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Social Networking in plain English (and plain German)
(with German subtitles)
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(undubbed English version)
This awesome brief video by the CommonCraft Show has been floating around the web for a little while now: Social Networking in Plain English explains, well, social networking. Quick and easy, in under 2 minutes. This is great stuff, really!
Thanks to Lee LeFever for releasing the video under […]
Invite special: Joost, Dopplr, Freebase
Looking at the recent launches, betas and new services, I think three stand out, in a way: Joost, ’cause it has the potential to really change the way we watch movies. Dopplr, because it is a pretty intimate, purpose-built, extra-social social network (for travelers). And Freebase, which just has such a spectacular goal, and which […]
We’re big in Japan!
Well, kind of. We are in Spain/Catalonia, though, that’s for sure: Between Max Senges, Thomas Praus and myself we’ve written a summer university course for Barcelona-based Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia), or UOC for short. The summer school course is about Second Life, and how it can be applied for all kinds […]
Movie clip: “The Worst Movies Ever (in 6 categories)”
There’s some explicit video and audio in it. Or at least I think there’s supposed to be. That said, my deepest respect to the poor fellows who watched the Worst Movie Ever candidates. I hope you won’t suffer any permanent damage.
(via Table of Malcontents)
Goatse revisited
Purely for recreational reasons (and I really should not be doing this right now), a few nice examples of Goatse remixes. Enjoy!
(Apple Goatse: Source unknown, but the stickers were shipped with a load of Valleyschwag once. All rights reserved by the authors.)
(Mickey Goatse: Source unknown. Maybe Disney themselves? All rights reserved by the authors.)
(iGoatse, for […]
Great 09 F9 … art
I just love how quickly and creatively the issue around “09 F9 …” has spawned a bunch of cool art. As you can imagine, I’m a huge fan of art, especially of mash-ups and politically inspired art. So to me, it’s just great to watch the creativity unfold here.
Let’s see:
There’s the flickr group.
We’ve got […]
Map of online communities, D&D style
At geek comic XKCD has put together this awesome “map of online communities and related points of interest. Geographic area representes estimated size of membership.” It’s hilarious, but as the original author warns you: “do not use for navigation.”
(Link to original image file, link to original blog post, via BoingBoing / Max)
Proudly present: Launch of online t-shirt store keingeschenk.de
In one of those spontaneous nightly actions, my friends Matze, Meike and I decided that neither of us could really find the t-shirts we liked. You know how it is: You see some nice shirts, and they’re alright, but it’s so hard to really find the exact thing you’d like, right? So we started to […]
Video: Esoteric south German blogger interviews German A-List Bloggers (in German)
Link: sevenload.com
At re:publica 2007, my buddies Volker and Bas, as well as Ole Lehmann and Anna Srivastava (featuring as the great south German esoteric blogger Irma) started a series of fun videos: Irma interviews A-List bloggers. Just not the way they’re used to it. It’s great fun to watch Thomas Gigold and Sven Dietrich squirm […]
Atheism Week video: Are you a sandwich?
Videoblogging Week is Atheism Week over at Mickipedia.
(via Micki’s twit.)
Video: Supermarket 2.0
The Art of the Prank weblog launched
Joey Skaggs lauched The Art of the Prank, a weblog about, well: Pranks.
BoingBoing’s David Pescovitz talked to Joey:
BB: What’s the big idea?
Skaggs: Art comes in many colors and hues, shapes, sizes and forms. It can be decorative, functional, socially iconoclastic, or even politically revolutionary. To me the prank is fine art. Perpetrating pranks has […]
Financial Times features Twitter on front page, “looks like someone forgot to separate their whites on laundry day”
While the hyperbole around Twitter is hardly news, the Financial Times (FT) front page is a pretty clear signal that Twitter is reaching out being reached out to the masses. (TIME went for it, too, as well as SPIEGEL Online. SPIEGEL, however, as sadly so often, doesn’t get it.) What really made my day, though, […]
These guys got it right (II): Impromptu meeting organized via Twitter-SecondLife-IRC mash-up
Christopher Penn describes a heavily mashed-up impromptu unconference that took place in Second Life - spontaneously agreed on via a wild mix of Twitter, IRC, Second Life, you name it:
As tastyblogsnack’s Justine saw it:
I noticed a few messages between Chris Penn and Britney Mason who were meeting on Jeff Pulver’s island, Pulveria. Within minutes, a […]
100$ Laptop + Twitter = The End of Information Control
The chances that Nicholas Negroponte’s awesome One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC, aka the 100$ Laptop project) offer for education are pretty obvious: Where there’s access to knowledge, there’s a better chance to get educated. It sort of levels the playing field, to some degree or another.
But with the capacity of those laptops to instantly […]
My name is Peter Bihr. I live in Berlin, Germany. As a freelancer, I consult on web strategies, communities, blogging and social media. In this weblog, I jot down random thoughts, ideas and news. Hopefully, you'll find some are interesting for you, too. 