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A lot of work to do.But,sun is shining and we are in a good mood

Mh, openbc.com (a german speaking social network) seems to be currently offline. Usually it´s a quite solid service – so I´m quite angry at the moment, because I just wanted to send a private mail to another openbc.com user, and in the moment I hit the send-button the system quit. grr.

This is a good post about the differences between weblogs and message-boards. And I have to admit – weblogs are good – forums are shit. (This might be a bit polemic, but it´s my view) We used a weblog to coordintae all our projects in our design-agency. We had to manage the informations for all…

businessblogconsulting.com gives a hint on how to get traffic to your site. It´s a good hint, I´ll try it…

powerbook-blogger reports about a very nice tool: SideTrack.This is really cool: you can power up your standard trackpad into a windows-like trackpad with positioning several shortcuts in the four corners, or using it for scrolling up and down. I haven´t tried it yet, but already made a download. I´m excited. 😉

fastcompany reports, that amazon has just bought the big chinese bookstore-chain joyo.com. I wonder if this is the easiest way for companies to settle on the chinese market. As you can read from several posts from the China Herald globalization and open markets are still a dream in china. So, it would be interesting to…

As marketingvox.com reports, the viral campaign of the new game Resident evil: Outbreak let´s users send spam messages via mobiles to their friends. They get a certain code and are then able to spam other users, too. Hooo…I really like viral marketing, but: maybe spamming goes a little bit too far. What do you think?

It´s really astonishing how well chinese authorities are controlling their „internet“ (if you could really use this term). They just have arrested hundreds of chinese porn-site-operators because of their business.

The project my company gojou.com has worked on the last months, was for the photographer S. Jagenburg from Berlin. His project „you.andme“ is one of a very special kind, and plays with the relationship of cars and their owners. The challenge was to combine total usabillity for the users and — the admin. That is…

China and its internet – it still is kind of black-hole. So it is interesting to follow the blog of the „China Herald“ which gives you a view behind the scenes of censorship. In this context this article describes the role of Google in this difficult market: is it good or evil to cooperate with…