My spam prevention strategy includes a great free service called Spam Gourmet which provides me with ‘disposable’ on-the-fly email addresses. If I do not trust the site that asks me to enter my email address, I just fill in an address like xyz.5.soldierer@spamgourmet.com. Spam Gourmet will then forward up to 5 emails to my secret private email address. On another site I would enter abc.2.soldierer@xoxy.net, and Spam Gourmet, who also owns the xoxy.net domain, would forward max. 2 emails. Using disposable email addresses, I can safely drop some bait for the harvesting robots here: Continue reading
Category Archives: English
OpenSocial – What’s missing?
If you, like me, have opened a number of social network accounts, you have entered your personal profile multiple times at different web sites. You then have to again search and select your friends. Isn’t it annoying to go through this process over and over again? Continue reading
Technology for eMarketing
I have always pointed out that an eMarketer needs to have a good understanding of the technologies involved. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that every eMarketer needs a strong technology background to properly do the job. But it certainly helps a lot. Actually I would not want to do my job without this knowledge. Just a few examples: Continue reading
Yet another web site funnel
A funnel is often used to illustrate how many of your target audience will finally perform a desired action on the web site. For those who still believe that the mere existence of a web site is enough to get the “e” part of their marketing job done, a funnel is a handy tool to prove how wrong they are. Continue reading
Google bought Jaiku
Another smart acquisition by Google, proving that miniblogs are considered an important social networking phenomenon by big influencial organisations, too. I was wondering which of the miniblogs would be bought first. Twitter lost. With its strong mobile integration and RSS capabilities, Jaiku obviously was a more interesting acquisition target for Google. Lets hope that Google keeps up Jaiku’s good work. Continue reading
My first Laptop
You’ve probably met some wise computer veterans who constantly tell you that they started computing decades ago. And usually they talk about their first Atari or Commmodore 64, and how they wrote cool Assembler code to get it to do what they wanted it to do. I can’t impress anyone with my first 80286 desktop PC, but take a look at my first Laptop… Continue reading
Web Site Globalization Conference – Thursday Afternoon Session
2nd day of a well organized IQPC conference on Web Site Globalization, Barcelona Sep 20, 2007
Laurent Ezekiel – Senior Client Partner
LBI GROUP
Dan O’Sullivan – Director
EMEA, TRANSLATIONS.COM
“Creating, Deploying and Managing a Multi-Lingual / Multi-Country User Generated Content Site” Continue reading
Web Site Globalization Conference – Thursday Morning Session
2nd day of a well organized IQPC conference on Web Site Globalization, Barcelona Sep 20, 2007 Continue reading
Web Site Globalization Conference – Wednesday Afternoon Session
1st day of a well organized IQPC conference on Web Site Globalization, Barcelona Sep 20, 2007
Dr. Simon Lande – CEO
“A Guide to Defining, Implementing ang Managing Global Web Standards”
Simon Lande talked about Web Standards Continue reading