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Web Trends Screensaver

Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects Japan updated his Web Trend Map 2007 (Version 2.0). It’s available in various formats for screen and print viewing - and as a screensaver (Mac OSX only).
Neat!

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To Blog or Not To Blog

Bloggers 0 - Journalists n/a
I was at Mainz university a little while ago, to talk to a group of journalism students about the web 2.0 and the traditional information media.
I was prepared to talk about readers who have grown accustomed to managing their own media and information, to write back, to look for context and [...]

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Channel-Convergence

Over at Advertising Age, Al Ries explains Why the iPhone Will Fail. Ries may be right and the iPhone may well “fail”, but not because there’s no demand for hardware convergence.
The iPhone is not about fusing a phone, MP3 player, internet device … and maybe TV, radio, GPS … The iPhone is about not caring [...]

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Free iPhone

Apple Unable to Find iPhone Partner in Europe? - If only! An unlocked iPhone for sale in Europe. And no need to change carriers. What would it take?
For Apple, basically a webbased voicemail-box system. I think I saw on out of the box on the counter at Aldi, the other day.
For the user, a Fon.com-Account [...]

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A Matter of Perspective: Justin Hall and Passively Play

The current edition of the German variance of Edge Magazin (Edge UK original - Edge German offspring) features an interview with Justin Hall “a student of the Southern Californian Interactive Media Devision” on his school project “passive multiplayer online game”. The story’s a bit weird: apparently, the guy regrets he can no longer devote as [...]

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Experimental Stoneage

Last Sunday, the ARD showed the first of four episodes of their recent historical reenactment series Steinzeit - Das Experiment (Stoneage - the Experiment).
Last summer, seven adults and six children had moved into the recreation of a Neolithic lake dewlling near the Bodensee - 3.200 B.C. Unlike precursors like Das Jahrhunderhaus or Das Schwarzwaldhaus, Steinzeit [...]

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Why XING works

Over the past few weeks, the meme’s been going round that online communities have reached the long tail. Put bluntly, this means that the market for friendship (or “social”) networks is about saturated. It’s time to diversify and differentiate.
Indeed, one might ask whether “social network” is the only viable community-modell - or, for that matter, [...]

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Wired 12/2006 figures

USD 67 billion US TV ad budget in 2005
USD 9.3 billion annual Google online-ad revenue (ca. 2006)
100 mio videostream / day on YouTube by late 2006
65,000 uploads / day on YouTube by late 2006
total US ad budget USD 177 billion (ca. 2006)
(Bob Garfield: “YoTube BoobTube” pp. 222-227, 266)
episodes before “My Parents Suck …”: 50,000 -100,000 [...]

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ZEIT for the internet

Last week’s issue of German weekly DIE ZEIT (Zeit-Website) had 5 articles on the internet.
One rather negligible one about the author’s first steps in Second Life (Kerstin Kohlenberg: Mein zweites Ich in German).
Punctum: The author wonders whether to approach an avatar “as the character or as the real person behind it”. I never thought to [...]

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