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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 [...]

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 [...]

Sascha Lobos Cebit and Webciety Review

Despite a decline in the number of visitors as well as exhibitors at Cebit, Sascha Lobo is still the cheerful obese guy with his mohawk haircut and a fancy moustache.
After all, some exhibitors have already told him that they’ll come back next year.
Admittedly, I also enjoyed this year’s Webciety and the whole concept. Above all, [...]

Twitter is not like Instant Messenging – Here’s the Difference

Two days ago I met the founder of blokal.de in the train from Cebit back to the beautiful city of Hildesheim.
Blokal.de is a new service that summarizes blog posts from your location in a neatly arranged way.
We had an interesting web2.0 kind of conversation so I asked him whether he’s on Twitter.
When he said that [...]

One hour Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt – The most interesting bits and pieces

Long live social media. Facebook has just told me that one of my best friend’s boyfriend has posted a comment on TechCrunch (who needs RSS-readers?):

As I know that Michel is a clever guy who’s interested not just in technology itself, but also in its impact on society, I assumed
that it’s worth spending an hour watching [...]

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