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“Google went live with Knol, a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subjects”
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“Userneeds on pohjoismainen tutkimus instituutti ja yksi pohjoismaiden johtavista paneeli-tutkimusten tarjoajista.” Hmm, perhaps they should run an usability panel on their own web page…
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Tales of Coding: W3C recently posts updated docs on relationship between usability and accessibilitySmall article on W3C’s update. Have to read.
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“This technical report describes the relationships, overlaps and differences between the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP).”
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“Splicd allows you to isolate an interesting tidbit from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues.”
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“Starting today, you can tell Google Maps that you want walking directions, and we’ll try to find you a route that’s direct, flat, and uses pedestrian pathways when we know about them.”
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“A developing keratoconus and ectasia treatment is Corneal Collagen Crosslinking with Riboflavin (CxL), that has been proven outside of the US to strengthen a weakened corneal structure”
Viral marketing is defined at Wikipedia (23.7.2008) as:
“Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses.”
Now, the Finnish Air Force has been quite active a marketer in the past.
Some of you may remember the FAF’s pilot recruite campaign at Irc-galleria. They created a community page for recruiting (fighter) pilots, pr and so on. Nowadays the community page is not as glittery as it used to be…
Viral marketing - or using the so called new media (web 2.0?).
Anyway, reason for this posting can yet again be found from Facebook.
As you can (might?) see to right, there’s a targeted Facebook ad from the so called “New Facebook” - or Facebook after the recent facelift.
It says “The Finnish Air Force needs your help now!” in the text. Title is “Finnish Air Force”, picture somehow makes one wonder, ’cause we don’t have planes like that here…
What is it then? I thought, at first, that FAF advertises now at Facebook. Curious as I am, clicked the link.
No, they’re not advertising at Facebook - or at least this is not FAF’s ad. It’s an ad for application, a game at FB.
Pretty good ad, in my opinion.
Now, if I worked at FAF atm, I’d do pretty much the same thing as the application developers did. I’d set up a page at FB and buy some targeted ads. Target group: all members of the Finland-network between, let’s say, 18-29. Both men and women. Replace the plane pictured with a classy pic of Hornet flying high and there we (would) go!.
Now, the interaction. I’d probably contact the developers of that particular appilication and try to work something out with them… As the game should be quite good;)
Well, as I don’t work at FAF, I don’t do any of these things.
Just thinking aloud.
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“Consulting Paradise is a comedic spoof of “Gangsta’s Paradise,” documenting the dramatic lifestyle of a management consultant.” This is just plain fucking great;)
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“Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth. The primary data source is UNdata.”
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“Final preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics are in full swing in Beijing. This includes completing hundreds of construction projects, reconstructions, pollution controls, cultural training, and a general “beautifying” of greater Beijing”
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“Facebook has turned on new ad units as part of the profile and home page redesign. While the format of the ad units themselves hasn’t changed significantly, their location on the page has become more prominent - and a new ad unit has been created on th
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“PHPGD.com is a resource for anyone interested in creating graphics and graphics applications using the programming language PHP with the GD or GD2 image library.”
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Looks like someone else wants the black, too.
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“Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics sc
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“Yle.fi:n työryhmä listasi kymmenen sivustoa joita ainakin voisi suositella Googlen ja verkkopankin jälkeen tuleviksi sivustoiksi. Lista on varsin hyödyllinen jos vaikkapa joutuu sukulaisia ja perheenjäseniä verkonkäytössä ajoittain opastamaan.”
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“here are exactly one hundred million billion new viral marketing campaigns seeded every 10 minutes - the vast majority are completely dire and destined to fail. So what separates success from failure? Well, the best appear to exhibit similar patterns and
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“With more than 600,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.”
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“Speak to the audience, not the microphone.
Most people who aren’t used to it talk as if they are speaking to the microphone. Intuitively, this makes sense because the whole point of having a microphone is so it can pick up your voice and deliver it
… so if this blog is down or looks somehow weird it’s because I have illusions (about myself).
(Updating to Wordpress 2.6.)
Edit:
It seems my policy (of not making backups) worked yet again.
Yeah, yeah, stupid, definetly.
(Cheated a bit this time- backed up some of my stuff, mainly the contents which are harder to reproduce.).
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“Today, a post announcing the WebVisum Firefox extension was posted to the mozilla.dev.accessibility newsgroup. The things talked about in this post and on the WebVisum homepage almost sound too good to be true.” HAve to check this out..
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“’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now
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* kehittää ja edistää tietotekniikkapalveluiden hallinnan alalla (IT Service Management) parhaiden toimi
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