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Better Than Free

I recommend to read this excellent article about free content and what you can do to still earn money in a world of free-floating bits and bites. Kevin Kelly mentions the following eight generatives to be "better than free":

1) Immediacy (at the moment of release)
2) Personalization (tweaked to suit your needs)
3) Interpretation (help on content, support)
4) Authenticity (the true real thing, authorized or legal)
5) Accessibility (access anytime, easy)
6) Embodiment (physical, e.g. concert, printed copy)
7) Patronage (support and connect to artists & creators of content)
8) Findability (probably the most important one)

You can read the whole article here

Zicasso

Here's a pretty cool, forward thinking online travel site: You tell Zicasso where you want to go and what you like and they broadcast a request to travel companies. 2 days later you get four personalized quotes which you can then book. Neat!

1994 video of digital about the internet

via travolution

trend blend 2008+

pretty cool illustration. you can download a pdf here Via trends in the living networks"

Color Palette Generator

I found this nice little online tool to generate color palettes based on a foto. Very useful for power point people like me. (not that I like power point particularly!) Color Palette Generator

Demographische Umgebungsanalyse

Heute in heute etdeckt: Demographische Umgebungsanalyse! Eine wirklich tolle Sache: Auf der Karte das Haus (!) lokalisieren wo man drin wohnt, dann die Analyse starten und genau sehen, wie zum Beispiel die Verteilung der Tätigkeiten oder die Benutzung der Verkehrsmittel für die in der Umgebung wohnenden Menschen aussieht.

lame servers

What are ASUS up to with their drivers download page? I mean are they serious?? I get some 5.1KB/s max download speed and I sit on a massive pipe here, it's definately their server. Can this be true in 2007 or are they just having a laugh at their consumers?

Die Schweiz hat eine Website..und keiner kennt sie!

Naja ganz neu ist diese Meldung ja auch wieder nicht, aber zumindest für mich kommt sie deutlich aufgefrischt daher, die Seite der Schweiz, www.ch.ch. Während das Portal früher vor allem Negativschlagzeilen machte, war ich völlig überrumpelt, als ich heute die Seite mal wieder besuchte: Ein wirklich gut gemachter Auftritt! Jetzt fragt sich bloss, wer benutzt ch.ch? Wer kennt ch.ch? und überhaupt: Wer hat den ganzen Müll auf Rumantsch übersetzt?

moo prints flickr cards

this has pretty much made the round but if you haven't seen / tested it yet, here is the link to moo, a company, that prints little photo cards of your flickr pictures. you can put your details on the flipside which makes great business cards! The site works very smooth, you can tell they've done their homework. my test run should be here in a few days and I'll order a larger run if they rock!

edit: they do rock! However printing Zürich doesn't really work.. they don't know our Umlauts :( Other than that those cards are cute!

GMail Mp3 Player..

Today when checking out the mails I see this little Play button next to the download button. It's a Play Functionality, that lets you play the Mp3 someone sent me (in this case a Mango Remix from the contest) directly off Gmail. Neat!