channel4 just launched a microsite called "germ", where agencies can submit their own viral stuff from the 17th october on. the microsite also provides some background information about viral marketing including some "top ten tips" from leading viral marketers like this: "learn to let go. once the viral content is out there, you have little control over how it's presented, which can

the ccc blinkenlights are back in town - a powered light installation at the "haus des lehrers" at alexanderplatz (berlin, germany). during the night a constantly growing number of animations could be seen at the lighted windows of this building. there was an interactive component as well: you were able to play the old arcade classic pong on the building

google has launched the google reader (announced today at the web 2.0 conference). a webbased rss feed reader, containing a lot of nice ajax elements. i added some feeds and there is also an import/export function (opml). overall the service works fine, but is definitely improvable, cause some navigation functions are capable of being misunderstood and it is unfortunately

another google service just reached me - google video. everybody can submit now his own video content to google for inclusion in their video search engine (if you have the necessary rights). the content plays back using an embedded flash player, so no downloads are required. "our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes video. google video offers

just got the hint from a friend for the webcuts internet film fest in berlin, presenting the best internet films from around the world. "webcuts 04+05" takes place on october 6th, 2005 in berlin (germany) at the cinestar, potsdamer platz. the best submissions will be shown on the big screen and the winners of webcuts 04+05 will be announced. Not

this is a little bit frightening

in the year 2003 sega launched a brilliant viral marketing campaign called "beta-7" for their new nfl footbal game. a guy called "beta-7" (one of the sega betatesters) reported in his blog about his experiences and consequences of playing their new football game in first-person perspective: he was tackling his collegues at the job, having blackouts and so on

i just watched this nice award winning "surprise dinner" clip by ameriquest

i just found the two pixelgirl websites (presents and shop) with great artworks and nice presents for you. on pixelgirlpresents shanalyn offers a large scale of nice icons and desktop screens. in the pixelgirlshop you'll find cool accessories, ipod covers and much more, just take a look by yourself

but here it is - google's blogsearch engine. there is also another interface for the google blogsearch via search.blogger.com. the results are already pretty cool and beneath the blog search engines technorati, feedster and blogpulse i will test now the google blogsearch, comparing the results. the main advantage of blog search engines is the extreme up-to-date-ness. these engines are indexing rss