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Save some Trees: Get Your Business Card 2.0 aka Poken

It’s a well-known ritual:
People meet at an event and exchange business cards.
Sometimes these people might actually have something in common, consider each other interesting or even likeable, but in most cases exchanging business cards is not about actual people, but, as the name suggests, about potential business.
Most people add the newly acquired contact in online [...]

V from V for Vendetta – Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?

I have to hand in a three-page review of the movie V for Vendetta tomorrow. It’s for a class called ‘Understanding terrorism’ from last semester and I really thiink it’s a great idea to make students analyze a movie, applying the stuff one has learned in the course within the last months.
Although it might not [...]

You can place Twitter ads in Media Agency’s Turi2 tweets now – Here’s why you shouldn’t

German media advertising agency turi2 has announced that you can henceforth place ads in their tweets. They will cost EUR 250 minus 20% direct booking discount.

Having 2.360 followers they probably thought they could give it a try.

Considering US-American Twitter users with 10 to 100 times more followers than turi2, this might be a bit [...]

SMartens Umweltfreundliche Widgets Post gewinnt Re:Publica Ticket

Während des Redesigns mal kurz ein kleines Update (If you’re not a native speaker of German and have no idea what this post is supposed to be about, please let me know in the comments):
Nachdem Social Blogger Ole Seidenberg zu einem Gewinnspiel aufgerufen hatte, bei dem es darum ging, eine Idee zu publizieren, wie man [...]

Maximo Park’s new Album Quicken the Heart and a free Download of the song Wraithlike

This blog post is a tribute to my favourite band out there – “Quicken The Heart” together with a DVD and was lucky to be one of the first 1000 purchasers who get a signed copy. A great marketing idea indeed :-)
In addition to that Maximo Park has really gone web2.0. Maximo Park got accounts [...]

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