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dirty hack: remove xing.com iframe ads with greasmonkey

crux — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:09:04 +0000

ok, after this very short twitteruption this afternoon of the premium xings i sat down tonight at home and thought, hmm? getting rid of advertising on xing.com isn’t really worth a premium membership. A short look onto the pagesource with firebug revealed the pretty simple html schema.

so even me personally was able to sketch a simplistic greasemonkey script to erase ad iframes from the xing page like follows:

UPDATE: fixed the script and updated pastie link(thx henrik)

eeeeasy, download from pastie download (old) (no guarantees, you know, script might eat your backups and such)

For those who don’t know, Greasemonkey is a firefox extension to add custom javascript to any website. And this means, you can do whatever you want with the content. There are greasemonkey scripts which are adding links to the amazon site linking to sites with better prices for example. not fair, but thats life. in the web20 world.

have fun

p.s.: they paypal/aws/whatever payment sponsor button to fork 1 euro from your saved premium account money i will code next week – hope to welcome you back on payday.

Technorati Tags: xing, greasemonkey, adbuster, twitter

bookmarking deluxe with AddThis!

crux — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:13:35 +0000

What techcrunch is doing can’t be wrong, not totally wrong at least i hope. So lets see, AddThis! seems to finally solve the bookmarking issue once and for all by just taking it out of your hands completly and leaving the freedom of choice in the hand of the readers. It took me less than 2 minutes to click through their “Get your free widget” site and i had my personal bookmark button(test page).

And than, you get statistics pages for free, (techcrunchs, not mine though, sigh):
…and as you can see from the charts, AddThis does RSS Feeds too.

Is this all? Nope, there is more, of course a AddThis! WordPress Plugin is available as well. But you go figure that out for yourself, i guess.

have(a lot of) fun
cheers

ps.: and(thx to wp plugin) try the bookmark button under this article ;-)

Technorati Tags: widget, techcrunch, addthis, bookmarking

sharper images for foto-foo

crux — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:23:47 +0000

form the “competition drives innovation” department i would like to tell you about the foto-foo (of my company) update for sharper images, but see for yourself!

nobody blogged about us(sigh), but with cameroid and phozi two other sites similar to us got mentioned on techcrunch and elsewhere. And as competition drives…, you know, we are glad to have them around. To keep us motivated. So we got sharper images for today, lets see whats next? Ideas?

Technorati Tags: foto-foo, photobooth, cameroid, phozi, onlinewebcam, webcam, widget, idmedia

Update: Your Joost invites are about to expire

crux — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:49:28 +0000

Update: Do NOT trigger the password reset!

username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de

password: super-secret

Update: someone reset the password(don’t do it!):

URL: https://www.joost.com/ username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de password: supersecret

have fun

Joost update:

In response to your request we have reset your password.Click the link below to create a new password:

https://www.joost.com/forgot/PTYytfWTrzU8D6EwDU4iwGtPH73jmv0gYKlznc.Mh0smuFMQA0jcr0.html If link doesn't work, you can try copy-pasting it into your browser's address window, or retype it there. Best regards,The Joost team

Your Joost invites are about to expire, Huh?

crux — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:47:52 +0000

the joost folks start spamming to rush us its beta testers into sending invitations.

So hurry – time’s running out :)

To use your tokens, go to https://www.joost.com/betatest/invitations.html before March 22 and fill in the form. We’ll send out your invitation straight away.

ok, they asked for it and who am i to obey? To speed up and simplify things a bit i send an invitation to myself and give it to you. Here you get the beefy part of their invitation reply, go use it in what ever way you’re please to do:

To get started, please visit https://www.joost.com/betatest/ and login with your invitation beta access details:

Username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de     (Case sensitive!)
Password: 96ffdayj     (Case sensitive!)

