If you are in the online marketing business as well chances are hight that you also might have had to deliver GIF or Flash banners to online ad networks sometime during your career. When you are creating many different sets of banners for different customers it can be hard to keep track of all the banners and to achieve the same technical quality on all banners. To minimize the fault rate and support and optimize the process of banner creation we yesterday introduced a new online tool in the collection of Sybermon online tools to the public.

Bannercontrol: Web banner online validation

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For almost 10 years I am engaged in web development and still no project is like the other. Evey project has it’s own character and brings a lot of new people you have to deal with during development. And I think exactly that is what makes the business so interesting. Every new individual you get to know brings another challenge with it. Right from the initial meeting with new contact persons you have to find a common language and synchronize your thoughts so that everybody is following the same objectives. To support your client/contractor communication and your time of project preparation I have crafted a short checklist/questionnaire[1] which aims to make your life as a web consultant easier.
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Just when I thought captcha systems are getting dumber and dumber there pops up a very nice talk about the usefulness of solving captchas.

But first I want to show you a captcha which Google presented to me some time ago. Do you have any idea what that is supposed to mean? I don’t.

Another captcha on Twitter. Easy to decipher but still made me smile for a second. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.

And now comes the video of a nice talk about re-captcha. A project with a great idea: instead of making people just waste time by solving captchas they aim to extract useful human power out of it.

I surely do not blog a lot but today I experienced what I feared for a long time: Orange is evil (at least compared to One, the mobile network operator which was absorbed by Orange last year).

Once upon a time there was this fresh, young, stylish, really great Austrian mobile network operator. It was named “One”. If I remember correctly One was the third mayor mobile operator in Austria at that time and a pretty good alternative to the existing operators. They started at a time when competition was just going to blossom out and rates were falling to a level where also students could afford a simple mobile phone with a cheap prepaid card. Right at the beginning I knew it was the right operator for my needs. I loved their service and I even liked the brand they created. All was perfect for almost a decade (or was it even more than 10 years?).

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