Papermint ScreenshotThe description could be even more specific: Papermint is in fact Vienna’s alternative to Second Life. The “3D virtual realities design company” Avaloop is creating a virtual Vienna, comicstyle; funny enough, Papermint will be 2D and has a very special look and feel.
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Nachdem ich einigen Leuten in letzter Zeit das tolle, kostenlose Content Management System Jimdo empfohlen haben, will ich auch diese bescheidene Plattform nutzen, um über dieses wertvolle Tool zu berichten. Jimdo bietet einen ganzen Katalog von Funktionen, Layouts und Einstellungen um ratz-fatz eine Webseite zu erstellen. Navigation, Header, Gästebuch, Bildergalerie mit Slideshow inklusive Upload – ein schönes Bouquet an Seitentypen, mit dem sich schnell eine umfangreiche Seite bauen lässt. Continue reading
Beatport, probably the world’s leading online store for club and electronic music has developed a great tool: The Beatportplayer which generates a code you can put into websites to play track snippets according to certain criteria.
Here’s an example for the recently issued tunes in the deep-house genre. Nice toy and great viral marketing, just like De:bug states.
JoinR is a new social network which has an intriguing surface, very ajaxy, you can play with boxes and mash up your profile. Let’s see who’ll be hanging out there. Check it out: Joinr.de. I, of course am stylewalker.joinr.de, but have no fancy profile yet.
Note: It’s early beta and obviously aimed at younger people (I feel old).
And here you’ll see UK’s master of the mouthmade beats, Maité, playing around with some kitchenwear and sounds á la “Memphs Soul Stew”.
Wow, only a few posts and already there’s a war around my writing on the Berlinaleblog (Watch more pictures and read the whole story about how I sneaked into the big gala night).
This campaign is maybe the best blog / brand / personality campaign so far in Germany: Schlämmerblog, branded entertainment.
German bloggers are tough on the recently issued German Vanity Fair and critizise the big gap between pretension and reality, some even rip it apart visually.
Check out Agnes Obel on Myspace – beautiful dreamy and elegant music from Kopenhagen.
When I tested Wii I had to notice that despite all the impressive controller system, the people on the screen did not really appeal. They looked strange and unready. But you can do your own, Kottke explains how and starts a contest.
If you can laugh about Kopozky you have become someone who might spend too much time with the internet, codes, scripts, servers, accessibilty, webdesign, exhausting customers and online business. I think it’s damn funny!
Take a look at these sympathetic protagonists of this nicely drawn comics. They all seem to have a real correspondent since they depict the employees of Kopozky’s little IT company.
Turn the volume up and lets ride. Big sounds, brilliant graphics, a storyline and intelligent additional information. Since I never would be able to afford such a thing I cannot feel betrayed by the advertising and link to this masterpiece of webdesign: Audi R8 Microsite. I am still trying to find out who built it. Ideas, anyone?
[via basicthinking and lumma]
Videopodcasts done by prominent bloggers and charismatic heads from the internetscene have been popping up recently (like the one I referred to yesterday) and here’s a little top 4 of what I think is worth watching.
Robert Scoble started a videoblog with interviewing Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO
www.gruenderszene.de is a german videocast by one of the Spreadshirt founders Lukasz Gadowski focussing on German entrepreneurs like Continue reading
One of my favourite fotographers, cute Gonzale has some pictures!
By the way, this is her blog, I found her because she made some pretty impressive pictures about the Paris students demonstrations this spring.