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GERMANYS NEXT TOP-MODEL COMMENTING EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL
ECHO LIVE-STREAMING
ECHO TRIBUTE WEBPAGE
GERMANYS NEXT TOP MODEL
BEST FAN ECHO
WEBFACT LAUNCHES ECHO WEBPAGE
DEERLUCY CONCEPT
PATRICK HELLMANN RELAUNCH PHASE 1
MEDIAPLAYER SPECIAL-EDITION
BAUER VERLAG CHOOSES WEBFACT AGAIN
I-PHONE WIDGET
webfact steps up to CMS Market-Leaders

GERMANYS NEXT TOP-MODEL COMMENTING EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL

webfact | 03 März, 2009 18:07

webfact’s commenting module for the webpage of Germany’s next Top-Model has been successfully integrated right under the show-videos to give users the opportunity to exchange opinions.Due to the tremendous success of the format, the commenting module is highly frequented and again webfact’s experience in high-traffic handling was a benefit to keep the module stable even during traffic-peaks. The Module was developed as community extension for the Pro7 Group Webpages. Starting with Pro7.de webpage “Germanys next Top-Model” , webfact has integrated the commenting module in the Pro7 core-system: The commenting module consists of the following elements:

- Basic commenting functionality
- Flagging-system / inappropriate option
- Comment on comment option
- Complex CMS for the administration for the whole module
- Alert system for editors
- User-tracking systems for analysis and reporting

The whole module is a stand-alone application that generates URLS so that the commenting-function can be related via include into any webpage or content-type.It is also compatible with all other webfact community applications such as the picture-voting module, the video-quiz with video-commenting, the friends-system, the quotation-module or the picture- and video-gallery component. webfact has first introduced the system to Sat1.de and covers allmost all community-functions of this portal with the modular-system.

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ECHO LIVE-STREAMING

webfact | 03 März, 2009 18:06

webfact covered the whole Echo-Event on the 21.02.2009 in cooperation with ARD live on the internet. For the live-streaming of the show, users were offered 2 different streams in high- and middle-quality as Real and WMV.

In addition, webfact was responsible for the live-updates on the webpage as the winners were announced during the show.

The whole webpage and flash-application are administrated by a complex content management system to allow maximum flexibility.

The Echo-webpage constists of the following elements:

- Basis-webpage with complex cms for adminstration
- Fully dynamic interactive flash-application that contains all nominees with videos
- API programming to basic-database for artists and category display in all areas
- Set-up of historical review to all past Echo-Awards
- Programming of press-lounge

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ECHO TRIBUTE WEBPAGE

webfact | 03 März, 2009 18:06

In addition to the Echo webpage and its Best-Fan-Competition, webfact set-up a tribute-webpage were past-away musicians are remembered. Based on the the „Click and Remember“ webpage, a virtual memorial place for all famous dead artists was set-up.Every star on the infinite cosmos of Echo-Tribute stands for a musician with a biography, condolences, videos, pictures and memories.The eternal Echo-Tribute cosmos is a space to remember for Fans and family members.

A place for eternity.Echo-Tribute is constituted and programmed by state-of-the-art technology. The easy to handle google-earth like navigation enables a direct access to all public features in the rotating Echo-Tribute orbit.Using the most recent web2.0 features and Ajax technologies this high-end web-platform will set the pattern for every upcoming tribute page on the web.

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GERMANYS NEXT TOP MODEL

webfact | 26 Februar, 2009 12:29

webfact has currently developed a community extension for the Pro7 Group. Starting with Pro7.de webpage “Germanys next Top-Model” , webfact has integrated the commenting module in the Pro7 core-system :

The commenting module consists of the following elements:

- Basic commenting functionality

- Flagging-system / inappropriate option

- Comment on comment option

- Complex CMS for the administration for the whole module

- Alert system for editors

- User-tracking systems for analysis and reporting

The whole module is a stand-alone application that generates URLS so that the commenting-function can be related via include into any webpage or content-type. It is also compatible with all other webfact community applications such as the picture-voting module, the video-quiz with video-commenting, the friends-system, the quotation-module or the picture- and video-gallery xomponent.

webfact has first introduced the system to Sat1.de and covers allmost all community-functions of this portal with the modular-system.

