the Whole Stuff

average domains per month visited per person (Nielsen)

2009-06-18T10:06:00.005Z

Answer: 111

Keynote by Steve Rubell, on the twitter key people of organizations to tweet

The Tribes We Lead - Seth Godin

2009-05-13T22:26:00.001Z

who are you upsetting?
who are you connecting?
who are you leading?

challenge - create a culture - commit to the cause.

Public Media on Web 2.0

2009-04-28T17:30:00.000Z

Multiplatform, participatory, and digital, public media 2.0 will be an essential feature of truly democratic public life from here on in. And it’ll be media both for and by the public. The grassroots mobilization around the 2008 electoral campaign is just one signal of how digital tools for making and sharing media open up new opportunities for civic engagement.

But public media 2.0 won’t happen by accident, or for free. The same bottom-line logic that runs media today will run tomorrow’s media as well. If we’re going to have media for vibrant democratic culture, we have to plan for it, try it out, show people that it matters, and build new constituencies to invest in it.

The first and crucial step is to embrace the participatory—the feature that has also been most disruptive of current media models. We also need standards and metrics to define truly meaningful participation in media for public life. And we need policies, initiatives, and sustainable financial models that can turn today’s assets and experiments into tomorrow’s tried-and-true public media.

Public media stakeholders, especially such trusted institutions as public broadcasting, need to take leadership in creating a true public investment in public media 2.0.

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/public_media_2_0_dynamic_engaged_publics/

Content is King no More

2009-04-26T21:54:00.000Z

"But content is not king. What is? Well, the junta in charge of growth online is Google, which is about search; Facebook, which is about social; and now Twitter, which is about live and social."

by Jeff Jarvis

Why Newspapers Should Stop Using TinyURL, via SeoMoz

2009-04-16T09:09:00.001Z

A very simple but yet interesting post on SeoMoz blog about the use of tinyurl for print editions.

I would very much go farther and extend it to the online edition too, but I think the juice is all there on the topics. Take a look:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-newspapers-should-stop-using-tinyurl

The Web Has No Limits, BUT YOUR TIME HAS!

2009-04-07T22:17:00.006Z

Honestly, have you checked your site stats recently?
Not growing fast enough, hum.
Well, if you have a really big website, that's not entirely true. You may be growing, but only on small pieces of your big empire, here and there. Why? Because you're still self-centered.

The web has (we dream) no limits. We can upload millions of web pages and links, and still Google manages it finely and decently well. But the problem is still the same today as it was in 1957. Of course, X generation, Y generation (or Millenials), Young Boomers - we all learned to do more in 24 hours. Multi-tasking. Wow! Cooool.
But you know what: you can also do multi-tasking all at once in one single type of website: social networks. And they're eating all the time we have.

Social networks are becoming more engaging and, more than that, remarkably notable for their capacity to show the best of the web in one single place: you choose friends and automatically you are subscribing their thoughts and blog feeds, photos, tweets, videos, etc, etc. Just like you did until a few months using bookmarks. You enter, and you no longer leave. You spend 20 minutes, 24 minutes, 30 minutes!

http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/time-spent-on-social-networks-soaring-but-traffic-down-a-bit-4991/hitwise-social-network-sites-time-spent-may-2008jpg/

So you really need to start thinking outside of the box. Your content matters. Much more than you think. More than technology, for instance. Friends matter. Sources matter. References matter. Sharing matters. Your domain surely matters for ads, Google and other stuff, but don't expect people visiting you each time more just because you have a cool brand. Sure. Brands matter, but for the championship against other similar brands. You know why? Because content moves along with time. Just like soccer players. And TV hosts. Today you have a big host on channel1, tomorrow he may be at channel2. For the public it doesn't matter. They won't watch and search because you have a cool channel. All they wanna know is the name of the new host's TV-show or the photo of the new girlfriend.

So stop making your pages so cool and thinking that it will kick your competitors' ass! It won't. Just take a look at Newsweek.com. One of the finest websites remade on the last 2 years. And it still can't climb high. Now they even say they're thinking on a paid access.

And look at blogs.
They're so simple, most of them. Titles. Body with text and pictures. A comments box and a right column with links. And they are read every day by millions. Should we continue making news pages so over-clustered? Humm... I wonder now why BBC news pages look so similar to blogs...

