nyls

Let's see what's cooking in Aral Balkan's kitchen..

2008-01-09T19:53:00.000+01:00

waving strokes in PV3D

2007-12-24T22:47:00.000+01:00

Some examples of sinus waves on the vertices of a plane..

simple sinus wave... - as
random random waves - as
sound waves - as

COME 2 ME - ALGEMEEN

2007-09-23T20:29:00.000+01:00

1. The online user is spoiled

He decides where, when and at what time he looks and interacts with online media. When he is bored he will just move on to the next online experience. We will take a closer look at some successful online campaigns and show you how to get the attention of the consumer and how to keep it

2.
VROEGER - WEB 1.0

•Statisch
•Geisoleerde informatie
•Eenzijdige communicatie
§ afzender communiceert, toeschouwer ontvangt
§ weinig interactiviteit

3.
WEB 2.0
•De verschuiving van websites als geïsoleerde informatie eilanden naar open bronnen van informatie en functionaliteit.
•User generated content

4.
VOORBEELDEN
•Linked in – zakelijk
•Hyves – jongeren/ plezier
•Musiqlub – video - online mtv/ tmf
•Flickr
•The PICNIC network now has close to 7000 profiles, and allows you to search for like-minded delegates. Don’t forget to update your own profile. You can choose yourself if you want your contact details to be available to others. Vertel eens welke jullie gebruiken

SOCIAL NETWORKS & NICHES

•Automatisch ontstaan van network & niches door hyperlinking ..
•Nieuwe blogs lezen, naar linken van eigen blogs en reageren op..
•Ontstaan niches.

BROADCASTING VS NARROWCASTING

•Traditionele reclame Broadcast naar iedereeneenzijdingbanners ??
•Nieuwe reclame In de niche – interactief - betrokkenheid

VORMEN PROMOTIE ONLINE

§Redactioneel : persberichten naar offline/ online media
§Commercieel : non spot (alsof redactioneel) , bannering
§Viraal : seeding.. (secret agent)

CONTENT MARKETING

•de content heeft zowel redactionele (editorial) als reclame (advertising) kenmerken heeft.
•De content gaat werken als reclame, het is de content zelf die waarde toevoegt voor de eindgebruiker.

GELOOFWAARDIGHEID

•In de niches heeft de blogger bepaalde geloofwaardigheid bij zijn lezers.
•Lokale krant
•Radiostations met uitzendingen

ONLINE ACTIES - BOOM
•Belangrijk om in het begin meteen een boom te hebben. En die mensen vast te houden, een actie draait maar 10 dagen. Dus in het begin meteen heel veel mensen.
•Goed inplannen promotie, alles in een keer. Vooral crossmediaal offline en online media versterken elkaar
•Dan krijg je als het goed is het Vliegwiel/ sneeuwbal effect

Severe memory issues in flash with JPG sequences

2007-02-28T09:27:00.000+01:00

So when doing a new (first) project for Heineken (for my company QI) we run in a big issue with flash and the carbage collector. It seems when you have a JPG sequence on stage the JPG's stays in memory even when attached and removed out of the library. We used a jpeg sequence instead of fullscreen video because JPEG tends to have smoother playback for our 3D animations.

But think 100 jpeg images of 1014 x 690 resolution. Flash needs 3MB to show one frame. So after about 100 jpeg's flash needed 300MB virtual memory, this memory never got freed by the carbage collector .. So the slower computer with not that much RAM would suffocate.

After doing some tests, it seems when loading an external SWF in a mc (with a linked sequence in library). And after loading, attaching the linked sequence in that mc. The MC can be removed and memory gets freed.

For now we have cutted the sequence in different parts, so after playing a part it can unloaded.

We have for example 3 sequences in library in a single SWF called sequence.swf.
we create 3 container MC's where we load in the same SWF (cache :>)
we start the seqeunce and attach in container1 > sequence1 after playing the first sequence we remove container1 and attach sequence2 in container 2.
and so on..

This heavely relies on cache and is a not so nice solution so ANYONE got a better one I would love to hear it.

NYLS

flashy sites

2007-01-19T13:51:00.000+01:00

Some 'flashy' sites I have found/ seen recently..

http://roxik.com
- checkout pictaps, digital toys 1 ( really amazing stuff)

http://www.wddg.com/

http://www.gringo.nu/v2/
- mac GUI ??

API's to powerfull to be free

2007-01-19T11:43:00.000+01:00

Discussing the dapper API ( see my previous post) with some colleague's at work we are wondering if we can use this in real live commercial projects, even if we can use any API in real live projects. This question became even more clear when GOOGLE changed it’s API ‘s from SOAP to Ajax.

When you don’t have to pay for an API or it is from a small company, the life-span can be insecure. Can you build you own commercial service on that kind of base, I think not. So in this light I would rather buy an API from a well-established company then from a small startup. API’s are to power full to be free.

That's why I like Mashery . Their service is designed to provide an out-the-box hosted solution provisioning and managing API's. This includes a lot of the often under-appreciated details that make providing an API actually deliver results such as developer community tools — forums, dev blog and news, wikis, documentation, etc — as well as infrastructure tools for API metering, developer key management, and metrics.

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2006/11/08/api-outsourcing-via-mashery/

DAPPER API ,create any datasource from any HTML page

2007-01-19T10:59:00.000+01:00

Dapper is a company that’s either glorifying screen scraping or leading the charge towards data portability, depending on your perspective. I like it a lot. While the interface is a little bit clunky, the idea of overlaying HTML pages and grabbing data is fairly powerful ...

http://www.dappit.com/

dapper - amsterdam news

JOOST, from the founders of KAZAA and SKYPE

2007-01-17T10:09:00.000+01:00

Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We're in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts. You can also see some things that we think will enhance the TV experience: searching for programmes and channels, for example, as well as social features like chat. There are many more new features to come!

http://www.joost.com

State Designpattern in games, what else do we have for games ..

2007-01-16T10:20:00.000+01:00

So I have come over this great post at http://www.bigroom.co.uk/blog/finite-state-machines-for-ai-in-actionscript/ about states in games. I did know the state pattern from the GOF book and an Adobe tutorial ( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/video_state_machine_as3.html )
But have never used it in real live world stuff I am working on.. And design patterns come flying by a lot .. Also never thought of implementing it in video games, thinking of the great OS libraries which are surfacing know along with these kind of patterns, building a video game in flash is getting more in my reach ,Yeah, I like building with existing blocks to form new stuff :> . So what building blocks do we have, and how am i going to fill my weekend..

3D
Sandy AS2 http://www.flashsandy.org/
Papervision AS3 http://www.osflash.org/papervision3d

physix engines
AS2
http://www.cove.org/flade/
AS3
http://www.fisixengine.com/
http://www.cove.org/ape/

Library for Scrolling games..
http://www.osflash.org/gamescroll

Very good/ long tutorial over tile based games
http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/tbw/

Anybody know more good resources or even better games libraries for flash please share them :>

The Multi-Touch Interface for iPhone pioneerred bij Jeff Han

2007-01-15T09:59:00.000+01:00

When I saw the Quicktime demo's of the iPhone on the Apple website it reminded me of a demo I saw from Jeff Kan about 'Multi-Touch Interaction Research. '

http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/index.html
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han

The demo really blowed me away and it is a really cool thing seeing that new ways of interacting with machines :> are emerging in commercial products. (Wii, iPhone )

I am really curious about other commercial examples.. So if you got them, please leave them

Sandy 3D fly through application

2007-01-11T11:31:00.000+01:00

This is the first try-out of building a 3D fly through application.... You can set up a bezier-path in a 2D space, add some blocks and fly through it in 3D space.

For now you just can add bezier curves and blocks, the goal is to draw any camera path you want , let the camera rotate while moving over the path, add planes with pictures on it.. and fly through your 3D slideshow :>

http://www.dekeizer.net/nyls/3d/

ATT: a little bug you have to drag the grey points to see the camera path

quicky post ... new book/ new job/ new house ..

2006-12-20T10:16:00.000+01:00

So coming months are going to be some hectich months for me, just signed for a job as flash developer at the media company Qi. They do great work for heineken, philips, amstel, etc, etc ..

Also bought a new place in Amsterdam, and both start 1 februari.. yeehaaa.. ok further more books I need reading before starting see below

the flex cookbook.. online a simple Problem/Solution/Explanation format
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=2

books AS3

Essential Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns
Essential Actionscript 3.0: Rough Cuts Version
Actionscript 3.0 Pocket Reference
Programming Flex 2: Rough Cuts Version
The Complete Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 With Flash X and Flex 2
Professional Flex 2
Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex?

Real live user interaction, physics engines for flash ..

2006-12-18T11:30:00.000+01:00

Well just to add some more really interesting developments for Flash and gaming/ 3D environments.. the physics engine.. let objects react to each other like in the real world.

