If you have missed the 2008 hot trends, you can find them on Read/Write Web.
What I have noticed is that Mobile is in the list again, I have seen that a few times in there before but it never lifted off like it should (to me). Let’s see what it brings this year…

Source: Read/Write Web

Art2blog is going on holidays for 1 week to Bodrum. We’ll be back on October 4th. In mean time don’t stop reading our favourite colleagues. If you still have some holidays planned, check out Fasten Seatbelts where you can find the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the country you’re visiting.

We will certainly remember that:

• In Turkey, it is rude to show the sole of your shoe.
• In Turkey, the “OK” sign is very rude.
• In Turkey, in crowded busses (Dolmus), the way to pay for your ticket is to pass the money from passenger to passenger towards the bus driver.
• In various countries, you may be asked to remove your shoes before entering a home.

The last few days it has been quiet…well…now you know why. I moved our blog to my own hosting.http://www.art2blog.be is the place to be now…I’ll make some more changes the coming days on the design but all credits go to Design Disease which created this great 3 column wordpress theme. Furthermore you don’t have to change your rss feed address, that stayed the same (http://feeds.feedburner.com/art2blog)!

Hope you enjoy…

Received several mails from contacts to join their social network on the Quechup site. Ignore these! Don’t know what the final plan is, but once you register the engine behind the site proposes to import online contacts from your webmail account like Hotmail, Gmail, … once imported all these get a mail from you inviting to join Quechup again. Pure spam with hopefully no other harmful intentions (viruses?) behind.

Everyone is cloning Joost and off course Microsoft can’t stand ranking second :-)

Livestation is a product from Microsoft Research, streams live TV over P2P, using Silverlight to play the media on your computer. You can see some video here on Mashable

I already signed up to become an early tester.

It’s our first post on Joost but…we wouldn’t be art2blog not posting about it :-)

Joost, the on-demand online video service backed by the founders of Skype, has launched commercially. The service provides video streams in broadcast quality, and is distributed using peer-to-peer technology. Until now Joost could be watched by just a few thousand testers. These will now be given an unlimited number of invitations to give to new users.

I tried it out today and it’s pretty cool! I am amazed about the quality and the speed…