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“Wel­come to the world of tomor­row!” No, that’s not right. Let me try again: “Wel­come to the world of the last seven days!” That sounds bet­ter! There’s a lot to show-and-tell, so with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s jump straight into last week’s social media news. Read the rest of this entry »

This weekly round-up comes with a built-in 24 hours of delay, as the author was extremely busy dur­ing the last week­end launch­ing the Aus­trian Inter­net Coun­cil [site in Ger­man]. This was an amaz­ing proof of the power of social media: within the short time span of 5 days we our project was the cover story on ORF Future­Zone, Austria’s biggest Tech News site. Crowd­sourc­ing is great, but it can be quite time-consuming, espe­cially when there’s a lot of inter­est and involve­ment. So, with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s jump right into this week’s hot social media top­ics! Read the rest of this entry »

Step in, ladies and gen­tle­men — wel­come to the weekly Blogistan-round-up! It’s my duty to enter­tain you (and some­times maybe even piss you off), but who cares — it’s all in the blog, st00pid! From Google Wave to the slut­ti­est brides in 2008, the blo­gos­phere is here to cover your every infor­ma­tion need. Read the rest of this entry »

This weekly round-up comes with a free day of delay, as I was pretty busi­ness last night tak­ing pic­tures of the sun­set from Brauns­berg. Rid­ing my bike home I had to be very care­ful since a nightly meet­ing of a rab­bit and a motor­cy­cle is usu­ally a very unpleas­ant expe­ri­ence for both sides. I haven’t digi devel­opped all pics yet, but this one turned out quite nicely:

So back to blog­ging busi­ness — what a week! We now finally know that there actu­ally *are* dif­fer­ences when it comes to the two sexes using social media. Read the rest of this entry »

Seth Godin got the best busi­ness advices, here comes another one: ask your cus­tomers if you can pitch in times of cri­sis. Don’t buckle down, let’s face the not-so-hard truth: great times are com­ing up for small enter­prises and net­works: after all, the small over­head costs allow for effi­ciency. So there’s actu­ally no need to worry, unless you’re plan­ning on launch­ing a new car com­pany. Or a web designer, for that mat­ters — Which brings me to my first news of the week: Read the rest of this entry »

Noth­ing like lis­ten­ing to old-school dub­step mixes and surf­ing the net on a lazy Sun­day after­noon — even though I have to admit that turn­ing up the music is kind of my only option right now, since the new Sam­sung LCD screen I bought yes­ter­day expe­ri­ences some kind of iden­tity cri­sis, con­fus­ing itself with some kind of alien sound-device by pro­duc­ing a con­stant annoy­ing noise. But enough com­plain­ing, let’s turn our heads and look back on the 7 deadly sins of online-marketing com­piled by Shoe­money. Read the rest of this entry »

How you’re doing? I hope you had a great start into the new year, and believe me: 2k9 is gonna be a wicked year for web 2.0 folks, and I mean “wicked” in the good, old-school jun­gle way. I do have the impres­sion that the Euro­pean com­mer­cial com­mu­nity is just wak­ing up, and I’m seri­ously look­ing for­ward to big­ger bud­gets being spent on web 2.0 adver­tis­ing as this will boost the whole scene. My per­sonal 1st of Jan­u­ary had a very nice sur­prise in stall for me: datadirt received a Pager­ank update and is now proudly sport­ing a 5. Read the rest of this entry »

Ready from some good ole fun after the dread­ful dis­tress of buy­ing all your X-Mas presents? Word your way through Dan’s list of Fri­day Fun­nies and meet the Tiddy bear! He’ll make you feel more com­fort­able than a pint of pure Christ­mas spirit or this weekly round-up. So sit back, relax and keep won­der­ing about the mir­a­cles of mod­ern web soci­ety. Read the rest of this entry »

Main blog­ger­illa topic of the week: the new Word­Press aka 2.7. Matt and his team change a lot in the back­end — it’s like Obama said: “Change, we can do it!” What O did not men­tion though was the fact that change makes most folks rather uncom­fort­able. In that respect, it’s more like TLC sang-rapped: “Don’t go chasin’ water­falls / lis­ten to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.” In other words, I’ve heard a lot of user com­plain­ing about a so-called ugli­fi­ca­tion of the CMS. My five cents: so far I’ve only updated half of my blogs, and I really dig the new look and all the new fea­tures. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a week full of sur­prises: Pownce closed pretty unex­pect­edly, while Twit­ter is still grow­ing at an amaz­ing rate. And a new trend finally has been turned into an API, or rather two APIs: Google as well as Face­book try to decen­tral­ize social net­work­ing and at the same time estab­lish their own plat­forms as the cen­tral social hub. I am really look­ing for­ward to bud­dy­press — in my opin­ion, “hosted” ser­vices are fine as addi­tional traf­fic streams, but no online pro­fes­sional should put his main assets into third-party hands. Read the rest of this entry »

Another week bites the dust: and much ado is going on about some­thing that hardly any­body under­stands: the global finan­cial cri­sis is spilling over from bankruptcy-filing banks to the car indus­try and plenty other busi­nesses. Nei­ther Obama nor the new Aus­trian gov­ern­ment (if this com­par­i­son sounds strange to you: I live in Aus­tria) will have an easy job: and while the EU is plan­ning coor­di­nated mea­sures, I keep ask­ing myself one ques­tion that nobody could answer so far: The gov­ern­ments deem giv­ing cheap cred­its to banks appro­pri­ate. Why don’t they hand out those cred­its — on the same terms — directly to needy com­pa­nies? Read the rest of this entry »