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In this, the 999999nth version, of the Hitler Downfall meme, the Fuhrer finds out he didn't crack a nomination for the 2010 Blog Awards. Oh dear. Note to readers: The original clip we posted was removed from You Tube. Read "Could this be the dumbest company in the world?" for more background on this. In the meantime, here the clip is again from another video-sharing site, Zoopy: The clip was apparently created by Cape Town-based digital agency, Quirk eMarketing (Stacey Hutton ...

The Überfuhrers over at the Google Deathstar are busy slowly percolating into all aspects of our lives. One of their most ambitious projects is Google Street View. Googlemobiles (not to be confused with Google Mobile) crawl the streets like spy-droids taking panoramic 360 degree pictures every few metres. They look like cars that wish they were submarines. It's basically a standard car -- often a Toyota Prius (to get the greenwashing thumbs up) -- but with a periscoped camera attached ...

Next time you’re at a coffee shop, take note of how many people are sitting alone. Plenty. The digital age has taken the "lonely geezer" label off those sitting in solitude. Chances are, they’re actually socialising up a storm in a chat-room, flirting with someone on Facebook ... or running a very successful business from their virtual office. This is indeed the ‘brave new world’, where public space is gobbled up by private individuals partaking in public activities and working ...

You’re probably not aware that good user experience design and good usability are actually just like great sex. The conditions must be perfect, rhythm and timing are paramount, a bit of kink goes a long way, interruptions are a big no-no, and cuddle time can't be underestimated. Read on. The Conditions Must Be Perfect You know what time it is…that’s right…it’s business time. Just as with the beast with two backs, if you want a user to have an amazing experience on ...

Crowdsourcing, if you haven't heard of it, is also known as the 'cheap, lazy bastard way to get something done'. It's a technique gleefully employed by marketers and media outlets to ensure they get the pick of the litter for less. Separate the wheat from the chavs, as they say. It's also a great way to interact with global communities and to promote work and ideas. Think of it as a way to expose yourself without being arrested. Creative and IT-focused industries ...

The vuvuzela has certainly been one of the biggest talking points of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and has since crossed beyond South Africa's borders into other countries. Even celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio have been spotted with their lips around the plastic phenomenon. Google Zeitgeist, a service that provides insight into global, national, past and present search trends, has revealed a few surprising findings about what interests us about this World Cup. For example, some of the findings reveal that the ...

YouTube is the latest to join the world-wide frenzy over the vuvuzela. The South Africa instrument's distinctive drone can now be heard by any curious football World Cup fanatics when they click a newly-placed football-shaped button, found in the bottom right corner of all YouTube video frames. Upon clicking the obscurely placed button, a loud blast from a vuvuzela hits unsuspecting viewers like a 90th minute winner for Team USA. YouTube were so proud of their addition that they tweeted ...

At around R25-billion in value, football is a serious business for FIFA. While all this seriousness can easily weigh on the game's natural "joie de vivre", there are still some mavericks out there poking fun at the expense of the giant, mini-dress hating, wad of cash that is FIFA and its associated media circus. Here are four Twitter accounts worth following this World Cup if you're looking for a good dose of humour: Name: @FIFAGlobalPR Location: We are everywhere Bio: This page exists to ...

It had to happen. Following the great tradition of parodying a particular excerpt from the Nazi movie Downfall where Hitler and his generals have a heated exchange -- here's yet another parody. This particular Hitler excerpt deals with the controversy surrounding the trumpet-like Vuvuzela at the Fifa World Cup. The South African instrument has become a topic of conversation world-wide to the extent that it has been trending since the start of the World Cup on Twitter. It was even ...

If there is one cliché that seems to apply perfectly to Twitter right now, it is this: ‘be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.’ This seems to be the central dilemma facing the upstart company that went from cult favourite to mainstream giant faster than it took you to write 140 characters. The surge of traffic that has accompanied the FIFA World Cup has had them scrambling for weeks now, and frequent downtime has been experienced across ...