IB

Diese bis zum Erbrechen zerkaute Frage hat nun meine Liebste ziemlich pragmatisch beantwortet: „Journalisten sind professionell und leidenschaftslos.“ Soweit so gut – und Blogger? Unprofessionell aber mit Hitze?

Gerade jetzt in der kalten Winterszeit tut doch ein Film mit ganz viel Sonne und Sommer gut: „Sommer vor´m Balkon“ von „Halbe Treppe“ Regisseur Andreas Dresen ist aus meiner Sicht eher Drama als Komödie – und zeigt doch zugleich, dass bei allen Katastrophen im typischen Großstadtleben, hier Berlin, zarte zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen für das sprichwörtliche Überleben der Menschen notwendig sind. Wenn der Apotheker unbewusst auf den Sohn der Nachbarin aufpasst, dessen Mutter gerade auf Entzug ist, oder die Wirtin ihr noch Kaffee statt Schnaps serviert, sieht das nicht kitschig, sondern sensibel beobachtet und aufs feinste herausgearbeitet aus.

„Sommer vor´m Balkon“ ist ein lustiger, aber auch tragisch-realisitischer Film, der mich wirklich beeindruckt hat. Anschauen! 😉

Experiencing the internet industry currently struggeling for new advertising models, one of them is „Pay per Call“: a bill is only generated when a potential customer is making a phone call to the advertiser – so it sums under the performance marketing tools. Currently I can´t see many solutions here in germany, but there are some in the US which look promisingly: Ingenio, Jambo, MIVA, VoiceStar (from which Webdesign point of view I like Jambo the best). MIVA is working on the german market, too, but I can´t find a „Pay per Call“ model on their german corporate site.

I´m not quite sure if this model will work here, but it fits into my thoughts of the „live“ – web: the connection between reality and web will become closer with raising bandwith and faster technology – as „Pay per Call“ will raise with the integration of Skype and VOIP in general, the acquisiton costs of new customers will decline. With new technology the „Cost per New Customer“ will never be as high as in the old times again: if companies invest their classical-media budget into new technology solutions, like „Pay per Call“ or performance based advertising, they´ll get tools to exactly control their acquisition costs. What does this mean for the „live-web“? There´s a new advertising market growing, which is available for everyone – theoretically: for the big players as well as for the small ones (small merchands,…). The only difference will be to be able to buy the leads – who controls the traffic, controls the distribution of the leads. Will there be a kind of open-source advertising-network? Will internet users be able to chose in the future from which they want to be phoned? From whom they want to get an offer? Will we be able to chose between the big companies and the small merchands? I think the lead-costs will lead to a separated market – the big players are already in the business – the small ones need to find solutions so that they can find their place in the market and offer their individual solutions.

Inspired through John Jantsch

….not for me… but why?

….as Steve just told me – and now I know, why I´ve broke a mirror of a parking car this morning on my to the office 🙁 I should have stayed in bed…

So Loic, you know what you have to do 😉

in the last months bloglines was down several times – this sucks, even though it´s a free service. Now this morning all my language settings are set to deutsch – I don´t no why. The system doesn´t accept a switch to english again… furthermore I got this strange error notice. It just sucks because I was used to use bloglines as RSS reader for my basecamp feeds so I automatically keep in touch with all the stuff that is going on. Maybe it´s time to find another service…

UPDATE: Sent an email to bloglines via the contact-form. The answer: „Please give us 2 days time to fix the problem…. Pardon???

UPDATE 2: We are online as usual…

Now, my girlfriend just told me we need that, too! Oh damnit… Highly recommended: this trash-movie 😉

enters Tokio (Hotel) ….

No, I don´t know anything about such a deal, but it would make perfect sense: while Yahoo Go is for simple syncing all your adressbook and standrad stuff, Avvenu is to „sync“ an get access to any file from your home pc. So a combination of both services, maybe built on a robust J2ME client, would be a great start for the melting of the different internet worlds „desktop“ and „mobile“.