Even for better user experience we can use these kinds of engine for snap to grid functionality, more elastic dragging / sliding .. well the possibilities are enormous . Thanks to Ralph for the fisix link

AS2

http://www.cove.org/flade/

AS3

http://www.fisixengine.com/

http://www.cove.org/ape/

Camera Fly through with Sandy

2006-12-13T13:11:00.000+01:00

So after playing with sandy some more, I had this idea of a camera flythrough .. In sandy it's rather simple..

make a bezier path
use an pathInterpolator
hang the path interpolator on the camera

view
source

Only run into a sandy bug that when 1. the camera moves over 0,0,0 // or 2. past some objects which scale to large .. the objects come back in reverse :<

Posted a question on the tech forum and got a reaction the same day about the bug being fixed in the next days. Talk about quick response :>

Wouldn't it be grate to have an app which puts objects (foto's ??) in space and makes camera path's, where the camera moves over the path and looks at things along the path .. mmmm, maybe i will give this a try :>

Keep you posted ...

3D in flash, Sandy AS2 VS Papervision AS3

2006-12-12T11:50:00.000+01:00

Just read a post by Ralph Hauwert about the new papervision 3D engine and Flex. While I am waiting for the papervision BETA version, I thought why not start some 3D work with an existing engine : Sandy for AS2.

Offcourse the sandy site is a good starting point , also found a really nice tutorial by petit labs

So here is my first go: a box with an Texture skin that I copied, rotated, translated ..
view
source

Wait and see what's next :>

Flex Cairngorm:filtering data with the comparator class..

2006-11-30T11:00:00.000+01:00

I have always been fascinated by large amount of data and filtering this data. Put all data in a big box and use filters to shape, structure and visualize that data. When browsing through the Cairgcorm shop example I found the comparator-class which filters produkts based on price or/and categorie.

I took this class and implemented it with a (simple) extension in my Flickr/Flex playground app (FlickrFolio) .

view application
view source

It consist roughly of 2 parts:

1. registering the items which you want to filter
2. registering the filters which you want to use.

Most important Classes:

// used to acces the comparator class
nl.nyls.flickrFolio.model.ModelLocator;

// the comparator class and the interface
nl.nyls.flickrFolio.util.Comparator.as;
nl.nyls.flickrFolio.util.Comparable.as;

// VIEW :: the product to filter..
nl.nyls.flickrFolio.view.thumbnail.mxml

// the filter-view
nl.nyls.flickrFolio.view.filtertPhotos.mxml

// the command which executes the filtering
nl.nyls.flickrFolio.command.FilterPhotosCommand;

1. registering the items which you want to filter

My FlickrFolio request the most recent photos and fills an ItemList. The itemlist displays the thumbnails with a custom ItemRenderer called Thumbnail.mxml.

So FLickr returns for every photo a valueobject (called Photo) which is binded to the Thumbnail.mxml. In every Thumbnail the actual thumbnail-image is loaded. WHen the image is loaded, the thumbnail registers it's data (id, title) and image to the comparator- class.

(ATT: better to cast the flickr Photo value-object to my PhotoVO value-object but could not get that to work, YET)

You register the data so you can filter on properties of that data. The data (or ValueObject) needs to implement the comparable interface, this interface has only one method, (get identifier) which the comparator class needs to get a unique identifier.

Registering the image (or sprite) let's you perform actions (showing/ hiding/ moving etc). on that image after a filter action.

2. registering the filters which you want to use.

OK, so now it's time to do some filtering, the filterView has now one simple filter. A textinput which you can use to filter on the title of a photo. The original Cairngorm shop example used a slider to filter between max - min prices and filter on different categories.

WHen you type in a letter the filterPhotoEvent gets fired which gets caught bij the FilterPhotoCommand this is where the real stuff happens. Here you first register what type of filter you want to use so:

addFilterTextProperty( filterOn, value )
here we want to filter on a String property named filterOn (=title) which has a value of (-value)

other filter properties are:
addFilterRangeProperty ( filterProperty : String, min : Number, max : Number) here you can filter on a range, so for example 'property-name:price' between min:1 and max :5

addFilterSelectionProperty( filterProperty : String, selections : Array )
here you filter on multible selections, you have selected in the group 'category' the selections ['large',' small'] . This can be used if you use checkboxes to filter on.

model.photoComparator.filter();
Here you do the filter action, it loops to the registered items and tags filtered or not..

model.photoComparator.applyAlphaEffect();
perform an action on all the items which are tagged filtered .. So show the filtered and hide the not filtered.

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It is really easy to extend the filters and I like to explore filtering on color or shapes :> Anyone has some experience in that field??

How about some Flex remoting (AMF 3) - Flex, ARP, Cairgcorm

2006-11-29T10:35:00.000+01:00

The boys at WebOrb have been very busy working away on getting Remoting for flex in .NET very solid. Today they release the Release candidate 1, Which means its almost 100?So now its probably time to download the RC1 and have a play. I love open API's like webservices and rpc calls for open [...]
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create new modules from any data source for placement in the popular start page

2006-11-23T14:22:00.000+01:00

Mashup creation tool Dapper announced today that its users can now easily create new modules from any data source for placement in the popular start page Netvibes. Dapper is a company that’s either glorifying screen scraping or leading the charge towards data portability, depending on your perspective. I like it a lot. Working with Dapper to enable fast user creation of new modules is a nice competitive advantage for Netvibes. Our previous coverage of Netvibes is here and of Dapper here.

http://www.dappit.com/

Amsterdam actueel nieuws
http://www.dappit.com/RunDapp?dappName=Amsterdamactueelnieuws&v=1

FLASH :: Adobe Open Sources ActionScript Media Gallery Code

2006-11-22T16:52:00.000+01:00

The ActionScript code that is used by Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Elements to create beautiful slideshows is now completely open source. You can download the ActionScript source code from the Adobe Media Gallery website. There are also sample galleries, a getting started guide, documentation, mailing lists, forums and instructions on how to contribute to the project. This work continues Adobe extensive involvement in open source technologies. I can't remember a company changing so quickly so fast. A few months ago we had very little in the way of open source software, today we're working hard on things like Tamarin, part
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/controller.cfm?handler=PostHandler&action=click&postId=138472&nextPage=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs%2Eadobe%2Ecom%2Fmikepotter%2F2006%2F11%2Fadobe%5Fopen%5Fsour%2Ehtml

Actionscript 3 - FZip

2006-11-22T11:10:00.001+01:00

“You can stuff all the files inside just one zip file, stick it on the server and load that into your application, then unpack it on the fly and access the files inside.” FZip Via http://www.flashguru.co.uk/actionscript-3-fzip

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/controller.cfm?handler=PostHandler&action=click&postId=137431&nextPage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebeedigital%2Enet%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D741

FLASH:: SEO for SWFAddress

2006-11-22T11:10:00.000+01:00

I would like to introduce you to the most interesting feature of the upcoming SWFAddress 1.0. It enables generation of real links that expose the appropriate content to search engines. The magic happens with some interesting URL rewriting and some trivial serverside code. Here is an example how it works for a website located at http://www.domain.com that contains a portfolio section: SWFAddress uses http://www.domain.com/#/portfolio/. The URL that can get indexed is http://www.domain.com/portfolio/ and therefore it should exist as a link in the HTML code of the page. When someone visits the indexed address the rewriting functionality makes a redirect to

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/controller.cfm?handler=PostHandler&action=click&postId=137404&nextPage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Easual%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Fswfaddress%2F%3Fpermalink%3Dseo%2Dfor%2Dswfaddress%2Ehtml

FLEX:: How to load FlashPaper Documents in Flex 2

2006-11-21T12:03:00.000+01:00

If you've ever tried to load a FlashPaper document in Flex 2, then you know it's not as straightforward as it was with Flex 1.5.
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/controller.cfm?handler=PostHandler&action=click&postId=136281&nextPage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edarronschall%2Ecom%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F000249%2Ecfm

