tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88717559250187307992012-03-17T21:02:02.232+01:00I have helped companies to understand new business mechanics and adapt to a more-and-more digitalized world for over a decade. This blog aims to share some samples of my work, although I am not at liberty to publish most of my projects due to client confidentialities.evangelosnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-83133366821452946552012-03-13T10:25:00.001+01:002012-03-13T10:26:15.956+01:00

Interesting study in which Forrester was commissioned by Facebook to ask over 100 VPs and C-level executives from companies with 5,000+ employees in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. They issued a "blueprint" for brands in the digital age, in a "connected world". Ever since I was forced to work in all my presentations with AIDA by a client in my very early days, I look at these simplyfied models

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-1330380727637107762012-03-05T12:44:00.004+01:002012-03-05T14:49:03.013+01:00

Seit einigen Wochen überschlagen sich die US-amerikanischen und in der Folge auch europäischen Blogs und Tech-Medien bezüglich Pinterest: Es ist ohne Zweifel DER Newcomer unter den sozialen Plattformen in 2012 bisher. Eine Beschreibung des Dienstes findet man an ganz vielen Stellen im Web, daher für alle, die es sich noch nicht selbst angesehen haben, nur in aller gebotenen Kürze: Pinterest

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-66667397151437466472012-02-28T09:35:00.000+01:002012-02-28T09:35:52.166+01:00

http://www.greeceischanging.com/ http://www.facebook.com/GreeceIsChanging

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-68038286327779246942012-02-27T15:49:00.001+01:002012-02-27T15:54:52.589+01:00

... in die teilweise absurde, teilweise von Unkenntnis und trendhafter Ablehnung gezeichnete Facebook-Berichterstattung. In diesem Fall durch Eli Pariser, der wohl sein Buch "Filter Bubble" noch einmal pushen musste. Long story short: Nach diesem SpOn Artikel filtert Facebook die Inhalte unserer individuellen Newsfeeds vornehmlich via "Like" bzw. "Gefällt mir", und das sei entgegen anderer

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-13882604461729228912012-02-05T22:40:00.009+01:002012-02-06T10:04:27.257+01:00

Ich bin nicht gerade der größte Fan von Robert Scoble, weil er mir zu oft emotional und wenig analytisch argumentiert. Nur weil sein Google+ Account offenbar steilgeht, erklärt er etwa das offene Web insbesondere gegen meinen persönlichen Web-Guru John Batelle für totgeweiht. Trotzdem muss man ja zugeben, dass sein Wort Gewicht hat, also lohnt es sich auch, mal reinzulesen. Vor ein paar Tagen

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-5444246186688137672012-01-31T22:54:00.002+01:002012-01-31T22:54:38.153+01:00

Buddy Media DLD Keynote: How Social Media Influences Consumer Behavior

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Ausgerechnet dann bin ich fast zwei Tage offline - Paris ist alles andere als die Stadt des offenen WLANs - wenn sich der nächste Politiker nicht entblödet, der angeblichen "Netzgemeinde", die seiner Ansicht nach offenbar nichts mit "realen Menschen" zu tun hat, den Untergang vorauszusagen. Das wäre nicht weiter schlimm - es gibt in vielen Bereichen Ahnungslose und Trottel, selbst wenn sie

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-62405239303266306842012-01-25T00:30:00.000+01:002012-01-25T00:30:46.093+01:00

I usually post Infographics in my Posterous, but this one... is just too impressive. Based on a Deloitte study (PDF Link).

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According to Business Insider, Google tried to buy Path at the very beginning. Would have been a good move.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-4446687523160152532012-01-19T09:03:00.000+01:002012-01-19T09:03:06.308+01:00

... finde ich gefühlt weit mehr zweifelhaft als jeden Like-Button, höre dazu aber keine Datenschutzbeauftragten weinen. Besonders cool ist es, wenn du für eine Präsentation ein Bild eines Megafons suchst und dann auf allen folgenden Screenshots Banner findest, die dir so ein Ding verkaufen wollen. Vielleicht sollte ich gleich mal zu Zalando gehen, dann hab ich wenigstens auf jeder Seite hübsche

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-10400671738531142952012-01-17T11:13:00.000+01:002012-01-17T11:13:58.389+01:00