BEST FAN ECHO

webfact | 26 Februar, 2009 12:29

webfact stages the Best-Fan Campaign for the Echo Webpage. All Fans of the Echo-Nominees are invited to set-up Fan-Webpages (on MySpace etc.) from their favourite nominated Artist at the Echo or to post this Artist in their Communiy-Portal Profiles.

After a short Registration on the Echo-Webpage, the User can then Enter all Links to his set-up Webpages or Community-Portals. The Fan with the most Postings and the best Rating of his Campaign wins a Trip to the next Echo Award-Show.

The Campaign includes a huge Promotion from all Major Labels such as Universal Music and Sony BMG that ask their Fans to participate in the Best-Fan Competition in Newsletters and via Artist-Webpage Teasers.

The Campaign has a strong viral Impact and is a perfect Showcase on how to push Traffic to a Webpage with an innovative viral Concept.

webfact’s Services in an Overview:

- Viral Concept / creative Development of the Campaing
- Implementation / Supervision of the Programming
- Partner-Coordination

WEBFACT LAUNCHES ECHO WEBPAGE

webfact | 26 Februar, 2009 12:28

webfact launches the brandnew Echo-Webpage. The webpage contains a major interactive flash-application that portraits all nominees with pictures and videos. In addition, all relevant basic-information about the show, all past-awards an their winners as well as a press-lounge were set-up.

The whole webpage and flash-application are adminstrated by a complex content managment system to allow maximum flexibility. The page will be continously extended in different areas. More information on the additional features and the live-broadcast will follow soon.

The Echo-webpage constists of the following elements:

- Basis-webpage with complex cms for adminstration
- Fully dynamic interactive flash-application that contains all nominees with videos
- API programming to basic-database for artists and category display in all areas
- Set-up of historical review to all past Echo-Awards
- Programming of press-lounge

DEERLUCY CONCEPT

webfact | 26 Februar, 2009 12:28

DeerLucy is the first German internet-series. In cooperation with Bild (Germany’s most important boulevard-newspaper), Otto-Clothing-Distribution and MME webfact was hired to plan and coordinate the set-up of the web-based series.

In the first phase, webfact developed the overall marketing-strategy and concept. This included the planning of all activities related to the campaign, the partner-set-up and partner-handling during the project-running-time as well as coordination of overall marketing-activities.

In addition, webfact Concept was responsible for the launch-management and the concept for the application programming.

The tasks in an overview:

- Development of marketing-strategy
- Concept-development for the overall project
- Planning of all activities related to the campaign
- Partner-set-up, partner-handling
- Launch-management
- Concept for application programming, coordination partner-apis for programming

PATRICK HELLMANN RELAUNCH PHASE 1

webfact | 26 Februar, 2009 12:25

webfact relaunches the Patrick Hellmann’s Webpage. As first step of a complete update, webfact sets up an interactive Portrait of Patrick Hellmanns Lalique limited edition production.

The new webpage version 1.0 also contains a contact-system with database- and response-system.

The following developments are planned to continue the webpage relaunch:

- Set-Up of a complete interactive Webpage in Flash
- Focus on the portrait of fashion, videos, accessoires and general information about Patrick Hellmann
- CMS Development

More information will follow soon.

MEDIAPLAYER SPECIAL-EDITION

webfact | 26 Mai, 2008 15:53

webfact develops a Sido Special-Mediaplayer-Edition in preparation for Sido’s album release on the 30th of May. Aggro Berlin Fans can download a free player.

The player updates automatically and users get an exclusive Sido-Picture and an exclusive tv-commercial every day. The contents are updated till the release-date of Sidos new album. It is a countdown for all fans and offers exclusive material as incentive.

To see the Sido-Mediaplayer Special-Edition click here

 In addition the Sido-Player-Special offers all standard Mediaplayer functions such as MP3 Playlists, Screensaver, News via XML and an Audio-CD player.

