Emakina has just launched Kaiku, the new Benecol website for the Spanish market. In a nutshell, http://www.kaikubenecol.com is a must for people who want to fight bad cholesterol. It provides general information, personalized advices, tips, suggestion of recipes, activities, etc… In the future Emakina will launch the Belgian, Swiss, German and Finnish websites all with their very own Daily Steps Programs.

The SynchroExpress software synchronizes ContactOffice with your computer. Your computer can then synchronize with mobile devices. This way, you can synchronize ContactOffice with mobile devices. The latest SynchroExpress version (3.0 - build 3052) has been released and allows synchronizing ContactOffice with:

Outlook (all versions, including 2007) Devices running on Microsoft Mobile (via Outlook) Synchronize your mobile device with Outlook. Then, synchronize Outlook with ContactOffice. Apple iPhone (via Outlook) Choose “iPhone” when setting up Synchro Express. Then, set-up Apple iTunes so that it synchronizes your iPhone with Outlook. Unfortunately, it is not possible to synchronize with iTunes directly. BlackBerry (without Outlook) If not installed yet, install BlackBerry Desktop Software. Choose “BlackBerry” when setting up SynchroExpress. You don’t need Outlook to synchronise ContactOffice with your BlackBerry. Palm (without Outlook) If not installed yet, install Palm Desktop Manager. Choose “Palm” when setting up SynchroExpress.

Please note SynchroExpress is available for Windows only. The installer is Windows 7 compliant. To get this new version, log in your account and go to the Synchro page. Before installing it, read the documentation and limitations in the online help. In a few months, we will offer alternatives such as SyncML to synchronize :

with other platforms (Mac, Linux) “over-the-air” (ie. without connecting the mobile device to a computer, the device will be connecting directly to ContactOffice through the Internet).

During the last Interactive Media Awards, which took place recently in the United States, Emakina won two awards, one for « I Love Radio Advertising » and one for « Nescafé ». - The web site « I Love Radio Advertising » received the « Outstanding Achievement Award » in the category Radio. It lauded the attention paid to user-friendliness as well as the development of an online data base containing some 60.000 radio ads, spanning 25 years of radio history. « I Love Radio Advertising » allows visitors to (re-)listen to the most legendary radio ads, create a playlist with their favorite ads, download them, and more! Its powerful search engine also makes it possible to find ads in the data base using various intelligent search criteria such as brand, sector, genre, era, language, and agency.

• The Nescafé web site also received an « Outstanding Achievement Award », in the category Food/ Beverage. This site is a cross-media platform built around the Nescafé brand. Through its «Design your cup» module the web site helps to create higher brand awareness by renewing the product experience beyond the web. The cup itself is at the heart of the Nescafé brand activations.

PUB and BFM Today recently invited Brice Le Blévennec for a filmed interview on the inertia of traditional media. How can press groups and advertisers adapt themselves to better respond to the evolution of society? Our visionary of the world of communication underlined the many rear guard actions taken by the sector. “The media must change their way of operating”, he says “The world has changed, habits have changed and readers have changed too. The future is now in the hands of a new generation, that of the digital natives, those who have never known life without the cell phone.” You can review Brice’s baleful interview on the BFM website. To continue thinking on these lines, here is a recent presentation of Brice Le Blévennec on the future of communication and the media entitled “Looking at the future?”

Topsport Amsterdam is dé onmisbare schakel voor (top)sporters, supporters maar ook bestuurders van sportclubs in Amsterdam op weg naar goud. Een behoorlijke klus om al die verschillende doelgroepen zo effectief mogelijk te informeren en te ondersteunen. Verbindend platform De nieuwe website biedt een verbindend platform voor álle partijen waar Topsport Amsterdam mee te maken heeft. Sportbonden komen er in contact met organisatoren van sportevenementen. Jong talent kan er terecht voor coaching en advies en sponsoren vinden er geschikte partners. Het online platform helpt Topsport Amsterdam om haar rol als regisseur van alle topsportzaken in Amsterdam nog beter te vervullen. Na een strategisch traject realiseerde Emakina.NL een geheel vernieuwde website  voor de stichting.  Emakina.NL is verantwoordelijk voor het concept, design en technische realisatie.

