as good as it get’s – an internal Microsoft movie on how /not/ to do marketing

This is just great. The below is an internal Microsoft movie, done by their marketing department.
It shows how to microsoft an ipod …..


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The Worst Tech Products of All Time

Over at pcworld they have a story/contest on the 25 worst tech products ever! Great stuff and just like ever one of the contestants outshines the rest by far /at least in my opinion/ although it has just made it to place 24 in the list my favourite is clearly iSmell. What a product!!!!

Visiting the Yahoo! engineering team in Grenoble

This week I’ve been to Grenoble, France to visit the European Yahoo! search-engineering team.


yupp this has been the Kelkoo office before

Searchengine – on the hunt – Google Germany


Google Germany is massively expanding and therefore they are adding 100 positions to local German market.

“We grow enormously, recently we rent new offices”, said Philipp Schindler, Google Northern Europe to Welt (German Newspaper)

WikiMapia – combination of Wikipedia and Maps

I ran into this and have to admit that it seems like a brilliant idea to me attaching the rich content of wikipedia to a map.
Having this sort of navigation and contextual concept will allow users to understand and keep information in a easier way.
If you think about e.g. the colluseum in rome, the guiseppe meazza stadium in milan, the statue of liberty in New York one can easily explore POIs near by and put all the places in perspective.

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