Welcome to the future …

Source: Tales of Drudgery & Boredom

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

With the launching of Qtrax last night, the music industry is all over the news again. Qtrax claims to be the first peer-2-peer site that will provide free legal music downloads. This in exchange of advertising…but ok…who cares. A library of 25 million songs! About 4 times more then the well known iTunes Music Store. Let’s see what happens as it seems not al music labels agreed on the deal. But it would nice…that’s for sure ;)

We can’t miss this one! Crusty built his own Web2.Oooh thingy :-)

What’s the best part about Christmas? Making Christmas lists not?? Well Wantz.it does it for you and it’s never been that easy. It leverages your Del.icio.us account to build up your wish list. Any bookmarks you submit to Del.icio.us with a “dowant” tag will be automatically added to your Wantz.it account. Simple.

Wantz.it itself is pretty cool, but the member pages end up looking like redzie.wantz.it. Easy not?

Nize job Crusty, if you have more idea’s like that…go ahead ;-)

Received from a colleague today. Have a look at this !
That’s what I call effective advertising ;)

They once learned me a good viral campaign should contain 3 aspects, in Dutch the 3 G’s (Geil, Grof en Grappig). In English you lose the G’s but just to translate them Sexy, Rude and Funny. Well…these clips certainly have them ;)

For some of us a far away world but if your into new media you know that video is a growing media these day…well…we didn’t hear from them for a while but it seems Rambla is moving forward as well…

Wowza Media Systems announced yesterday that Rambla, a cutting-edge Belgian CDN predominantly based on open-source solutions, is now using Wowza Media Serve TM Pro, its award-winning commercial Flash streaming server software, as Rambla’s chosen platform for Flash media streaming services.

Read all about it here

Not bad for such a small player on the Belgium market…keep on going Jo! ;)

Nice graph by compete.com on the evolution of YouTube since they were acquired by Google.

Is it the Google effect, or just the buzz buzzing the buzz?

We heard about this since a while, well…now it's here. Video advertising by Google. At the moment only available to AdSense publishers located in North America with a web site in English but the rest will follow I assume. The Video Units configuration and activation can be accessed inside the AdSense Setup tab within your AdSense account (see video).

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You can read all about it on this post @ Robin Good