Friedbeef’s Tech

How to Select the Perfect Platform for Your Wiki, Blog, Forum or Podcasts

31. January 2007

“The more options we have -> the more information and effort we have to go into evaluating them -> the more likely we are to be dissatisfied with the outcome. Why? 1) Most people hate making trade-offs and will often avoid making choices until they absolutely have to, so having an abundance of choices [...]

How to Brainstorm – Web 2.0 Style

28. January 2007

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“Research has concluded that managers and students find the techniques of mind mapping to be useful, being better able to retain information and ideas than by using traditional ‘linear’ note taking methods.” – via Wikipedia What can bubbl.us do for you? What I like about bubbl.us What I didn’t like about bubbl.us Is bubbl.us worth your time? Everything you see [...]

Give a Man a Fish…

25. January 2007

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…and feed him for a day, teach him to fish – you feed him for life. That’s part of the philosophy behind Kiva.org – a site which helps entrepreneurs in 3rd world by helping them secure microloans to move their businesses forward. “Microfinance is the supply of loans, savings, and other basic financial services to the [...]

Advertising 2.0

22. January 2007

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“The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly.” Why? “…to show how the language of advertising [...]

Here Phishy, Phishy…

20. January 2007

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Do you ever get those annoying ‘PayPal’ e-mails requesting account information or a credit card number? Most people just glance over them and delete them. However, there are still many in the world who cannot differentiate these ill-intentioned e-mails from genuine mail, and naively enter their account information. It’s really unfortunate. This illegal, ill-willed tactic is [...]