When Blippy launched last fall, it was the first site to introduce the idea of publishing personal credit card and other purchases. My initial reaction; “who would do that?!?!”
…Apparently a lot of people. Last month the site attracted about 125,000 visitors and closed an investment round of $11 million from VCs, according to an article [...]
last modified April 30, 2010
You remember: with e-mail everything should become better. With the new communication channel, it had become possible to appeal to people in person with relatively little effort and within a short time. The addressees were no longer – as the telephone – forced to react immediately. E-mail virtually united the positive attributes of a letter, [...]
last modified April 26, 2010
Today we report here on our own account: Jessica, Account Manager in the Munich Office and consulting the microstock agency Shutterstock amongst others, was interviewed by Robert Stoegmann, the operator of blogger-antworten.com, about her collaboration with bloggers. Robert in his blog asks other bloggers about their concept and about all questions around blogging – with [...]
last modified April 23, 2010
Following the „Green Computing“ trend topics, „Green Internet” have become a new area of interest. Christian Kroll was one of the early visionaries of this concept and developed the search engine „Forestle“ in August 2008. Forestle donates almost 90% of their advertising revenue, which is generated by clicking sponsored links, to „Adopt an Acre“. This project gains the protection of the rain forest. On average, [...]
last modified April 22, 2010
Does this ever happen to you? Get a notification that someone has started following your updates on a social network or site that you forgot you were on? This just recently happened to me with Quora and I was reminded why I signed up in the first place.
Quora is a collection of questions and answers [...]
last modified April 20, 2010
While Twitter might change our communication habits today the original „twitterers“ are facing a completely different communication problem. The Dutch University of Leiden published survey results confirming how the growing noise level in cities is causing communication problems among the bird population.
Bird species relying on their twittering for courtship are trying desperately to compete against the background [...]
last modified April 16, 2010
The future fate of the Internet took a giant step forward today when the federal appeals court ruled in favor of Comcast Corporation that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority “to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks” (Source: www.nytimes.com).
A full two-and-a-half-years after Comcast [...]
last modified April 13, 2010
A lot of people here in Germany are suffering from the so called „Denglish“ – a language mixture of German and English words. This is not only a conflict between the older and the younger generation, but also a conflict between traditionalists trying to save the German language and new technologies or terms, which might [...]
last modified April 9, 2010
At lunch time, I like to catch up on news reports from Boston and Amsterdam. I was curious about the development of the war against cyber criminals and found something that caught my attention.
I came across an article that warned us social media users about what kind of information you are sharing on the internet. [...]
last modified April 6, 2010
Watching the film Avatar reminded me of a New York Times article I read least year. The editor reported about several companies including HP, Microsoft, Verizon Communications, Bain & Company who started doing job interviews in virtual worlds such as Second Life.
Hmmmm – advantages would definitely include time and travel cost savings AND job applicants [...]
last modified April 1, 2010
