Colour Schemes
Color Scheme Designer online: mono, complement, triad, tetrad, (accented) analogic; http://eicker.at/ColourSchemes (via @srfstn)
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Gerrit Eicker
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Medien vs. Google
Burda: Medien stellen die Aufmerksamkeit her. Wir schaffen den täglichen Gesprächsstoff, doch nicht Google; http://eicker.at/1g
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Gerrit Eicker
Socialblaze
Social media optimisation: Socialblaze launches public beta, focuses analytics, social media ROI; http://eicker.at/Socialblaze
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook and Enterprises
Taschek on Facebook Messages: Facebook is completely ignorant of the enterprise. And why not? http://eicker.at/1f (via @mooose)
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Boutiques.com: Google Fashion Shopping
Google launches Boutiques.com, a photo based visual search engine and analyser for fashion shopping; http://eicker.at/Boutiques
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Re:publica 11
Die re:publica 11: Blogs, Medien, Kultur, Politik, Technik, 13. bis 15. April 2011, Berlin; http://eicker.at/republica11 #rp11
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Rivva: Monetarisierung? Redaktion? Links?
Westphal-Interview über Rivva: Monetarisierung? Redaktion? Vernetzungskultur der deutschen Blogosphäre? http://eicker.at/Rivva
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Westphal: “Rivva befindet sich in einer blöden Grauzone. Weil ich keine eigenen Inhalte produziere und der Vermittlerrolle zu wenig Wert beigemessen wird, ist mein Spielraum eingeengt, Stichwort Leistungsschutzrecht. Hinzu kommt, dass Nachrichten als solches im Netz als Massenware gehandelt werden. Die News, die jeder hat, ist aus informations-theoretischer Sicht nichts mehr wert. Davor schützen auch keine Paywalls. Nachrichten sind wie Wasser – sie suchen sich ihren Weg. … Rivva ist ja im Grunde nur eine Technologie-Blaupause, auf deren Basis man auch noch andere Anwendungsfälle hätte entwickeln können. Lange Zeit hatte ich gehofft, White-Label-Lizenzen könnten die Weiterentwicklung retten, aber die dafür nötige Experimentierfreude war nirgendwo vorhanden. … Vor ein paar Monaten hab ich zum ersten Mal gesagt, da ist eine Story, die es zwar vom Algorithmus nicht auf die Titelseite schafft, von der ich aber glaube, dass Rivva die Story führen sollte. In solchen Fällen drücke ich einfach auf den Publish-Knopf. – Ich hab eine redaktionelle Rolle, ja. … Viele Dinge, die vorher in einem Blogpost gelandet sind, landen heute bei Twitter. Das hat teilweise dazu geführt, dass die Qualität auf Blogs wieder zugenommen hat, weil das witzige Youtube-Video eben bei Twitter landet und nicht im Blog. Ein weiterer Grund ist, dass die schöne Vernetzungs-Kultur insgesamt ein bisschen verloren gegangen ist. … Auch die Tugend der ‘Via’-Links ist zurückgegangen – dass man seine Quellen wirklich nennt, wenn man etwas von einem anderen Blog übernimmt.“
Gerrit Eicker
Google Hotpot
Google adds Hotpot to Google Places: a local recommendation engine personalising local search; http://eicker.at/GoogleHotpot
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Office
Facebook Messages adds Microsoft Office Web Apps: Still not designed as an enterprise product? http://eicker.at/FacebookOffice
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Microsoft: “Starting today, from Facebook you can view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents via Office Web Apps with just one click. – It goes without saying that social networks are definitely becoming an indispensable part of people’s lives. People don’t just use social networks to connect with their personal and professional contacts, but also to discover new things and great ideas shared by people across their life. … Facebook’s new messaging platform integrates the Office Web Apps to enable Facebook users to view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents with just one click.”
