One of the common complaints about the Apple iPhone - beyond the inability to cut and paste - has been that such a powerful communications platform is sorely lacking in one particular respect: instant messaging. But Apple’s shortcoming in terms of a universal IM client is the iPhone development community’s gain. And any number of folks are rushing to fill that void. One recently released mobile IM client appears to have a fighting chance: Nimbuzz. But what makes Nimbuzz so compelling aside from the fact that it’s free? For one thing, it’s intuitive. Unlike other IM clients whose workflows (Read the full post about ‘Nimbuzz IM for the iPhone: Friendly to Fat Fingers’…)

One year ago, I discovered that I had contracted Type 1 Diabetes. I was 36 at that point and it’s relatively rare for someone of my age to suddenly get Type 1 Diabetes - indeed they used to call this form of diabetes "juvenile diabetes", because it mostly occurs in children. So it was quite a shock to discover that I had it! Immediately I looked to the Web to find out all I could about this condition. I discovered a thriving community of ‘health 2.0′ apps and social networks, which I then wrote about in this blog. As it’s now a year later, I thought it’d be good to review health (Read the full post about ‘Health 2.0 Through the Eyes of a Diabetic - One Year Later’…)

Set her freee at amnesty.fi Advertising Agency: TBWA\PHS Helsinki, Finland Art Director: Minna Lavola Copywriter: Mira Olsson Illustrators: Tommi Vallisto, Ikon Graphics Art Buyer: Kirsi Parni Published: October 2008 Source: www.holgerappel.com

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” - Dylan Thomas Who will turn this crisis around? We will. Who else? And how else but with innovation and entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurs: this is your time to step up to the plate. Hard as the times may be, you must remember, many, many great companies were born during recessions. And many others almost died in the midst of recessions but managed to survive through their founders’ tremendous grit and resilience. I am going to point you, in particular, to two stories in my new book, Entrepreneur Journeys (Read the full post about ‘We Have To Turn This Crisis Around’…)

Smoking causes sexual impotence in men. A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer. - Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland Advertising Agency: e-Studio, Cairo, Egypt Creative Director: Mohamed Ezzat Source: www.holgerappel.com

Netvibes, one of the many personalized homepage products available today, has just announced a new feature which allows users to share anything from their Netvibes pages - not just tabs, but also articles, widgets, and RSS feeds. This new feature allows those items to be shared via integration with two of the most popular social networks: Twitter and Facebook, the latter being powered by Facebook Connect. What’s not to love? As it turns out, based on the comments found on the Netvibes blog, users are not happy about this change. If you want to publish an article, widget, or a tab to your (Read the full post about ‘Now Share Anything From Netvibes Via Facebook Connect, Twitter’…)

Polluted river water kills as many people as a nuclear explosion. Advertising Agency: Everest Brand Solutions, Gurgaon, India National Creative Director: N Padmakumar Creative Directors: Satish Kirodian, Sumant Bhattacharya Art Directors: Satish Kirodian, Hasnain Waris Visualizer: Mitesh Sajwan Copywriter: Sumant Bhattacharya Illustrators: Avinash Mahadik, Surender Published: November 2008 Source: www.holgerappel.com

Becoming a donar is probably the only way you could get inside her. Belgium the law concerning organ donation is very confusing. Everyone thinks he or she is automatically considered as a donor, but in fact you have to register to be a donor. Reborn to be alive is campaigning to make everyone aware of the fact he or she has to sign up. Also with the male target audience. That’s why we placed the following ad in P-magazine, Belgium’s leading male magazine. reborntobealive.be Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume, Brussels Executive Creative Director: Katrien Bottez, Peter Ampe Creative (Read the full post about ‘Reborn to be alive - Organ Donor Foundation’…)

According to a recent guest post on the Hitwise blog by Dustin Woodward, a Seattle-based SEO and web analytics specialist, the long tail of search might be even long than many of us assumed. Looking at Hitwise’s data set of search terms used in the last three months, Woodard calculates that the top 1,000 search terms only account for about 10% of all search traffic. Woodard found about 14 million distinct search terms in Hitwise’s data, with ‘myspace’ still being the most popular search query. According to Woodard, the long tail of search is in fact far longer than most other reports have (Read the full post about ‘Hitwise: The Long Tail of Search is Much Longer Than Expected’…)

“Smoking is the stupidest way to commit suicide. Quit stupidity.” INEN Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas Advertiser: Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas Advertising Agency: Pragma DDB, Lima, Peru Source: www.holgerappel.com