first - what is jajah? jajah is a simple website where you type in your own phone number (landline or mobile) and the number you want to call (landline or mobile) - your phone will ring, pick it up and you will be connected to the desired destination for free. your computer is not needed anymore after you have initiated

as i wrote about the cosmos hitech fetish viral microsite just a couple of days ago, here is another one: noscruf.org - "national organization of social crusaders repulsed by unshaven faces" telling a more detailed fictional story. "created by gillette as part of a viral campaign to promote its new electric razor, the fictional organization 'protests' men who go unshaven (encouraging

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as you know this blog is about viral and word-of-mouth marketing mainly and viral microsites are an appropriate way to gain attention or pushing a campaign. a viral microsite normally is a small temporary website with just a few pages, supporting or leading an advertising campaign. the sites don't have to provide that much content because you get redirected to

at first i thought it is some kind of social network analysis (sna) tool which represents your blogging network. but the "websites as graphs" project is rather an applet which represents website/link structures as graphs, which in fact includes some sna information because of the websites you link to. unfortunately the nodes are missing more detailed information. "get a wonderful visual

one of my absolute favorite spots got "spoofed" by tango fruit drinks. a spoof is some kind of a "parody by imitation" and it's a common way in advertising to imitate other spots like jay jays big ad spoof or the ipod flea spoof - which in fact is a fake ad. nevertheless there are good ones and i like tango's version

dear readers, excuse me for my way to long absence! but my current workload doesn't allow me to keep this blog up-to-date like i would like to. i even had to quit checkin' my blogroll daily getting the hot news and picks in the online marketing and advertising scene. nevertheless i will try to get it going again. so here is

"silicon valley is roaring back to life, as startups mint millionaires and web dreams take flight. but, no, this is not another bubble. here's why. i read this interesting article a couple of weeks ago on a flight to berlin where chris anderson from the wired magazine is nicely describing the new boom and why it is not another bubble cause

"throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" this is just a line from outkast atliens' chorus but a new technique in photography is emerging. it is called camera tossing and means that you throw your camera in the air with longer exposure in the hope for a nice shot by chance. the results are

stuart luman analyized how the "top 50" blogs are related to each other: "there are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. to discover how they relate to one another, we've taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped their connections. each arrow represents a hypertext link that was made sometime in the past 90 days. think of those links as votes