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These fake vintage ads for Facebook, Skype and Youtube created by Brazilian ad agency Moma for a media seminar called “Everything Ages Fast”. They are just brilliant. Thanks to Laughing Squid.

A year ago I wrote “9 Things That Makes You A “Wannabe” Problogger“. I guess you are all very excited to see what has happened since then. These are the bullets I think are a vital part of every problogger. <Satire on> Use a Mac, usually a MacBook Pro, iMac or MacBook Air Keen interest [...]

Maybe you’ve seen the latest Star Trek trailer. If you haven’t, you’ve missed one of the best trailers in a long time. I saw it several times and it gives me goosebumps every time I see it. I blame the goosebumps on the music used in the latest trailer. After seeing the Star Trek Movie [...]

It’s the season premiere of What’s On Your Computer aka. Show Me Your Desktop. I’ll continue with the akas’. Chris Pirillo aka L0ckergn0me will kick this season off. You can’t write about Chris Pirillo without linking to a lot different sites. Chris and his wife Ponzi are the minds behind the increasingly popular technology conference [...]

Microsoft’s latest ads are hilarious! I admit they are a bit strange and really don’t have much of a story or message. It could remind you about a certain sitcom featuring a certain actor with a certain last name. The $300 millon ad campaign features Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld as opposite to “Hi I’m [...]

This is only my second video, so please be gentle. Using summize.com I’ve gathered some of the tweets from desperate, disappointed or even angry twitterers after twitter.com’s nasty downtime last Wednesday. Which program and on which hardware I made the video is not important, at least not now, but it’s a part of my quest [...]

Did you remember to read last week’s interview with Shoemoney? This season’s last interview is with Fake Steve Jobs. Most people know Steve Jobs (creator of the iPhone), but not everybody read Steve Job’s secret blog/diary. Some say it’s not written by Steve Jobs himself, but by Fake Steve Jobs. Some even say that Fake [...]

Every single Google service is brilliant and very useful, but when they connect you get a very powerful system, that could be too much good. Should we start to watch out? The other day our son turned 7 months and it probably won’t be long until I have to help him set up his first [...]

According to experts the use of online advertising will increase by 23% in 2008. This is more than 40 billion dollars, but a riot might be around the corner. Adsense has made Google one most valuable companies in the world and the ads on social networks such as Facebook help those companies make billions each [...]

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.