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DPA macht Schülern ein Angebot, das man ausschlagen sollte

November 27, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

Es ist vertrackt mit diesem öffentlichen Internet. Es verhagelt einem, wenn man ein alter kastenbewusster Pressefutzi ist, plötzlich die Einnahmen. Die DPA macht nun ein Angebot, das heuchelnd daher kommt:

Die Nachrichtenagentur steigt in den Bildungsmarkt ein: Gemeinsam mit einem Dienstleister bietet die Deutsche Presse-Agentur künftig Nachrichten, Fotos und Grafiken für Lehrer und Schüler an – die sollen sich damit künftig Recherche im Internet sparen.

Oh lala, das ist aber nobel. Aber warum sollen Schüler nicht im Internet herumsuchen, dabei Fehler machend auf so manch interessante Sache stossend, Dinge lernen? Eine Presseagentur möchte Lehrinhalte bestimmen. Das hatte Dland aber schon vor etlichen Jahrzehnten … Und die DPA zusammen mit einem angeblichen Marktführer in Sachen Online-Lernportalen in Deutschland, Conciety, deren ernüchternde Website hier ist, machen ein absolut charakterloses Abzockerangebot:

Das Angebot, das eine Schule bis zu 2000 Euro jährlich kostet, sollen Lehrer für die Unterrichtsvorbereitung nutzen.

Natürlich wäre das im Sinne der Leeerer, von denen gut ein Drittel Vollidioten sind.

Es ist so offensichtlich, dass hier jemand ohne jegliche Ideen sich aus Steuergeldern Einkünfte verschaffen will, die er im freien Markt nicht zu beschaffen vermag. Dabei hat man sich natürlich auch überhaupt nicht umgeschaut, denn wieso sollte man auch als eine abgetakelte Journalistenfirma so etwas lesen?? Search Engines are teachers

The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of 426 searching tasks. They found that search engines are primarily used for fact checking users’ own internal knowledge, meaning that they are part of the learning process rather than simply a source for information. They also found that people’s learning styles can affect how they use search engines.

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Microsoft stores: death of the cool

November 18, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

When you have absolutely no ideas of your own, ever. When you copy concepts and designs it still does not give you any coolness. Watch this pathetic show of minimum paid employees at a MS store. When nobody in the audience is caring about the show you put up, it may be a good idea to stop.

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Markus Berger-de Léon will pay your taxi …

November 11, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

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Markus is the guy with the balloon head. That’s right, the one on the left.

Markus is a neat and nice dude as you can see and should you have hacked into the data base of a social, ehem, network, syphoned off some million data sets of, no not adults, but KIDS!!  Markus is willing to talk to you. And social prick Markus will even pay your taxi, some 500 (five hundred in words!) EURO that is, to shuttle your creepy ass to Berlin.

And then his tech chief is talking no shit but gets right into the potatoes saying „you can hack our data, we even pay you. Just paaleeaase, do not make it public.“ Of course he will deny everything later, just as he denied that StudiVZ offered up to 80,000 Euro to a hacker, who meanwhile is no more as he committed suicide…

Fucktard Markus came from the Jamba company, the company that milks young people out of money for braindead ring tones. So it is only fitting that he replaced the listless former CEO of said social PETwork. Oh, lest nobody forget, StudiVZ belongs to the Holtzbrinck Group.

Markus, if you have any style left, leave. And Holtzbrinck, if you have guts you throw him out!

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The Mac is transgenerational

November 9, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

As if we Mac users needed any proof. But it is always nice to see people from the savviest, coolest and most avant-garde strata of society.

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The fucktards of Bild.de block iPhone access

November 7, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

Ha ha, what an intellectual loss. Just one question assholes at Bild: who wants to read your fecal output?? And pay for your crap…?

