...]

Every year around this time one can find many predictions about the new year in terms of tech & social media trends. So in order to get an overview myself, I have started this post with a collection and summary of the various predictions I could find: Jackie Huba predicts that Social Media will get [...]

I suppose you all remember Jill and Kevin’s wedding video, in which the couple and a few of their friends were dancing to “forever” by Chris Brown? For those living outside Germany, here it is (YouTube is blocking music videos in Germany): I really liked that video and copied it into my German Blogs. I [...]

You know it’s getting closer to a years end, when people start forecasting trends for the following year. This time it’s really early. It’s only the beginning of November and the first selection of six trends is already online. David Armano writes about these 6 trends: Social Media begins to look less social: as more [...]