RWW: “Facebook’s newly announced messaging platform will deeply integrate Microsoft’s Office Web Apps so that Facebook users can view Word, Excel and PowerPoint attachments without having to leave the site. Rumors about this integration started to make the rounds on the Internet earlier last week. Oddly, though, Facebook didn’t mention this integration during today’s press conference and makes no mention of it in the official announcement on its corporate blog. … While Microsoft points out that this integration can also be used for ‘serious’ business, Business users aren’t likely to share their documents through the Facebook platform, after all. – For Microsoft, this is a major win, as its flagship Web productivity apps will now play a central role on the Web’s most popular social network.”
VB: “The step into Facebook is less of a grab at the collaboration space and more like another jab at Google. … If Microsoft were looking to challenge Google in the business collaboration space they would go after a networking application like Yammer, a social network like Facebook for businesses. But there’s a strong statement that Microsoft could make here with the high school and college student presence on Facebook. … Either way, this is good news for the collaboration space and just about everyone else. Businesses can cross their fingers and hope to see office application integration – on either Google’s or Microsoft’s end – in other enterprise collaboration services.”
IF: “Gmail and other email programs have tried to make previewing as easy as possible for all formats. So, for Facebook, one ramification of Microsoft’s special access is less value for users who want to share a document in any other format. Maybe the average user doesn’t want to share documents on Facebook in the first place, or maybe Facebook will find that users want to do more document-sharing with the service.”
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Messages
Facebook starts integrating eMail, chat, SMS to its in-house Facebook Messages app; http://eicker.at/FacebookMessages
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Seligstein, Facebook: “Today I’m excited to announce the next evolution of Messages. You decide how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages. They will receive your message through whatever medium or device is convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time. You shouldn’t have to remember who prefers IM over email or worry about which technology to use. Simply choose their name and type a message. – We are also providing an @facebook.com email address to every person on Facebook who wants one. Now people can share with friends over email, whether they’re on Facebook or not. To be clear, Messages is not email. There are no subject lines, no cc, no bcc, and you can send a message by hitting the Enter key. We modeled it more closely to chat and reduced the number of things you need to do to send a message. We wanted to make this more like a conversation. … Relatively soon, we’ll probably all stop using arbitrary ten digit numbers and bizarre sequences of characters to contact each other. We will just select friends by name and be able to share with them instantly. We aren’t there yet, but the changes today are a small first step. – We’ll be launching Messages and email addresses gradually and making it available to everyone over the next few months. Once you receive an invitation, you’ll be able to get started and also invite your friends to join you.”
Facebook Messages: “Messages has always been the place for private exchanges on Facebook, and this won’t change. With the new Messages, now you have easy access to all your private conversations with your friends in one place. – The new Messages interface not only displays the Facebook messages you exchange with friends, but it also interweaves your chats, texts and emails (should you choose to create an @facebook.com address). It’s a central place to control all of your private communication, both on and off Facebook: faster interaction, integrated communication, smart filtering, revamped search, adding people to group conversations, forwarding, unsubscribing, or removing yourself from a conversation, sending attachments … Unlike traditional messaging systems, where you have no control over who can message you once someone has your contact information, Facebook Messages lets you decide how you connect with friends and the people around you. … By default, anyone on Facebook can send you a message, and if you set up a Facebook email address, anyone outside of Facebook can send you email. Email from friends and their friends goes directly to your main Messages folder, and everything else goes to the Other folder within your Messages.
IF: “Regardless of where the message is delivered, it will appear in the thread which notifications lead back to. Users can trigger through the interface whether they want the message to be sent to a specific medium of a friend, such as SMS to their phone. Otherwise, it will be routed automatically. For instance, if a user is online when they’re sent a message, they’ll receive it as a Chat. … As for security, instead of relying on a ‘security by obscurity’ method of inbox privacy, users will have control of who can send them messages. They can change their privacy settings to bounce back messages from those they don’t want to receive messages from. … CEO Mark Zuckerberg says this is not a Gmail killer, and that Facebook doesn’t expect people to immediately switch all their email to the product.”
