tom laband from the university of mannheim (germany) is writing his diploma thesis about viral marketing and sent me an email last week concerning his empirical online data ascertainment. an online survey, that online costs you five minutes of your time, so please support him in his work and take part of it (in german language). tom already said, that

are rounded rectangles the graphical embodiment of viral marketing now? it's not easy to design a good logo that embodies viral marketing because the image of a biological virus has a negative connotation and would be too stereotyped. also the term "viral" in "viral marketing" is used as a metaphor for describing the fast and effective diffusion of messages in social

this is absolutely ingenious! please watch this ipod flea commercial, the world's smallest mp3-player - you'll be itching to see it ;-) addition (July 22. 2005): apparently the layers magazine ipod flea spoof caused so much buzz and traffic, that they included a reference to their magazine in the beginning of their clip in the past days, which their wasn't before,

ok, i see i'm new in this flickr-thing, cause i haven't seen such a "server down"-message before "Flickr is having a massage" but the blog says it will take around 60 minutes to do their "massage". hm, how often are they doing this??? [tagged as: flickr]

this interactive high quality text to speech demo of the acapela group is quite funny, especially if you are working in an open-plan office and turn your speakers on high volume ;-) type in a sentence of your choice, choose between 12 languages and different speaker voices and push the "say it!" button. your sentence will be converted in a

just a few days ago i wrote about new upcoming social software and today i got the hint from a friend to try out jajah, a new webphone. i installed it and

viral marketing can also be described as a series of reactions - the point is to give the right impulses. thomas zorbach from vm-people berlin is describing it as the "pinball-theorem": the controllability in viral marketing is comparable to a pinball-game, you have limited controllability after a viral marketing campaign has been launched, but you have always the chance to

more and more "social software" is coming up - social software allows people to interact in virtual reality, connecting or collaborating by the use of a computer network (see the wikipedia-entries in english or german). and this is all coming together - virtual social networks like openbc, orkut or linkedin, the blogosphere, instant messenger, wikis, voip, foaf and geo-information systems

blaupunkt-clip, just check it out :-) (thanks to max) [tags: blaupunkt, advantage in your car]

when we went back home from a club in the early sunday-morning, we came across this billboard at the corner torstr./prenzlauer allee in berlin (germany). this sexy ad for the local blush dessous shop contains a second subline ad for a car repair service, if you have had a car damage