Friday, 11 April 2008 |
From the founder of the cool hunter comes dear-god.net; a startlingly new concept of spirituality where people from all over the planet reveal their innermost hopes and fears in the form of prayers to god.
Dear God is completely non-demoninational and the term god is used in the broadest sense – encompassing every religion’s concept of a higher power; be it a Christian god, a Muslim god or simply a fluid idea of universal energy.
In its first week, the site has sparked an organic revolution, with people all over the world embracing the opportunity to unburden themselves, to share their hopes and fears with others in an effort create hope, healing, inner peace and clarity.
From the poignant and the heart-wrenching to even the light-hearted and the humorous, the posts on dear god cover the gamut of human experience, providing a powerfully raw and honest insight into our world today.
As one online site stated: "After viewing this website I found it to be so honest of the world’s reflection and thoughts. See we as believers probably wonder and ask the same types of questions, but never express them to anyone. There are a lot of different views about what and who God is and that is reflected in this site. Try to not view this with a closed mind….Try not to debate that you know the right answer….Try to view this as an opportunity to peek into the heart of our world".
The logo and site design were created by London based design agency Something Somewhere - the same firm that created the Artic Monkeys website.
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
Here at the Cool Hunter we’re not afraid to acknowledge when we need
help. Most of you who read our content regularly, know that we strive
to be a step ahead spotting and reporting on the most inspiring and
creative posts in design, fashion, travel, lifestyle and more.
As we all look forward to a new year, we’re fortunate to receive well
over 550,000 unique readers per month, and we just won the 2007 Webblog
Award for Best Culture Blog . We’re eager to see our efforts translated
into major global markets such as India, China, Japan, Italy and more.
We’ll also be adding new features including a hotel booking service, an
online store, a social network portal, global job lists, Cool Hunter TV, Cool Hunter magazine
and much more.
As we expand, we need your help in making this seamless transition
while we create an enhanced Cool Hunter user experience. We’re looking
for an innovative web development company
who has what it takes to bring new ideas to our growing audience
worldwide. If you or your company is up for the challenge, contact
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
What brought you here today? Will you come back for more tomorrow? Or
next week? Or next year? Will you tell your friends or
co-workers about something you’ve seen or read on our pages? When
you travel or shop or explore or look for adventure, has anything we’ve
brought to your attention provided unmatched inspiration? We’d
like to believe the answer to each of these questions is undoubtedly,
YES!
We’re on our own hunt right now for creative minds across the globe to design a new
attention-grabbing campaign to attract even more readers to the Cool
Hunter. We already receive over 550,000 unique readers per month,
1.4 million page views (across 4 cool hunter sites) and we’re positive
with your help, we can find even more – especially as we expand into
the major global markets in India, China, Japan and Europe in
2008.
We’re in the process of redeveloping our entire approach to bringing
our readers the coolest information out there – we’re adding online
hotel bookings, an online store, global job postings, a "get
acquainted" social network portal, Cool Hunter TV, Cool Hunter
Magazine, as well as Cool Hunter events that will tour the globe.
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If you think you have what it takes to help us plan and execute our new
marketing campaign – helping generate buzz around the world for the
Cool Hunter, contact
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The competition is open to anyone with a unique creative idea.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
Cool Hunter wins BEST CULTURE BLOG
THANK YOU
to all who voted for us and made The Cool Hunter.net the Best Culture
Blog at the world’s largest weblog competition, 2007 Weblog Awards
The
final results were announced on November 8, 2007, at the BlogWorld
& New Media Expo in Las Vegas. This is particularly sweet because
we came second last year. We love to beat ourselves! Thank you, thank
you, thank you!
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
We’re looking for aspiring coolhunters to contribute to the site,
which is on the road to expansion with new coolhunter sites set to
launch all over the globe, a magazine, TV show and a series of books.
We attract those who know - and those who want to know - about fashion,
lifestyle, design, travel, architecture and music, among many other
topics.
We are looking for a few more contributors around the world that can
spot, research and write about cool stuff – we are particularly keen on
new contributors in fashion, design/architecture and music. If you have
an eye (nose, ear) for what’s new, innovative and cool, and are willing
and able to do the research that make the posts worth our readers’
while, we’d love to hear from you! You need
to be able to write concise, snappy copy but more importantly you need
the ability to locate and unearth interesting and original things –
that means people, products and places that are leading the way.
Basically you need a ‘cool radar’ that enables you to spot something of
interest at 20 paces. If this sounds like you send us a sample. Keep it
to 300 words max and attach pics. e-mail
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
We’re proud to announce the first non-English arm of the coolhunter - coolhunter Turkey, edited by local creative firebrand and natural coolhunter Yagmur Uslu. The site features all of the hottest pieces from the main international version, including extra editorial and news on what’s cool in Turkey including the latest in travel, art, fashion, style and all facets of design. If you can read Turkish check it out. Coolhunter Turkey is just the latest in a bunch of global sites (Coolhunter Australia is already up and running) with more including Italy, New Zealand and the UK set to launch by next week. If you’re a professional media company interested in licensing the coolhunter in your country contact us at
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
In order to stay ahead of the shifts in taste and style, we’re always on the move. True to our nomadic leanings, the cool hunter will be literally roaming through the hotspots of Europe showcasing the best these cities have to offer and to plan our international cool hunter sites.