It is amazing how little awareness German media gives to SOPA, yet another try to undermine the freedom of the internet, in line with many other scary developments in the US. Maybe awareness will change when tomorrow some major websites, including Wikipedia, will go offline in protest. As always, if SOPA happens, we will face similar laws in Europe soon, the web community will find ways around

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-38403228557048536972012-01-14T14:00:00.007+01:002012-01-16T09:47:17.706+01:00

This joke from 9Gag.com is funny, in a way (and for the Germans: It's no Guttenberg-Joke). But like with many good jokes, there’s some truth to it. Google is supposed to be just as neutral, just as fact-oriented as Wikipedia is. It is considered an institution, and we always trusted Google to do no evil, at least in search – and deliver the most relevant results to our searches, no matter what

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-37313589537546242232012-01-13T17:03:00.000+01:002012-01-13T17:03:15.668+01:00

I don't really need Twitter in my window. But I still need this window. ASAP. No, NOW.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-63865513338875585772012-01-13T01:49:00.000+01:002012-01-13T01:49:48.518+01:00

... and according to Facebook, 50% login every day (while active means: login once a month).

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-60457357959870365902012-01-12T12:43:00.000+01:002012-01-12T12:43:07.686+01:00

British Columbia, eine ruhige Provinz in Kanada, die außerhalb Vancouvers wohl vorrangig aus Wäldern, Bären und Einsiedlern besteht, hat jetzt auch seine Wutbürger. Nicht wegen eines Bahnhofs, einer geklauten Doktorarbeit oder seltsamen Hauskrediten, sondern wegen eines Stromzählers. Genauer gesagt wegen 1,8 Millionen Stromzählern, die der staatseigene Versorger BC Hydro in die Heime der

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-9362781536869298662011-12-23T14:13:00.003+01:002011-12-23T16:08:45.710+01:00

Looking back on 2011 in the digital sphere, it is hard for me to find those one or two highlights that were groundbreaking, new, innovative and lead the way into 2012. Everything that happened in 2011 was pretty foreseeable and a continuation of 2010 developments without any major disruption. The one most remarkable thing in my eyes was Google+: Not because of its success, but because many

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Product Manager: A person who believes that nine women can deliver a baby in one month. via @Anja Gottschling

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Everyone who works for a magazine, a newspaper or a tv station knows that "best xyz of the year" is always good content. This is the case for "The 45 most powerful images of 2011", too. But it is a special kind of content: everybody enjoys it, but no one really aks for it. In online media terms, it is the classic example for "unexpected relevance" (turns up in your news feed, stream) versus "

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-84215473305841009072011-11-12T14:02:00.002+01:002011-11-12T14:02:47.998+01:00

If anyone knows where i can buy it...

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evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-715759517266290182011-10-27T20:40:00.001+02:002011-10-27T20:40:11.887+02:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-14767094209049187392011-10-25T08:29:00.002+02:002011-10-25T10:15:12.303+02:00

Mit anderer Pointe, versteht sich .-)

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-69256006902365097042011-10-24T08:52:00.001+02:002011-10-24T13:37:09.890+02:00

For small Facebook fanpages, I still believe that Facebook Ads is the best way to grow their user base. But for bigger sites that grow by a three- or even four-digit-number of fans daily, ads are not really useful from a cost/effect-perspective when it comes to accelerating this growth. Therefore, many fanpages (incl. the small ones) try to publish a piece of content every once in while that

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-72139396402704556742011-10-19T18:01:00.001+02:002011-10-19T18:07:27.956+02:00

Ich glaube ja nicht an derlei Auszeichnungen und eine W&V hatte ich aufgrund der überbordenden Digitalkompetenz schon ziemlich lang nicht mehr in der Hand, wenn es sie nicht gerade bei Airberlin gab und der Playboy schon vergriffen war. Aber in diesem Fall muss ich doch meinen Support loswerden: Der sehr geschätzte Business-Partner Peter Gentsch steht zur Wahl zur (festhalten): "Most Influential

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-6693999556089218472011-10-18T17:42:00.001+02:002012-02-05T22:41:51.841+01:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-32352055034635700742011-10-18T10:03:00.001+02:002011-10-18T15:09:46.748+02:00