Media in beeld

2006-11-14T13:08:00.000+01:00

Media in beeldABN Amro's rapport 'Media in Beeld' (.pdf) is enige tijd geleden uitgekomen. Media in Beeld' is geschreven voor iedereen, die geïnteresseerd is in een beknopte weergave van hoe de mediawereld in Nederland er momenteel voor staat, zo valt er op de ABN AMRO site te lezen.
Uit het onderzoek, komen volgens de bank drie duidelijke trends naar voren:
Media any time, any place, any where. De consument bepaalt waar en wanneer hij consumeert. De consument wordt steeds actiever door toenemende interactieve toepassingen op televisie en internet, bijvoorbeeld zelf gemaakt videomateriaal dat op internet worden geplaatst. Grenzen tussen media en sectoren vervagen: media groeien qua functionaliteit naar elkaar toe.Persoonlijk vind ik deze informatie achterhaalt, ik dacht er namelijk al zo'n 1,5 jaar geleden zo over... 'Ben ik dan te vroeg of ABN te laat' vraag ik me dan af. Maar goed, het is wel een ideaal bekopte weergave over hoe de mediawereld er vandaag de dag eruit ziet. (En voor de Nederlanders; het is gratis!)
Via:

http://crossmediaforum.web-log.nl/crossmediaforum/2006/11/media_in_beeld.html

The Long Tail, the Long Term and Your Blog

2006-11-13T15:43:00.000+01:00

The Long Tail, the Long Term and Your Blog
A lot of people starting blogs today are looking for quick results. The definition of "results" really depends on what your motivation is. In this case, I am talking about using a blog as a business tool for marketing and public relations.
Sometimes, this occurs. For example, Neil Patel's Pronet Advertising Blog has fast become one of my favorite reads. It's new, but it's clear from the myriad of daily invaluable posts and his sustained presence on digg, Neil gets it. However, more often than not, if you're starting a business blog, just as with stocks, you're best off taking a Long Tail and a long term approach.
Blogs are built to capitalize on the power of the Long Tail. First, you need to focus your blog on the segment of the conversation you care passionately about - and stick to it. If your blog gets 100 regular readers a day and it's the "right" 100, then it's a success. The key is to add value to that dialogue. Find online gems that this audience is likely to miss and share your perspective. Write compelling op-eds and tutorials.
Second, and here's where the long-term approach factors in, be patient and blog for search. An executive for one of the biggest blog companies on the Web once told me that it takes a year for a blog to build substantial Google juice. Judging from what I've seen from the various projects I've worked on, he's right.
Blogging for search starts with a good statistics program, like Google Analytics. Start tracking where your traffic comes from. The Google Analytics blog has a great set of tips today just for bloggers. These include:
Finding out what posts readers liked the most by looking at daily visitsComparing new vs. returning visitors Finding out how people exit your blogMonitoring how long readers spend looking at your content http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/11/the_long_tail_t.html

corporate bloggen >>

2006-11-10T14:57:00.000+01:00

Externe communicatie
- Directie of management om te communiceren met klanten
- Voor medewerkers om te communiceren met klanten
- Versterken imago/ corporate identity
- Transparante organisatie
- Consumenten op de hoogte houden van nieuwe produkten of diensten

Interne communicatie
- als kennismanagement tool binnen het intranet
- Dialoog tussen verschillende hiërarchische lagen: betrokkenheid
- Delen van Relevante informatie

Conclusie
- met een blog kun je op moderne, effectieve en efficiënte wijze intern en/of extern communiceren
- een blog biedt de mogelijkheid om de doelgerichte dialoog aan te gaan met doelgroepen
- Is een middel voor het opbouwen en versterken van de corporate identity
- Een blog kan ook ingezet worden voor intern kennismanagement

http://indirareynaert.web-log.nl/indirareynaert/2006/11/corporate_blogg.html

Reclamebureaus boos over wildplakkend freelance collectief

2006-11-10T03:37:00.000+01:00

Hacken is ook al een manier om publiciteit te krijgen. De een gebruikt het als een goedkoop trucje om wat rumour around the brand te creeren. Door te doen alsof de eigen thuispagina is gekaapt. Niet erg origineel, wel effectief (gemeten in aantal reacties). De ander gaat een stap verder en kaapt brutaal de thuispagina van een stuk of wat grote reclamejongens. Reacties verzekerd. Het freelancecollectief van Freelancecopy.nl deed dit met de sites van Ara Direct, Saatchi

Mashery API Management Service is Open For Business

2006-11-06T14:06:00.000+01:00

API management service Mashery has come out of stealth mode tonight and is now offering documentation, community management, access control and more for companies wishing to offer public or private APIs. This is an exciting launch.

Mashery is aimed at companies that already recognize the importance of APIs and developer community but want to save money and time by paying some one else to set up the support infrastructure and do it right. It has a different feel to it than StrikeIron, visiting the two company’s sites will make some differences quickly apparent.

Thankfully, Mashery emphasizes throughout their site that users own all of their own data and can easily export it at any time. That data is stored and processed with Amazon’s S3 storage and EC2 elastic compute cloud. Thus scaling up quickly and affordably will always be an option for Mashery. This is a striking example of the kind of company commoditized storage and processing in the cloud make possible.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/mashery-api-management-service-is-open-for-business/

retail > branding >Zo ziet de Postbank Winkel in Nijmegen eruit

2006-11-02T12:36:00.000+01:00

Op dit moment opent Postbank zijn eerste ‘brand store’ in Nijmegen. “Je kunt in- en uitlopen als in een kledingwinkel,” zegt directielid Bart Schlatmann vandaag in Adformatie. Hier een eerste inkijkje in dit nieuwe retailconcept dat in weinig doet denken aan een bank:
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/zo-ziet-de-postbank-winkel-in-nijmegen-eruit/

scrybe - offers simple solutions for age old problems

2006-11-01T17:27:00.000+01:00

is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today´s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way.

offline
online
saving online data directly-
agenda/ organizing-
print

http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php

Running your sites like you'd run a pub

2006-11-01T16:00:00.000+01:00

What would you think your townsmen would consider the best pubs in your town? What do you base that on? I bet you thought of a pub immediately when you read that question, and that you don't know the answer to the second question that fast.

Now you should really get to know what makes a pub popular. It matters because what makes things popular doesn’t really different between the online and the offline world. It’s all about creating a buzz, making people talk about you (or link to you, the online equivalent) and making them feel something is happening that they shouldn’t miss.

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/10/free-beer-inside.html

Herdefiniëring van crossmedia

2006-10-31T14:14:00.000+01:00

Door Roel Lutkenhaus Op het internet zijn er veel verschillende definities van crossmedia te vinden. Deze definities leggen vaak het accent op het kenmerk dat de gebruiker de overstap van het ene naar het andere medium maakt. Ook wordt er...

http://crossmediaforum.web-log.nl/crossmediaforum/2006/10/herdefiniring_v.html

TECH: Flex Scheduling Framework

2006-10-25T08:33:00.000+01:00

The Adobe Consulting team have made available an open-source Scheduling Framework for Flex 2. More than just a calendar component, the Scheduling Framework allows you to create and fully customize any number of Scheduling Components.

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Scheduling_Framework

crossmedia - shotcode - barcode - unique ID's

2006-10-19T13:34:00.000+01:00

De vervaging tussen de verschillende media’s, hoe een media de ander kan aanjagen..

Shotcode: met één foto heb web op
Rotterdam, 2 okt. Het concept is simpel. Kom je in een tijdschrift, krant of billboard een shotcode tegen dan maak je met een cameratelefoon een foto van deze cirkelvormige barcode. Vervolgens gaat het mobieltje automatisch naar de bijbehorende website.
http://www.nrc.nl/media/article498834.ece

Pluk.nl een blijvend succes?

Pluk biedt iedereen de mogelijkheid om zich gemakkelijk toegang te verschaffen tot informatie op het internet via de mobiele telefoon. Stel op straat zie je een aanbieding van een last-minute reis met een verwijzing naar meer informatie op internet. Op dat moment kun je niet direct reageren, terwijl je interesse hebt. Door nu simpelweg een zogeheten ‘plukcode’ te sms’en naar 7585 wordt een link naar de informatie over de reis opgeslagen op je persoonlijke plukpagina op internet. Op het moment dat het je uitkomt ga je naar www.pluk.nl en kun je de informatie over de last-minute reis bekijken door te kllikken op de ontvangen link.

http://www.marketingfacts.nl/berichten/20061015_wordt_pluk_een_blijvend_succes/

The Symbiosis of Mainstream and Social Media

2006-10-18T12:19:00.000+01:00

Interessant rapport over media !!

The Symbiosis of Mainstream and Social Media
A symbiotic relationship is emerging between mainstream media (such as newspapers and broadcast),
and social media (such as blogs, podcasts, and online social networks). Mainstream media and social
media feed off each other. Blogs provide a vast public forum for discussion of content provided
by major media. Leading blog search engine, Technorati, has enabled every online piece on The
Washington Post, Newsweek and Associated Press newspapers to display the complete blog
discussion about that article, turning an article into a conversation visible to all. At the same time, it
has become common for mainstream media to quote blogs and bloggers, sometimes exclusively,
and the conversations between bloggers often provide the ideas for media stories. Together,
mainstream and social media create a single media landscape in which we can all participate.

Strategic questions:
How can you best draw on social networks for content and ideas?
How can you facilitate social media commenting on and annotating your content?

The consumer/ creator archetype
The history of media has been one of passive consumption. However, today one of the strongest social trends is towards participation.
There are certainly many who are largely content to be “couch potatoes,” consuming the media they are given. Others - particularly
younger people - are keen to create, by establishing blogs or individual spaces on sites like MySpace, or sharing photos or videos online.
Even clicking on a link is a creative act that can impact what other see or don’t see. Yet this is not just about a social divide. Everyone of us is
both a consumer and a creator. Finally today we have been given the power to create for others as well as to consume what we are given.