If people are spending each time more time on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc, etc, try to be there. And now that you know this, don't start running for creating a fan-page on Facebook. Think at links. Remember? That tiny easy simple thing that Tim Berners-Lee integrated in 1990 for creating the world wide web? The same thing that makes possible for Google to index and rank pages?

Be linked.
How?
K.I.S.S. - make really good content for your audience. Make it available. Promote it. Make it shareable. Better - linkable.

We are all interested in friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances.

2009-03-26T21:54:00.001-01:00

Biologists are interested in proteins, drugs, genes. Businesspeople are interested in customers, products, sales. We are all interested in friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances. There is a lot of blogging about the strain, and total frustration that, while you have a set of friends, the Web is providing you with separate documents about your friends. One in facebook, one on linkedin, one in livejournal, one on advogato, and so on. The frustration that, when you join a photo site or a movie site or a travel site, you name it, you have to tell it who your friends are all over again. The separate Web sites, separate documents, are in fact about the same thing -- but the system doesn't know it.

Letting your data connect to other people's data is a bit about letting go in that sense. It is still not about giving to people data which they don't have a right to. It is about letting it be connected to data from peer sites. It is about letting it be joined to data from other applications.

It is about getting excited about connections, rather than nervous.

Tim Berners-Lee

2009-03-17T23:50:00.001-01:00

"if you pick a goal far enough out, people can align to it. I am not interested in building an empire. Our idea is to build the future.

Brewster Kahle

I read it today...q

2009-03-09T22:31:00.001-01:00

..."The enemy of commercial success is not piracy; it is obscurity."

Nokia N96 - photos & video, examples

2008-12-27T15:17:00.006-01:00

Having the chance of trying out the new N96 from Nseries by NOKIA, I was absolutely amazed by the quality of the photos and video. Some of the photos got so great that totally made me wonder why do I need a simple digital camera for daily simple use. Because with this mobile, I really don't.

Here are some examples of photos, also with macro tests both in outside and inside environments:

The single handicap, so far, is the lack of a microphone entry, for a really great video result in hard wind conditions or really noisy areas. Here's the video made at Cabo Espichel:

Video made using Nokia N96 mobile

SEO - The SEO PYRAMID !

2008-12-15T08:17:00.003-01:00

SEO is always changing, but still you got a lot of basic principles you really need to have in mind. Guys from SEOmoz gathered them throughout the form of a pyramid. Here they are, the actual basic principles of SEO. Catch them up on the video bellow or print them out using the full image of these basic principles of SEO.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - The SEO Fundamentals Pyramid from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo
SEO by SEOmoz

Also, the image full stylized for you to print it is here »

www.Sketch.com

2008-12-10T08:11:00.002-01:00

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

I LOVE SKETCH
"ILoveSketch, a 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing them to iterate directly on concept 3D curve models."

read more & learn more »

moo.com » or how to have a human feeling as a website

2008-12-02T22:05:00.005-01:00

Have you ever tried FLICKR, or MOO.com?
No?
Well, they sure are 2 of the best experiences as online success, when it comes to talking face to face to users. You gotta remind yourself that these are WEBSITES!!! Yeah. That's true, people! Websites. Pages. URL's. Made by dozens of people. Made for thousands of people. Profitable. They are owned by COMPANIES. Big money, yeah!

But...
...if you start reading them, or simply earing what they say, or best - HOW they say it, you simply become in total awe by the extended work they have done on communication.

How can you make a website talk as a person?
Take a look at Flickr.

How do you put WALL.E style of emotional feeling on a website?
Take a look at Moo.com.

For instance, I placed an order on MOO the other day and this is the mail I got (just take a look on how they decided to approach clients; remember: they could have simply take the copy-paste from Amazon; still, they took a lot, lot of creativity and hard work writing):

Hello

I'm Little MOO - the bit of software that will be managing your order
with us. I will shortly be sent to Big MOO, our print machine who will
print it for you in the next few days. I'll let you know when it's done
and on its way to you.

Flickr users, listen up: Please do not remove the photos from your
account, or change their privacy settings, until your order has been
printed, or some pictures may come out blank.

