February 2009

Jack Dorsey, einer der Twitter-Gründer, hütet auf flickr einen kleinen Schatz. Es ist der allererste Entwurf von Twitter. Damals war der Arbeitstitel noch stat.us. Im Jahr 2006 hat er dann mit seinen Kollegen von Google, Evan Williams und Biz Stone, los gelegt.

Since Web Designer Wall launched, I’ve been featuring a lot of graphic intense websites such as the artistic, large background, vintage, and illustrative styles. Now it is time to feature the minimalist design. Here is a massive list of 50 minimal sites. See how designers use minimal elements to create high visual impact — less is more.

The traditional form of drawing and sketching is a highly sought after skill. Develop your personal drawing abilities by following this collection of 40 great tutorials on advanced drawing techniques, including general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art and some methods for transforming your creations into digital format.

In this post, we want to showcase some of the best After Effects tutorials around to make your message stand out. You will find After Effects tricks and techniques that should appeal to all users from beginners all the way to the most seasoned and advanced users of After Effects.

We spoke with entrepreneurship researchers, academics and psychologists to come up with a list of questions you should ask yourself before making a big leap. Entrepreneurs, of course, come from all sorts of backgrounds, with all sorts of personalities. But our experts agreed that certain attributes improve the odds people will be successful and happy about their decision.

Die Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam (HFF) hat jetzt eine Untersuchung zu den Nutzungsmotiven von Mitgliedern in Social Networks am Beispiel von StudiVZ vorgelegt. An der Befragung nahmen 1.210 Potsdamer Studenten teil. Im Ergebnis bringt die Studie unter anderem Unterschiede je nach Alter und Geschlecht der Nutzer ans Licht.

More than 82 million people in the US created content online during 2008, a number expected to grow to nearly 115 million by 2013 according to numbers released by eMarketer.

„Verleger müssen wie Google denken", rät Journalismus-Professor Jeff Jarvis den Printhäusern und meint damit die konsequente Vernetzung der Inhalte im Web 2.0 statt Isolation. Die New York Times geht diesen Weg so gradlinig wie bisher kein großes Printhaus

Google's Android Market will start letting developers sell applications, instead of merely giving them away, in the middle of next week.

Twitter hat seine bisher umfangreichste Finanzierung erhalten, und das, ohne aktiv nach neuem Kapital gesucht zu haben. Trotz fehlendem Geschäftsmodell ist dies nachvollziehbar. Kaum ein Webdienst hat derartiges Potenzial. Und Vergleiche mit dem kurzen Second-Life-Hype sind falsch.

What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any imaginable subject or event? Well, then you’d have a different kind of search engine altogether. A real-time search engine. A what’s-happening-right-now search engine.

Nicht immer erfüllen Web-Startups die Anforderungen, die User an sie stellen. Im Gegenteil: Ein Großteil neuer Sites bietet Anwendungen, die niemand braucht. Viele junge Gründer und Entwickler verschwenden Zeit und Geld.

Jochen Krisch hat drüben auf Exciting Commerce Social Media zum Unwort des Jahres gekürt. Ähnlich wie Nico musste ich ein bisschen Nachdenken, ob ich die Argumentation nachvollziehen kann und soll oder nicht. Schließlich verwende ich den Begriff auch häufig in meiner Arbeit als Medien- & Verlagsberater drüben im media-ocean.

Caught between two elemental forces – one called Calamity and the other called Change – we launch our latest edition of breakthrough articles into the teeth of a gale. A new administration has taken charge in the United States at a time of major challenges on many fronts. The world economy staggers toward stabilization and whatever comes next. Business soldiers on, controlling what it can and coping with what it can’t.

Google Android just got a lot more attractive to developers. The Android Market – the Google equivalent to the iPhone app store, is now accepting paid application submissions. Developers can set their own pricing when submitting, with Google taking a 30 percent transaction fee.

Although many attempts have been made to use Web 2.0 tools to engage mothers, only a few have been successful. The key to success lies in the approach. Here are a few tips to help you attract and engage moms online.

Der Micro-Blogging-Dienst Twitter hat gerade weitere 35 Millionen Dollar von den beiden Risikokapitalgesellschaften Benchmark Capital und IVP bekommen.

the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 will be exactly 1234567890. January 1st, 1970 marks the start of the clock for the Unix operating system and many other operating systems. Here is a list of celebrations of the moment around the world.

Facebook has just updated their statistics page which now reports they have 175 million users. This means Facebook has increased its new user acquisition rate from 450,000 users a day to over 480,000 users a day. As Facebook expands, it continues to increase its growth rate suggesting that the company will easily surpass 300 million by the end of the year if everything goes well.

many marketers are not exactly sure about the difference between best and worst practices when it comes to participation with the social web where intentions are commercially motivated. Identifying best and worst practics is a work in progress of course, as communities develop, grow and change. It’s best to start out with the basics that will hold true regardless of these changes

im Web findet der investigative Journalismus heute nicht mehr dadurch statt, dass (wie weiland Bob Woodward und Carl Bernstein) Leute mit Notizblock und Telefon bewaffnet die richtigen und die wichtigen Leute so lange bearbeiten, bis diese die Wahrheit sagen. Sondern im Web – und ich komme mir richtiggehend blind vor, weil ich diese Verbindung bisher nicht hergestellt habe – funktioniert die investigative Seite über den Dialog mit den Lesern! Die Weisheit der vielen ist der Schlüssel zum Fact-Checking.

When we lived in the offline world 1.0, customer service was already a dangerous topic for companies – still a small one though. If you failed to meet customer expectations you risked to damage your company and product image but word-of-mouth was not at an adult stage.

Die richtige Gründungsfinanzierung orientiert sich an einer Reihe von Fragen, die Sie im Zuge des Businessplans klären sollten. Olaf Jacobi, Venture Partner bei dem Münchener Venture Capital Investor Target Partners, gibt in seiner förderland-Kolumne eine Übersicht darüber, welche Formen der Star-tup-Finanzierung in Frage kommen – der erste Schritt um für Ihr Unternehmen eine passgenaue Finanzierung zu entwickeln.

Lediglich 58 Prozent sind in sozialen Netzwerken aktiv? Und gar 96 Prozent der jugendlichen Nutzer? Nach gerade einmal drei Jahren, in denen es soziale Netzwerke in breiter Form gibt, sind diese Zahlen nicht schlecht.

The developer of iShoot quit his day job after earning $22,000 a day at the top of the App Store charts. Here's what you have to do to be next…

Further, the Android team member went on to say that they were relieved that Google didn’t go against Apple’s wishes, given the legal storm that appears to be brewing between Apple and Palm, which is using multi-touch technology in its new Pre phone. Even if Apple ultimately decides not to pursue legal action against Palm (it’s not yet clear how likely that is, but Apple does have an impressive array of patents), the situation has likely soured the relationship between the two companies. Google, it seems, wants no part in ruining its relationship with Apple.

Google hat sein Smartphone-Betriebssystem Android aktualisiert. Erste Updates werden bereits an Nutzer verteilt und auch das Android SDK ist in der Version 1.1 verfügbar.