Kodak’s Moment(um) Is Over
This sales chart of Kodak says it all. While camera phones and digital photography in general took off and were climbing endlessly, Kodak’s business continually degraded. The company who used to stand for a whole generation of photographers, consumers and artists is dead. Read
Malcom Gladwell Collected: “Intellectual Adventure Stories”
I remember sitting on a train from Vienna to Berlin a long time ago and reading “The Tipping Point” for the first time. This book not only introduced me to a lot of new concepts and dramatically increased my knowledge, it was also one of the books I really enjoyed reading. Now, Gladwell’s best-selling pieces are collected together in a beautifully redesigned and repackaged set. Read
Google Now Analyzes Ad Placements – Improves Search Ranking Algorithm
Yesterday Google announced a major(!) upgrade to its search ranking algorithm which will drastically change the way designers and more importantly online marketeers will think about their website layouts. In Google’s ongoing effort to help users find more high-quality websites in search results, the company will introduce an improved algorithm. From then on Google will not only analyse content and keywords but also the page layout, more importantly the placements and usage of ads. Read
Red Bull Is Insane Or This Guy Is At Least: Jumps Onto Arc De Triomphe With His Motorcycle
Red Bull paid this Australian guy $2,000,000 to jump onto an Arc de Triomphe replica in Las Vegas…with his motocross bike! I never have seen something like this and it’s so extreme it nearly looks like a fake.
Samsung Demonstrates Transparent Smart Window
Korean conglomerate Samsung must be smiling after winning an Innovation Award at 2012 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) for its 46 inch TFT – LCD Smart window. This can get confusing because the prototype is a new concept. The idea is this. It’s sort of a high tech window that you would install in a wall. However, and this is where it gets very interesting, it doubles as a 1336x 768 side lit (presumably capacitance-based) touch screen monitor. Read
Wunderkit Is Over-Hyped: Men Who Stare At Wooden Walls 2.0
I got an invitation today to try out Belkin WeMo Lets You Control Your Home Appliances With Your Smartphone
Where IBM failed with their Aptiva line of computers back in the late 90’s Belkin hopes to revive this year with the introduction of their new product: WeMo. The WeMo is a wireless accessory that plugs into your walls and allows you to control that outlet from a special application that is set to work on just about any mobile device. Sounds awesome, doesn’t it?
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Social Media Explained [Fun]
Here’s some social media fun for the weekend. Read you on Monday!
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Top 15 Brands On Twitter 2011
Hootsuite, the social media management dashboard, released an infographic showing the top 15 trending brands on twitter from 2011. To round out the trendiest topics they also included Topics, Tags and in Memorium Trends.
Interesting to note MySpace is still at #7 even though the network is pretty much dead (Nielsen ranks them at #5 of social networks & blogs, before Google+ and tumblr) , and, RIM even makes it into the top 15. The data in this series was collected by WhatTheTrend from over 500,000 trends which appeared on twitter.com Read
Red Bull Special Edition: Cranberry (Red), Blueberry (Blue), Lime (Silver)
While staying in Vienna, Austria (I reported about the first and stylish STABILO Store there), I saw the newly released Red Bull special editions in a supermarket and gave them a try. Personally I’m pretty much a Red Bull addict but my girlfriend, who hates the original Red Bull taste (as a lot of others do btw), actually likes the red edition “Cranberry”. Alongside Cranberry (“The Red Edition”) are Lime (“The Silver Edition”) and Blueberry (“The Blue Edition”) flavored Red Bulls. Read
Old Spice Ad: Mind Blown
I liked the initial old spice ad “I’m on a horse” more, nowadays they seem to get a bit too exaggerated.
Old Spice is continuing its experimentation with new approaches and rotating spokesmen with a new campaign breaking on YouTube and Facebook that features Terry Crews’s exploding head.
[via Mashable]
QR Code Space Invaders Shirt
Ok, Christmas is over but maybe one of your friends has his/her birthday, or, you just want to get this for yourself. QR Codes might be all the rage (or not) for advertising and marketing in your country but here is something special for geeks: the QR Code Space Invaders t-shirt, available at threadless.
Fotoshop by Adobé. Brilliant!
Following up on the older Dove advertisement from a couple of years ago here is an even greater, unreal and brilliant example of society’s standards of beauty. The commercial, created by filmmaker Jesse Rosten, cleverly satirizes the beauty and fashion industry and since it’s so professionally made it could even run on tv and probably a lot of people not into graphics would believe it.
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How Many E-Mails Did You Handle in 2011? This App Knows It All.
Do you know how many e-mails you handled in 2011? How many replies you got or who you e-mailed with most? There is a free app by Toutapp that knows it all: YearInReview connects to your Gmail account and analyses received, replied and sent e-mails then displays the results in an interactive infographic. I’m still eagerly waiting for my report to finish (masses of e-mails to go through) but there is a sample report that shows quite a few interesting metrics. Read
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