January 2008

Is Web Design a Matter of Taste?

Today we decid­ed on the new web­de­sign. Did not expect that to hap­pen dur­ing my life­time so I am pret­ty relaxed now. Is design a mat­ter of taste? Most peo­ple would say yes I assume. Or is there a good / bad design? Yes, sure there are good and bad designs — you might reply. But — who is right? Isn’t there the one and only author­i­ty of design? Please — help 😉 

Keep looking

glum­bert — THX for the Eyes This loris is look­ing at YOU!

People fail sometimes

Again a nice piece: the fail­blog — a col­lec­tion of pic­tures of peo­ple who fail — like we all do some­times. And — some Schaden­freude permitted.

Web 2.0 at its finest: User Generated Diploma Thesis on YiGG

YiGG user @kartmann uses YiGG to cre­ate a User Gen­er­at­ed Diplo­ma The­sis. He asks the com­mu­ni­ty to vote on six dif­fer­ent pro­pos­als or to sug­gest anoth­er one. Cool.

Pregnancy Tips

Haha .… being myself a father of two those preg­nan­cy tips made my day.

What happens to a Blog Post?

Wired has this fan­tas­tic visu­al­iza­tion of the cycle of a blog post.

In Economic Downturn: Look forward

There’s a lot of gloom­say­ing these days — not only in the bank­ing scene or at Wall Street. The inter­net, web 2.0 and all new start-up busi­ness model seem — again — to be on a knife-edge. VCs are mulling over high eval­u­a­tions — start-ups are being told (again) to become more hum­ble. Since it’s always easy to join the club of doom­say­ers at the right time the ‘Look-Forward-post’ of Fred Wilson

McCain: Putin, President of Germany

It’ a mat­ter of fact that for women there are glass ceil­ings every­where. They have to fight hard to make it to the top. But even being there they must real­ize how lone­ly it is: Poor Angela Merkel.… Wait a sec­ond — did McCain say Pres­i­dent? Ah — that changes every­thing: Poor Horst Köhler… 

Conferences, the future of.…and confirming evidence

Read­ing twit­ter and blogs on the DLD and Davos con­fer­ences I am won­der­ing about the cor­re­la­tions between peo­ple look­ing into the future and the future itself. To be more pre­cise: At DLD in Munich Ashish Patel of Intel, Morten Lund, Simon Lev­ene of Accel and Philipp Freise of KKR dis­cussed the future of invest­ing. The panel was very enter­tain­ing (thanks to host Mar­tin Varsavsky) and inspir­ing because of the peo­ple, but

YiGG with new Eventblogging feature

Today we launched our new Event­blog­ging fea­ture. We invite Blog­gers to blog live from fas­ci­nat­ing events. All blog posts will be aggre­gat­ed in a spe­cial group Event­blog­ging and will be fea­tured on YiGG homepage.

Loic Le Meur with perfect User Generated Product Placement UGP on Seesmic

That is per­fect exam­ple of User Gen­er­at­ed Place­ment UGP 😉

Sometimes you need a long finger

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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