my employer, the aperto ag located at the heart of berlin, generously sponsors my attendance at the official typo3 conference, t3con08. fortunately the conference takes place in berlin, so i will attend all the after-show parties and other social events. just leave a comment so we can make an appointment and have a beer together!
on of my babies (=projects) at aperto is the so called fankurve bodensee. this site promotes one of the biggest public viewing events related to the uefa euro2008. now the colleagues at scholz&friends have produced two nice ads for it that you can see on youtube, myvideo and for a short amount of time on spiegel online.
here are the links to youtube:
last but not least please visit the fankurve bodensee and watch it grow over the next weeks!
at the moment i am helping to spread the dvds of the t3con2007 by bittorrent. all sessions of the conference are included and released unter a creative commons licence. get your copy today!
over all there are four dvds, you can fetch their torrent files over at andreas wolf’s:
* torrent of dvd1 (4337mb)
* torrent of dvd2 (4350mb)
* torrent of dvd3 (4335mb)
* torrent of dvd4 (4138mb)
the contents of the dvds can be found at ginas blog.
how do we define the web and ourselves using it? professor michael wesch of kansas state university tries to visualize the ideas and concepts of web 2.0 in a very well done video. while the message itself does not suprise me that much it is the video transcription that impresses me.
the blog of ksu’s digital ethnography provides more information and collects responses to the video. and there a lot responses as we all live web 2.0. 
december, the time for some just-for-fun-and-not-for-profit-projects. so some days ago we launched www.bigwheelers-exoticars.de. “we” is christian mueller, who did the flash-frontend, and myself. my job was the backend-coding, including gallery- and thumbnail-generation. all hail the gdlib! 
the site itself focusses on automobile tuning, mainly interior- and exterior-styling. frank and andreas do some crazy things for small money. if you want some new rims, especially 18″-20″ sizes, check it out as well.
i just found an online-tool named fake name generator. it does, what its’ name says: it generates fake identities. often i am forced to register (”for free!“) at some site to access some specific content - and i hate it. these sites tend to collect as much personal data as they can (”to make our service better and taylor it to your needs“). but i don’t like being traced all over the net, so i tend to use bugmenot in the first case. this is a great tool, because you can find preregistered account data there. everyone can contribute and so do i. while registering you often need to come up with random data, and i guess this is the toughest part. the thing is that many big sites validate the entries, at least that the city and the zip-code match. mostly i just hack in some towns’ name into google and use address-data gathered from there (obfuscated of course). but the tool mentioned above makes things easy. a fine bit of code and worth the bookmark!
the guardian is celebrating the world wide web’s birthday by publishing a list of 15 websites that change the world. here it is, in an abridged form, commented by me:
as the guardians article states: the web has become casual. for many people the web is the internet. this list proves it by selecting websites most people just take as normal media and/or utilities. of course it lists google, yahoo, ebay, amazon - the big players. but it also contains sites i’ve never heard about. slashdot.org is for geeks, but what’s salon.com for?
Salon Media Group, Inc. (OTC: SALN.0B) is an Internet media company that produces 7 original content sections as well as two online communities — Table Talk and The WELL. The content sites, updated daily or more frequently, include News and Politics, Opinion, Technology & Business, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life and Comics. -> salon’s quicksheet for the press
i see, so it’s an online publication - never recognized the url then. same goes for the drudgereport and craigslist, which are regionally limited, i guess. oh well, i grow old… a nerd not knowing the top 15 websites (well, to some queer british journalists - what do they know at all? ;))
at least i enjoy services as youtube.com and it’s unnumbered derivates. i swear i do not have a profile at myspace.com, thank god! on the other side i do have a profile on stayfriends.org, which is a german competitor of friendsreunited.com. plus, i have put this blog online, so i am a competitor of blogger.com. 
did you notice that there are services on the list which ain’t no website at all? napster is an application (and a shadow of its former self), and easyjet.com is merely a business model, not a specific website.
anyway, that’s a fairly common list, i guess. most people would come up with a lot of the entries on the list. i’ld come up with a few other items, i guess. here’s what i miss:
(shameless self-advert)* i won’t link drudgereport.com, as i find it disgusting at first sight.
viral marketing works… at least for me. today i got the link to goggles :: the google maps flight sim, a flash-game that rips off google maps’ satellite images and lets you fly around on it. for steering use the arrow keys, the ‘a’ & ‘z’ keys throttle speed and, as an extra gimmick, you can use ’space’ to fire. here’s an explanation on the corresponding site:
I have plans to add a building in a user defined location that you can shoot at after a number of requests from people who want to shoot up their exgirlfriends house / workplace / etc.
hehe, i like that. by the way, the game’s still beta. i wonder if google allows such use of it’s copyrighted map material and if it’s servers can stand the ongoing traffic consumption. we’ll see if the site has been taken down on lawyers advice in the the next few days/weeks/months.
anyway, i dare that googles’ api has implemented methods for ongoing map retrieval. the coder writes that he has figured out himself how he can accomplish something like this. i hope he did do it in an elegant way for the reasons mentioned above.
the guy is searching for a job, so i will take this as a reason to link his main site here. i like the robot on rollerskates tho.