Strategic questions:
Are consumers or creators more valuable in your business model?
How can you encourage consumers to become creators?

http://www.futureexploration.net/fom06/Future_of_Media_Report2006.pdf

Amazon pioniert weer

2006-10-18T11:27:00.000+01:00

Als bol.com morgen Paul de Leeuw inlijft, moeten we niet raar opkijken. De schreeuw van de Leeuw heeft Hilversum of Luxemburg helemaal niet nodig om aan zijn kijkcijfers en salaris te komen. Terwijl hij straks lekker binnenloopt en zijn showtjes draait, kunt u ondertussen eenvoudig advertenties zappen en boeken bestellen. Via bol.com natuurlijk.Amazon heeft net iets soortgelijks gedaan. Het bedrijf ...

http://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2006/07/24/Amazon_pioniert_weer

Crossmedia als containerbegrip belangrijk voor grafische branche

2006-10-17T09:06:00.000+01:00

De grafische branche mist een belangrijke kans als zij zich niet zien als onderdeel van de crossmedia beweging. Hoe intens of hoe tijdelijk deze beweging dan ook mag zijn, media staan niet meer op zichzelf
http://crossmediaforum.web-log.nl/crossmediaforum/2006/10/_crossmedia_als.html

Philips zet in op interactieve media

2006-10-12T16:34:00.000+01:00

Sluit helemaal aan bij de rondvraag in Adformatie van deze week. Philips kondigt aan in het laatste kwartaal de communicatieactiviteiten flink te gaan opvoeren. En zal daarbij een aanzienlijk deel inzetten op interactieve media. Onderdeel van de plannen zijn microsites, onlinediscussies, programma’s met Philips-producten en experimentele marketingactiviteiten die door lokale teams worden ontwikkeld. Dat bericht staat vandaag in Adformatie. In Engeland resulteerde dit in de introductie van Livesimplicity.net, een website voor ‘user generated innovation’ waar consumenten kunnen meepraten over ontwikkelingen rond sense and simplicity.
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/philips-zet-in-op-interactieve-media/

over google

2006-10-11T16:19:00.000+01:00

And we work for Google in terms of the programmable web:
As Google reaches for a billion dimes, it is fostering an industry of a billion little businesses and developers…And by opening up select bit of these programs to outside software developers, Google Chief Schmidt thinks he can create a monster new computer industry, with Google at its core. “The number one goal is to build the most powerful platform to build these new businesses,” Schmidt says. “This area will be as rich as what we saw in PCs.”‘
Towards the last third of the story Quentin looks at APIs and mashups:
To many in the business, mashups are still a Hula Hoop, a game for kids. Not to Google’s Mark Lucovsky, who wrote much of Microsoft’s computer server software before leaving last year. Microsoft was sad to see him go. Lucovsky testified in court that, during his exit interview with Steven Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive threw a chair across his office, vowing to “bury” Schmidt.Lucovsky’s main job at Google is to spur growth in mashups. At least 30,000 sites use Google Maps, using the programming hooks provided by Google. This, he says, is “hard-core real-time software development that no one has seen before.”

http://blog.programmableweb.com/?p=440

Say Cheese: Your brand in the picture

2006-10-11T15:55:00.000+01:00

Zodra u besluit om aan uw merk of dienst een evenement te koppelen, heeft u daarmee een sterk medium in handen om direct met uw doelgroep in contact te treden. Nog mooier is het als u daarmee ook in contact kan blijven. Fotomarketing van Say Cheese is hét instrument waarmee u het contact met uw doelgroep ook na afloop van een evenement kunt voortzetten.

http://www.saycheese.tv/

What I Learned About Apollo at FiTC Hollywood

2006-10-11T12:56:00.000+01:00

Last week’s presentation about Apollo by Mike Chambers at FiTC Hollywood contained the most detailed information on the project that I have seen yet. I managed to capture photos of most of the slide he showed, and posted them to flickr, but haven’t gone through and explained what many of them actually mean. So I’ll [...]
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/controller.cfm?handler=PostHandler&action=click&postId=116495&nextPage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebit%2D101%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D880

The Day the Entire World Gets RSS

2006-10-10T15:14:00.000+01:00

According to published reports, Microsoft tomorrow is going to push out the Internet Explorer 7 upgrade to all Windows users via a required update. Whether it hits tomorrow or later this month, as promised, the day Internet Explorer ships is a huge day for RSS. Forget YouTube and Google, this is a major story. (Microsoft is an Edelman client but I have zero knowledge about the IE launch.)The Internet Explorer upgrade includes an integrated feed reader. Yes, for many of us this is old news. We have been reading feeds for months or even years. However, do no under estimate the impact of millions of desktops worldwide getting not only a new browser, but a magical little orange button. Not everyone will click on it, but those who are curious will and then the fun starts.As more people around the world start reading RSS feeds, big things will happen. It will force everyone to begin to integrating feed communication initiatives in their marketing and PR programs. News and blog posts are just the beginning. Couponing and all kinds of other communiques will go into feeds, as well ads and more. That little orange button might look small, but boy is it big.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MicroPersuasion/~3/35317014/the_day_the_ent.html

TECH: JQuery Ajax Library Updated

2006-10-10T15:04:00.000+01:00

The JQuery Ajax library has been updated to v1.0.2 as of this evening. JQuery is a small, lightweight Ajax and DOM manipulation library that provides a wealth of features for building RIAs and enhancing your site with Web 2.0 functionality. You can find the updates here: Uncompressed JQuery v1.0.2 Compressed JQuery v1.0.2 Here's what John Resig, creator of JQuery, had to say about the release:

Over Hyves in het onderwijs

2006-10-10T12:40:00.000+01:00

Zelf zet ik inmiddels al twee jaar weblogs in voor het onderwijs en sinds dit jaar is daar Hyves bijgekomen. Aanleiding voor het gebruik van Hyves is de gedachte dat social networks en - Hyves in het bijzonder - passen in de belevingswereld van de jonge student. Van tevoren bleek dat 95% van de deelnemers aan mijn cursus reeds op Hyves actief was. Het voorstel dit platform te integreren in de leermodule werd dan ook postief ontvangen.

http://indirareynaert.web-log.nl/indirareynaert/2006/09/over_hyves_in_h.html
http://indirareynaert.web-log.nl/indirareynaert/2006/10/hyves_in_het_on.html

Generation Next - voor studenten en young professionals die vanuit hun studie en/of werk actief bezig zijn met nieuwe media

2006-10-10T12:25:00.000+01:00

Generation Next is de vereniging voor studenten en young professionals die vanuit hun studie en/of werk actief bezig zijn met nieuwe media. Het doel van Generation Next is om het niveau van kennis op het gebied van interactieve media bij studenten en young professionals te verhogen. Een belangrijk onderdeel om dit te bereiken is om een brug te slaan tussen de studenten en young professionals en de bedrijven die actief zijn binnen de interactieve media sector. Dit kan bijvoorbeeld een stage, afstudeeropdracht of startersfunctie zijn, maar ook via workshops, gastcolleges en themasessies.

http://www.generation-next.nl/Bedrijven

Broadcast Photos To Cable TV

2006-10-09T10:02:00.000+01:00

We’ve been tracking SimpleStar’s PhotoShow since Brian Ascher, a general partner at Venrock Associates, mentioned them in passing over lunch a couple of months ago. The hook? He said “Imagine if you could watch your friends’ Flickr pictures or YouTube videos on a dedicated cable television channel.” No need to get your grandmother online. Just point her to channel 917 and she can see your most recent vacation pictures right there on her television.
Photoshow’s core offering is an online slide-show service. Users can create a slide show, adding photos, video clips, templates, music, transitions, captions and effects. I created a test slide show in a couple of minutes. It’s free, and registration is not required to create a slide show.
These shows can then be embedded into MySpace or any other website, or a link to the show can be sent from the service. Photoshow also allows users to buy a dvd version of the show. As far as basic tools to create slide show memories of vacations and other events, PhotoShow is top notch.
And then there is the broadcast-to-tv feature.
It’s currently available only to Time Warner cable subscribers in Hawaii. On October 18 the company will have an official launch party and announce expanded coverage of the service. Once it’s live, users can click a button and, once approved, add it to a local cable channel. This channel is menu driven - when viewers go to the site they can scroll through various topical categories and find slide shows that people have published to the channel. There’s no privacy for these shows, but the convenience factor for sharing these with people who want to view them on television is innovative. If Photoshow is successful in closing deals with local cable channels, this differentiating factor with competitors could make it a winner.
The company has raised $6.3 million from Venrock in August 2005. The company, which also sells a desktop version of the PhotoShow software, presented at DEMO two weeks ago (the video of the demo is available here). See Dan Farber’s recent coverage of the company as well.
Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
PhotoShow
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/broadcast-photos-to-cable-tv/

Sociale netwerken trekken steeds 'ouder' publiek

2006-10-09T09:16:00.000+01:00

Sociale netwerken trekken een steeds minder jong publiek. De helft van de bezoekers van MySpace is ondertussen ouder dan 35 jaar. Hoewel...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/34857393/nieuws.jsp

Mit Sketching

2006-10-09T09:04:00.000+01:00

http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=492

Nieuw advertentienetwerk voor bloggers

2006-10-05T09:00:00.000+01:00

Het advertentienetwerk AdMatch.nl tracht de bemiddelende schakel te worden tussen bloggers en adverteerders. Voor het einde van de maand...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/32564147/nieuws.jsp

Photosynth

2006-10-04T10:41:00.000+01:00

Photosynthtakes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities,and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space. With Photosynth you can: walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle; seamlessly zoom in or out of a photograph
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

How to Add Google Widgets to Your Blog

2006-10-04T09:42:00.000+01:00

Google just released a new set of widgets that make it easy to integrate their in-line AJAX search tools into your Web site. Among the notable applications are instructions and a demo for TypePad blogs and another for Blogger weblogs. You can also roll these onto an intranet or your Google Personalized Home Page as well. More info here. Meanwhile, Google also made it a snap to add hundreds of home page gadgets to your social network page, blog or Web site.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MicroPersuasion/~3/31860953/how_to_add_goog.html

Hack Day at Yahoo

2006-10-04T08:42:00.000+01:00

http://developer.yahoo.net/hackday/
Sounds like everyone had a great time at Yahoo!’s Hack Day. About 400 people spent 24 hours on the Yahoo! campus of not just hacking (as expected), but also an unannounced 90 minute performance from Beck. According to emcee Mike Arrington there were over 50 projects in the hacking competition and the winner was Blogging in Motion, a hardware-and-software mashup using a camera, a handbag, a pedometer, and the Flickr API in order to automatically blog photos every few steps.

