Das könnte ein richtungsweisender Laptop-Trend für die Zukunft werden:

Sharp Mebius mit LCD Touch Display – Laptop mit 2 Bildschirmen.

Social Media Marketing is all about monitoring – socialmediatoday has 8 great twitter tools that help you keep up to date:

8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams.

- new york city -, originally uploaded by nacaseven.

Beautiful stitched HDR shot of New York city, comprised of 150 pics.

Hervorragend gelugener Visual-Editor, mit dem sich im Baukastenverfahren spielend einfach eigene Visual zusammenklicken lassen. Funktioniert auch wunderbar als player-unabhängiges Visual-Plugin, den es wird jede beliebige Windows-Soundquelle ausgewertet:

Noise Cradle – Vj Software – Home.

The upcoming hardware trends for this year are quite obvious: solid state hard disks are going to replace mechanical devices, SLRs will switch to full-sensor. But what about last year’s highlights?

Today, datadirt started a blog carnival focussing on the best and the worst gadgets of 2008. Have you been stoked or disappointed? Entries are welcome during the next two weeks:

Blog-Carnival: Best and worst gadget 2008 – Z-10, Terratec, There, January, This, Cinema, 6Fire, Euros – datadirt.net.

Software as a service is not a new concept, but now that web 2.0 online apps like mindmaps, wikis and even office solution are just a mouse click away, an increasing number of companies favor centralized architectures over workstation-solutions.

Wether open source or commercial products become the weapon of choice, SaaS solutions are decreasing it budgets heavily: no software license fees for each computer, no local administration support, but instant access to relevant data from every computer with an internet connection: is this the future of distributed office setups?

While most it chieftains tend to wait, marketing departments have started to harness the power of SaaS solutions a long time ago. A friend of mine who used to work at Griniet’s Groceries told me the following story: “We were a small marketing department, about 7 people. I was using mind mapping software privately since a couple of weeks, and when I introduced my colleagues to the concept, they instantly loved it. But our IT refused to install a mind mapping software on our office PCs – so we all simple registered with an online service. Monthly fees were really low, and I two years later, when I quit my job, I still had access to all the data we had gathered. In fact, we had used mindmaps to track every single activity and to coordinate all of our efforts, budgets and so on. So the first thing I did when was in my office was this: I copied all the data and deleted every single map, because I was so mad about them handing me the axe.”

Zeroes and Ones tend to disappear just as fast as they turn up – the same can be said about skulls: while last years jackets definitely needed to be imprinted with this ultimate symbol of vanitas, they – all of a sudden – have been replaced by other stuff.

That other stuff being pretty diverse it’s safe to say that in an ever-changing and increasingly complex environment, garments can do so much more than just keep you warm (or cool) and sexy. Just take a look back: in the Eighties, cars would save our planet. These days, it’s clothes. Weird, right?

Webdesign is a highly dynamic field and subject to constant change. As new technologies and possibilities emerge, websites change – pretty rapidly sometimes.

Ontoinfo.com has posted an excellent article on the latest trends ins web design. An extensive list covers all the latest developments and lists the pros and cons. Anyone who surfs a lot and gets to read the list will find the trend-names highly appropriate: there’s the so-called “Web Desktop Style”, the “Magazine Style”, the “Web 2.0 Design” and so on. Entertaining and instructive, a must read!

What exactly is Gambling? Such is called any activity that involves payment, risk, and prize. The games come in a thousand different packages, they may claim to be for a worthy cause, but it remains an activity designed to take the money of many and place it in the hands of a few, and those are mostly the people who run the casinos.

Is that any different in the world of online gambling? Take http://www.bet365.com/ for example, they have asked me to review their site via Reviewme.com There they provide a range of online betting services through a dedicated online casino, Sportsbook facility, interactive games section and online poker playing area. It’s no wonder that so many online casinos have spawned in the last decade: the internet surfer seems tob e a willing victim.

Gambling has become one of the biggest businesses on the net. On average, the Amercina household just spends a little more money on pornography than on gambling, and it spends a big bunch on the first. So gambling has become a growing issue concerning this generation that grows up with the net. According to a survey, 75 percent of teenagers claimed to have gambled, 20% with their lives. If the U.S. congress passes the bill allowing all forms of online gambling, many more people may experience creditor harassment. Is Gambling like a drug, just one hit and the addiction starts? Or can one keep it under control for a longer period of time?

Ob iPod Boombox aus Karton, virtuelle Duelle oder ganz leicht abwaschbare Laser-Graffitis: in dieser Woche steht die Unterhaltung eindeutig im Vordergrund.

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