We just launched a demo product browser optimized for iPhone for the product catalogue. It worked out quite well we think. I particularly like the furniture section, check it out, point your iPhones at http://www.shopwindoz.com/iphone

 … I mean THIS …

I guess not, cause we would need too much of them …

One of our wunderful shopWindoz sellers found this on thinkGeek:

I bet this will be picked by a lot of blogs worldwide… And there are quite a few other things we will see in the future: t-shirts displaying things like:

• the current cellphone signal strength
• the current gps coordinates
• unread messages
• friends online
• number of google hits for the person who is wearing the t-shirt

I just dont know whether I like that or not …

What do you think? Would you buy one of these?

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Of course this morning I went to http://www.t-mobile.de/iphone/ to see if I could get one in a shopping cart. And of course this is the error message I was presented with:

The photosynth demo was incredible yesterday, I would highly recommend that anyone who hasn’t checked out the videos etc. online should do so as soon as possible.Blaise Aguera y Arcas is obviously an utter brain-ninja, and they (the Photosynth team) will be building out this software so that they will be able to render 3D representations of real locations just based on photos found on the net. To paraphrase him, eventually based on photographic information they will probably be able to build a proper metaverse. Here’s the original TED presentation without the 3D modelling.

In the heat of the debate with Andreas Weigend and Wolfgang Luenenbuerger. I found the  panel quite unconversational ironically…

The context: a major cultural shift going on right now

• A redefinition of the lines between what’s private and what’s not is happening
• A generation grown up on blogging and sharing content instantaneously, 24 x 7, globally knows a good reputation comes from a good online profile
• Consumers are more cynical and rejecting the traditional marketing pitch and have access to more information than ever before to research their buying decisions
• Large corporates are having their reputations dismantled in public on a daily basis, people don’t trust big anymore
• Power is shifting to the individual away from the large corporates, the internet has given a voice to the people via blogs
• Companies need to take a bottom up approach (cluetrain manifesto) to building customer loyalty and reputation, top down messaging doesn’t work anymore
• Social networks and communities are growing at a blistering rate, the wisdom of the crowd is something to be reckoned with
• Many blogs rely on scoops to drive their traffic that digging the dirt has become a sort of mass global hobby
• The blog Spreeblick established its reputation and traffic on the back of the Jamba taking money from kids story
• Sony which put a piece of spyware on music CDs as a secret copy-protection technique, only to wind up in court when bloggers revealed that the code left their computers vulnerable to hackers
• Microsoft offering to pay people to buff up the company’s Wikipedia entry Read the rest of this entry »

Last week Johnny posted something on Kate Nash:

..which I like.

But this week Benjamin said (not OUR Benjamin) something very nice:
Kate Nash ist Britin und das hört man. Und ich kann nicht anders als mich das ganz Album lang fragen, wie Britinen wohl küssen.
loosely: Kate Nash is a british girl and you can tell from the sound of her voice. And I cant help asking myself constantly during the whole album, how british girls may kiss..

How sweet is that?

In preparation for the Conversational Marketing panel discussion tomorrow at the web 2.0 Expo I stumbled upon this again (95 theses from the cluetrain Manifesto)…I like it a lot! I think we are trying to adopt many of these points into our culture, I guess this is easy for a small startup with no evil legacy culture to deal with!

1. Markets are conversations.

2. Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.

3. Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.

4. Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.

5. People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice.

6. The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media. Read the rest of this entry »