Oh yes, and Yahoo! release two new APIs and announced a third:Browser Based Authentication or BBAuth: which is as they describe “a generic mechanism that will allow users to grant 3rd party web-based applications access their Yahoo! data…it possible to use Yahoo! as a single sign-on for your site, thus removing a barrier to entry for a whole lot of people (over 200 million to be exact).” Looks like a very useful service, somewhat similar to Google’s released earlier this year. More from Jeremy Zawodny and Dan TheurerYahoo! Photos API: This new API uses the “Enables Yahoo! users to access and manipulate their photos through third-party applications and devices. They can use Yahoo! Photos Web Services to upload photos, create and modify photos and albums, share photos with others, search photos, and more.” And it builds on the BBauth services above.Yahoo! Mail API: Announced but not yet released. Should be interesting.Congratulations to Chad and the folks from Yahoo!’s dev team on putting together an excellent event and to continuing to roll-out more useful APIs.
http://blog.programmableweb.com/?p=430

KLM start meerdere business communities

2006-10-03T09:51:00.000+01:00

KLM is bezig met de uitrol van business communities. Na de oprichting van Club China in juni, volgen nu Club Golf en Club Afrika. De...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/31375572/nieuws.jsp

Machinima is pas echt Cross Media

2006-10-02T17:13:00.000+01:00

Het woord Machinima is ontstaan uit de woorden Machine en Cinema. De definitie luidt: “Animated filmmaking using 3D videogame technology”. Ofwel films produceren met behulp van games.
http://www.machinima.com

De afgelopen week stond op het prima evenement Picnic cross media centraal. Het hoogtepunt lag voor mij op vrijdagavond. De zakelijke kant van het evenement was al afgelopen. Samen met Jeroen Mirck bezocht ik Machinima Salon. Waar commercieel creatief Nederland wanhopig op zoek is naar de “heilige crossmediagraal”, lieten jonge mensen zien hoe je echt crossmediaal moet zijn. In een kleine zaaltje kwamen games, film, internet en muziek samen.
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/machinima-is-pas-echt-cross-media/

Spunk.nl start met internetjournaal

2006-10-02T14:47:00.000+01:00

AMSTERDAM - Het online jongerenmagazine Spunk (www.spunk.nl) is maandag begonnen met een soort journaal op internet waarin internetfilmpjes de revue passeren.
http://www.nu.nl/news/838951/54/rss/Spunk.nl_start_met_internetjournaal.html

Controversial PayPerPost Raises $3 million

2006-10-02T12:53:00.000+01:00

We first covered PayPerPost when it launched three months ago.The service is a marketplace for advertisers to pay bloggers to write about products for a fee. Commenters to our original post wee polarized into those violently for and those againt the product. The key area of controversy is the fact that advertisers can mandate that posts be positive on the product, and disclosure of payment is optional for the blogger (screen shot at end of post shows sample available writing opportunities).The controversy didn’t stop venture capitalists from quickly jumping on board, though. On Tuesday PayPerPost will announce a $3 million round of financing led by Inflexion Partners and with participation from Villiage Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Dan Rua from Inflexion and Michael Barach from Villiage Ventures will take board seats. Josh Stein from Draper Fisher Jurvetson will become a board observer.Rob Hof from BusinessWeek and I spoke to founder Ted Murphy and DFJ’s Josh Stein earlier today about the financing and the product in general. The conversation is available as a podcast at TalkCrunch, here. Rob’s post on the news tonight is here.Ted says his business is doing quite well in spite of (or possibly due to) all of the controversy raised by paying off bloggers to write about certain products. And Josh Stein at DFJ seems excited about the potential profitability of the company while downplaying the ethical issues raised by this and other blogs - the market will sort things out, he says. Some back of the envelope calculations based on numbers Ted disclosed in the podcast suggest that revenues after the first few months of operations have topped $100,000.Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.PayPerPostTags: techcrunch, web2.0, web_2.0
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/31002589/

How to Create a "Blog Feeder"

2006-10-02T12:45:00.000+01:00

One of the questions I am often asked is "How do you find content to blog about?" The answer is easy, I use my Blog Feeder. If you blog often I highly recommend setting one of these up as a tab on a personalized home page. Mine sits on Google, but you can easily use Windows Live, Netvibes or a host of other similar services. I recommend using a start page as a Blog Feeder over a traditional RSS reader like Bloglines since you may not want to see every item in the feed. These feeds tend to be massive in volume.
The first step is to determine what newsy topics you want to track. In my case, it's a snap. I blog about social networks, social media, Wikipedia and more. I set up a bunch of searches on Google News for these topics using the "OR" value (e.g. digg OR youtube, etc.) Each search generates a feed, which I have added to a special tabbed section of my Google Personalized Home Page.
Next up, head on over to Technorati's Discover section. Here you will find mini meme trackers across dozens of subjects such as music, television, tech, politics and more. Each section has an RSS feed. Grab that and add it to your Blog Feeder.
Last but not least, add some other sites like digg and/or diggdotus and relvant Topix.net feeds (each topic page has a feed link). That's all there is to it. Here's the result...
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/09/how_to_create_a.html

Social shopping

2006-10-02T08:31:00.000+01:00

Social shopping: Crowdstorm and ThisNext have entered the collaborative shopping arena. Both let consumers curate, recommend and create buzz for desirable products. Listmaniameets shopping.www.springwise.com/weekly/2006-09-29.htm#shopping

Realeyes3D Mobile Scanning transforms the camera phone into a mobiel scanner..

2006-09-28T09:14:00.000+01:00

http://www.realeyes3d.com/pages/products/digitizer_3.php

Uitzendbureau Start toont vacatures via narrowcasting

2006-09-27T12:53:00.000+01:00

Uitzendbureau Start toont vanaf deze week actuele vacatures op grote schermen in een viertal Bruna-winkels. Start is de eerste adverteerder...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/28007378/nieuws.jsp

TECH: 100 ActionScript 3 Tips and Tricks

2006-09-27T11:20:00.000+01:00

The release of Flex Builder 2 is around the corner and though the next version of Flash is still a ways away, ActionScript 3 will be a big part of Flex 2 and the impending release of Flash Player 9 (which arrives with Flex). ActionScript 3 is the next step forward and to help with the transition (for those of you deciding to make it), I thought, since I've been working with AS3 a bit lately, I'd make a new Tip of the Day thread for ActionScript 3.0 to help people prepare. So here we go:

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223798

Profielsites samengebracht in internetadresboek

2006-09-26T12:48:00.000+01:00

AMSTERDAM - Steeds meer Nederlanders beschikken over verschillende internetadressen. We Skypen, Hyven, we hebben een profiel op MySpace, een Flickr-account en ga zo maar door. Het nieuwe Internet Adresboek speelt in op deze trend en biedt één centrale plek aan voor al deze adressen.
http://www.nu.nl/news/834009/50/rss/Profielsites_samengebracht_in_internetadresboek.html

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.