After you've logged in, visit https://www.joost.com/betatest/settings/ to choose your own password.

first come first serve, but i suggest the first one to choose a password just uses jyadff69 than all the followers can use the same account. you decide.

the mac client is actually quite nice and according to their own rumours a massive openening up and lots of invitation ar just around the corner.

have fun

Technorati Tags: joost, free, invitation, video, iptv, marketing

LASER Tagging

crux — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:40:48 +0000

military laser guidance technic in the hands of urban rebels makes for a super cool new way of tagging tall buildings with laser pointers. Graffitiresearch from rotterdam is putting high tech in the hands of “writers, protesters, artists and the citizens of Rotterdam”.

go see the movie!

Technorati Tags: laser, graffiti, tagging, media, art, guerilla, marketing

Falsches Spiel mit echtem Geld im SecondLife

crux — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:31:28 +0000

Ich mag Zahlen und es freut mich immer auf Leute zu stossen die vernünftig damit um gehen können. In “The Linden dollar Game” weist Randolph Harrison die unseriöse Grundlage der SecondLife Ökonomie nach. Mit der ganzen Kühle des anlytischen Arguments erklärt er warum SecondLife keine Ökonomie sondern ein HYIP Schema ist, in Deutschland besser bekannt unter dem Namen Piloten- oder Pyramidenspiel. Solch provokanten Thesen verhallen natürlich nicht ungehört in der Blogsphere.

Und dann hat er auch noch so schöne Charts. Die mag ich ja fast noch lieber als nackte Zahlen. Entscheidet selbst, schon ohne jedwede weitere Information zu dem Chart auf der linken Seite wird doch sofort ersichtlich, dass dort wohl irgentwas auseinander läuft. Anspruch und Realität, Traum und Wirklichkeit. Die technische Analyse der Börsenkurse erscheint mir im allgemeinen nur wenig vertrauensbildender als das betrachten der Permanenzen beim Roulette. In diesem Fall allerdings machen ein paar technische Betrachtungen durchaus Sinn.

Es gibt viele Dinge die man aktuell zu SL sagen könnte, aber das erscheint mir müssig. Das wird sich schon von alleine klären und mir gefiehlen eben die schönen Infographiken.

Bermerkenswert ist vieleicht noch die Tatsache, dass laut Valleywag erst die “Herrison was apperently forced to abandon his research” Aktvitäten die Grund dafür waren das er motiviert wurde die SL Ökonomie nach allen Regeln der Zunft ausseinanderzunehmen. Ist ja auch eine Menge Arbeit. Deswegen auch hier noch ein paar charts:

Take note of the consistent decline in hours per total unique player, barely breaking even from mid 2005 until only last month (January 2007) in an amazing reversal. Historical trends predict future months will return to hours per unique player declines.

Growth, Growth, Growth
Linden has boasted unbelievable growth numbers, even proudly displaying them on their Second Life home page. In fact, Clay Shirky didn’t believe the numbers, and challenged them in myriad forums (earning him fierce sometimes slanderous attacks from the Second Life faithful).

Don’t mess with the Blogosphere! möchte man da doch raten (learn more).

SecondLife ist also ein Pilotenspiel, ‘so what?’ Mich jedenfalls stört das nicht. Genausewenig wie ich Geld in Pyramidenspiele stecke werde ich meine Geld im SL verlieren. Virtuall Reality gibt es ja nun schon recht lange, aber nie hat es so richtig gezündet. Diesmal bin ich der Meinung, 3D ist gekommen ist um zu bleiben. Der Hype wird verschwinden, vieleicht auch LindenLabs und SL, aber das 3D Bewusstsein scheint mir endgültig angekommen zu sein.

more to come

Technorati Tags: secondlife, marketing, blogosphere, economy

plazes

joe.sixpack — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:14:14 +0000

Download Flash plugin

umzüge im vernetzten zeitalter machen doch immer wieder netzwerkstress. von 1.2 nach 3.2 auf die galerie gezogen und schon fehlt telefon, WLAN, Strom. Und auch mit richtigem LAN Kabel schafft ich es nicht mich ins netz zu finden über eine nicht gepatchte dose. Und so aktualisiere ich dann einfach mal meinen lange verweisten Plazes account zu testzwecken.

have fun