Show Me Your Desktop Gets A New Name
July 21, 2008
I’m about to start season 3 of Show Me Your Desktop, but as any good interviewer I spent quite some time researching.
In my “research” I contacted Scott Beale from Laughing Squid. I wanted to interview him. This is what he replied.
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Show Me Your Desktop Pre-Season
July 17, 2008
The next season of Show Me Your Desktop is about to start. The schedule is almost filled up.
Some of the people featured in season 3 of Show Me Your Desktop is, Stowe Boyd, Chris Garrett, Chris Pirillo (L0ckergnome) and Gary Vaynerchuck, who, if everything works out, will be guest blogging right here on The Beta News.
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Impulse Shopping Rules The Internet
March 28, 2008
Do the candy at the supermarket register tempt you? Or perhaps you buy one of those cheap on-sale dvds’ on your way to the register?
Perhaps you are one of the many impulse shoppers that daily keep the online stores alive.
I know impulse shopping it alive in our home. My wife is on maternity leave, so it comes very easy to her. One of her favourite stores, trendybaby.dk, asked their 346 most loyal customers about impulse shopping. 39% of the users are “victims” of impulse shopping. Read more
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Show Me Your Desktop Adam Ostrow - Delayed
March 10, 2008
I know you’ve been waiting for the next show me your desktop-interview. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I’ve promised Adam Ostrow from Mashable to delay it a few days. He has a special announcement regarding Mashable.
In the meantime you should check out the Mashable Rocks contest. This is a great chance to win som SXSW schwag, autographed Hanson (?!) CD and a complete Rock Band set for either Xbox360, PS3 or PS2. Read more
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The Beta News Contest Draw And Winners
February 22, 2008
The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest is now officially over and the winners have been drawn.
A great thanks goes to the sponsors, Lorelle VanFossen, David Airey and Entrecard.
I’ve drawn the winners using Random.org and recorded it with Camtasia Studio. This is my first video, so please be gentle. Read more
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The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest
February 7, 2008
In the next two weeks I’ll host the biggest contest ever on The Beta News. Actually it’s the first contest ever here, but who’s counting?!
Now the rules to participate are developed by my twisted brain, so hopefully this will be a contest unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
The rules are fairly simple. Read more
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Looking For Sponsors For 2 Year Anniversary Contest
January 31, 2008
The Beta News 2 year anniversary contest is about to kick off. In order to make the contest even more exciting I’m hoping to offer my readers and future readers some extraordinary cool prizes.
I’m therefore looking for some prize sponsors to make this contest as thrilling and interesting as possible. Read more
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The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary - Contest Coming Up
January 29, 2008
I almost completely forgot it, but this week it’s exactly two years ago I wrote my first blog post ever. It started out with www.petersen-inc.dk, which was supposed to be a family site with my resume and some private photos, but after a couple of years, I read about Wordpress and blogging, so I thought I’d try that.
Then last summer I moved to another domain - www.thebetanews.com. Read more
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Updates On The Beta News
January 23, 2008
Today I bought a new theme. I won’t go into details about which one yet and I’m certain that some of you might recognise it.
While I’m implementing the theme with all the new fancy new you stuff, you might experience a couple of changes while browsing The Beta News. This is not your computer or browser acting up, but just me installing the new theme.
To celebrate the new theme I’m launching a contest, but more about that later too.
For now just please be patient and The Beta News will look much better.
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Virtual Worlds For Kids Are The Next Web 2.0 Money Maker
January 22, 2008
As some of you might know I became a father for the first time about 3½ month ago. Now I’ve played Ultima Online,
Everquest 1+2 and seen MySpace.com grow. What will my son see? Will he spend his pocket money on things in a virtual world?
I think there’s a gold fever in the virtual world industry. Everybody wants to get a piece of the golden tweens (8-12 years) segment.
According to a report from eMarketer.com, 20 million American kids between 3 and 17 years will be a part of a virtual world by 2011. The big players on the market have already seen that and I guess that’s why Disney spent $350 million last August on the arctic ClubPenguin.com. For $5.95 your tween child can enjoy the life in his or her custom made igloo, if they aren’t bsy chatting with their friends on the ice.
Apparently $5.95 per month isn’t a problem for many parents. Every month the PenguinClub gets five million unique visits. Webkinz grew from less than 1 million to over 6 million last year. Read more
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