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Facebook games scams

November 2, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

You play FarmVille on FaceFuck? No?, perhaps you are using another app that pulls down your private data? No? But millions of idiots are doing this: joining a network, playing absolutely dumb games, leaving their front door open 24/7/365. I am pretty sure many of these people have anti-virus sw on their computer and run behind a firewall, yet they undress themselves beyond the nude on FB. They put private photos on the net that clearly show where they live and next they tell people they will be in Asia for some weeks. Great for thieves and easy. But this is about the games …

Here is a good article about these scams and some insight into the typical FB user:

I finally came to this realization: People on Facebook won’t pay for anything. They don’t have credit cards, they don’t want credit cards, and they are not interested in shopping. But you can trick them into doing one of three things:

  • Download a toolbar: It could be spyware (such as Zango) or something more legitimate, such as Webfetti or Zwinkys.
  • Give up their email address: You’ve won a “free” camera or perhaps you’ve been selected as a tester for a new Macbook Pro (which you get to keep at the end of the test). Just tell us where you want us to ship it.
  • Give up their phone number: You took the IQ Quiz, so give us your phone number and we’ll tell you your score. Never mind that you’ll get billed $20 a month or perhaps be tricked into inviting 10 other friends to beat your score.

This thing will get bigger publicity and ultimately law inforcement will step in. Meanwhile ..

Weak enforcement: Paul Jeffries, who enforced (or didn’t enforce, depending on your view) the platform rules, wanted to allow a laissez-faire economy, stepping in only when the violations were so egregious that his call center was getting flooded with complaints. He called me into a meeting and told me that my ads were costing him more in customer service than any revenue I was possibly generating. That pre-supposed that he knew what we were generating – in the high 5 figures a day. And most of that was profit, since we paid out only a fraction of what we earned. Remember that we had to beat only what Google AdSense generated.

There was no way that Facebook – and definitely not the Federal Trade Commission—could keep up with the “innovation” happening. Witness the virtual currency scam, where users complete the offers mentioned above to earn points in a game. It doesn’t take a genius to know that the quality of such leads is garbage – these users are filling out forms just to get the points.

They sign up for Netflix, a platinum credit card, get an auto insurance quote, whatever. The industry term for type of traffic is called “incentivized”. The underlying advertiser is paying for these leads much like they would if they were coming from paid search. They may be told they’re getting incent traffic—or maybe not. Or maybe the ad network, the middleman between the advertiser (company paying for traffic) and publisher (source of traffic) is mixing PPC, email, and incent (also called social) traffic to hit certain quality thresholds.

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Weak end reads

Oktober 31, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

1. Proof of the world’s energy insanity: scraping tar sands

2. Creative destruction: Fisker is going to build electric cars at  a former Pontiac plant. Schumpeter would love this.

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Johnny Ive of Apple

Oktober 29, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

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Weak end reads

August 7, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

opel1. The Opel saga continues to bore because German politicians still believe they are deciding the fate of this doomed car company.

Don’t believe everything you hear, says J. Smith, group VP of GM.

2. Secret Apple app rejection code revealed (TC)

3. Rejoice all Windows 7 fucktards. Here is your personal upgrade chart. Jerk off before upgrade.

4. Oh those Goldman bitches (H/T GS666)

5. Germany’s export dependence

The presumption that what is good for exports is good for the economy partly explains why consumer spending in Germany has historically been weak. Its typical response to a faltering economy is to trim manufacturing costs, including wages, in order to keep exports keenly priced against other countries.

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Neuer Vodafone Slogan: Du hast deine Tage!

August 2, 2009 · Kommentar schreiben

Nachdem die Vodafone Werbeaktion „Generation Upload“ (war torrent upload gemeint?) mit dem Schlogan „Es ist deine Zeit“ nicht so gut ankam, stieg Vodafone D-land Chef Joussen zusammen mit dem weltbekannten Blogger Sascha Lobo in ein intergenerational Brainschtorming.

Fritz Joussen verharrte während dieser Session lange Zeit mit seinem Blick auf Lobo-Hobo’s roten Haarhalo gerichtet, die Gedanken schweiften zurück an glückliche Stunden mit ebenso weltbekannter BDSM Bloggerin Ute Hamelmann: EUREKA !

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