Personal news / Barcamp Hamburg 08

It's pretty tough getting a new post online these days. I've been moving from Hamburg to Cologne (Köln), moving some stuff back to a rented room in Hamburg and haven't had time to set up the new appartment yet due to my new. Yep, that's right, I switched jobs and now work for drei75 web strategies, 

a small german agency which develops ideas and concepts for online features, campaigns etc. I'm really looking forward to doing some business these guys :) I also have to thank the folks @otto.de for giving me the chance to develop my knowledge!

Slightly different topic but much more interesting: The Barcamp Hamburg 2008 is opening it's gates on Nov. 21/22 @ OTTO HQ in Hamburg. It's gonna be great. I think it's one of the few Barcamps in Germany at a big company HQ.

Here are some more infos about the event over @Kassenzone Blog.

MySpace Music: Stuff to read

So finally MySpace Music has been launched. The nice thing about this music project is that it's a big plattform going towards a newer form a the usual music business models combining paid downloads, free on demand music and all of it integrated into the usual myspace pages.

Here's the digest:
paidcontent.com: MySpace Music: First (Real) Look: For Once, You Can’t Blame The Lawyers
TechCrunch: MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track
All things digital: MySpace Music: Like Napster … With a Business Plan
GigaOM: MySpace Music Not an iTunes Rival: MySpace CEO

Some add on:
Reuters: MySpace Music launch disappoints excluded indie labels
LA Times: MySpace Music, Day One: Mixed reviews
Telegraph: MySpace launches music website to rival iTunes
US News: MySpace Music Launches to Positive Reviews

ARD/ZDF-Online-Studie 2008

Beflügelt wird die rasante Entwicklung der Internet-Verbreitung in Deutschland durch die steigende Nachfrage nach multimedialen Anwendungen im Netz: 55 Prozent (2007: 45 Prozent) aller Onliner rufen Videos, zum Beispiel über Videoportale oder Mediatheken, ab und schauen live oder zeitversetzt Fernsehsendungen im Internet. Audiofiles wie Musikdateien, Podcasts und Radiosendungen im Netz werden von 35 Prozent (2007: 37 Prozent) genutzt. Das steigende Interesse an Videos im Netz spiegelt sich in der Verbindungstechnik der Anwender wider: Mittlerweile verfügen 70 Prozent der Onlinenutzer über einen DSL/Breitband-Anschluss (2007: 59 Prozent), der den komfortablen Abruf datenintensiver Angebote ermöglicht.

Na bitte.....hier der Link

Ideas to improve the world

There's lots of community work happening again these days.

NY Times recently launched their community (about) which is actually nicely done. Besides rss they have a FB app ready and they idea behind & the design of the community seems appropriate for a news site (very slim, keeping the content in focus).

Google launched a new project to generate ideas from the web community with the goal to improve the world: http://www.project10tothe100.com
I mean Google always wants to improve the world and gives the web community lots 'o neet tools without ulterior motives but this is a big one. They're giving out 10 mio. $ for those ideas.

Mobile Version

I finally got back from my vacation, back on the job and hardly had time to work on something else. I'm starting out slowly again, this time with some minor tweaks for getting this blog mobile ready (see the mofuse stuff on the right side).

Here's also a QR code with the link to the mobile version of the blog:

Mobile Internet: Usage and attitudes study

May 20008 study from AKQA & .mobi. They checked the US and the UK. Approx. 2.000 people were questioned. Very interesting regarding the iPhone ;) only 4% would choose to buy an iPhone.

http://mobithinking.com/sites/mobithinking.com/files/dotMobi_and_AKQA_Mobile_Usage_and_Attitudes_Study.pdf

Die Leute gamen wieder ! (Markt für Spielkonsolen wächst 30 Prozent)

Überraschung, Überraschung, der Spielemarkt in good ol Germany wäscht weiter. Für Bitkom, durch GfK erhoben(>> Link, Golem berichtet auch)

Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network

This is a great study from Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz about the MS Messenger. It shows about anything you want to know about communication behaviour and demogaphics.

(http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/Messenger_graph_www.htm)

Nice Gadget: Mixwit mixtape

Really nice retro gimmick :)

Studie: JIM 2007 - Mediennutzung in D

Der MPFS (Medienpädagogischer Forschungsverbund Südwest) gibt jedes Jahr diese sensationelle Studie raus :)

Die Studienreihe JIM (Jugend, Information, (Multi-)Media) des Medienpädagogischen Forschungsverbundes Südwest bildet seit 1998 das Medien- und Freizeitverhalten der Jugendlichen zwischen zwölf bis 19 Jahren in Deutschland ab. Für die repräsentative Studie werden ca. 1.200 Jugendliche befragt. Die Gesamtergebnisse der 2007 zum zehnten Mal erhobenen Studie wurden heute in Mannheim vorgestellt.

(Zur Studie)