twidroid – twitter for android mobiles / t-mobile g1
good friend and jajah iphone interface designer thomas marban just launched the first twitter client for the t-mobile g1 google android mobile phone called twidroid. it's the first twitter app for android mobiles. some of the highlights of twidroid's feature set are: fully featured twitter client (postings, replies and direct messages), user detail information, follow/unfollow a user, auto-completion of your contact
product placement and brand dropping
product placement is not a new way in advertising products and services, it has been around for centuries and is known from many movies. we got used to it, just spend enough dollars and james bond will drive a bmw or will smith an audi - cell phones, laptops, furniture, tobacco, deodorant, food, all sorts of consumer electronics, you name
der spiegel – the price of arrogance
two days ago i blogged about the eloquently captured two word cover of the economist describing how we are all feeling about the current state of the financial markets. today i read thomas' comment over at basic thinking pointing to the german answer - der spiegel's (the mirror) most recent cover - the price of arrogance (der preis der ueberheblichkeit)
budurl – shrink your url and get detailed analytics
thanks to anya i recently discovered budurl, a great service to measure the power or reach of social networks, email campaigns, blog posts or simply giving you a short url and providing some great detailed metrics about when and from where people clicked on your url (referrer), budurl makes link tracking amazingly simple. "what kind of power would you have if
the economist – oh fuck!
hats off to the uber-intelligent folks at 'the economist' who have, in just two words, so eloquently captured how we are all feeling about the current state of the financial markets. (via the economist)
thievery corporation – radio retaliation
i just downloaded the most recent album of my favorite dj duo - thievery corporation - called radio retaliation via amazon music. i have been to their 'richest man in babylon' tour concert in berlin, germany and was blown away - it's electronic music, downbeat with elements of dub, reggae, rap, triphop, brazilian, house, indian sounds, lounge-jazz, bossa, global beats
google android phone launched – t-mobile htc g1
this morning google and t-mobile launched the first android-powered handset manufactured by htc. this largely anticipated device comes with a big touchscreen and a slide-open full keyboard. it's a 3g phone, wifi enabled, built-in gps, drm-free amazon mp3 music store, android market app store, 1gb storage, copy and paste and a chrome-lite browser. it will be available october 22, 2008
cern powers up its large hadron collider
for the weekend, cern's 27 km large hadron collider explained in a rap. experiments at cern help us understand the world we live in by the telegraph (via tom foremski / silicon valley watcher)
ping.fm – update all your life streams from one site
a little while back i received an invite for ping.fm from ryan merket, who i worked with before. in short ping.fm is a status update tool that sends your updates to a bunch of your favorite microblogging services like bebo, blogger, facebook, hi5, jaiku, linkedin, livejournal, myspace, pownce, tumblr and twitter and there are more to follow. you publish your
firefox 3 download day – guinness world record
a couple of weeks ago rainer invited me to the firefox 3 download day - guinness world record which is taking place today until tomorrow 17:00 utc, june 18, 2008. "join us in our mission to set a guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours! set a guinness world record, enjoy a better web. sounds like a