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My good friends Claudio and Ian are doing an amazing job with their band called Mighty Oaks. A recent feature by ARD during the Reeperbahn festival in Hamburg shows that these guys are seriously kicking ass. Mighty Oaks, remember that name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvbPtmi_I5g They’re currently working on their first album, keep an eye on their website and SoundCloud profile.

The last months I have been helping out my friends Kamiel & Martijn with the launch of their new company called Blom & Blom.

Homepage design by Till Wiedeck In their own words:

Blom & Blom is about two brothers. Two brothers who share a passion for forgotten items from forgotten places. Unique items. Items that once had an industrial life, but have now been abandoned; left to perish. Items with a rich, and almost epic history. Items that deserve a new life.

Seems like since Carice van Houten has been featured in Game of Thrones she’s been kicking ass lately. This sums that all up: a music video for Anthony & the Johnsons featuring Willem Dafoe & Carice van Houten. Filmed at Schiphol. Enjoy.

Today MailChimp, the cool kids who know email over at Atlanta, have released a study: Email on Mobile Devices. While working on an email project over at SoundCloud, I’ve seen some other companies doing some efforts to display their transactional emails nicely on mobile. Then Campaign Monitor published a blogpost on how to make Twitters email notifications compatible on mobile. This proved my gut feeling, but I didn’t had the numbers.

Summary

While the research is not going so deep on the subject and the studies are quite simple, there are some things that I find worth noting: While Return Path published a study saying Mobile email open rates increase with 34%, we now have a complete overview in this document.