risking our rebel reputation
the new york times recently wrote that bloggers might risk their rebel reputation while accepting ads. "once a vehicle for anti-establishment, non-commercial writers, many internet blogs have been accepting money from u.s. corporations. no one tracks how much advertising money is flowing to web logs, but charlene li, an analyst at forrester research, a company that studies the impact of technology on
get rid of annoying tv ads
yesterday i met a friend, who brought a nice gadget from shanghai - the tv-b-gone universal remote control. this small remote control turns off virtually any television around you (17 meters range) by just pressing one button. when activated, it spends over a minute flashing out 209 different codes to turn off televisions, the most popular brands first. "tv-b-gone universal remote control
forget the hype and build cool stuff
like andy budd pointed out in his web 2.0 presentation. here is one of this cool stuff! max antoni recently launched his website and products after two years of development. many of you heard about ajax (asynchronous javascript and xml) and some other "web 2.0 technologies", which offer completely new potentials to the web as we know it. "the evaserver is a small and
autocrat google
maybe i should open a new category only for google, but like blogs are also a personal compilation of your tour through the web and somehow a personal bookmark list, i will post this incredible collection of google services as well: Add to Google lets publishers create a custom
i have no idea
what if you are an advertiser and you have absolutely no idea how to promote your customer in a tv ad? just ask all the young ambitious advertisers around there to pass you a real cool idea for your tv ad. make a microsite, let them send you their ideas and just pick the best (like the customer normally does)
search engine experiment
webmasterbrain recently launched a search engine experiment: "a blind test you can take to find out which search engine is best for you. you type in a search term and it looks up the results on the top three search engines: msn, yahoo and of course google and reports back the results. however what it does is show the results in
huge run at google analytics
in the past few days nearly every web user (or better every blogger) came across the new google analytics. the run at their service was as huge, that they had to halt new users from registering: "according to the google analytics 'sign up' page, they have temporarily disallowed people from signing up. they also removed the "add new profile" link from
sex sells
you all know how much time reading blogs and blogging can cost you every day. it is a little bit like an addiction, cause you don't want to miss something what has recently happened in the blogosphere and your business respectively. but especially if you are not earning money while blogging, it is getting difficult to read all the nice blogs
copy goes here
my share to the weekend - a well worth seeing short movie by coudal partners. i don't want to destroy the punch line, so just watch it and if you're working in an advertising agency you will love it the more, but even if you don't. "copy goes here" // stream // download (33 mb) the spot got financed and influenced by web-users. (via
t-dsl crash in parts of berlin
from 10 am until around 2 pm the broadband connections (t-dsl) of the deutsche telekom were completely off - no internet connection possible for big parts of berlin. thus many companies couldn't work for many hours and i don't know how many million euros this will cost the t-com, hopefully they have a good insurance. i just had the chance to