10
Feb 10

Belgian “Dez Moma” at “De wereld draait door”

Belgian music formation “Dez Moma” performs in  “De wereld draait door”,  a talkshow hosted by Matthijs Van Nieuwkerk on VARA (Dutch TV station) .

Additional recording


10
Feb 10

Is Google Buzz the commercial version of Google Wave

Is Google Buzz the commercial version of Google Wave or could it finally be the twitter killer application?


08
Feb 10

Your facebook changed again

Once more Facebook changed the look and feel of your facebook.com homepage. At first sight, there appears to be more white space, more icons and multiple navigation options, the footer navigation has been removed (this could only have become a standard in case facebook.com would have used it for a couple of more years)
For more information from facebook.


08
Feb 10

Google runs classic television commercial

The company that became big without advertising, ran a commercial during in the prime time of all (Super bowl) . The “Parisian Love” video was already released on youtube in november 09 and viewed over 1 million times before its television premiere.

More in business week


08
Feb 10

Noise canceling in Nexus One – Explained

Google infomercial explaining the noise canceling functionality  in the Nexus One. The noise canceling uses 2-microphones enabling better call quality when confronted with a lot of surrounding noise.

ps: has iPhone & apple in general not always been about hardware and software integration…


06
Feb 10

Sir, where can I find the sugar?

Delhaize made me wonder
Apparently Delhaize Plantijn started with a new classification system by “task”?  I noticed something was wrong when looking for vegetables to be used in a wok at the vegetables-corner. Wrong, I needed to look for this in the wok-corner. (I know one cannot hyperlink in real life but a small sign could have done the trick.) I wonder whether they applied card-sorting for this? btw the former vegetable corner is still in place but without the wok vegetables, but I guess duplication is also more difficult off-line.

It made me think of a joke by Philippe Geubels (a former Colruyt employee), describing a scene in a Colruyt (Belgian hard discounter) where a customer walks up to him:

Customer: “Sir, where can I find the Sugar?”
Employee: “Under the ‘S’!”

(Video in dutch – 2:48)


05
Feb 10

Thank God it vibrates

Quote: “My closest relationship is with my blackberry, thank God it vibrates” (1:12)


05
Feb 10

Small in Belgium but big on-line

Becoming famous in  Belgium in one day is one thing, becoming a worldwide youtube star is something completely different. But nothing is impossible, this man parks his 1m49 wided car (Fiat Panda)  in a 1m55 wide parking garage. Indeed one starts wondering, how do you get out and that is exactly why Eugène became famous.

The item was featured in a belgian television show (Man bijt hond/Man bites dog) and was afterwards covered by other channels and  on-line in UK ( BBC – TOP gear) , Croatia, Poland and Korea

With over 1 million views before it fully reaches the US and China this could become a real youtube hit and show up in the viral video charts soon. Eugène explained to a Belgian newspaper (de standaard) how he was asked to give demonstrations for different TV stations and receives phone calls from all over the world. Eugène would like this stop (when he again parks his car in front of another camera) but it can only get worse for the man from Liedekerke, Belgium. (Facebook fan page in dutch)

(Visit youtube for English captions)


02
Feb 10

Philippe Starck designs windmills for your garden

Parmac & Philippe Starck developed a set of windmills for residential use. The design makes these windmills wind direction independent. For more information: http://www.revolutionair-pramac.com/


01
Feb 10

Who sees what…

Google labs introduced a nice, small tool (Browser Size) to indicate how many people can see which part of your website. Apparently a lot of visitors (80%) are ending up with a browser window with a least 1000 x 550 pixels.
ps: Would Google also be measuring our shoe size when visiting google.com?