March 2008

Who needs People Search Engines?

For a few years ver­ti­cal search engines have been appear­ing, like trav­el or prop­er­ty search engines. With in 2006 found­ed spock or its Ger­man ver­sions yasni and 123people there are peo­ple search engines promis­ing “to find every­one you know on the Inter­net”. Who needs that if there is Google? What is the USP of peo­ple search engines? I have tried hard to find the benefit(s) of peo­ple search but I did­n’t. Does anybody

Predictably Irrational

From the ama­zon syn­op­sis: Why do smart peo­ple make irra­tional deci­sions every day? The answers will sur­prise you. Pre­dictably Irra­tional is an intrigu­ing, witty and utter­ly orig­i­nal look at why we all make illog­i­cal deci­sions. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can’t? If an item is “free” it must be a bar­gain, right? Why is every­thing rel­a­tive, even when it should­n’t be? How do our expec­ta­tions influ­ence our actual

Coco dancing — move it, move it! ;-)

Exceptional learnings from Easter

As long as I can think back I never expe­ri­enced such relaxed East­er Days. A per­fect mix­ture of fam­i­ly fun, admin­is­tra­tive and brain­work. As a for­mer Direc­tor of Human Resources with the auto­mo­bile man­u­fac­tur­er VW invent­ed — I’m think­ing about intro­duc­ing the 4‑days-week to myself: Oper­a­tional work from Mon­day til Thurs­day — and then a ‘free’ Fri­day, reserved for fam­i­ly and/or brain­work. That should improve the qual­i­ty of work, should­n’t it? Is there anyone

5 days old ashes still burning

Could not believe it. Today some­thing seemed to burn out­side. It turned out to be 5 days old (= cold!?) ashes in a dump­ster which sud­den­ly began to burn again. No real dam­age — but who could imag­ine that? 

YiGG Daily gelauncht

Kurz vor Ostern haben wir YiGG Daily gelauncht, eine (werk-) tägliche Show auf und über YiGG. Front­frau Fränzi greift sich beson­ders auf­fäl­lige Nachricht­en auf YiGG her­aus und kom­men­tiert sie. Das Beson­dere dabei: wir verzicht­en weit­ge­hend auf ein Drehbuch und lassen Fränzi viel Spiel­raum in der Aus­gestal­tung der Show. Einzige Vor­gabe ist, die Show mit min­i­malen Mit­teln, d.h. PC mit Web­cam, aufzunehmen. Jetzt sind wir ges­pan­nt auf das Feed­back unser­er Zuschauer.

Der Journalist, der Nutzer und die Qualität der Inhalte

„User, her­zlich willkom­men — aber nur die, die sich an die Min­de­stregeln von Com­mu­ni­ties hal­ten. Bis­lang gelingt es uns ganz gut, die Mei­n­ungsran­dalier­er im Griff zu behal­ten.“ Frank Thom­sen, Chefredak­teur von stern.de „Es gibt Kom­mentare, die will ich auch nicht für eine Minute unter meinen Artikeln ste­hen haben. Das ist auch ein Zeichen der Wertschätzung unseren Usern gegenüber, dass wir nicht jeden Unsinn freis­chal­ten.“ Jochen Weg­n­er, Chefredak­teur focus.de Zwei Zitate,

Optimize your efficiency

Yep — ColPop — that new inven­tion of South Kore­an Fast­Food Com­pa­ny BBQ Chick­en — will ease your daily sched­ule by at least 5 min­utes, which is rough­ly an hour in Web 2.0 cal­en­der. Eat and drink almost simul­ta­ne­ous­ly. via seriouseats.com

Killer App 2008: Sched.org

So here it is — the killer appli­ca­tion for 2008: sched.org. Twit­terati will love that sched­ul­ing / plan­ning appli­ca­tion since it has every­thing a cool and slim appli­ca­tion should have. It is easy to use, total­ly vari­able and extreme­ly intu­itive. Try it out!

Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy

Net Neutrality

The Powerbock

That looks fun — but…should I try it, too?

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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