and as if by magic…

Now, the Kaiser really, really likes this. It’s called “Warte bis September” and I think it’s for IKEA. It’s Nils, and he’s waiting for September, which sounds reasonable enough to me. You can call him and ask him why… in fact let’s all do that. Regardless of where you are in the world, regardless what language you speak give Nils a call on +49 40 22 61 11 61.

Smashing stuff.

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Kris Hoet pointed me in the direction of faceyourmanga.com and I must admit I quite like it. I like the way that you can build your own little personal icons and I like the way these icons are slowly popping up all over the place. Here are a few that I have spotted thus far (click on them to see who they belong to):

As you can see I had a go too (quite happy with that I am). If you’ve done one, or if you do one - let me know (marcus [at] the-kaiser [dot] de ) and I’ll pop it up here.

Now, have you voted? Time is running out you know.

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I officially resigned from web 2.0 on my birthday and that is nearly three months ago. I miss it. I didn’t at the beginning but I’m missing it now so I’d thought I’d come back.

But should I? Do you want me to come back? Are you fed up of my mustache?

I don’t know the answers to any of those questions so I’d thought I’d put it to the vote.

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

Should you, dear readers, decide that, no, it wouldn’t be a good idea for me (and the crew) to come back again I will down tools and you’ll never hear a peep out of The Kaiser (Marcus, Sacrum et. al) ever again. Simple as that.

UPDATE: Apparently the consequences of the result are not clear (see comments).

• A vote for “no” means the end of basically everything; The Kaiser, Marcus Brown, Sacrum etc. and all that comes with them (be always opening, twitter, comments, blip, youtube, slideshare - everything) - a web wide ban, if you wish.
• A vote for “yes” is a proper return, a merger of Be Always Opening with The Kaiser Edition and all that that entails.

Hope that clears things up a little.

Voting closes Monday the 25th August at 9:01 C.E.T.

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I was sorting through the old stuff over the weekend and stumbled upon Sacrum’s slides. I had a lot of fun being Sacrum, because he was generally a very positive and hopeful kind of guy. A bit naive he was too, but a welcome change to my usual cynical self.

I’ve popped the slides up on to flickr and bundled them together into a slideshare presentation.

Oh, and the comments are open again, I’ve decided that Web 3.0 is here. The Kaiser Edition shall return in a couple of weeks, with a few new contributors. But more on that later.

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So my lovely ones, this is the last post. Contrary to what you may think (Ben) there will be no more projects or characters that pop up somewhere on the other side of the Internet. This is really it.

I won’t be deleting The Kaiser Edition as I think some of the stuff you will find here is actually quite good, but I will be turning the comments off because I would have to come online to moderate them, and as I’ve formally resigned from the Web 2.0 that would be a breach of contract.

Thank you all for coming, reading, linking and commenting. Thank you for writing your own splendid things that I, in turn could comment on and link too. You’ve all been lovely, even Ben. But that’s now come to an end. There will be no more comments from me, my very last twitter pretty much sums up everything I want to say.

So, on this, the first day of my own personal new year (37 don’t you know) I’m going to start doing things in real life. Not in Beta.

No, not in Beta.

Good bye to you. Good bye Sir Martin.

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Dear Sir,

The purpose of this letter is to announce my resignation from The Web 2.0, effective as of tomorrow.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. The past 2 years have been very rewarding. I’ve enjoyed working for you.

Best regards,
The Kaiser

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So get this. It’s great. Grey put together a campaign to tell the whole world how cool the Ruhr area of Germany is. And the people of the Ruhr hate it. There’s a big uproar with lots of local businesses sulking and stamping their feet in anger.So Grey tweek and redo the work.

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As you can see, The Kaiser Edition is back. It’s journey into the bowels of Ad Age’s Power 150 purgatory was rather brief (I can tell you it’s hell down there) but we’re now hovering 5 comfortable places above the 150 (see below).

Anything interesting happen while we were away?

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Dear Sir,

many thanks for your brief memo. I would just like to point out a couple of things; you know, to get them off my chest so to speak.

You have a product and not a brand. Selling that product, and selling as much of that product as possible, does not make the product a brand. It makes it a commodity. Selling the commodity isn’t a brand either, it’s a business requirement and one, which I’m sure your business angel, venture capital and investors are very keen to see implemented as soon as possible.

The brand we proposed was based on the people who should be buying it. These people, it would appear, do not match up with the people that you would wish to have buy your product. As I mentioned in our meeting, you are wrong because these people will not buy your product (because they do not exist) which does suggest that you do not wish to associate yourself with the people we put forward. What you call riff-raff we call paying customers.

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