ErwinVanlun.com http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ The evolution of media, marketing and brands on a daily basis http://www.mensmerk.nl/images/6handslogo_rss.gif ErwinVanLun.com: the evolution of media, marketing and brands http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ 144 30 Day to day world wide en eeadmin@mensmerk.nl Copyright 2008 2008-05-11T12:08:00+01:00 Number of chatbots in the Netherlands explodes http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/chatbots_automated_chat_friends/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/chatbots_automated_chat_friends/ This year in the Netherlands the growth in the number of chatbots, automated chat friends on websites or in Live Messenger, has tripled. Chatbots.org, an ErwinVanLun.com and Mensmerk.nl initiative, has announced this morning via a press release. These statistics have been gathered by analysis and questioning of all Dutch chatbot suppliers. In the future we will more often have contact with, for example, companies, via chatbots. Here follows the full press release. This site This year in the Netherlands the growth in the number of chatbots, automated chat friends on websites or in Live Messenger, has tripled. Chatbots.org, an ErwinVanLun.com and Mensmerk.nl initiative, has announced this morning via a press release. These statistics have been gathered by analysis and questioning of all Dutch chatbot suppliers. In the future we will more often have contact with, for example, companies, via chatbots. Here follows the full press release.

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]]> 2008-04-29T09:28:00+01:00 The end of written language http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/written_language_images_concepts_writing/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/written_language_images_concepts_writing/ Humans think in images and concepts but not in written language. Very rarely does someone see something literally written in their thoughts. We dream in 'happenings'. Now that the virtual world has come into existence it is possible that in the long term (think 2050) a world will come into existence where 'reading' and 'writing' has evolved into a hobby. Something that people needed to do in the past but that's now just fun to learn, just like making clogs, crocheting or milking cows. Twists React |Read details

]]> 2008-04-28T20:29:00+01:00 TravellersTV submerges holiday makers in video http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/travel_holiday_video/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/travel_holiday_video/ At TravellersTV.com everything revolves arround video content based on holiday destinations. You see the continents on a click-able Google map. Once you have clicked a video over the continent begins. Then you can zoom in on a destionation and you will find related video chanels (in total there are 1200 destinations and 20 lifestyle tv channels). The videos often include supplementary text. In addition you find a buttons by every destination for more information over accommodation, food and drink, attractions, events, activities, transport and shoppig. You can rate, tag and comment on everything and you can also send the information on to others. But... it's still a beta version, sometimes things work and sometimes they don't, the content is far from complete but it is still well worth a look. A good concept with a lot of possibilities for good business models in the future... Brand Evolution, Personal brands, Holiday At TravellersTV.com everything revolves arround video content based on holiday destinations. You see the continents on a click-able Google map. Once you have clicked a video over the continent begins. Then you can zoom in on a destionation and you will find related video chanels (in total there are 1200 destinations and 20 lifestyle tv channels). The videos often include supplementary text. In addition you find a buttons by every destination for more information over accommodation, food and drink, attractions, events, activities, transport and shoppig. You can rate, tag and comment on everything and you can also send the information on to others. But... it's still a beta version, sometimes things work and sometimes they don't, the content is far from complete but it is still well worth a look. A good concept with a lot of possibilities for good business models in the future...

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]]> 2008-04-28T18:03:00+01:00 Holographic monster comes to life http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/holographic_loch_ness/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/holographic_loch_ness/ In Japan the Loch Ness monster has been brought to life with the help of water and holographic effects. This has been realized for Sony as promotion for the film The Water Horse. The monster regularly comes to life giving passers by the fright of their lives. Media Evolution Sony as promotion for the film The Water Horse. The monster regularly comes to life giving passers by the fright of their lives.

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]]> 2008-04-26T17:53:00+01:00 ImmoSpy works Europe wide http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/immospy_works_europe_wide/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/immospy_works_europe_wide/ House specialist Immospy, known in the Netherlands as miljoenhuizen.nl, is now available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. By focusing on Europe (instead of individual countries) almost 4 million houses for sale are made available. Brand Evolution, Personal brands, Home, World Evolution House specialist Immospy, known in the Netherlands as miljoenhuizen.nl, is now available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. By focusing on Europe (instead of individual countries) almost 4 million houses for sale are made available.

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]]> 2008-04-26T17:40:01+01:00 Rijksmuseum places a different object on your site every day http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/rijksmuseum_different_art_dayly/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/rijksmuseum_different_art_dayly/ Via a widget, a tiny piece of software, the Rijksmuseum places a new art object on the sites of its users each day: every day a new art object, on users websites, on their profiles on social networking sites, or (as we have done here) on a their blogs. At the moment of posting there was an image of a painting of a man with angels wings, tomorrow there will be something else. Brand Evolution React |Read details | Read Vision

]]> 2008-04-25T19:36:00+01:00 Supermarkets to register everything you look at http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/supermarkets_to_register_everything_you_look_at/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/supermarkets_to_register_everything_you_look_at/ Twelve supermarkets will be using Vision Tracking technology from May. The consumer will wear a pair of glasses with a built in camera which registers everything that is looked at and the reaction it produces. The information gathered is to be coupled with the turn over figures. Technology Twelve supermarkets will be using Vision Tracking technology from May. The consumer will wear a pair of glasses with a built in camera which registers everything that is looked at and the reaction it produces. The information gathered is to be coupled with the turn over figures.

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]]> 2008-04-22T12:23:00+01:00 Yvette Rabobank now also in online girly world http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/yvette_rabobank_now_also_in_online_girly_world/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/yvette_rabobank_now_also_in_online_girly_world/ Rabobank's brand agent Yvette (Dutch) can now also be found at the virtual bank branch in the girly game GoSupermodel. The first day that the virtual bank branch was open she received 1.545 mails and 8.342 chat sessions were started with her. The branch itself was visited 14.453 times. Brand Evolution Rabobank's brand agent Yvette (Dutch) can now also be found at the virtual bank branch in the girly game GoSupermodel. The first day that the virtual bank branch was open she received 1.545 mails and 8.342 chat sessions were started with her. The branch itself was visited 14.453 times.

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]]> 2008-04-18T20:41:00+01:00 Playboy on the iPhone http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/playboy_on_the_iphone/ http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/playboy_on_the_iphone/ Playboy has created a version of Playboy.com for the iPhone, iPlayboy contains, amongst other things, Playboy radio, videos, tips for going out and of course the Playboy photos. Have you always wanted to know the difference between a Bunny, a Playmate and a Centerfold? The website offers an ‘Ask Hef' function that will give you the answer to this and much more. The site was launched with the choosing of ‘Miss Mobile Playboy'. Brand Evolution, Personal brands, Sex Playboy has created a version of Playboy.com for the iPhone, iPlayboy contains, amongst other things, Playboy radio, videos, tips for going out and of course the Playboy photos. Have you always wanted to know the difference between a Bunny, a Playmate and a Centerfold? The website offers an ‘Ask Hef' function that will give you the answer to this and much more. The site was launched with the choosing of ‘Miss Mobile Playboy'.

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