2006-09-26T10:50:00.000+01:00

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
http://wefeelfine.org/mission.html

En zelfs nog beter er is zelfs een API :>
http://wefeelfine.org/api.html

COOL: Dapper puts weather.com (and Matisyahu) on your calendar

2006-09-26T09:01:00.000+01:00

Since we profiled Israeli startup Dapper, the controversial and very intriguing service has added about 2,000 new data sources that anyone can mix and mash from sites around the web. That’s been done in one month. The company calls itself a way to “create an API for any website,” though others call it a [...]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/23/dapper-puts-weathercom-and-matisyahu-on-your-calendar/

Making Flash movies obey browser text size changes

2006-09-26T08:58:00.000+01:00

John Dowdell discusses the Top Anti-Flash Cliches, a topic I revisit regularly under the guise of “Flash Myths”. Of course, accessibility makes the list (specifically, the perception that Flash lacks any sort of support for it.) How timely, then, to see Niqui Merret post a very simple example that demonstrates how to scale a Flash [...]
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/controller.cfm?handler=PostHandler&action=click&postId=113887&nextPage=http%3A%2F%2Faralbalkan%2Ecom%2F745

Adobe Rolls Out Integrated PDF/Flash Products: streamingmedia.com

2006-09-25T14:30:00.000+01:00

"One test of success in any merger or acquisition is how well the corporate cultures of the merging companies mesh together. While the jury is still out on the meshing of Adobe and Macromedia’s corporate cultures, Adobe seems to be passing another vital test—integrating Macromedia technologies into newly minted Adobe products that add additional value to the general user. Two particular products, Captivate 2 and Acrobat 8, are leading the integration charge."

http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9412

Google to Jump Head-First into the Long Tail of Commerce

2006-09-25T12:35:00.000+01:00

Google is reportedly readying a new program that will integrate product results from Google Base into the main Google.com search engine. This will debut in the fourth quarter in time for the holiday shopping season. When people search for products on Google.com, the search engine will present them with another search box so that they can refine their query and see results from the Google Base listings site, according to analysts.The Web 2.0 blog also notes that Google's Q4 plans also involve de-emphasizing Froogle as a destination website and moving its comparison-shopping capabilities right into Google.com.Google's greatest successes to date have involved products and Long Tail types of services for the little guy. This is why I am doubtful of the company's new focus on swimming upstream. It's clear that social commerce has a lot of potential for Google. It's putting renewed focus on Google Base clearly over its existing commerce partners and appears headed for a showdown with eBay.Tags: google, ebay, commerce, googlebase
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MicroPersuasion/~3/27039688/google_to_jump_.html

mashup: flickr minicards, think small share big

2006-09-25T11:25:00.000+01:00

gratis minicards voor flickr PRO account !!

http://www.moo.com/flickr/

tech: complete guide to ruby on rails ..

2006-09-25T10:46:00.000+01:00

http://sitekreator.com/satishtalim/index.html

TECH: Flex 2 BitmapData Tricks and Techniques

2006-09-25T09:48:00.000+01:00

Most seasoned flash developers know that the Bitmap API has been around in the Flash player since the relase of FP8. Those that know all about the Bitmap API appreciate it for its many benefits... Those that don't know about it, trust me, you appreciate it too... you just don't know it. In Flex 2, you can take advantage of the Bitmap API to implement some very powerful and useful techniques that simply are not possible in non-Flash-based web applications. Some of you may be asking: What is the Bitmap API? The Bitmap API refers to the flash player's functionality
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/controller.cfm?handler=PostHandler&action=click&postId=113751&nextPage=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecynergysystems%2Ecom%2Fblogs%2Fpage%2Fandrewtrice%3Fentry%3Dflex%5F2%5Fbitmapdata%5Ftricks%5Fand

O'Neill gebruikt iPod skins als buzztool

2006-09-22T13:25:00.000+01:00

Gepersonaliseerde skins voor de iPod als activatie instrument. O’Neill is de eerste adverteerder die hiermee aan de slag gaat. Consumenten in 36 landen kunnen hun gepersonaliseerde skins online bestellen en ontvangen deze per post gratis thuis. De skins worden ingezet om ‘buzz’ te genereren rond de herfst/winter collectie van O’Neill. Het idee is van IceMedia (bekend van de IceCards, de gratis visitekaartjes met reclame) dat ook de produktie verzorgt. De bestelomgeving ondersteunt verschillende iPod modellen en overigens ook mobiele telefoons.
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/oneill-gebruikt-ipod-skins-als-buzztool/

TECH: I Have Seen Apollo and it is Awesome

2006-09-22T11:22:00.001+01:00

Appollo faq’s
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:developerfaq

Luis Pollanco presented during the session “Building Killer RIAs? Meet: Adobe’s Next-Gen Technology” today for Adobe Developer Week and gave demos of some Apollo applications that the team has been working on. All of the demo applications were built using Flex Builder. I assume they will have a recording up soon, but until then, enjoy some of the screenshots I took during the presentation: (click for bigger images)

http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=75

AH-reclame in Den Bosch via Bluetooth

2006-09-22T11:22:00.000+01:00

Go-Tan, een producent van Aziatische levensmiddelen, verstuurt in een Albert Heijn in Den Bosch tot eind volgende week digitale flyers naar...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/25300401/nieuws.jsp

Zune Promises MySpace-like Connectivity

2006-09-15T16:27:00.000+01:00

Just got off the phone with Microsoft about the new Zune and the magic therein. It’s a 30GB player that comes in three colors - black, white, and brown - and plays back most major file formats. That much you can read over at CrunchGear so head over there if you want the specs. Of specific interest to TC readers, however, is the social sharing system. The Zune has 802.11 networking built in and you can send a song to your friend for three days or three plays, which ever comes first. The goal, obviously, is to sell music. However, we could also conceivably see this as a MySpace-like network of users who pop music to each other with giddy abandon and infect others with their musical stylings on the train (perhaps a sandwich board that says “I’ll Send My New HARDCORE RAP Single to Your Zune. Talk to me. Please?”) Once you get back home you can connect to the Zune Marketplace - and presumably an artists home page - where you can learn more and buy music.[Picture courtesy of Engadget] Clearly all the data isn’t in yet, but this definitely pushes the MP3 player out of the pocket and into the realm of social networking. The question, obviously, is what is Apple going to do about this and, as a corrallary, how low Apple and Creative shares are selling as we speak? Perhaps MS could create a “Zune Inside” logo for those guys? Or maybe fund a halfway house for underconnected MP3 players?No Tags
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/22264487/

New Research Released on Blog Reach

2006-09-15T16:21:00.000+01:00

Two studies were recently released about blog readership that are worth pointing to...The first, from Charlene Li at Forrester, notes that 24?f Gen Yers read blogs. This is twice as high as the 12?f Gen Xers and three times the 7?f Young Boomers (ages 41-50) that read blogs. Charlene says
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/09/new_research_re.html

dat de traditionele tv-commercial 'in de huidige vorm, dood, stervende, dan wel achterhaald is'

2006-09-15T16:19:00.000+01:00

De denkbeelden van Jaffe mogen bekend worden verondersteld. De auteur van het geruchtmakende boek ‘Life after the 30 second spot’ stelt dat de traditionele tv-commercial ‘in de huidige vorm, dood, stervende, dan wel achterhaald is’. Die toelichting ‘’in de huidige vorm’’ is belangrijk, het is zeg maar zijn vrijkaartje uit de gevangenis waarmee hij discussies over het al dan niet ‘’dood’’ zijn van de commercial ontloopt. Zijn stelling is niet dat de commercial als zodanig dood is, wat hij wil zeggen is dat de huidige vorm raakt uitgewerkt. Derhalve zal de adverteerder op zoek moeten naar andere vormen van communiceren. Het is als met het kind dat op een dag ontdekt dat er veel meer kleurpotloden zijn dan alleen rood, groen en geel. Dat er zelfs dozen met kleurpotloden bestaan die vele schakeringen van een kleur bevatten. Met fraaie oneliners maakte hij de toehoorders duidelijk dat adverteerders zijn blijven hangen in hun traditionele gedrag door de consument om de oren te blijven slaan met tv-spots, ‘telkens opnieuw en opnieuw, dat noemen we de frequentie, totdat de effectiviteit van het medium totaal is gereduceerd.’

http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/bakkeleien-over-toekomst-30-seconce-spot-op-eday/

random images + random music = islands of consciousness

2006-09-12T13:22:00.000+01:00

random images + random music = islands of consciousness
http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/islands_of_consciousness.php
With the new flash player you can read sound spectrum data, with that data you can controle image blending/ filtering …

free CMS for .NET

2006-09-12T12:47:00.000+01:00

2 free CMS for .NET
http://www.umbraco.org/

http://www.axcms.net/en_axcms_home.AxCMS?ActiveID=1848 http://en.help.axcms.net/Home_en_help.AxCMS?ActiveID=2665

Check out Blogmusik Before It's Pulled off the Internet

2006-09-11T14:04:00.000+01:00

Blogmusik.net is a site that lets users search for songs and play them (streaming) immediately via a Flash player that looks like an iPod. Use does not require registration. However, if you create an account you can also save songs and create playlists. The library is quite extensive - I was listening to Eminem, R.E.M., Metallica and Frank Sinatra earlier this evening and it seemed to have just about everything I was searching for.I have the feeling, based on the fact that there is absolutely no information about any licensing deal or even basic company information, that this is an unauthorized use of copyrighted material. I suspect that the library is simply a very large music collection sitting on a server with a nice looking Flash UI tacked on. See the comments below for additional information. It certainly is fun, but I can’t imagine it will be making the RIAA and its worldwide counterparts very happy. Enjoy it while it lasts.The service has an associated blog here, and Myspace page here. Thank you Orli for emailing us about this.BlogmusikTags: techcrunch, web2.0, web_2.0, ipod, music, mp3, riaa
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/20606483/

opkomst van de pop-up chatbox als ondersteuning bij online verkoop

2006-09-11T10:53:00.000+01:00

Eerder deze week publiceerde New York Times (via RetailTech) een interessant artikel over de opkomst van de pop-up chatbox als ondersteuning bij online verkoop.Volgens het artikel schakelen internetretailers steeds vaker chatters in om klanten te overtuigen. Afhankelijk van de instellingen (bijv. na enkele zoekopdrachten binnen een bepaalde tijd), verschijnt een pop-up op het scherm met de vraag

