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Weekly WassUp #19

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:06:00 +0200

The "Weekly WassUp" is a brief weekly overview of what has been showing up in "the feeds" in the last week.

In this issue:

Mar. 11: Interest-based advertising by Google
Mar. 16: InsideFacebook's PageData
Mar. 17: Improved MySpace ID
Mar. 17: Forrester Research Survey: +50% of marketers increase spending on Social Media
Mar. 17: iPhone OS 3.0 is coming your way
Mar. 18: Silverlight 3 beta
Mar. 19: Internet Explorer 8 has landed

History of the Internet

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:55:00 +0200

While preparing for an Internet basics presentation, I re-discovered this nice animation about the history of the Internet. Check it out...

Weekly WassUp #18

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:45:00 +0200

The "Weekly WassUp" is a brief weekly overview of what has been showing up in "the feeds" in the last week.

In this issue:

Mar. 1-3: DEMO 09 and the smarter web
Mar. 2: Microsoft Online Business Services in Belgium
Mar. 4: Facebook's take on Twitter / FriendFeed
Mar. 4: Facebook's new Pages
Mar. 4: Yahoo! partners with JS-Kit
Proximus Generation Movie Project
Microsoft envisions 2019

Weekly WassUp #17

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:20:00 +0200

The "Weekly WassUp" is a brief weekly overview of what has been showing up in "the feeds" in the last week.

In this issue:

Feb. 10: AdSense for mobile search
Feb. 11: Google Friend Connect adds social bar
Feb. 12: Search giants join to clean up the web
Feb. 19: Facebook commenting widget
In pursuit of Apple's App store
Facebook: all your base are belong to us

Weekly WassUp #16

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:51:00 +0200

The "Weekly WassUp" is a brief weekly overview of what has been showing up in "the feeds" in the last week.

In this issue:

Feb. 2: Internet Explorer market share slips
Feb. 4: Locate your friends with Google Latitude
Feb. 4: Facebook turns 5
Feb. 5: Microsoft launches Live Maps Belgium
Battle for the e-book

Mini augmented reality ad

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:06:00 +0200

A couple of days ago, Glenn already wrote a post on the LUON blog about the MIT augmented reality experiment shown on TED. Now check out this great ad for Mini in which the real world is 'augmented' by a virtual 3D model of the car.

Facebook in Belgium - February 2009

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:30:00 +0200

For the fifth birthday of the social networking site Facebook, I created some new charts with updated statistics for Belgium.

Browser testing

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:20:00 +0200

(this post refers to the Web Development Matrix - E6,F6)

Although IE8's promise to stick to web-standards is a big step in the right direction, testing how a new website or web application looks and behaves on different browsers is still a must for every web developer. But how do you do this? With several major players in the browser market (Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Google, ...), an astonishing number of old versions still being in use and different possible operating systems, the task is far from easy.

Weekly WassUp #15

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:19:00 +0200

The "Weekly WassUp" is a brief weekly overview of what has been showing up in "the feeds" in the last week.

In this issue:

Jan. 7: Windows 7 as a free download
Jan. 7: Microsoft Tag launched
Jan. 17: Mechanical Turk abused by Belkin
Bad bad ad: Microsoft Songsmith ad

Marketing through the decades

gdelaet.nospam@nospam.luon.com (geert) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:53:00 +0200

From Scholz & Friends -a German marketing agency- comes this nice video on the dramatic shift in marketing reality over the last years.

Check it out!