“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

“One organ donor can save 8 lives.” Register now at www.reborntobealive.be Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume, Brussels, Belgium Creative Directors: Katrien Bottez, Peter Ampe Art Director: Yigit Unan Copywriter: Robin Stam Source: www.holgerappel.com

If you have an iPod Touch, then you know the benefit of finding apps that work offline. But some iPhone owners, too, need offline access from time-to-time. Maybe you spend your commute in an underground subway or perhaps your office building has shoddy cell coverage, or maybe you just want to use your iPhone on a plane…whatever the reason, offline access to apps is still a necessary evil these days. Not to worry, though, lack of a signal doesn’t mean you have to put your iPhone (or iPod) away - there are plenty of apps today that work offline. Here are some of our favorites. Evernote (Read the full post about ‘Seven Must-Have Offline Apps For Your iPhone/iPod Touch’…)

Not content with Android, the Google Mobile team has pulled another trick out of their sleeve: Gmail for mobile 2.0. Really, this is Gmail for mobile 2.0.6, but why quibble with details.BlackBerry users got the bulk of the updates last month, with the Google Mobile App for BlackBerry, but now Gmail 2.0 has been pushed out to all J2ME phones.Here are the highlights:Offline support: This is big. You can read recent e-mail and compose messages, even if you don’t have a signal. Messages you compose offline will be put in the outbox and sent as soon as you have a signal. Multiple account support: (Read the full post about ‘Offline support comes to mobile Gmail’…)