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface versions 1.7.003 and 1.7.004, currently available on ContactOffice servers. Display most hours of the day in the Calendar We received feedback about the Advanced interface calendar displaying “less content” than its Classic interface counterpart: some events are not displayed in the visible part of the Calendar. Of course, you can display them by scrolling up and down. In other words, events taking place in the first or last hours of the day are not displayed immediately. This is because of the calendar grid resolution. The “60 minutes” option was lacking in the Advanced interface Calendar preferences and is now available. Using this setting, each calendar cell will cover an entire hour, whereas the default setting is 30 minutes. Take a look at the screenshots below. They belong to the same ContactOffice account. Calendar with 30 minutes grid resolution (default setting):

Calendar with 60 minutes grid resolution:

Improvements to the “Infos” tab “Infos” is a special tab that you can see just after logging in. It appears only if you belong to at least one group. Its purpose is to allow group administrators and co-administrators to display a message to group members. We’ve fixed a bug preventing the Infos content to appear when the account was member of a large number of groups. Besides, if a group has no Infos available, it is now completely hidden in the Infos tab in order to gain space.

More languages for Contacts The Advanced interface is available in English, French, Dutch and Portuguese. You can now select not yet translated languages (Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Finnish) when you create or edit Contacts. As system-generated e-mails (meetings and meeting polls invitations, reminders, etc.) are already translated, these contacts will get the e-mails in their own language.

Since September, Emakina has been delivering a production release with new features of MySite for Truvo every two weeks. The 10th version of MySite went live quite recently and offers great added value: e-couponing module, sub-domains, clone module, heading specific business card, ‘duplicate content’ deletion, and many other new features. The MySite environment makes it possible for advertisers to manage the branding of their business using a variety of modules and thus creating a personalized website that’s easily adjustable via a very intuitive user interface.

The “Messages” tool centralizes e-mails (including e-mails from third-party servers using our POP3 and IMAP clients), SMS and faxes. To get access to this tool and its numerous features (such as powerful antispam and antivirus, tags, protection against scripts, POP3 and IMAP servers, etc.), you need to create your ContactOffice e-mail address first. This following domains are now available for your ContactOffice address:

contactoffice.com contactoffice.ch contactoffice.es contactoffice.us

The following extensions were already available:

contactoffice.be contactoffice.ca contactoffice.co.uk contactoffice.de contactoffice.fr contactoffice.it contactoffice.net contactoffice.nl

If you haven’t created your e-mail address yet, do it now to discover all the exciting features! You can also use your own domain name instead.

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Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of "This Too Shall Pass" off of the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky". The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The "machine" was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs ( http://syynlabs.com/ ) over the course of several months.