I remember back in 2005 when this presentation came out and everyone in the office (I-D Media, those days) was blown away. Not only because of the great presentation style but especially because of the content. Take 15 minutes, it’s worth it. Some 6 years later, where are we now?  6 years. Wow! In web terms, this is like eight generations. Again on an O’Reilly convention (still called “Web

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-59512086585489493402011-10-18T09:27:00.000+02:002011-10-18T17:19:23.341+02:00

Fantasy... start your engines about what you can do with stuff like that. via jasionadriaan  

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Jeder, der sich ein wenig für Internet oder für Politik interessiert, hat die Affäre um den Staatstrojaner und die "zu-Klischee-um-wahr-zu-sein"-Zulieferung durch DigiTask verfolgt. Das ist (wohl nicht nur) Richard Gutjahr, der zum Jahresanfang eine wunderbare Berichterstattung vom Tahrir-Platz hingelegt hat und dessen Blog man nicht nur deshalb sehr empfehlen kann, offenbar über die Hutschnur

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-65986621467697485422011-09-23T19:06:00.000+02:002011-10-18T17:19:56.312+02:00

Facebook Commerce - der Wandel zum Handel (Studie BBDO 2011) View more documents from Stefan Wolk

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A few days after Google+ beta-launched, Facebook announced some "awesome" new features, and many were disappointed when they came out with video chat through a Skype-integration. I saw the "awesome" thing not in the feature, but in the confirmation of their strategy: to integrate successful services and make them more social. Now, this strategy really comes to life: they integrate Spotify and a

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-75559423431442415282011-09-21T12:59:00.001+02:002011-09-21T14:02:30.035+02:00

Ever since the launch of Google+, Facebook keeps rolling out new features. The one with the biggest impact - in my eyes - is the new subscriptions feature. Facebook changed a DNA-like core mechanism: the synchronous relation between friends. You could only add someone to your friends (or let's say: you could only add someone's updates in your news feed), if the other person agreed and had your

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-43628742375027993652011-09-19T01:46:00.010+02:002011-09-21T14:18:11.542+02:00

Nein, ich darf immer noch nicht (auf Landesebene) wählen, weil ich die eine Million Unterlagen für meine doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft nicht zusammen bekomme. Und hätte ich gedurft - ich weiß auch nicht, ob ich die Piraten gewählt hätte. Dass aber rund 9% der wählenden Berliner Bürger das getan haben, ist meines Erachtens als ein Zeichen zu verstehen, und zwar als eines an die gesamte Gesellschaft

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-24136420569300609712011-08-30T16:09:00.003+02:002011-10-18T17:20:19.743+02:00

Artificial Intelligence has been a topic since ages, but there has been significant progress in the last 20 years that we don't really recognize except for some computer in a gameshow. Here is a super-weird conversation between two machines staged by researchers from Cornell University. Enjoy below:

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Now that all the fuzz about Facebook vs. Google+ is more or less over - Facebook reacted with some really good, G+ inspired new features and doesn't seem to have been damaged at all (1 trillion page views, 850m+ users) - we can get back to the interesting perspectives on social networks: how they interconnect with the rest of the internet and what this means for businesses. Mark Zuckerberg

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And in this case, I don't mean these thingys where you would have some problem and a trillion people answer and help you solve it, but the direct connection between celebs/experts and an audience. On Quora, an often underestimated question-answer-service, someone asks "what it is like to have your film flop at the box office". And the screenwriter for "Conan the Barbarian 3D" actually answers,

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-21647467094497447132011-07-18T14:42:00.000+02:002011-07-18T14:42:06.705+02:00

Anyone who deals with technology and internet comes to the point when predictions have to be made, wether it is asking yourself or being asked by friends or a client. We have 15+ years experience with the world wide web now, and I think there are patterns we can learn from, from Moore's law of exponential growth in technology to accelerating change as we can see in this chart from RWW: There

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-85617235676471658732011-07-16T14:28:00.000+02:002011-10-18T17:21:38.896+02:00

Very interesting eye tracking study - gender specific. Find the full slideset here. Apparently, men spend more time looking in the face of half naked women (average: approx. 40% more than women do), while women generally spend more time checking out the body. Not as surprising is the fact that in the end, men don't see much more than the face - in this case, we don't care at all about the shoes .