From the present-day Istanbul to the two Fashion Capitals of the World (Milan and NYC) Cool Hunter will strive to deliver - live online - the highlights of each unique city, beginning August 7th.
While traveling in these exotic locales, Cool Hunter will also be setting down its roots to expand our site internationally. While in Turkey, later this month, we’ll be preparing the launch of Cool Hunter Turkey. Around September/October we plan to start our Cool Hunter London site. There’s also a Brazil Cool Hunter in the works for later this year.
So if you fancy yourself a trend-savvy, aficionado of all things innovative, interesting and cool, contact the Cool Hunter team and give us a heads-up of on the not to miss sights/places/things.
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Here’s our schedule for the next few months:
Deutschland…
Berlin, Germany: August 10th to August 17th
Ramble to Turkey…
Istanbul – August 17th to August 24th
Bodrum – August 24th to August 29th
Cross the Mediterranean to Greece…
Santorini – August 31st – September 6th
Mykonos – September 6th to September 13th
Athens – September 13th to September 15th
On to the boot of Italia…
Rome: September 15th to September 21st
Tuscany region: September 21st to September 25th
Florence: September 25th to September 29th
Bologna: September 29th to September 30th
Verona: October 1st to October 3rd
Venice: October 3rd to October 5th
Milan (and a few to be determined locations in Italy): October 5th to October 14th
And finally…
Home Sweet Home (NYC) on October 15th
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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The new Cool Hunter social networking section will be launched later
this month and this site will soon be subscriber based only.
Be a part of the Cool Hunter global community with our new exclusive
(invite-only) online social facility.
Members of the global community can finally connect with one another
online; sharing their ideas, thoughts, art and innovations. Connecting
hundreds of thousands of like-minded coolhunter readers across different continents.
Readers can put anything they like on their own homepages including
their own profiles and pictures, and samples of things they love or
samples of their own work. They can even use Mycoolhunter to create
their own versions of the coolhunter.net by coolhunting items off the
site that they like – or they can add their own unique finds, becoming
coolhunters themselves. The possibilities are endless. It’s all
about connecting and sharing ideas and passions. We’ll also be
launching an online store where you’ll
be able to buy some of the items featured on the site. Podcasts and web
TV will also be a component of the new community.
Being part of the new community will also guarantee you access our
archived database. To be part of it you will need to subscribe to the
site to get access but don’t sweat as it will still be free. A limited
number of invites will be made available to our subscribers, so sign up
now.
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In a society obsessed with the shiny and new, The Cool Hunter has
become the reference point of choice for the latest in what's hot
tomorrow. Everyone wants to know what's hot, because 'hot' products and
ideas sell.
Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, so you're always in the know!
Because being in the know - makes you so much more interesting.
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
Hollywood's emerging crop of online talent scouts are dedicated to
discovering talent online, matching up creators of obscure Web videos
with the online divisions of traditional media companies, portals, and
ad agencies, all of them hungry to try a new sort of storytelling. Meet the HIT MEN.
Real Brain Diseases that cause someone to have "superhuman powers"...
Magazines: Change Or Die:
A rise in the percentage of ad spending allocated to Internet and
mobile media will intensify pressure on magazine publishers to adapt a
fast-changing business landscape or die
Late-Stage Cancer Vaccines Set to Launch
Innovation Scouts - How creative businesses in technology and
media are unearthing new ideas in unexpected places--from an American
Idol-style contest at Adobe Systems to eBay's new "disruption" team. Meet the new cool hunters.
The magazine industry is suffering one of its more pronounced troughs. Established names are closing, while others face an amalgamation of staff to survive.
Many would say that this is too hostile a climate to support
independent and innovative publications, but a new breed of maverick
publishers are kicking the business up the backside by doing things
their way, proving that there is always a market for wit, imagination
and intelligence.
Fashion houses are trying out new products on the teenyboppers of Tokyo.
There's a lot at stake with global warming, so for those not sure what
to believe, New Scientist debunks the 26 most common climate myths.
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
India's Jet Airways introduces exclusive mini-suites in first class. Now you can fly in your own private cabin from London to India - for less than a BA first class seat
On the gentle art of selling yourself,
confidence, and first impressions. "It is said that we are all three
different people: the person we think we are (the one we have
invented), the person other people think we are (the impression we
make) and the person we think other people think we are (the one we
fret about). You could say it would be a lifetime's quest to reconcile
this battling trinity into a seamless whole.
Viacom is rumored to be close to a deal to buy Last.FM, a London-based online social music network, for $450 million.
"During my 23 years with The L.A Times' sports department, I have held a
wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter.
Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent
keeper of the Morning Briefing flame. Today I leave for a few weeks' vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation. As Christine". By Los Angeles Times sportwriter Mike Penner.
Evian Criminals. The new snob appeal of tap water.
