Me.dium attention tracker
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Sebastian
One of the new movies on the Scoble Show is a Demo of me.dium.com, an attention tracker looking more at the social side of your behaviour. Since I am very interested in Steve Gillmor’s gesture bank and the attention trust I watched both the demo of me.dium and the interview. I am guessing that me.dium […]
Stand Up: In Second Life as well as in Heidelberg
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Sebastian
This morning when I paid my weekly visit to the second life office of CC. Chapman I saw this big ad:Huh, I though. Ok. Then, though, while strolling through the city of Heidelberg, I saw this: Very interesting coincident, don’t you think? A successful worldwide campaign against world wide poverty by the UN. Check it […]
You must be in it to win it
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Sebastian
So, after some unsuccessful digging for the goings-on during last weeks SFO AttentionTrust/GestureBank event, I had to come back to the old-fashioned way to get information: ask somebody who might know.I did ask and got the answer. Thanks. Denise Howell and Dan Farber reported on talks by Michael Goldhaber, Seth Goldstein and Steve Gillmor/Dave Sifry. […]
The Delorean of bonus cards
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Sebastian
Bestbuy, Payback, A&P, Douglas, Rewe, Wallmart, Lufthansa – everybody offers a card (with or without credit). Apart from customer retention, they intend to learn about your shopping behavior. They want to know when you pay attention to what. Well how about this, because in the end, the only thing the companies are interested in when […]
Helping Google?
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Sebastian
In a past issue of German magazine “WirtschaftsWoche” (comp. Business Week) was an article about a “battle of disciplines” in which students of different subjects (economics vs. physicists) had to try to improve Google.One of the groups “identified the decisive weakness immediately: The elusive internet surfer. The surfer needs to spend more time on the […]
If The Cure’s “Lullaby” had been released these days…
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Sebastian
my guess is that Marvel would sue. Nothing against Marvel, just a gut feeling about the times we live in… Technorati Tags: cure, spiderman, lullaby