i recently came across sputtr and just made it my new home page in all my browsers - the page i start all my searches from now on. sputtr is a neat new universal search engine, a collection of all your favorite search engines and social sites that are out there, just type in what you are searching for and

etienne from brandbase netherlands recently dropped me a note pointing me to www.bellenmetgilles.nl which more or less means "call the guy called gilles". you don't have to speak dutch to get this fun viral microsite where gilles is pretty bored waiting for you to call - just dial the number shown on the website and wait what happens (if you

in april this year i met heather powazek champ at web2open, she mainly takes care of the flickr user community and while visiting her website i found out about the jpg magazine. "jpg magazine is made by you! jpg magazine is for people who love imagemaking without attitude. it's about the kind of photography you get when you love the moment

with big thanks to kosmar i'm part of the joost beta testing phase right now. "joost is a new way of watching tv on the internet. with joost, you get all the things you love about tv, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping. you get great internet features too, such as search, chat and instant

i spend more than 90% of my time at work using a web browser, means that i really care about what browser fulfills all my needs of tabbed browsing, restoring sessions, mouse gestures, saving data, blocking ads, bookmarking, providing certain information on websites and so on. i switched between netscape, internet explorer, firefox, flock, opera, mozilla and recently came across

bbdo germany and bmw recently launched an online game called "bmw p.a.c.e". "bmw starts a race. p.a.c.e, the 'pursuit across europe' is an exciting mixture of action and adventure, where users can explore new bmw technology like brake energy regeneration or electric power steering. the race takes place between lisbon and prague. highlights are the hightech flash engine and the fascinating

guerilla marketing campaign for charter flight airline condor, it's german and it's a play on words so it doesn't translate very well, something like "we love flies". flickr pics and more at www.wirliebenfliegen.com (thanks for the hint philipp) [tags: condor, wirliebenfliegen.com, fliegenpreise, ad, guerilla marketing]

i joined plazes exactly 679 days ago and recently met plazes co-founder felix petersen and new managing director stephanie staar in mountain view, california. a great team and they have big plans for the future. "plazes adds physical presence to the web. the plazes website automatically detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby. see people in your

nico lumma from mabber lost 15 mabber in the blogosphere, help him find the little guys and win a sony ericsson k310i cell phone. mabber is a web and mobile based all-in-one instant messaging system. the little 5x5 pixel characters with its orange antennas are hiding in 15 different blogs, find and report them here. clicking the "wanted" poster above might

i'm attending some neat web 2.0 events in the city these days (that's how they call san francisco in the bay area). first and foremost the web2open. "the web 2.open was conceived with foocamp/barcamp in mind. this open event blends some pre-scheduled content with an open grid where the attendees fill in the sessions they either want to discuss or present