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evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-3932436993196275452011-07-11T20:47:00.000+02:002011-07-11T20:47:09.316+02:00

Mashable, Business Insider and all the others report that the +1 is more widely spread than the Twitter share button. While I doubt that this really is the case, they all seem to forget that when you click +1, nothing happens unless your friends search for something and see your +1 in their search results (or see your +1 tab in your Google profile). It is far away from being a "sharing" button

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-32653502815513565012011-07-11T11:44:00.001+02:002011-07-11T12:14:33.294+02:00

Früher, da war alles einfach. Visitenkarte raus – Etatdirektor Werbeagentur, Vice President in einem New Economy-Monster und dann bei der Telekom. Das war noch respektabel. Jetzt, als Freiberufler, macht die Karte natürlich nichts mehr her. Und man würde wahrscheinlich als Geldspielautomaten-Aufsteller, Solarium-Betreiber oder Zuhälter mehr Anerkennung ernten als beim schnöden „Berater“. Und

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-11825192519791555842011-07-08T16:32:00.000+02:002011-10-18T17:21:38.898+02:00

FB, G+, Diaspora

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-51289616094718302282011-07-08T12:11:00.000+02:002011-10-18T17:21:38.898+02:00

http://wheelofconcept.com/ is just a great idea.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-74539565562166257382011-07-05T21:11:00.000+02:002011-10-18T17:21:38.899+02:00

Copy, modify, re-share for free while naming your source - this should be legal with everything.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-54263234376508207742011-07-05T10:25:00.001+02:002012-02-05T22:42:20.726+01:00

but maybe i am totally wrong.

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evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-62800822530098641562011-07-04T17:04:00.001+02:002011-07-04T17:14:22.573+02:00

Article first published as After A Few Days On Google+, I Realized I Am A Social Astronaut on Technorati. Everyone keeps talking about Google+ - so do I. After a few days on the network, I am as impressed as most people and really like the service. But has it made my life easier yet? No, absolutely not. Besides from adding to my stress level in being the third social stream I think I have to

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-47488670709934208922011-07-01T11:17:00.004+02:002011-07-01T16:12:15.986+02:00

Article first published in an immature, early and wrong version as 2 Things I Need To Understand In Google Plus on Technorati. I have read many of the initial reactions to Google+ and most of them compare it to Facebook (see my previous post). Different features are compared and everyone has an opinion on how Google+ may become a "Facebook Killer" or not. What I don't really understand is why

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-29047852598973952242011-06-28T08:08:00.001+02:002011-06-28T08:16:19.913+02:00

Article first published as How Much Is Our User Generated Content Worth? on Technorati. A few days ago, mycube.com published an infographic in their blog. It is about the amount and value of user generated content on social networking sites, and at the end it asks: "Shouldn't users own their own content?" Well, in my opinion the answer is: NO. Just like the Huffington Post is sued by unpaid

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-47330394721247023672011-06-28T00:29:00.003+02:002012-02-05T22:42:37.288+01:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-63039534114472310232011-06-27T21:23:00.004+02:002011-10-18T17:22:02.669+02:00

And keep in mind - this talk is from 2005.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-27980495449530409582011-06-27T14:50:00.006+02:002011-06-27T16:03:46.942+02:00

Datenschutz ist ja ein riesiges Thema. Dabei geht es den meisten Leuten darum, dass nichts und niemand Daten von nichts und niemandem kriegt, was ich ja ganz anders sehe. Daten machen so viele Dinge einfacher. Entscheidungen treffen zum Beispiel. Wo es aus meiner Sicht Regelbedarf gibt, ist nicht primär die Frage, welche Daten von wem wo erhoben und wie lange gespeichert werden, sondern wem

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-48915373928334881732011-06-21T19:41:00.002+02:002011-06-21T19:46:15.114+02:00

A few days ago, YouTube announced that it will stream the Copa America 2011 Live. I learned it today and just pinned down some initial thoughts. This is a topic I will closely follow and cover in this blog. YouTube has already had some sports events, among those the Indian Premier League in Cricket. But it never had such a huge Sports Event and this may be an indication for a new era that is

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-49397575651408904642011-06-21T10:48:00.006+02:002011-06-21T11:12:16.087+02:00