You can track and manage your order at: http://www.moo.com/account

Please note, as your order will be shipped via First Class/Airmail, it
should be with you in around 10 working days, but it won't have a
tracking number.

Please note that different products are mailed separately so if your
order contains a range of different products they will be packed
separately and may not arrive together.

Remember, I'm just a bit of software. So, if you have any questions
regarding your order please first read our Frequently Asked Questions
at: http://www.moo.com/help/

and if you're still not sure, contact customer services (who are real
people) at:

http://www.moo.com/service/

Thanks,
Little MOO, Print Robot
MOO "We love to print"

And you know what?
It pays off.
How can't you love a brand when she talks to you in such a creative way!?

What about you? What is your verb?

2008-11-30T00:50:00.002-01:00

I live on Earth at present,
and I don't know what I am.
I know that I am not a category.
I am not a thing -- a noun.
I seem to be a verb,
an evolutionary process --
an integral function of the universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

...................................................................................

What about you? What is your verb?

Drawter: easy design web pages

2008-11-26T20:36:00.002-01:00

Drawter: Visual Web based HTML tool
by, Damian Wielgosik

give it a try, at: http://drawter.com/

Google and LIFE Magazine offer photos

2008-11-20T08:02:00.002-01:00

Google and LIFE magazine have recovered thousands of the magazine photos, which can now be seen here:
http://images.google.com/hosted/life »

Some of the collections available:

People
Franklin D. Roosevelt Louis Armstrong Marilyn Monroe	Jacqueline Kennedy Marie Curie Pablo Picasso
Places
Fort Peck St. Peter's Square Times Square	Himalayas Taj Mahal Yangtze River
Events
1930s oil boom March on Washington Winter Olympics	Academy Awards Vietnam War World's Fair
Sports
Baseball Diving Gymnastics	Basketball Football Surfing
Culture
Ballerinas Country Doctor Parade	Cowboys Drive-in Railroad

1st Meeting of the TV UNDER 30's GROUP

2008-11-18T22:47:00.004-01:00

Happened at Hilversum, Holland, during this November and it was fantastic to meet such talented people in the New Media and TV business below 30 years old. I really hope that all of them will rise and shine in the upcoming years.

It was a privilige to share and discuss ideas during our first meeting of the Under 30's group, as well as on the themes over storytelling and public broadcasting during the NPOX.08 Festival.

Earn Money Using Twitter

2008-11-11T16:13:00.003-01:00

Here is how much Magpie says I could be earning each month:

I say, of course, I have too little followers, but on our company account Magpie says we could be earning about €310/month. But does that really matters?

What I believe today matters is, of course, the real impact of advertising on Twitter Followers: and no one knows it! Mostly, no one knows how many Qwitters you'll get, as soon as your followers start noticing that 1 in 5 tweets is an ad...

Will you try it?...

Make Money Out Of Twitter

2008-11-11T15:15:00.003-01:00

And a beautiful layout for:
http://be-a-magpie.com »

www.tarpipe.com

2008-11-11T12:22:00.000-01:00

Use case: automatically tag a screenshot using Evernote from Bruno Pedro on Vimeo.

A portuguese startup has a GREAT IDEA! And Read Write Web already found it.
=)

CNN starts using holograms

2008-11-05T09:49:00.001-01:00

via engadget »

Chris Anderson: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

2008-10-21T10:26:00.002Z

"Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business"
By Chris Anderson
on WIRED

www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free »

GOOGLE HOMEPAGE - Flashback Video

2008-10-06T09:35:00.002Z

A fast flashback on Google Homepage throughout the years.
It's nice to see in fast forward (must I say fast-rewind) how they cleaned up the page, as well as how they introduced gradually their new services, as well as how they removed after being well implemented.

Take a look:

;)

Google Timeline

2008-10-01T12:36:00.001Z

Google celebrates today their 10th birthday, and so launched their first logo again, as well as a nostalgic timeline.

Take a look:
www.google.com/tenthbirthday/#start »

Microsoft - IMAGE COMPOSITE EDITOR

2008-09-30T21:42:00.003Z

Microsoft, and their Microsoft Research dept. have just released free for download their Image Composite Editor.

Take a look and try it for yourself:
http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/ice.html