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In its endless quest to categorize all information available (just like Google), Microsoft Live Labs has come up with Pivot:

Here at Live Labs we’re all about experiments, and Pivot is our most ambitious to date. Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web.

Sounds ambitious indeed, but looks cool and handy too I have to admit. Gary Flake, founder and director of Live Labs, did a TED presentation on the Pivot features (spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, discovery of patterns and links, …) that you absolutely, definitely have to see:

Will this become the new search, will this kind of applications revolutionize the way we think about search? Or will it change the way we browse the web?

Video sharing website YouTube turns 5 today. “Five years of YouTube, is that all?” was my first thought. After all it seems like YouTube has been around for a decade at least and we have to admit they revolutionized the internet as communication channel over the last few years.

On February 15, 2005 Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, former PayPal employees registered the domain name www.youtube.com. On April 23, 2005 the first video was posted showing Jawed at the San Diego Zoo.

Just one year later YouTube was amongst the 10 most visited websites in the world and by the end of 2006 Google acquired YouTube for the astonishing sum of 1,65 billion dollars.

And the rest is history:

I’m just curious how Google is ever going to monetize YouTube…

Yesterday Google, the advertising company that doesn’t advertise, made its debut on television by advertising during the Super Bowl breaks. The commercial is supposed to tell a Parisian love story in search:

If you watched the Super Bowl this evening you’ll have seen a video from Google called “Parisian Love”. In fact you might have watched it before, because it’s been on YouTube for over three months. We didn’t set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search. Our goal was simply to create a series of short online videos about our products and our users, and how they interact. But we liked this video so much, and it’s had such a positive reaction on YouTube, that we decided to share it with a wider audience.

More on Wired and the Google Blog

A nice collaborative presentation by m-Trends on mobile trends for the next 10 years. A lot of things to think about…

Languages made easy…

Didn’t make any 2010 resolutions myself, but I kinda liked this list I stumbled on:

• Flip around your pronouns when storytelling, especially where they have been heavily gendered
• When talking to someone who uses gendered pronouns, gently suggest they read the previous suggestion
• Look people in the eye and smile at them as you walk by them
• Diversify your examples
• Call out sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic or any other ‘minority group as stereotype’ jokes, references, slurs or language
• Don’t buy products from companies that offend you or treat you badly
• Take the time to talk with people with vastly different opinions
• Take the time to get to know people with vastly different experiences of the world
• Start taking people to task who talk about new media marketing in the same way Mad Men used old media marketing
• Admit to your mistakes
• Get to know your neighbours
• Don’t take bribes
• Leave product reviews
• Demand your data
• Use all the tools available to you to call out injustices and bad experiences

Happy 2010!

Really cool new Google Chrome ad! And really slow, unlike the browser…

Too bad, it had some nice visual and demographic features…

Dear Joris,

Last March, we announced the end of the adCenter Analytics beta program. We sent a reminder e-mail about the change last October.

This e-mail message is your final reminder that all hosted services, data collection, and technical support for adCenter Analytics will end on December 31, 2009. If you want to save your historical data, please use the export feature to download your reports before that date.

Microsoft adCenter e-mail support will also end on December 31. If you have not yet found an alternative web analytics solution, here is list of companies that offer comparable analytics solutions.
Thank you for your participation in the adCenter Analytics beta program. We appreciate your contribution.

Sincerely,

The Microsoft adCenter Analytics Team

The Microsoft Analytics blog stays online and will now focus on advertising ROI and optimization.

How to become a new media douchebag:

1. Don’t do any real work.
2. Talk, type, tag, text and Twitter about a lot of stuff. The greater the volume the better.
3. Be sure to hate a lot of stuff and tell folks.
4. Celebrate the other new media douchebags.

That’s all there is to it!

Congratz, you can now call yourself a new media douchebag ;-)

Kommon Kraft parody of Common Craft.

OK, it’s a geeky joke but I like it. Google changed its robots.txt file for Halloween. Somewhere near the end it says:

User-agent: Kids
Disallow: /tricks
Allow: /treats

via Matt Cutts