A while back Groupon raised around a billion dollars in a financing round. Usually you need to go public to raise this kind of money, but somehow Groupon managed to convince a bunch of obviously big investors that the money would be well invested. Since then, the company has been discussed heavily, and in my eyes, these discussions are way too 1999: Now, Groupon is representing a whole industry,

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-71655379198311643952011-06-03T13:03:00.001+02:002011-06-27T23:46:35.916+02:00

Google hat vor kurzem den lang erwarteten „Plus1-Button“ eingeführt. Dieser gilt als eine Art Antwort auf den monströs erfolgreichen (s.u.) Like-Button von Facebook. Zwar ist er in Erscheinung und Art durchaus ähnlich, in meinen Augen aber sehr unterschiedlich in der Funktionsweise. Für Webseiten-Betreiber ist er dennoch auf seine Art nützlich (deswegen hat auch dieser Blog seinen „+1“-Button).

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-36271099385296215222011-06-03T10:32:00.000+02:002011-06-13T23:05:36.294+02:00

Offensichtlich bin ich beim Thema der griechischen Finanzkrise nicht vollkommen neutral und teilnahmslos. In den letzten Monaten wurde ich aber auch ein wenig dazu getrieben, mich mehr als eigentlich gewollt (oder geneigt) mit dem Thema zu beschäftigen, weil zur Höhephase der Hilfen-Diskussion hinreichend Leute so taten, als würde ich persönlich ihr Geld klauen (und dabei ignorierten, dass auch

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-35220327031618995132011-06-02T11:41:00.002+02:002011-06-02T11:44:24.352+02:00

During a developer conference - and in their blog - Microsoft just presented Windows 8. I am keen to see how it works with keyboard and mouse, but imagining that all your devices, tablet, PC, phone, could run on such a system and would seamlessly synchronize is pretty powerful. The empire might just strike back.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-28194338948009134742011-05-31T17:51:00.002+02:002011-05-31T17:55:22.893+02:00

Wir, die banner-blinden, für nichts zahlenden und alles klauenden, kein Papier mehr kaufenden Nutzer, sind ja an allem schuld, insbesondere daran, dass es bald keine Zeitungen mehr gibt. So tragisch das sein mag, für viele einzelne exzellente Journalisten und für noch mehr (als erste abgebaute) Gehilfen in Verlagen, später dann für heute noch im Ritz Carlton schlafende Execs, so sehr hält sich

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-65670117614326995382011-05-25T23:22:00.003+02:002011-10-18T17:22:58.345+02:00

It so happens that the two most successful sports teams on Facebook (of any sport) are meeting in this years' UEFA Champions League final in Wembley on Saturday: FC Barcelona and Manchester United. While analyzing Facebook fanpages during the one or the other project in the last weeks, I compiled the data into a fanpage comparison for a fantasy football match. Check the presentation below, and

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-79326734405271802192011-05-25T20:04:00.000+02:002011-05-25T20:04:38.628+02:00

I keep asking friends who can watch 90 minutes of television without touching a smartphone or tablet, and there's literally no one left anymore besides my parents who only own a netbook. Well, we're not alone. Check this study and especially slide 20 (fullscreen option at bottom right) by YuMe and IPG. It is publically available for download so I hope no one minds I put it on slideshare. Ad

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-78929300918396929902011-05-24T22:35:00.005+02:002011-06-11T00:22:40.508+02:00

Flugreisen, insbesondere geschäftliche vom Schlage TXL-MUC am Montag morgen um 8 Uhr, sind ideal, um einen ganz normalen und netten Zeitgenossen nahe an den Rand des Menschenhassers zu bringen. Oder zumindest des Menschenzweiflers. Denn als Menschen sind wir ja den Schimpansen, Hunden und Vögeln eigentlich einiges voraus: Etwa, dass wir Selbst-Bewusstsein haben, Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-7445715383576690232011-05-14T15:20:00.001+02:002011-10-18T17:22:58.346+02:00

It's been a while. Here we have something really interesting, straight out of Berlin and not from Fraunhofer or some corporate lab, but just from two obviously smart guys: A tablet magazine, but not as an app - it's full HTML 5. I still don't know if for publishers this is good news since apps are ideal to charge people for your content - but 30% will be kept in by the app store rpovider anyway

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-48913867096930333892011-05-10T23:54:00.001+02:002011-05-27T13:12:01.735+02:00

Google made a bunch of huge announcements today. Not only did they fulfill expectations and confirmed some rumors that were floating around for some time, but they even achieved to positively surprise (at least me). While it was foreseeable that they would finally really fight against fragmentation, all the “media-related announcements” everyone is so excited about are more or less a try to

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-29038843353763960992011-05-10T14:20:00.003+02:002011-05-10T16:42:11.731+02:00

Still, Google is the most important referrer to news sites, according to journalism.org.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-25278041850212144002011-04-28T09:05:00.005+02:002011-04-30T15:48:26.527+02:00

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evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-38531365228436961762011-04-21T23:19:00.002+02:002011-10-18T17:22:58.347+02:00

Posted by Facebook today:

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-36835665346693876952011-04-21T21:06:00.002+02:002012-02-05T22:43:18.277+01:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-22824801989963253992011-04-19T17:25:00.002+02:002011-04-19T18:01:32.382+02:00

"Web 3.0" I don't know (and don't like), but Data surely is a key aspect for any business' future. Very interesting O'Reilly talk published here.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-79652329250534711082011-04-18T09:12:00.006+02:002011-05-27T13:12:57.637+02:00

In derselben Woche, in der Flipboard auf einer Evaluation von 200 Mio Dollar (!!) entspannte 50 Mio Dollar an Venture Capital einsammelt und damit unseren Blick auf die Zukunft richtet, zeigt ein Artikel in Meedia schön, woher diese Zukunft kommt: Dort hat man sich die Mühe gemacht und die Auflagen der Top 40 Magazine/Publikumszeitschriften aus dem Jahr 1990 und 2010 verglichen. Die große

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-56637641009476899942011-04-15T15:02:00.007+02:002011-05-27T13:14:31.067+02:00

Ich hätte ja gern einiges zu den Vorträgen und Workshops geschrieben, aber der Großteil der Veranstaltungen, denen ich beiwohnen durfte, war dafür zu uninspiriert, mit den herausragend üblen Beispielen des Lichtblick-Chefs, der einen Vortrag hielt, der vor irgendeiner IHK in 2004 angemessen gewesen wäre, und (besonders enttäuschend) von Maxwell Salzberg, der unter dem Titel “Diaspora: building a

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-6126376883621264352011-04-13T17:47:00.007+02:002011-05-27T13:15:09.368+02:00

Many people think I am an Android fan boy, others told me I would be in blind love with Microsoft, and all that is because I dare to (and tend to) disagree when educated, internet-savvy people around me, be it online contacts or real life friends, start to sell Apple features or behaviour as something great when I really think they aren't. This is just one (really super-bad) example, and since

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-38518975347658777312011-04-13T09:42:00.001+02:002011-10-18T17:22:58.348+02:00

If this is not some marketing gag, it is pretty cool: A freelancer guy loves Windows Phone 7 and showcases his skills with a self-made video: This gets viewed over 100.000 times, so he produces a second one - and now Microsoft reacts and announces that if it reaches 200k views, they will put it on TV. Nice bet: You get a lot of people to watch and avertise it via social media, so there is

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-25484429957198610462011-04-09T16:35:00.007+02:002011-05-27T13:16:07.070+02:00

On IMDB, "The Social Network" has an 8.1 (from 10) rating and a metascore of 95 (from 100). That is pretty good. And I enjoyed the movie as a piece of entertainment. But just like so many others who in some shape or form work in and around social media and start-ups, I was keen to see what I could maybe learn about business from this movie, watching it on DVD. Here are my top 5 learnings: 1

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-21955040725052018782011-04-01T09:54:00.000+02:002011-10-18T17:22:58.349+02:00

Interesting development; Mashable assumes Google's +1 will add to that.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-18717319070412988982011-03-24T12:19:00.007+01:002011-05-27T13:16:44.973+02:00

Since Facebook is conquering the world, other social networks have to suffer. On a global scale, we can see this with my_________ (space), locally in Germany we can observe StudiVZ losing users at a dramatic speed. According to these ComScore figures, myspace has lost 43.3% of unique visitors from February 2010 to 2011 - and this development is not losing, but gaining momentum: From January 2011

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-53462825592081167682011-03-22T12:09:00.002+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.955+02:00