A l’issue des dernières élections européennes, un nouvelle formation politique a fait son entrée dans l’hémicycle de Strasbourg : le Parti Pirate. Né en Suède, celui-ci a recueilli plus de 7% des voix lors du scrutin et a même réussi à faire élire deux députés européens. Leur doctrine, selon le site officiel : “Nous sommes de simples citoyens du monde entier, que l’on traite de “pirates” parce qu’ils défendent le partage de la culture et de l’information. Cet accès libre et égal pour tous, la technologie le permet : seuls nous en séparent aujourd’hui quelques intérêts privés, commerciaux ou politiques. ” Autrement dit, le parti pirate combat farouchement la propriété intellectuelle. Et je partage certaines de leurs vues sur la question. A l’ère numérique, notre arsenal législatif sur propriété intellectuelle, en l’état, est totalement obsolète. Je dirais même qu’il est une entrave scandaleuse au partage du savoir et à la libre circulation des idées. Au nom de la propriété intellectuelle, les pays du tiers-monde ne peuvent accéder au progrès scientifique et à quantité de médicaments protégés par les brevets que déposent les grands groupes pharmaceutiques. Au nom de la propriété intellectuelle, des œuvres culturelles majeures, plongent dans l’oubli, voient leur diffusion restreinte pour une durée interminable, même après le décès de leur auteur. La durée d’exercice du droit de la propriété intellectuelle se prolonge en effet durant les 70 années qui suivent cet événement, au bénéfice des ayants-droits (famille, …). Délais que les Etats-Unis, sous l’influence du lobby des majors et notablement de la Disney Company, ont prolongés déraisonnablement lors du Mickey Mouse Protection Act. A cause de celui-ci aucune oeuvre postérieure à 1923 ne tombera dans le domaine public avant 2019. Voila probablement le plus grand hold-up de l’histoire de l’humanité. Un hold-up en col blanc, commis dans le silence complice des juristes, et de l’Union européenne. Une véritable spoliation de la production intellectuelle humaine, incompréhensible dans notre époque de grande fertité créative, en pleine accélération des échanges provoqué par la révolution Internet. Bref, il est temps de revoir notre législation sur la propriété intellectuelle par de nouveaux dispositifs plus adaptés à l’ère digitale dans laquelle nous sommes à présent entré de plain-pied. Mais quels sont les modèles alternatifs possibles ? La première piste est celle de Creative Commons. Inspiré l’esprit des licences GNU (Free Software Foundation) qui ont contribué à l’essor du logiciel libre, ce système juridique permet aux titulaires de droits d’autoriser certaines utilisations bien déterminées, tout en ayant la possibilité de réserver les exploitations commerciales, les œuvres dérivées ou le degré de liberté. Les Creative Commons peuvent s’appliquer à n’importe quel type de création : texte, son, image, site web… Les Creative Commons ont d’ailleurs été transposés en Belgique sous l’impulsion du CRID (Centre de Recherche Informatique et Droit) des Facultés universitaires de Namur. Une deuxième approche est celle de Google. Comme vous le savez, l’entreprise de Moutain View s’est lancée dans la numérisation massive des bibliothèques avec son programme Google Books. Mais comment Google fait-il pour gérer la question des droits d’auteur pour chacun des millions de livres qui passent sous ses scanners ? La réponse est simple : tant qu’un ayant-droit ne se manifeste pas, Google continue son processus de numérisation et de mise à disposition du contenu sur le Net. Bien entendu, les éditeurs hurlent. Les auteurs aussi. Ce « modus operandi » a déjà valu à Google plusieurs condamnations en justice… Mais peut-on raisonnablement empêcher l’humanité entière d’accéder librement au savoir sous couvert du respect du droit d’auteur et de la protection de quelques intérêts particuliers ? Difficile d’affirmer que cette situation est soutenable à long terme. Comme le soulignait le Prix Nobel d’Economie Paul Krugman dans le colonnes du New York Times en 2006 : « Bit by bit, everything that can be digitized will be digitized, making intellectual property ever easier to copy and ever harder to sell for more than a nominal price. And we’ll have to find business and economic models that take this reality into account. It won’t all happen immediately. But in the long run, we are all the Grateful Dead. » See also :

Anti-copyright Lawrence Liang

ING Belgium asked Emakina to develop the new website for its mortgage loans. The final mini-site suggests several credit formulas to candidate buyers and pays extra attention to ING’s green loans. In addition, everyone interested in a new real estate project can find numerous useful tips and advice on this website. Emakina was responsible for the new website’s structure, design and integration. The graphic make-over gives a taste of mother website ING.be’s future developments.

Facebook Connect in 3 Hours

• Quick overview of the benefits of integrating with Facebook Connect: more traffic, engagement, registration.
• How to determine what to build: evaluating and adding the right features of Facebook Connect to your website.
• How to get started: integrating Facebook Connect authentication to your site, social widgets
• How to go from good to great: figuring out transformative impact and how to optimize (A/B test, iterate, repeat)

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo. Holographic Drumkit and Turntables test. DRUMS: WILL CLARKTURNTABLES: JFBHEADS: BEARDYMAN Huge thanks to Bonnie Anthony, Jordan McGarry and Partizan Darkroom, Remi Dessinges, Neil Mendoza, Daniel Bronks, Luke Palmer, Daisy Popham, Alex Marden, Daniel Alexander, Ian O’Connell and Oliver Gingrich.