The year 2008, in pictures

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2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I’ve done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It’s not the story of 2008, it’s certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Watch for part 2 and part 3 tomorrow and the next day. (40 photos total)…
see the photos here…

The xFactor

Users can create their own character that is animated and combined with their voice recording to create a truly unique performance. The masterpieces can be shared via Facebook or downloaded to a mobile phone. The winners of the online performances feature in the TV ident.

a little on the slow end, but some wicked drawings…

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Samsung Mobile | A revolution in mobile music

Samsung have teamed up with Bang & Olufsen for the speakers in their new phones. The Microsite highlights these attributes.

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more about the making of

a bit of self-promo…

The last weeks, I spent a lot of time re-working my Shanti CMSes SEO-ability.

And the efforts are starting to bare fruit. Or so it seems anyways…
- I polished the function generating and submitting the sitemap.xml function (the webmaster-tools now fully approve it). The sitemap is submitted to Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, MSN (Live.com) and Moreover.com.
- added a robots.txt specifying the content we want indexed.
- the addresses are now SEO friendly, resulting in better ranking in search engines.
- Also modified some of the PHP generating the navigational structure allowing the site administrator more liberty as to the appearance of the content, as well as more SEO friendly code.

The results, 15% more visitors coming via search engines, a 15% drop in bounce rate, 4.8 page depth per visit (as opposed to 2.3 before).

And to top it all off, Olivier, the master acupuncturist called me today, he got two new clients because of his site today. The new features have been in place for a little more then one week.

SEO time well spent…

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I hate to say it…

but I told you so…

Sites like SurfTheChannel, Watch-Movies and Tv-Links and many Many MANY like them have been around and sprung up since a couple of years now. Then there’s NBC, FOX and (surely CBS offers this too) that stream their shows on their website via an on-demand service.Though highly annoying as it is for US surfers only, so you cannot access it unless you visit them via a proxy.

. All thanks to Flash video, as I am sure Macromedia (ahem, Adobe) would want you to believe. Putting the origins aside. Having settled their dispute with Viacom, YouTube (ahem Google) now signed a deal with MGM. Youtube will show full-length films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s archives…

So who will the other portals follow with now? Surely Turner and Murdoch have some deals up theirs (he he - now I don’t), I mean their sleeves as well…

watch this story closely as it develops…

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