ICT-CLOUD

I got this week the link to the following clip from a friend. And I was surprised about how social environments (in this case it is Zürich Main Station in Switzerland) can be included in a nice ad clip.

When you have seen the clip you see, that it is from Swisscom and there is a game going on under www.swisscom.ch/fanbuch .
Maybe you want to participate as well... I wish you good luck.

Image by Adam Pieniazek via Flickr

Implications

What is interesting about this case, is the fact that Apple cooperates with a company like AT&T that does not meet in any way the quality requirements of the product sold. Now it becomes clear that the customers are not willing to take this situation any longer and a similar case like the one with "Dell Hell" (see blog entry about Jeff Jarvis) where the customer's "revolution" is taking place on the web and having significant impact on the reputation of the concerned companies.
In my opinion it is now time that AT&T is doing something proactively about this issue. If they don't I expect Apple to get out of the exclusive contracts with AT&T.

However, we will see if there is any noticeable impact on the AT&T network during friday when Operation Chokehold may become true.

Well this is rare: As Golem.de has reported today in this post, Microsoft offers the book Visual Basic 2008 - Das Entwicklerbuch written by Klaus Löffelmann published under Microsoft Press free for download.

In the spirit of Christmas, as it seems, have they decided to give you, for a registration, the bonus and additional material, which includes the source code examples, for free.
The book itself (unfortunately for all English speaking readers in German) is available for free and without registration.

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Today I have seen this interesting post from TechCrunch about Google with the title Achtung! Google Analytics is illegal, say German Government officials. The article summarises what the German news portal "Die Zeit Online" (online version of the famous newspaper "Die Zeit") has written in its article.

Of course did I read the original article on "Die Zeit Online" with the title Datenschützer wollen Einsatz von Google verhindern (in good old English: Privacy advocates want to prohibit Google Analytics).

Well this is an old discussion in good old Germany, which is overcautious regarding the data privacy regulation. I would say (and this a friend of mine has confirmed recently) that it is the country with the hardest regulations concerning data privacy in the web (e.g. for online shops, forums, blogs and whatever else there is on the web). So far this article was not surprising.

What was surprising indeed, was the fact, that the original article from "Die Zeit Online" was not accurate and really bad researched.

The fact, that Google is pushing its new Chrome OS into the market respectively it is only beginning to push it, is reason enough to think about the current and future situation of "traditional" operating systems.

TechCrunch has just published a comment from MG Siedler where he is talking about the squeezing of Microsoft

Basically this supports my thesis put in the earlier post about Windows 7

So we'll be excited about what the future (or Google) will bring us.

Today I have watched some TV before going to the office. And there has been an interesting report about Steampunk in the German IT-Broadcast "Neues" (Click here for the homepage of Neues)

I was really fascinated by the look of the machines from Rich Nagy and had to write a post immediately.

I am happy to hear from other artists in the IT-Area. Just drop a comment here.

Just discovered that there is another resource for ideas here at Brass Googles from the UK.

Well, this is an old topic: web design is at least a topic since there are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or even earlier. Nevertheless do I want to present you some hints and tips from my point of view, what a good design for a business site is. This idea has evolved in my current background, as I have recently changed the company and my employer is also thinking about a relaunch/modernisation of his homepage. So this is the reason I have chosen such an outdated (or should I say evergreen) topic.

The idea behind this is to have at the end a series of blog posts, which cover different sites as they come into my mind and to evaluate the positive and the negative sides of a design.

I hope this will be an interesting series for my readers to follow me and that we might have some kind of discussion.
As a starter, I want to give a short introduction into the normal "process" of the creation or the relaunch of a business web site.

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Now it is done: Windows 7 has released officially on 22nd Octobre 2009 worldwide. I had the chance to work in advance with the new operating system and this is a good opportunity to draw a first conclusion. I have to remark, that I need to switch back (from OS X Snow Leopard) at work to Windows, since I need to provide my colleagues with some 1st level support. So here are my first impressions: