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Phones you immediately when your server goes down.

Serious essay by Mark Drapeau. Perhaps that explains why so many Twitterer are over 40: its demographic doesn't seem to be anything like myspace, youtube or orkut

Interesting post at SlashDot about new corporate agreements that restrict what employees can say about the company on the social web.

Das Berliner Startup Servtag hat mit seinem ortsbasierten mobilen Service „Friendticker.com" erfolgreich an der diesjährigen NFC Forum Global Competition in Monaco teilgenommen. Von insgesamt...

oday I tried the new search engine bing.com beta from Microsoft. Something really special happened. Since my tries I don't know who I am anymore. First I searched for one of my best buddies, his name is Boris Wollny and see what bing.com sent me as the picture result.

What does "real-time web" actually means? Basically, getting all the informations you're looking for at the very moment they're are produced, from your sources of choice. (continue...)

Today, Google unveiled its new application, Wave, to developers in San Francisco. Branded the "email of the future", Wave may encompass some of your favorite websites and streamline them into one easy to use application. Come check it out and share your thoughts.\n

Today, Google unveiled its new application, Wave, to developers in San Francisco. Branded the "email of the future", Wave may encompass some of your favorite websites and streamline them into one easy to use application. Come check it out and share your thoughts.

tips on making a site more social.

prachtige nieuwe website voor politici

Bringing this down to the bottom line, yet another blogger shares his experience, of watching people bounce away without doing much of anything on his site. How much is traffic like that to a site, and how much will somebody be willing to pay to keep getting more of it? As the author says, "The problem is that when I stumble I am in the mood for some fast action. I don't want to be bothered with heavy reading and just want to be amused." a spirit that, as somebody in one of the sites bookmarked above argues, Stumbleupon's business model gives the company and its management a perverse short term incentive to encourage. But can one encourage impatience and then, moments later, hope that impatience will suddenly vanish the moment a visitor reaches a sponsor's site? Or does behavior, once reinforced, tend to linger? Does the company really expect those sponsors to not notice that their bottom line isn't being helped, just because they hope it will, and assume that it must?

Avoid "servers on fire" without spending all your savings on PPC ads - perhaps

More grist for the superficial media mill looking for evidence of slumps in academic performance from spending time online. This time it's Facebook.