Life on the fast lane

Life on the fast lane, that's how we used to describe people who lived a life of sex, drugs and rock'n roll. It had usually to do with social ignorance and there was always a certain amount of alcohol, cigarettes or other drugs involved. Life on the fast lane meant a …

Google Ride Finder

Google's Ride Finder is the kind of application that will become handy when you have an iPhone. A Google Map shows updated real-life data of cabs in U.S. cities, tracked by location. I zoomed into San Francisco and clicked "update location" a few times. It really …

I am an honest interactive brand consultant

"What do you do?"

This was perhaps the most common question I was asked when I was visiting San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo/Conference. It usually took me a couple of sentences to explain what I do. If their eyes told me they didn't get it, it took a little longer. …

Safari kills Safari

After trying to make Apple's new Safari 3.0 beta work for three hours, I give up. I will have to live without Safari for the next couple of months, because the old version got deleted by the new one and I have no way of bringing it back.

In the history of Apple's …

The Netdiver effect

You don't need to get dug to feel the digg-effect. Meet the Netdiver effect: On Saturday corebasis.com was featured on Netdiver news. On Sunday Google Analytics counted 300 page views and 192 unique new visitors, and MyBlogLog counts 151 visitors from …

Nasty widget code of MyBlogLog

Since February 2007 I have been a member of MyBlogLog, a Web service that offers simplistic user tracking. I had found MyBlogLog through one of the widgets posted on several websites, among them Stephanie Booth's blog.

MyBlogLog looks a little bit 1999 design wise, …

Stop abusing friend requests, for the third time

This is not my personal opinion, it's a principle of marketing. You can't push users to become a friend of yours. I wrote this two times before, but apparently promoters of music bands and commercial venues aren't listening. Do not use the "add friend" option for your …

Fan fantastic

If you haven't seen them on virb yet, you should check them out. Young Pony Play Club's Electro Punk reminds me of Cansei De Ser Sexy and naturally of the eighties. But it was way different then. We didn't have something rad like this. We had Madonna, singing like a virgin.

Meet Object Orange

Get it?

For all those bands out there, promoters, old-school marketers and t-shirt store owners. I have a message for you. Stop adding me as your friend, because that will have the opposite effect. If you want me to be your friend, send a personal message and if I like your …

E-Waste

Good Magazine published this pretty good video clip I want to share with you.

Stop abusing friend-requests

Sorry, but this isn't Myspace. To add you as a friend you would have to be my friend. It annoys me if you added me only to promote your stuff. Virb doesn't work like that. If I like what you do, I will add you on my own.

Before you try adding me as a friend, consider …

A clean slate

Virb is the empty sheet of paper I was looking for. It provides the space Myspace was not delivering. It took me only five seconds to heart virb, once I discovered it. It took a lot longer until I found my ways around though.

Not that its usability is bad. Nothing …