Airlines have never discounted business-class seats — until now, that is.
Want to direct Bjork's next music video? One lucky reader now has the chance.
YOU TUBE - Kid almost slips off rollercoaster ride.
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
"Roaming the globe...so you're in the know" is our motto and with
over 410,000 unique visitors per month and over 1.8 million page views,
thecoolhunter is now read in over 120 countries.
The essence of the Cool Hunter is the ethos of 'global information
channeling' that is not regionally specific, but rather based on
worldwide relevance. To cater for our ever expanding international
market, we now offer geo-targeting advertising on a global scale.
If you have an ad that you want to target and limit to readers in the
U.K or Japan for instance, that's when Geo-targeting comes into play.
Geo-targeting allows your banner ads to display only in certain
territories specified by our clients. Resulting in specified viewing by
your chosen regional target audience. Think of it as specifically
selecting what country your ad will be exposed and viewed in.
Our readers have a insatiable appetite for what’s new, innovative and
cool. Created and engineered for today’s demanding and
discerning pop-culture audience. These readers come from every corner
of the globe and bring with them distinguished tastes and specific
requirements which are met with precision by the manner in which the
Cool Hunter reports.
For all advertising enquiries, read what our readers have to say about us and contact us here
Our top 15 countries with the most popular hits come from these territories in this order:
1. UNITED STATES 2. UK 3. CANADA 4. AUSTRALIA 5. SPAIN 6. FRANCE 7.
NETHERLANDS 8. ITALY 9. GERMANY 10.JAPAN 11. BRAZIL 12. ARGENTINA 13.
SWEDEN 14. SINGAPORE 15. MEXICO
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
You Snooze, You Lose.
Want to keep pace with the competition? Forget coffee—a new class of
FDA-approved stimulants will keep you working harder, better, faster
and stronger.
The 51 Best Magazines Ever - the Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, etc.
The Business for celebrity photographers is under serious threat from an army of amateurs and opportunists snapping stars on their mobile phones. German
Hans Paul, who says he once earned $120,000 for a picture of a
then-pregnant Julia Roberts, said fees for paparazzi had been driven to
new lows as even fans and autograph hunters now know how to market
their pictures, especially now that new player, peoplepaparazzi.com are paying big bucks for your cell phone celeb pics.
Some people will do anything to get into the papers. But few have the
audacity of a man in Switzerland, who conned one of the country's
biggest media companies into publishing a two-page advertisement he
created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume.
The
Battle for First Class. Discount airlines that offer only premium seats
are shaking up the lucrative transatlantic market.
Sony tries to unsuccessfully ban a gaming blog from mentioning a rumor. Warning to other corporations: don't mess with blogs, they're a powerful community.
If solar power and recycled
building materials just aren’t green enough for you, the brains behind
the Fab Tree Hab might have the perfect pad.
Jobster, an online job board, is teaming up with
social-networking site Facebook to launch a career site featuring video
résumés in March.
Missed an episode of Hereos? Watch it online.
'It' girl interrupted. Cory Kennedy was an Internet celebrity and international style phenomenon before she even hit 16. Then her mother found out.
Now you can wear Glow in the dark Sneakers to Neon parties . And if you want to go all out, check out the glow in the dark tattoos.
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Tuesday, 06 February 2007 |
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Linkle is the first dedicated sewing cafe in Berlin.
Knitting clubs have spread like wildfire over the past few years, with
men and women gathering in pubs to stitch, bitch and get their craft
on. Like internet cafes, people just walk in and install themselves
behind a machine, and are charged by the hour (5 euros).
There
are several ways to send a message. You can be bold and yell from a
rooftop. You can be subtle and mention a theory in passing. Or if you
really mean business, you can make a motion picture and, in order to
reach even more people, organize an army to disseminate its message. Al Gore has trained nearly 1,000 of his foot soldiers to give the same presentation that he delivers in the movie. His
disciples, who are required to give at least 10 talks a year, are not
just scientists but volunteers from all walks of life including
teachers, housewives and even celebrities like Cameron Diaz.
MySpace
is teaming with Britain's Film4 and Vertigo Films to bankroll a British
movie, hosting a competition to find the director. MySpace users also will get a chance to choose the title, comment on the script, help pick the cast and even become one of the actor. The newspaper industry is spending $75 million to argue that it's not screwed. How much better it would be to spend $75 million on innovation so, indeed, it wont be screwed.
Bloggers In Tents: Fashion Warms to New Media.
No longer relegated to fashion-show Siberia, bloggers are being
beckoned by the fashion industry to videotape, describe, and
disseminate news from the circus that is NY Fashion Week.
Overall,
53% of online teens watch video at least occasionally, a reflection of
how young people tend to be savvy about online media. The regular video
watchers tend to be more "socially influential."
For those who want to be really buff, a Dutch gym is introducing training sessions for nudists.
Summer in Sydney and the hottest song on every radio station is from a 3 piece called, Sneaky Sound System. They’ll be huge in Europe next year.
The Netherlands, the New Tax Shelter Hot Spot
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