TC: “Facebook has created three key things: Seamless messaging, conversation history, and a social inbox. Essentially, they’ve created a way to communicate no matter what format you want to use: email, chat, SMS – they’re all included. ‘People should share however they want to share,’ engineer Andrew Bosworth said. – All of this messaging is kept in a single social inbox. And all of your conversation history with people is kept. … Right now, this system is merging four main things: SMS, IM, email, and Facebook messages. Zuckerberg said that they’d consider other tech, like VoIP in the future. But right now this is mainly about consolidating text-based messages.”
TNW: “Facebook is not calling this an email killer, it is ‘a messaging system that uses email.’ Facebook also does not anticipate people leaving their regular email accounts. However, the company does seem to anticipate that people over time will switch over more and more to Facebook messaging. Oh, and kids who get on Facebook before email? Who else wants to bet that they never get a normal webmail account?”
AF: “Zuckerberg: ‘All of this will enable simple, real-time messaging. We are also launching the ‘social inbox’. Since you have entered your friends lists and your friends have entered their friends lists, we can do some extremely effective filtering for you. While there are existing systems that filter out junk, there are various types of junk. Up until now, the primary way to handle messaging is through the development of white lists. At Facebook, you get that automatically. Not only do you get that, but you also can get messages filtered from people who are ‘friends of your friends’. The default experience is ‘high signal’ messages that are really personal to you, and then we can have another inbox which is for the lower signal content. … We want it to have IMAP support. It already speaks email protocol, however having it sync with other email systems is on the roadmap.‘”
RWW: “Zuckerberg tells an anecdote about his girlfriend’s sister – a high-schooler. Conversations with high-schoolers ‘make me feel old.’ High-schoolers say ‘we don’t use email. It’s too slow.’ … Will there be ads? The advertising will look the same as it does in the rest of Facebook. Zuckerberg says there’s a ‘huge difference’ between Facebook’s ad system and others. … Are you capturing the information about non-Facebook users? ‘Yes, in some way we do that,’ says Zuckerberg.”
TC: “Again, if you extrapolate that out, that means the end of email. It sounds as if Zuckerberg is just tip-toeing around calling for the death of a system that a lot of people currently use. Obviously, such a claim would cause a huge uproar (considering that there’s a huge uproar when Facebook changes a font size, the idea of Zuckerberg calling for the death of email is truly terrifying). – He also specifically talked about posts like ours calling this new system a ‘Gmail-killer’. ‘I think Gmail is a really good product,’ Zuckerberg said. But again, he’s essentially saying that it’s a good product that future generations are using less and less.”
TNW: “The fact of the matter is this, from where I’m looking: What Facebook did today could easily be done in Gmail with 3 Gmail Labs plugins. Oh, and then I don’t have to move over to Facebook. … Further, from the demonstration that we saw on stage, it’s simply real-time chat. That sounds suspiciously like a trimmed-down version of Google Wave, to us. Maybe Google was a bit too hasty in killing the Wave, after all? … In all, what Facebook announced today, again just appears to be a polished version of Google products… but with fewer options. If you’re already a heavy Facebook user, then maybe it’s a good thing for you. If you’re not, though, it’s likely a change that will be far too much of a pain in the tail to use… especially if you’re coming from Gmail.”
Wikipedia: “Die re:publica ist eine Konferenz rund um … Weblogs, soziale Medien und die Digitale Gesellschaft. Sie wird seit 2007 jährlich in Berlin veranstaltet. An drei Tagen werden in Vorträgen und Workshops verschiedenste Themenfelder behandelt, von Medien und Kultur über Politik und Technik bis zu Entertainment. Alle Vorträge und Diskussionsrunden werden als Videostream live ins Netz übertragen. – Veranstaltet wird die Konferenz von den Betreibern der beiden deutschen Blogs Spreeblick und Netzpolitik.org. Die Veranstaltungsreihe wird gefördert durch das medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg und die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.”