Stellenanzeigen sind auch Kommunikation. Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass der Link bald nicht mehr funktioniert, aber den gab es mal hier. Wem das Bild zu klein ist, hier der Text: "ABC Schützer gesucht!!Du bist ein echter Wording-Reaktor und Deine berufliche Laufzeit ist genauso umfangreich wie Deine Kreativ-Power. Du generierst Ideen mit hoher Halbwertszeit, und bist bereit in Text und vor

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-45922284955290104422011-03-19T17:32:00.009+01:002011-05-27T13:17:33.481+02:00

Wenn Wissenschaftler Theorien oder Architekten Entwürfe für Gebäude basteln, behelfen sie sich gerne eines Modells, einer Abbildung der Realität im Kleinen, um Funktionsweisen und Effekte im Großen zu verdeutlichen. Ganz unverhofft und ganz persönlich bin ich in ein solches kleines Modell geraten, und zwar in eine Abbildung von Politik im Web 2.0 – ganz abseits der großen Themen wie Wikileaks,

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-32936659538616697822011-03-16T10:16:00.001+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.956+02:00

Terry Jones TOC 2011 slidesTerry Jones TOC 2011 slidesView more presentations from Fluidinfo.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-67646291506294824042011-03-14T11:34:00.000+01:002011-03-14T11:34:16.024+01:00

Falls es jemand für Präsentationen oder einen humoristischen Dia-Abend gebrauchen kann: Unkommentierte Sammlung von Screenshots zu Teldafax und ihrem bald legendären Post über den Sinn und Zweck ihres Facebook-Accounts. Die Screenshots können über "Menü" unten links in Full Screen angesehen werden und die Slides können über Slideshare heruntergeladen werden. Der Teldafail in ScreenshotsView more

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-30157892079091134312011-03-14T10:54:00.000+01:002011-03-14T10:54:09.718+01:00

Last year, i worked on a presentation about celebrities in social media and on one slide, i showed the YoY growth rates (with a calculating error, but the numbers in the image below are correct and the big picture still stands) of nine randomly selected celebrities on Twitter from 2009 to 2010. I thought it was fun to check up on these accounts one year later. What can I say? While the lowest of

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-33388791762127460822011-03-08T10:51:00.001+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.957+02:00

I loved Blade Runner. Check this out. It's an actual robot, not an actor faking a robot: The Geminoid.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-25138553235839752152011-03-07T12:36:00.001+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.958+02:00

Worth watching just for the fun of it... Conan O'Brien visits Google (and Andy Richter is there, too!). From a business perspective, it gets interesting from Min 15:30 for about 5, 6 minutes, when Conan gives us an insight of how TV executives view the internet. "There might not be network television as we know it in five years."

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-71987049303078004402011-03-02T12:46:00.003+01:002011-05-27T13:18:14.882+02:00

Wenn ich Freunde und Bekannte besuche, verkneife ich mir mittlerweile Bemerkungen über gut gefüllte Bücherregale und nicht mehr existente Plattenschränke und CD-Türme. Rutscht mir dennoch ein flapsiger Nebensatz raus, ernte ich in der Regel starken Gegenwind: Nur, weil es technisch möglich sei, hunderte dieser Bücherregale in ein Gerät zu quetschen, das nur wenig größer als ein Smartphone ist,

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-75424268859173491172011-02-28T18:45:00.001+01:002011-02-28T18:47:31.552+01:00

Yesterday was Oscar night. While the TV show was super-long and, at least in my eyes, pretty boring, I found myself googling and surfing all the time. What I did not know: I could have (potentially) bought my way into a more interesting TV show. For iOS, it would have been 9.99 USD. Here, you would get additional information on actors, movies and a live stream from the pre- and post show. Funny

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-48526745039767285992011-02-19T12:45:00.000+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.959+02:00

I usually love RWW, but this headline about Obama's Dinner with the Silicon Valley Elite might go a little bit too far.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-91813170005808635622011-02-19T10:55:00.000+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.959+02:00

Jimmy Fallon promotes a song on TV.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-31761614846278889842011-02-18T11:23:00.001+01:002011-02-18T11:24:19.620+01:00

