Leon Jacobs

Says they.

It’s an eye.

Calvin Klein made a commercial which shows Eva Mendes’ nipple. This upset the US TV execs so they blocked it from the fragile minds of American viewers. This caused such good stir that you’d be forgiven to think it was done so by design.

You’d be wrong, apparently. The Youtube version is ‘no longer available due to violation of terms’. So either Calvin Klein asked YouTube to yank all copies off their servers due to copyright violation, or YouTube has done the same as their more traditional counterparts over at the networks.

Either way, somebody is not thinking.

I believe so much in the power of the idea, it hurts.

And when that idea is free, the power multiplies. Because the idea that travels, picks up speed and pace and potential as it hops from brain to brain, situation to situation until it finds its designated spot where it can stop, wait and be the lightning rod for change, is an idea that has real value.

So in this spirt, I’d like to give away ideas. I’ve set up an idea stream on leonjacobs.com called Vonk!

Vonk is the Afrikaans word for spark.

Many sparks make a flame. Geddit?

You are free to browse, use, and do with these whatever you like - as long if you attribute them back to the source page on the site. Importantly, I implore you to try and build on the ideas that you’d like to use. They are by no means perfect, they are merely a stab in the dark. Incomplete, a moment of inspiration, waiting to be improved upon.

Visit Vonk by clicking here.

According to Marc Benioff, guest blogging on Techcrunch, Web 3.0 is here. Apparently is works like this:

• Web 1.0: Anyone can transact
• Web 2.0: Anyone can participate
• Web 3.0: Anyone can innovate

Guesses for 4.0?

A while ago, I expressed a wish for more graphical banking interfaces.

Say hello Buxfer.

Haven’t played with it much yet, but perhaps this is the answer for a numerically challenged individual like myself.

Apparently, Google has competition.

It’s called Cuil.

It might be a tricksy way of saying ‘cool’, but we know people often misspell things, so thinking about cuil is going to be an obstruction.

Also, anyone looking to take on Google, is going to have to look further than just search. Google’s suit of services, packaged together is becoming something that is going to be very hard to beat.

you lookin at me

Originally uploaded by v1cky

What a great shot.

Seth Godin references two depressingly good and refreshing bits today:

• When last did you actually read all of a Web site? I just did. And it took two minutes. Maybe writing for the Web and for print is not so different after all. Pure Media, in Brisbane. Nice one.
• Daniel will draw anything for $2. How clever is that. Because everyone is going to want to outsmart him.

There are no boundaries to human ingenuity.

I am writing these words on an iPod. Enough said.