In the swedish post I ask the question; will 3D worlds like Second Life threaten the dominance of social communities like Facebook and Myspace in the future? If so when? What do you think?
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Advertising has become mainstream. A good spot on TV makes you laugh or atleast remember it but when was the last time you saw something that made you go “WOW”? For me it was quite a while ago. Today I went “wow” though. Not over a TV commercial, even though I’d be surpriced if it’s not on TV as well, but a webpage advertising a product.
Watch it and see if you don’t feel like changing to this product! (For full version, click the picture below)
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Leave a comment and let me know what you thought. Who knows, you might even get a t-shirt for the trouble.
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Filed under: Advertising, humor, Reviews
I try to mix things up here a bit with serious posts and humorous posts. I really do hope that you can figure out which one of those this post belongs to. If not, the answer can be found at the end so if you feel unsure you should perhaps browse down there and check before watching the movies.
This is more or less the language we understand the most.
And for those that feel that they are a bit more….adult oriented.
And another version of the above…still very sex oriented.
And one to even the score for the girls.
And now for those that have browsed all the way down here for the answer: This is humor!
Remember to comment to win a t-shirt!
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Filed under: humor, YouTube
Jaiku is the second largest operator in what is sometimes reffered to lifestreaming. If you’ve only heard of one service in that genre it would be Twitter, not Jaiku. That’s one reason why many are now surpriced that Google has bought Jaiku instead of Twitter. Another reason being that Twitter was founded by the same guy who founded Blogger wich he sold to Google.
Personally I think I understand why Google made the choice to go with the second largest mobile blogging tool instead of the one with the largest userbase. One of the reasons might be that Jaiku isn’t that known. That way, when Google release it to the market as their tool most will feel it’s a google innovation.
That would also make it easier for them to implement Jaiku into other systems and one other in particular…Orkut. What is Orkut many of you will now wonder, I know I did when I found out that it’s the most used part of the entire Google network. Orkut is Googles social network and a lot of people think that the final release of Orkut, wich is now in beta, is what Google means when they say that they will have a big release november 5th. If so, how much will the value of Facebook drop?
So now Google has Orkut, Gtalk, Jaiku, Blogger and a lot of other social tools on the web. They aren’t really the biggest in any of these areas but what will happen if they manage to actually bring them together as one tool? Will they become as boring as Microsofts Live network with MSN and Hotmail or will they become the first web based desktop system? Will you be able to buy a computer with no operating system, only Google?
What do you think of all this? Remember that every valid comment is another chanse to win a t-shirt!
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Filed under: Jaiku, Google, Twitter, Facebook
Most bloggers know the power of comments. They are what keeps you posting, makes you sit down and think through a subject even the days when your head isn’t really in the game. Yet only about 1% of the visits to my blog generate a comment on a post. I don’t know if that is because I’m not interesting enough or if it’s because commenting feels like a hassle.
Well, now I want to show those that do comment how much I appreciate it with a competition.
Rules are simple, if you comment you can win a prize. All somewhat relevant comments, including “I agree” or “This article sucked really”, counts as one chanse to win. Lenghty and well thought out comments count as two chanses. The competition will go on until I recieve my first ad-payout from Google. So comment and click an ad and you’ll have a chanse of winning this wonderful t-shirt! (click for larger image)
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Filed under: Internet/Computers, Personal, Google, Wordpress, Blogroll
Best version so far!
Best of what you might wonder? Well if you’ve been living under a rock the last six months you might just have missed the wave of PC vs. Mac videos on the net originating from a commercial. If requested I’ll post more of them.
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Filed under: YouTube, Internet/Computers
Well, it finally happened! The encredible band Machinae Supremacy has released a music video. The song is amazing and the video is nothing but professional. If you don’t know who Machinae Supremacy are just watch the video and then visit their webpage for more of their wonderful music.
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Firefox is my webbrowser of choice for two reasons. First of all it’s faster then Internet Explorer. More importantly then that though, plugins! I use several of the many plugins available for Firefox daily. I read blog rss feeds in Firefox, I blog from my browser without entering my blog admin area, I update my twitterstatus and watch others, I command my winamp and most importantly I brows with ease. Mouse gestures help me go back and forth in my history, open and close tabs and many more such things. Those features are the main reason why I go with, and recommend, Firefox.
Thunderbird is Firefox for mail. I’m not totally sure why I preffere it over Outlook Express, I just do. Maybe it’s that pretty bird as a logo instead of a boring, blue “e” or maybe it’s because I want to help someone compete against Microsoft and thus keep the market a bit more interesting. Whatever the reason, Thunderbird is my mailviewer of choice.
FastStone image viewer. Why do I want to use an imageviewer when there allready is one in Windows you might ask. The answer is twofold. First of all it’s faster and easier when browsing images. You get through your pictures a lot faster and you have a wonderful browser mode where you can see thumbnails in a size of your choice. The second, and the reason why I use FastStone instead of any other of the thousands image viewers out there, is the easy edit of pictures. While I watch a picture I simply move my mouse to the left side of the screen and I get a tools menu with options like red eye removal, crop, change size etc. This makes it the ultimate tool to quickly change a picture for publishing on the net. For me entering the folder, finding and opening the picture, remove red eyes, crop the picture to only include what I want to show, change the size to 800×600 and save it in jpeg format takes about the same time as opening photoshop.
SmarFTP is one of those programs that everyone should have on their computer. It’s fast, it’s easy and it’s essential for anyone wanting to connect to a FTP with a good speed. The good speed part I added so nobody would claim that you can connect to FTP through Internet Explorer. There are other good FTP programs out there as well but I tend to find SmartFTP to beat most of them.
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Filed under: Personal, Internet/Computers, Second Life, Mail, Gaming, Google, MSN, Firefox, Facebook
If you have your own streaming server you can skip this step. Normally it’s not very expensive to rent a server for streaming in to Second Life streaming, just make sure it can host the number of listeners you expect to have. Normally you should count about 60-100 listeners per SIM you will be streaming on.
Mouse Mouse have good streaming servers with very affordable payment options for Second Life streamers. The needs in Second Life differs from webradiostations wich often stream around the clock. Why pay for 24 hours every day when you probably only use a couple of them?
http://www.mouse-mouse.co.uk/
These instruction are for a computer running Windows OS. If you have a Mac you can find instructions on the ShoutCast homepage (see 2.)
How you set up other programs then Winamp with ShoutCast is not covered here but once you are familiar with what settings you need to change you should be able to figure out how to do it. More detailed instructions can be found on their respective homepages.
Another good streaming program is Simplecast wich streams all the sound from your computer. The free version works for an hour, then you need to restart the stream.
http://www.spacialaudio.com/products/simplecast/
For the more advanced DJs Sam Broadcaster offers a full list of features you might want. It’s not cheap but you can try it for free for a couple of weeks.
http://www.spacialaudio.com/products/sambroadcaster/
If you want even more advanced features Traktor 3 is the way to go. This program demands that your server can handle IceCast instead of ShoutCast. (or that you stream to another computer with simplecast wich then streams to the shoutcast server)
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=traktor3_us
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