Emerce opent eiland in Second Life

2006-09-11T10:51:00.000+01:00

Emerce heeft een eiland in de virtuele wereld Second Life geopend. Op het eiland is de Rotterdamse Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, de lokatie...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/20912785/nieuws.jsp

Philips innoveert met lichtgevende mode

2006-09-08T15:53:00.000+01:00

Philips herontdekt de gloeilamp. Beter gezegd: Philips stopt lampen in mode. Met Lumalive biedt het steeds ‘marketing wiser’ opererende concern T-shirts met lichtgevende opdruk. ‘Light-emitting textiles’, zo heette dat deze week op de technologiebeurs IFA. Perfect toepasbaar voor promotioneel gebruik, jubelt Philips zelf, maar de verslaggeefster van Netscape News plaatst terecht de kanttekening dat dit zich niet meteen direct leent voor een brede uitrol. Wel een leuk kijkje in de toekomst van licht en textiel. Ook de zitbank leent zich ervoor.
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/philips-innoveert-met-lichtgevende-mode/

Social networking en brands

2006-09-08T11:48:00.000+01:00

Social networking is een begrip wat je vaak tegenkomt in combinatie met internet. YouTube, Hyves, mySPace allemaal sites waar miljoenen mensen photo’s, video,s nieuws bekijken, uitwisselen en becommentariëren. Maar het fenomeen social networking beperkt zich niet tot de virtuele wereld ook in de echte wereld spelen merken op dit fenomeen in ..

Nokia Sensor
mobile social networking, profiel wat beschikbaar is voor andere gebruikers als je in de buurt bent van elkaar..
www.nokia.com/sensor
· Spontaneous social circles
· Your portable personality
· Instant communities and networks
· Free to download, free to use
· Free file sharing

K-Swiss
stripe shifting system > streepjes die boodschap uitdragen

SportLife
pakjes kauwgum met rode en groene kant, als je vanuit de rodekant geeft > not-single VS groen single ..

Plus-supermarkt
Een Plus-supermarkt in Almere heeft sinds kort speciale paarse winkelmandjes voor singles, zodat zij elkaar kunnen herkennen en zo nodig een date scoren.
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/dating-in-de-supermarkt/

Washington Post Plans Social Net for Readers

2006-09-07T11:17:00.000+01:00

In the latest in its series of moves to become a "two-way" newspaper, the Washington Post is gearing up to launch a social network of its most passionate readers.
According to Colin Delany, WashingtonPost.com is implementing reader comments on all news stories. You can see a sampling here. They're starting with less controversial topics and will expand to all stories once content filtering mechanisms are operational. The Post also allows you to request the removal of a comment that you find objectionable.
From there, the Post will encourage readers to create profile pages that aggregate all of his/her comments in a central place. This in essence turns the Post Web site into a social network for people who actively comment on the site.
Tags: washingtonpost, newspapers
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MicroPersuasion/~3/17983091/washington_post_2.html

V&D lanceert Ear & Eye

2006-09-06T14:22:00.000+01:00

Ear & Eye. Zo heet de nieuwe formule voor home entertainment in warenhuis Vroom & Dreesmann. Die formule was nodig ook, want het warenhuis zat met een probleem: nog maar net was het niet goed lopende afdeling Electric City vervangen door een afdeling onder het label van zusterbedrijf Dixons, of datzelfde Dixons werd alweer verkocht door moederconcern Maxeda (voorheen Vendex/KBB, herinnert u zich onze discussie?). Er moest dus een nieuwe formule komen, en dat is Ear & Eye geworden. V&D Hilversum heeft morgen de primeur, waarn eind oktober ook de vestiging in Zeist volgt. 9/6/2006 1:14 PM
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H&M opent Nederlandse webwinkel

2006-09-06T14:11:00.000+01:00

Vanaf vandaag is de Nederlandse webshop van H&M geopend. Op www.hm.com biedt het modeconcern een deel van zijn collectie, zo meldt de online uitvoering van thuiswinkelvakblad Twinkle. Wehkamp krijgt er daarmee een stevige concurrent bij. Binnenkort komt H&M ook met een catalogus die tweemaal per jaar moet verschijnen Opmerkelijk is dat Wehkamp juist is afgestapt van de halfjaarlijkse verschijningsfrequentie van de dikke catalogus. Wehkamp’s marketing directeur Pieter van Diepen liet indertijd in Adformatie weten dat dit besluit mede is ingegeven doordat de mode-industrie ttien tot twaalf keer per jaar met een nieuwe collectie komt, zodat een gids per half jaar niet actueel genoeg meer is.

http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/hm-opent-nederlandse-webwinkel/

Succes virals vooral bluf?

2006-09-05T15:59:00.000+01:00

Maak goedkoop een verdomd goed filmpje. Stuur het naar een selectie gretige reclamefreaks en naar liefhebbers van je merk. Zorg voor wat opwinding op weblogs door te posten namens verzonnen populaire jongeren. Pleur het op Google Video, YouTube en vergelijkbare videovergaarders. Leun achterover en aanschouw de virale magie. Het recept is bekend, het vertrouwen erin groot, maar er is iets raars aan de hand met virals: ik moet ernaar zoeken.
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/succes-virals-vooral-bluf/

wat is een mashup ...

2006-09-05T12:41:00.000+01:00

Mashups
“ Een mashup is een web 2.0 applicatie of website die gebruik maakt van content van een of meerdere bestaande applicaties om een nieuwe service te maken.. “

Wat het leuke van mashups is dat je bestaande data kan gebruiken om makkelijk je eigen applicaties te maken. Veel grote sites/ communities/ applicaties stellen deze content beschikbaar. Denk aan: foto’s van flickr, video’s van youtube, kaarten van Google, boeken van Amazon, muziek data (albums, artiesten) etc etc

Mashup gebruik makende van google earth
http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html

BuddyMapping.com
BuddyMapping.com allows you to create a custom google map your friends and internet buddies can add themselves too.
http://www.buddymapping.com/

Lijst van mashups http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups

Mocht iemand nu een leuk idee voor een mashup hebben? Nederlandse mashups zijn er nog vrij weinig, dus ….

Zijn nieuwe kranten de redding voor de krant?

2006-09-04T11:02:00.000+01:00

Medialand is in de ban van een nog te lanceren nieuw soort krant in Nederland: de huis-aan-huis bezorgde kwaliteitskrant. In het buitenland, onder meer in Ijsland een redelijk succes. Ook in Nederland zijn er initiatieven. PCM (lees de Volkskrant) loopt al langer met het idee rond, al zo’n twee jaar. Het project kreeg de naam Moment, een tariefkaart is zelfs al rond gegaan, maar het plan verdween vorig jaar weer van tafel. De reden is geld. Een dergelijke manier van distribueren kost nogal wat. Maar met de komst van meer kapers op de kust is het project weer urgent. Het is een kwestie van wie er het eerst inspringt.
http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/zijn-nieuwe-kranten-de-redding-voor-de-krant/

Advertisers have long known that sex sells

2006-08-29T13:34:00.000+01:00

First up I need to say that this campaign is about as NSFW as it gets, so consider yourself duly warned! Advertisers have long known that sex sells. So French clothing company Shai has decided to put that theory to the test by launching their Summer 2006 clothing range as an (explicit) interactive video clothing catalogue.

The Shai Clothing’s Summer 2006 campaign makes extensive use of Flash video and starts off by allowing users to choose their preferred clothing preference (?) - heterosexual, homosexual, or lesbian. The catalogue then uses Flash video to display a couple of models engaged in some very steamy action wearing (or not) certain items of Shai’s Summer 2006 collection. Rolling the cursor over a piece of apparel in the movie stops the onscreen action to reveal a catalogue chart with price and size information.

http://www.sexpacking.com/

2006-08-29T12:22:00.000+01:00

Turn Your iPod into the Ultimate PowerPoint Accessory
This is the second in my series of posts on various gear that I find useful.
Many readers of this blog work in PR or marketing or for Web 2.0 related start-ups. This means you spend a lot of time preparing presentations in either Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple's Keynote. What's more, you probably also invest hours rehearsing and traveling to and from various meetings. Oh and if I were a betting man I'd say you carry an iPod. Well, whether you are on Windows or Mac with a few simple steps you can turn your iPod (even an older one) into the ultimate PowerPoint accessory. I am going to focus on PowerPoint here since it's what most people use. The process is similar for Keynote.
Getting Your Preso on Your iPod
First, you need to get your PowerPoint presentation on to your iPod. This is a snap. Head on over to ZappTek and download iPresent It. It's now available on both Windows and Mac (It was previously only available for Macs). iPresent It will take any PowerPoint or PDF file and convert it into a series of images that can be viewed as a slideshow on an iPod. It supports file tracking so you can easily update your slideshows whenever you make changes to a presentation. I have been testing the software and it works perfectly. iPresent It runs $17.95. Apple explains how to get these images on your iPod.