Experiments with 2nd screens get serious. After ProSieben's Galileo experiment we now see a very interesting ad-app-2nd-screen approach by Honda. I dont think this will always work with special apps but rather with some that will collect a critical mass and will be then used by advertisers and content providers in future to make people engage with their content.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-32751169163843448632011-02-14T12:57:00.007+01:002011-03-01T10:40:13.154+01:00

A few days ago the rumor came up that Apple will offer a low-priced "mini-iPhone" (look here or here). I don't see that as a rumor but an inevitable step in Apple's further growth and cannot understand the irritations some people expressed in comments and posts. Here's why: Nokia and WP7 did emphasize the fact that they are building "the next mobile ecosystem" and that they see a "three horse

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-41268335531768266262011-02-14T10:31:00.006+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.960+02:00

The media has been full of how Facebook and Twitter were the backbone of the Egyptian Revolution (#Jan25), but at least in German media, no one went deeper than just saying that social media was used to coordinate protests. You were led to believe that some magical social peer-to-peer-superpowers must have been at work to make all this possible and people grateful for the existence of Facebook.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-28878438431511769342011-02-11T10:46:00.007+01:002011-02-14T10:57:41.459+01:00

It finally happened: Nokia goes WP7. I was really impressed with Stephen Elop's memo that leaked a few days ago where he compares Nokia's situation to a man who is standing on a burning oil platform and, instead of accepting sure death, decides to jump 30 meters down into the dark, where supposedly there will be ice-cold water but no guarantee of survival - just a higher probability than zero.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-90067269368730732332011-01-14T14:50:00.000+01:002011-01-14T16:51:50.780+01:00

Bad presentation-style, but interesting content on "the Facebook Code" (see German article here). Complex stuff though.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-14103700907481284572011-01-12T10:49:00.002+01:002011-03-01T10:40:56.696+01:00

Jetzt, ein paar Jahre später, kann man es ja sagen. Vor 4 Jahren, als MySpace nach Umstellung auf die deutsche Sprache von knapp 2.000 neuen Profilen täglich (in Deutschland) auf 8.000 kam und sich entschied, ein deutsches Büro zu eröffnen, war ich nach dem Ende meiner Tätigkeit für die Deutsche Telekom ein Kandidat für die Leitung dessen, auf Vermittlung von 2 geschätzten Kollegen (you know who

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-62295691260579657542011-01-07T15:38:00.000+01:002011-01-07T15:38:09.004+01:00

I firmly believe that this is a kind of marketing that we will see a lot more in future - instead of placing random promoters somewhere to more or less harass people by a) disturbing them and b) being too irrelevant too often, this 1-2-1 marketing approach uses social media to identify consumers and react to them individually. It is not "the future of marketing", but it gives us an idea of how

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-65194069808459145262010-12-17T17:20:00.001+01:002010-12-17T17:20:02.362+01:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-34647503221076531062010-12-16T09:38:00.003+01:002011-03-01T10:38:32.552+01:00

Year-end, time for rankings, forecasts and summaries. Here is my personal 2010 roundup with the most significant developments of this past year. Please note that the order of appearance is rather accidental, just writing it down while thinking.       Facebook dominance continues                   http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919&id=9445547199 In 2009, I heard many

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-18079180686888361802010-12-15T20:15:00.000+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.961+02:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-76601288871426181252010-12-15T19:14:00.004+01:002012-02-05T22:42:51.899+01:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-43240722757181451792010-12-12T18:42:00.002+01:002011-10-18T17:23:56.962+02:00

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-69231596552532388972010-12-06T12:28:00.000+01:002011-10-18T17:24:48.230+02:00

It is hard to get video views with your talk from a summit that features Eric Schmidt, Zuckerberg and other heavyweights. But this one deserves a lot more than just a thousand views, so I do my share and promote it here.

evangelosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8871755925018730799.post-14663072817160222012010-12-05T14:13:00.005+01:002011-07-16T16:33:19.880+02:00

Der Philosoph Francis Bacon erkannte im siebzehnten Jahrhundert mit dem Satz „For all knowledge is power“ den direkten Zusammenhang zwischen Wissen und Macht. Gleichzeitig legen moderne Demokratien in ihren Verfassungen fest, dass „alle Macht vom Volke ausgeht“ – in diesem Satz steht das Prinzip der Volkssouveränität festgeschrieben, die in der deutschen Verfassung als "Alle Staatsgewalt geht

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