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Facts about Social Media in Europe and Germany

Dustin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:27:09 +0000

Today the number of social networks, business networks, social bookmarking services, news aggregation and microblogging tools, photo and video sharing platforms, a.o. is growing and online communication, collaboration and multimedia has an important influence on people’s social and working life.
The videos below show how many people played Farmville, used Facebook or are fans of Nutella by December 2009 and that social media is not just fad.

KMF – Social Media in Europe and Germany

KMF Werbung GmbH, a german advertising, online and CRM agency published a video on Youtube in December 2009 with latest facts about the growth of social media in Europe and Germany.

Social Media Revolution

This is a really compact, nice video of what social media is in numbers.

Nexus One – Google announces new phone [live]

Dustin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:38:27 +0000

Today Google and HTC revealed their new phone called Nexus One. You can order the phone directly on google.com/phone, but by now it can only be shipped to the U.S., UK, Hong Kong and Singapore. Information about prices and availability is posted on Techcrunch.

Link: ustream.tv – Live from Google

Google Nexus One website

So what’s new?

New is the AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) display, which means that each pixel is controlled via an active matrix and has its own power connection. The big advantage of OLED is that it needs no backlight like LCD displays. Black pixels are not emitted black instead they are turned off. This yields to a higher contrast and saves the battery. Below you will find a short comparison with HTC Hero and the IPhone 3GS.

	HTC Hero	HTC Nexus One	IPhone 3GS
Processor	528 MHz, 5Qualcomm MSM7200A	1 GHz, Qualcomm QSD 8250	600 MHz, Samsung S5PC100 ARM Cortex-A8
RAM	288 MB	512 MB	256 MB
Storage	256 MB Flash memory, microSD up to 32 GB	512 MB Flash memory, 4GB microSD included, microSD up to 32 GB	16 & 32 GB Flash memory
Dimensions	112 mm 56,2 mm 14,4 mm	119 mm 59,8 mm 11,5 mm	115,5 mm 62,1 mm 12,3 mm
Weight with battery	135 g	130 g	135 g
Display	3,2″ TFT-LCD 320 x 480 Pixel HVGA-resolution	3,7″ AMOLED 480 x 800 Pixel WVGA-resolution	3,5″ TFT-LCD 480 x 320 Pixel
Camera	5.0 MP	5.0 MP	3.0 MP
Price unlocked	ca. 570 US$	529 US$	ca. 860-1150 US$

Official Nexus One intro video

Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleNexusOne to watch more N1 videos.

(image: google.com/phone)

Google Search Shortcuts – advanced googling

Dustin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:12:00 +0000

Even ten years after the launch of Google Search most people do not know how to specify their search string to get more qualitative results. This article provides some shortcuts to make search results more efficient, productive and powerful.

Top 5 plus 1:

From time to time we want to google something more precise or detailed and have to think twice about the search string. Here are the six most useful shortcuts for advanced googling. Notice that your results will be even better when you combine them.

planet OR world - either the word planet or world (OR has to be written in uppercase) [view]
“top-down regulation“ – looks for the exact string [view]
planet -music – planet but not music (no blank after the hyphen) [view]
define:neuroscience – looks for definitions of the word neuroscience [view]
planet * world – looks for the words planet and world separated by one or more words
site:www.times.com “Obama“ – looks for Obama mentioned on NY Times Online (no blank before and after the hyphen) [view]

Math and conversions

You can also calculate arithmetic and advanced equations, constants, convert Dollars into Euros, Pounds into Kilos, here are some examples:

basic arithmetic using +, -, *, /, ^, nth root of, mod or % of
advanced math:
- trigonometric functions using cos, sin, tan, sec, csc, cot
- inverse trigonometric functions using arcsin, arccos, arctan, arccsc
- hyperbolic functions using sinh, cosh, tanh, csch, arcsinh, arccsch
- logarithm using ln (base e), log (base 10), lg (base 2)
- exponential functions using exp
- Factorial !
constants using e, pi, Euler’s constant, Planck’s constant
conversions using currency, mass, length, volume, area, time, electricity, energy, power, information, quantity, numbering systems

[For more details please visit GoogleGuide.com]