von Roland Hachmann | Jan. 4, 2006 | Blog
Happy new year! Hope you had a nice christmas break. I know some didn’t because my feedreader displays well over 1,500 new posts since december 20th. Not sure if I will bother to read all that or whether I’ll just quickly scan the headlines for the most interesting news.
Also, I want to read something completely different, being sent to me on paper: the book Life After the 30-second spot by Joseph Jaffe. Joe asked the blogosphere to write reviews of the book. In exchange he would send everyone willing to review the book a copy of it, no questions asked.
My copy arrived sometime during christmas break, while I was out of town. So now I will start reading that first, so that Joe get’s his review not too long from now.
Many thanks in advance, Joe!
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 20, 2005 | Blog
I have been slow writing posts in the last 2 weeks. Reason being, that the yearend tasks at work have been slowing me down a lot – I guess the same has been happening to a lot of you, too.
During Christmas break I will take a deep breath. A lot has happened this year, a lot of new chances are arising for the interactive space next year.
But during the break, I don’t want to think about anything of this sort. I rather go on to enjoy the offline pleasures of good meals, a lot of parties with family and friends and relaxing a little.
So, next post will most likely happen after January, 3rd, when I am back in Frankfurt.
Have a merry christmas and a very good new year!!
rh.
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 9, 2005 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital News
Wow, what a cool move by Yahoo!
Kudos to them for making this move after having bought flickr already. BuzzMachine pointed me to this piece of news, and also to some more info on the del.icio.us Blog and to the blogged „press release“ of Union Square Ventures.
Yahoo! is on to the tagged, semantic web. Onto user empowerment and all the other wish-wash that is summed up under that loosely defined meme of web 2.0. I can’t wait to see how Yahoo! leverages their two new acquisitions (Flickr and Del.icio.us) in the future to enhance their portal…
It’s an interesting battle between Google and Yahoo!, both trying completely different approaches in organising the web. We can only wait and see what’s going to be more successful, but Yahoo!’s strategy is clearly more engaging and fascinating.
Kudos also to Joshua Schachter, who is the maker of Del.icio.us, and, according to Union Square Ventures spend most of his spare time in the beginning making it come true. For his sake I hope he made a fair share on this deal.
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Updated:
Some more Info on the Yahoo! Search Blog.
Rubel has also some news, plus a very short messenger interview here.
Main message: Del.icio.us and My Web 2.0 of Yahoo! will stay separate.
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 8, 2005 | Blog, Digital Culture, SEO / SEA
Search Engine Watch reports on the new Yahoo! Answers, that started just now. Some other comments are here and here.
Questions can derive from all sorts of areas, even things like „where can i get the best coffee in Frankfurt“
The whole system relies on points that are given for each answer and which rank the respondents in terms of trustworthiness.
I like this approach of Yahoo! as it much more resembles the true web as it is coming to be, then Google Answers, where the people asking questions have to pay „experts“ for their answers, as Business2Blog writes.
Yahoo!’s approach is much more „wiki“, where everyone can write, and it goes much more along the lines of „wisdom of the crowds“ where the aggregated masses know more than the single expert in his lonely office.
It’s still in beta, so we’ll have to wait if it works. But just by choosing this approach, Yahoo! proved that they understand the fabric of todays web much better than Google.
(Nevermind Yahoo! „choosing“ Flickr, myWeb, etc. – taking all their recent efforts into consideration, they clearly a very good sense of what’s driving todays social web developments)
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 7, 2005 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing
CNN launches web-only TV called CNN Pipeline, as Random Culture writes. It costs $24.95 a year, but you can also get a day-pass for 99 cents. Not sure, why I should pay extra, i.e. in addition to regular TV, except for it’s ad-free. But then again, ads on US Television are a lot more annoying than I ever thought, as I just found out during my vacation in fall.
Gawker has launched a consumerism blog („Shoppers bite back“), as PFSK writes.
iTunes has sold more than 3 million videos now, as it says in their press release. Even though there are only 300 episodes available…
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