For more information about webfact’s Mediaplayer-Technology click here

BAUER VERLAG CHOOSES WEBFACT AGAIN

webfact | 26 Mai, 2008 15:52

webfact produces a release-event webpage for Germany’s next top-magazine Life&Style. Life&Style is the brandnew magazine by Heinrich BauerVerlag - one of the most important publishers in Germany and Europe.

For the release of the first magazine, Life&Style plans a privat event for the most important customers and potential advertisers. The event-invitation management and online-registration for the event is completed with webfact technology and experience.

webfact again uses the Event-Management technology that gives customers the chance to coordinate all events and the participants.

The Systems allows Users to create events with all information such as date, city, time etc that are displayed in Google Maps. Afterwards, participants can be related to the event. Via an online newsletter-system they are invited and have the chance to confirm their coming by signing in with a log-in and password given in the newsletter.

I-PHONE WIDGET

webfact | 26 Mai, 2008 15:51

webfact currently develops an I-Phone Widget for a brandnew jewish-community portal. The widget will offer I-Phone users and jewish-community members to get the latest news and all other content form the Jewish Community Portal directly on their I-Phones.

Therefore they are able to get the latest information from the portal from every point in the world in a very easy and comfortable way.

The I-Phone widget is designed and programmed with the SDK development-kitt. The development is completed based on Objective C. In addition, the software-kitt contains the Cocoa-Touch Framework, an I-Phone Simulator, a Debugger and an Interface Builder. webfact will be one of the first multimedia-service providers to set-up I-Phone Widgets with direct data-update from a webpage.

webfact steps up to CMS Market-Leaders

webfact | 26 Mai, 2008 15:50

Content Management Systems are the core and engine of every webpage.  webfact’s CMS is deployed primarily for interactive administration of large webpages by big editorial teams as well as by a potentially large number of contributors.

webfact has developed new features such as a template-management component to step up with the CMS competitiveness even with multimedia market’s top cms-applications such as EZ Publish, Drupal or Joomla.

The basic-system was first developed for Big Brother in 2003 and contains more than 100 administration-components and has been used in more than 200 Projects till today. Sat1/Pro7, Unesco, Union Investment, Endemol, Condent, Bauer Verlag Media, Universal Music and  Nuclear Blast are Customers the profit from webfact’s CMS Flexibility and Power to name only few.

webfact also offers webpage-productions with Drupal or EZ Publish but an examination of the specific webpage requirements is usefull in every case.

MOBILE SHOP FOR AGGRO BERLIN

webfact | 26 Mai, 2008 15:49

webfact completes the Mobile Shop for Aggro Berlin. Aggro Berlin now has a State-of-the-Art Shop with Flash-Teaser Management for Ringtone Items and the more Features such as:

- Full Dynamic Content Management for all Mobile Items
- Preview Sound for Ringtones with Logo-Animation
- Teaser Management for Promotion of New Items
- Top Download Chart List for Aggros Mobile Products

Aggro Berlin has been founded in 2001 by Specter, Spaiche and Halil. As one of the first Artists Aggro signed Sido & B-Tight. Later followed by Superstar Bushido.

The label is known and famous mostly for its controversial lyrics and themes. Artists have been in the critics for the attitude of their songs toward women and gays. Many Songs and Aggro Samplers that have been on the cencored list in Germany ever since the Label’s start.

In 2004, Sido’s debut album, “Maske”, sold more than 100,000 copies in less than a month. In September of that year, the rapper won a prestigious German music award for “Best Newcomer”.

DISCOVER THE LATEST WEB-TRENDS AND NEWS SELECTED BY WEBFACT

webfact | 26 Mai, 2008 15:39

On Six Clicks our team presents you a selection of the hottest web-trends and news as well as new sites – every two weeks. It will only take you six clicks to visualize what we think will be big now and tomorrow.

(1) Data Mining – business model of the future?!

