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I couldn’t have said it better myself: WeBreakStuff

I am thinking of going to @media 2006 this year (a great excuse to visit london!) so i was wondering if anybody else is going there? I know PPK is going, how about you…

The Dutch government as of January the 1st has started the DigiD initiative to get all citizens a single digital ID that they can use for all online government services. Part of me thinks this is the way to go, another part just thinks 1984! I guess most data is coupled already anyway so this would just make thing handier to use but still…

In what’s becoming a rather influential weekly column Robert X Cringely this week corrects some of the misconceptions surrounding the supposed launch of a google box or google laptop and throws a new prediction at us. Google’s primary business plan in the coming years will not be web advertising but customised television advertising based on our browsing habits. As always it sounds rather convincing.
PBS | I, Cringely . January 5, 2006 - A Commercial Runs Through It

In Munchen Burger King appearently already used the technique of bluejacking (or bluespamming) to send coupons to unsuspecting passers by whose bleutooth connection is open. Smart marketing or unwanted annoyance?

source (in dutch): Fastfood weblog - If we are what we eat, I’m cheap fast and easy!:

retrievr is the image search tool designers (and me too!) dreamed of. It doesn’t work flawlessly yet but the results it returns now are fantastic already.

Free business tip: when other companies extend your product to markets you did not service yourself thereby increasing your potential customers… don’t sue them. It reduces your profits and maybe more importantly; it makes you look like stupid.

Article: TomTom threatens TamTam developer

Sylvia Korving, Fotografie en Beeldbewerking
Disclaimer: Sylvia is my girlfriend and i made the site myself

IfCCC Weblog - Business is Good:

So goes corporate capitalism. It’s why so many companies have little
or no idea how to design or build better products—only how to market
them. In fact, the reason I became aware of this whole dynamic is
that, as a media theorist, I’d been called in by dozens of CEO’s
asking me to help them “think outside the box” about their companies,
and help them come with new “branding ideas.” When I’d suggest that
rather than rebranding, they might consider innovating from the
inside-out by creating better products, they’d invariably stare at me
with horror. They didn’t make their products, anymore, and wouldn’t
know where to start if they had to.

Douglas Rushkoff has written a book on business that i have put on my to-read list. Very engaging stuff that seems to make sense.