Archive | June, 2006

Add to Live.com

This is maybe not a big thing, but quite a lot of bloggers have been asking us for this and so here it is. The “Add to Live.com” button is available and here’s how you can use it if you want to. If you want to testdrive it first, click on the “Add to Live.com” button that is in my navigation.

To implement the “Add to Live” button on your site, simply add this code and image to the appropriate page(s) on your site:
<a href=”http://www.live.com/?add=http://sampleurl.com/”>
<img src=”addtolive.gif” border=”0″/></a>
(should be all in 1 line but my blog doesn’t seem to accept that ;-))
When you insert this code:

  1. Replace sampleurl.com with the Web address of your RSS feed, including any subdirectories.
  2. Copy the addtolive.gif image (right click this one addtolive.gif and save it to your local machine) to the same directory as the page containing the link or put the full path to its location in the <img src> string.

So go ahead and be the first to put this on your blog or site.

Jobs for people

Can anybody tell me what the idea is behind this ad? Create a sexy, pointless ad – jobs for people (yeah, what else?) – to attract people to your site where you cannot even see what jobs they have or what Accent is about or anything. Oh yeah, you can win a Starck bathroom, that’s probably what defined the setting of the movie in the first place.

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Your own tropical island!

While I had something in mind like I wrote about earlier, it is in fact something totally different. Since the real island is not really covered by my budget this interested me until I saw the price: 8.280 USD, are you kidding me! And that’s not even counting the cost to create the big sea-side picture in the back, wonder what Pietel or Ine would charge me for that :-)

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[Via Gizmodo]

Get a Girlfriend

From AXE… again. But you got to love it. Like Coolz0r says: “The fact that in the end they released the video where the AXE Dude actually got a girlfriend makes this as a whole a beautiful campaign. It just adds up to the entire strategy AXE uses, and it’s proven to be a decent and working model. Really. I love it. I love the brand and the communication. It’s perfect. Plain and simple.”

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Great advertising!

[Via Marketing Thoughts]

Thinking about a disclaimer…

Better safe than sorry is probably what they were thinking at Media Culpa.

“DISCLAIMER: Please read all instructions and warnings before use. Must be 18 years of age or older to proceed further. Enter at your own risk. Do not enter. Speed limit – 28.8 or higher. Stop here on red. Hostess will seat you. Trucks over 4 tons excluded. Void where prohibited by law. Some assembly required. This is a test of the emergency broadcast system – this is ONLY A TEST! List each check separately by bank number. Batteries not included. Contents may settle during shipment. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Use only as directed. For indoor or outdoor use only…” (full disclaimer)

This is only a small extract out of his new blog disclaimer which is hilarious, I think you can safely say that everything is covered with this one ;-)

“This disclaimer may not be copied or reproduced in any form without the expressed written consent of whoever I stole it from”

More nifty Top 10′s

Only a couple of days after ‘Nifty Top 10′s’ I got more of them to share with you:

They forgot to include one of the best designed blogs of all, namely veerle’s blog, so just had to rectify that one. And I would buy other stuff when I was filthy rich, but you got to start somewhere of course.

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Oh yeah, this is written on a Tablet PC, which I like quite a lot ;-) (See n°3 in Microsoft product flops).

[Via Personal Tech Pipeline | Collage]

Try if before you buy it

My Microsoft colleagues at Corp. announced that more then 2.5 million people are already using the Office 2007 beta since it was released last month. I think that’s awesome. I’m using the Office 2007 beta 2 for quite a while now and I think it’s definitely worth a try. The ‘Ribbon’, blogging from Word, new conditional formatting in Exel, better Outlook/Onenote integration… and one of my favorites, the integration of tasks & follow ups in Outlook (finally!).

They also announced this new ‘Try it before you buy it’ program so you can testdrive Office 2007 online, so without having to download and install it first. You can download the full beta here.

Animación de Duracell

Take a look at Briefblog for the complete photo sequence of this really cool Duracell television commercial from Chile.

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The bugger blows on his blob?

Well I actually meant ‘The blogger blogs on his blog’ but using the WordPress spellchecker I got those (and other) suggestions. WordPress actually doesn’t know the words ‘blog’, ‘blogging’, ‘blogger’, … as I found out just a minute ago. Quite funny to see this ‘mistake’ in a blog dictionary…

What ever happened to the Star Wars Kid?

This was up on Digg today and when I read it I got instantly curious. As you can read in the article about it at Wikipedia the prank is already 3 years old. I guess most of you saw the video back then, at least I did and it sure was good fun. Curious about what had happened to the guy, I got to this Wikipedia article and it amazed me with the level of info contained, especially all the cultural references listed. So I forgot why I got to Wikipedia in the first place and ended up searching through it’s database, damn Wikipedia truly is a great service (for those who know know that already of course :-))

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