The webfactVentures Team was attending Facebooks „Developer Garage“ in Hamburg last Wednesday. We were very impressed by the keynote of angel investor & entrepreneur Salim Ismail. Salim was the head of Yahoo’s Incubator Brickhouse. In his one hour speech which was held in 20 minutes (!!!) Salim went through the history of the web. He pointed out that today there are basically only three different business models which work on social sites: Advertising; Subscriptions AND Data Mining. Salim is convinced that the future belongs to Data Mining. This is something webfactVentures really agrees with. Two of our current projects rely on collecting user data as a business model.

Read the Full Article: LINK I

(2) Mobile TV spreading across EU and US

The convergence of television and video towards mobile phones is well documented, and rapidly growing. More and more people are now viewing their desired TV shows and Video Content on the go and on their phones. There are several different formats and technologies being produced around the world. Across Europe and the US, mobile TV gaining popularity, as local news, entertainment and sports shows will be available for users to enjoy on their mobile phones. Webfact has extensive experience in the field of mobile content, and is well aware of the rapid convergence of video content to other platforms, such as the Internet and mobile phones.

Read the Full Article: LINK II

(3) What is a “critical mass”

Blogger Andrew Chen made some deeper thoughts and assumptions about one of the most imprecise terms of our business: “The Critical Mass”. As a term used in nearly any start-up business plan it is still very hard to seize. A critical mass is often described as a point in time where suddenly magic kicks in and a user based site is running on its own. It can also be considered as a point in time where the viral effect gets stronger than advertising and the site gets lots of users coming in but what people usually mean is that a site is not that useful until there’s a certain amount of people on it.

Andrew encourages anyone building a social site to really consider what type of network they are building for, and how many people they need at the local level. The next step then must be to aggregate these smaller groups into a larger one. This is basically what Facebook did when starting as a college network. We really appreciate the substance Andrew gave to the term critical mass with his article. Thank You Andrew.

Read the Full Article: LINK III

(4) Google to to launch a new way for Web publishers to add social features to sites without programming

The growing popularity of social networking, along with web2.0 has been well documented. Google is set to launch a tool called “Google Friend Connect” – a tool that will enable users to implement web2.0 attributes to their personal sites without needing to program them. This tool will allow other users to sign up to websites, advertise and enable different OpenSocial programs. Ultimatly, using this tool, users will be able to take with them their personal profile from one social networking site, to another.

For webfact, this is an important development, as many of our core competencies deal with social networking, as well as Web2.0.

Read the Full Article: LINK IV

(5) The thin line between Unsocial Networks and Social Spam

It has been said that the Internet’s leading social networks have everything a user needs in order to conduct social activities online. However, all social networks, Facebook and Myspace included, lack the capabilities to integrate emails capabilities from within the social network, making the site that much more social.

In other words, engineers are trying to create something that half way between a social network and an email account, and has the capabilities of both. Social Network representatives are now studying and analyzing the impact of such integration, in terms of protection and security. Introducing such capabilities will surely have a great impact on the social networking scene.

Read the Full Article: LINK V

(6) Facebook vs. Google Part I

MySpace, then Facebook and then Google all recently launched services for third parties to access their users’ data through other sites. Google, though, uses Facebook’s developer platform to distribute Facebook user data through its own service, Google Friend Connect. Now, Facebook has cut off that access.

Heres what Facebook says: “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.”

Read the Full Article: LINK VI

INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY-USAGE

webfact | 26 Mai, 2008 15:38

Latest development in webfact’s web2.0 api repertoire is an Amazon Api for 2swap.com. Users are able to enter their book’s ISDN-Code and all book information are automatically taken over from amazon. This makes the integration of books much easier and 2swaps Content is built a quickly. This makes the portal competitive in comparision to existing portals that have more content.

webfact therefore shortens time-to-market and content-creation for new websites and levels competitive disadvantages for customers by using state-of-the-Art Technology.

webfact has developed all common and important Web 2.0 Apis that give customers the chance to enhance their webpages.Contents from Flickr, You Tube or Amazon can therefore be displayed on customer-websites. More contents can be seen and is automatically updated with no input by editors.

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