blogtalk is an international conference on social software initiated by thomas n. burg. the conference was already held three times and is scheduled for october 2-3, 2006 in vienna, austria. i read about blogtalk 2.0 at bj

ingo gave me the hint to check out www.candyculture.net. these are the the most beautiful pdf's i have ever seen! candy* is a bi-monthly, independently produced digital magazine focusing on culture, design, arts, photos, lifestyle, artists, their works and much more. the recent vol IV. is called "the shopping issue" and all the 31 megabytes and 212 pages are worth the

these days the sundance film festival 06 takes place in park city, utah - january 19-29, 2006. the cool thing is, that you don't have to be there to watch these amazing short films. all sundance shorts are presented in full length online as streaming video - presented by adobe. cause i'm at work i just had the chance to take a

in the early morning i received an email from adlands hostmaster informing me that i'm in the battle of the ad blogs 2006. maybe it is less a battle than a nice list of advertising blogs all over the world. many of them i know already from my daily blogroll and some of them personally, but there are a couple of

united mobile is offering a new prepaid card with free incoming calls for more than 80 countries - no roaming costs. "whether you go abroad just once a year or travel regularly, call with united mobile and save up to 90% on mobile calling worldwide. free incoming calls - no roaming costs in 80 countries. best prices for outgoing calls -

1. mathematics is the language of nature. 2. everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. if you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. therefore: there are patterns everywhere in nature.

just found two excellent car commercials i wanted to share with you. "choir is a 120 live action spot for the new honda civic. following hot on the heels of the honda impossible dream brand campaign, this spot shows a specially formed choir vocalising the many experiences one has whilst driving the new civic. and another nice spot for the new vw

the brazilian agency dm9 launched a viral game for telefonica. "oscar stays up all night to save on internet rates. now he needs your help to stay awake at work" as well ideas factory has announced the winners of their viral marketing competition at germ and boreme - but the winners selection is boring, there were much better ones in 2005. (via

some funsters added a small easter egg in php that is enabled by adding /?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 onto the end of any blog-url that works in php, e.g. my blog, sixtus.net or lummaland. the different pictures relate to the different php-versions installed. funny, eh

google has confirmed that they are already testing their first offline advertising program with google publication ads. google's real world answer to google adwords. "the chicago sun-times is the first newspaper to participate in the search engine's test of offline advertising. google has run ads in magazines as part of a test that started late last year." google publication ads allows you