Using Your iPod to Rehearse Now that you have your presentation on your iPod you need to rehearse. The iPod has everything you need to rehearse while you're on the go. This works best on either the latest fifth generation iPod or on the iPod Nano (though it's hard to see slide text on the latter). Simply navigate to the Stopwatch feature on your iPod and start the timer. Then, while the timer is still running navigate back to the Photos menu on your iPod, find your slide show and click it. You can run through the slides one by one or even run it as a slideshow complete with slide-to-slide builds. You can even keep music running in the background whhile you rehearse.

Hooking Your iPod Up to a Projector
Last but not least, it's actually possible to connect your iPod to a projector or a TV and run your presentation right off the device. I would test this out on different projectors before flying sans computer. This won't work with the iPod Nano. You also need either the Apple AV Connection Kit or their AV Cable to hook your iPod up to your projector. Presentation Zen (one of my favorite blogs) shows how nicely this works.
That's all there is to turing your iPod into the ultimate PowerPoint accessory.

http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/08/turn_your_ipod_.html

A Case Study in How Blogs Attract Media Coverage + get more people talking about your product

2006-08-29T12:18:00.000+01:00

Here's an awesome example of how a blog done right can help you generate more media coverage, especially around thought leadership. Controversy helps too.Earlier this week economist Nouriel Roubini blogged that the US economy is in for a sharp recession. He predicts it will be bigger than the last one in 2001. This was too tempting for the media to resist.The result? Marketwatch picked up on the blog post and turned it into a story. Other journalists are following his blog too.(Via Reddit.)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MicroPersuasion/~3/16174739/a_case_study_in.html

Eric Sink has a great post about how to get more people talking about your product. He says: a) find a very small group of people that share common interests and b) build a product that 100% of them will love.Sounds simple enough. However, if you already have a product that you need to promote and it doesn't fit this bill, then you need to get a bit more creative. Think about empowering these individuals to find and connect with each other (and you) so they can maximize the use of the product and contribute to the next iteration.
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/08/think_small_to_.html

brands op mystery land

2006-08-28T15:34:00.000+01:00

http://blog.adformatie.nl/index.php/entries/creatief-op-mysteryland/
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FOTO SHOP Bij de HP Photoprintshop konden bezoekers eigen foto’s vanaf mobile & camera en door HP teams gemaakte foto’s laten printen. Dit vond gretig aftrek niet in de laatste plaats omdat men de foto’s op fotopapier van zware kwaliteit meekreeg. Ondanks de rijen was de afhandeling vlot: inpluggen, overzetten, printen, gaan. Minpunt was dat de stand commercieel gezien zwaar over the top was. Er was, hoe raar het ook klinkt, te veel budget in de stand gestoken waardoor het een wat opdringerige uitstraling kreeg.

Schoolbank en Hyves populairste netwerksites

2006-08-25T16:00:00.000+01:00

AMSTERDAM - Zestig procent van de Nederlanders maakt gebruik van een digitaal sociaal netwerk, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van De Telefoongids. Schoolbank.nl is het populairst onder de sociale netwerken, maar liefst twee op de vijf Nederlanders maakt hier gebruik van. Hyves.nl volgt met 17 procent.
http://www.nu.nl/news/810490/50/rss/Schoolbank_en_Hyves_populairste_netwerksites.html

Virtual "Firsts" from Second Life

2006-08-25T13:10:00.000+01:00

Rohit Bhargava rounds up a bunch of virtual firsts from Second Life.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MicroPersuasion/~3/15934438/virtual_firsts_.html

Five Ways to Be a Better Info Junkie with Topix.net

2006-08-25T12:46:00.000+01:00

Five Ways to Be a Better Info Junkie with Topix.net
Although it doesn't get the attention it probably deserves, Topix.net is perhaps one of the world's most useful sites. It is easily one of my favorites. Every PR person and news junkie on the planet should be using Topix.
Unlike Google News and Yahoo News, Topix does more than search news and blogs. It sifts and sorts all of this content into distinct topical pages. In addition, Topix recently added some killer features that make it even more invaluable. You can view a full year's worth of blog and news results and track trends with charts too. Here's a round-up of my favorite tips. (Footnote: Topix was a client of mine in my last gig, but I have no affiliation with them today.)

1) Track the Big Memes of the DayMemeorandum and Tailrank are good tools for tracking the blog issues du jour, but did you know that Topix has its own memetracker? What I like about it is that it's broad and it can be sorted by date, not just by size of story.
2) Deep Dive Within a Single Blog or News SiteTopix tracks a smaller universe of blogs than say Technorati or Google Blog Search. They tend to focus on the larger ones. However, using the site you can create a very narrow search for the terms you care about. Even better, the search will generate a feed. So, if you only care when TechCrunch writes about digg and Netscape, you can create a feed that will deliver only these results. You can also create a similar search within a single news source. For example, here's an index of all Google mentions in the Washington Post over the last year. This search too generates a feed and a chart that you can drill down by date.
3) Get the Local Angle on a StoryAll news is local right? So, naturally, you might want to know how a story is playing out in your neck of the woods. Using Topix's powerful advanced capabilities, you can create a customized local search within a single market. For example, here's all news and blog mentions from Manhattan about the World Trade Center. Or, here's how Iraq is playing out in the Washington, DC area. You can compare it in volume to the coverage in Chicago or Peoria.
4) Track Individual Companies, Celebs or Sports FiguresTopix.net has more than 300,000 category pages. Many of these are invaluable. And remember, each has its own RSS feed. So you can track thousands of companies and celebrities, specific movies (even old ones like Mission Impossible), individual baseball or football players and so much more.
5) Pull it All Together with the Ultimate AdvancedLast but not least you can pull these techniques together to your advantage. Let's say I want to track how the Mel Gibson/anti-semitic story ins playing out in the LA Times. Easy. First, I search Topix to find the Mel Gibson page. I copy the end of the URL (who/mel-gibson). Then I browse over to Topix's advanced search and set up the following search: jews cat:who/mel-gibson url:latimes.com (see screen grab below). The result, yup, my own customized search and RSS feed. You can chart the coverage over time too.

Branded content minder populair

2006-08-25T12:41:00.000+01:00

In vergelijking met landen als het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de Verenigde Staten doen Nederlandse adverteerders minder aan branded content...

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/16067277/nieuws.jsp

Adidas en Toyota uit startblokken in Second Life

2006-08-22T11:14:00.000+01:00

Adidas, Toyota en ook PR-bureau Text100, het Amerikaanse Kankerfonds en telecombedrijf Telus openen digitale vestigingen van hun bedrijven in de digitale wereld Second Life (SL). Een gestaag groeiend aantal bedrijven tast af hoe ze om moet gaan met digitale sociaal gedreven omgevingen. Inbreuk op auteurs- en merkrecht begint echter een zorg te worden van onafhankelijke SL-ontwikkelaars.

http://www.emerce.nl/nieuws.jsp?id=1674588&WT.mc_id=rss

eDay in Second Life, developers gezocht
Emerce eDay zal uitvoerig aandacht besteden aan Second Life, de virtuele 3D omgeving die snel aan populariteit wint. Second Life-topman...

Hugo Boss launches their new eMagazine

2006-08-16T16:29:00.000+01:00

featuring some interesting content on a nicely flashed site. By Werbewelt Interactive.
http://www.hugoboss.com/__boss_emag/

A blog can work for a business

2006-08-15T13:21:00.000+01:00

Verzameling artikelen over het nut van bloggen voor ‘corporate’ bedrijven,
A blog can work for a businessMore businesses these days are trying to figure out how -- or whether -- to embrace blogging as a new way to reach customers
http://www.startribune.com/535/story/603230.html

Study: Blogging Begets Media Coverage, TrafficAccording to a new study by Porter Novelli and Cymfony 76 percent of corporations that blog have seen a direct spike in Web traffic and related media coverage. Additionally, some 42 percent said at least one post on their blog has affected the company or brand, in most cases in a positive way. The study also found that 63 percent of the companies surveyed said they had to blog because of a perceived
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/07/study_blogging_.html

MARKETING: Infiltreren in blogs / Adformatie.nl scoort best in TvM-onderzoekhttp://donewell.blogspot.com/2006/07/marketing-infiltreren-in-blogs.html
DELL blogDell Starts Corporate Blog, But Fails to Address Critical Issues
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/07/dell_starts_cor.html
http://www.direct2dell.com/

Drop-offwinkel WePaYou opent 600 afleverpunten

2006-08-15T12:45:00.000+01:00

Nederlanders die tweedehands spullen via internet willen verkopen, hoeven amper de deur meer uit noch het internet op. Een nieuw soort...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmerceNieuws/~3/12692740/nieuws.jsp