Ideas

YiGG cooperates with politik.de

It is a very good match: YiGG will coöper­ate with politik.de, the biggest polit­i­cal plat­form in Ger­many. Users of both sites will expe­ri­ence numer­ous ben­e­fits surf­ing either the user gen­er­at­ed news site YiGG.de con­sum­ing daily long-tail news or look­ing for the newest polit­i­cal event, inter­view or analy­sis on politik.de edit­ed by polit­i­cal jour­nal­ists. We’ll try hard to offer a the best com­bi­na­tion of Web 2.0 and edi­to­r­i­al analy­sis of world­wide pol­i­tics seen

Feb­ru­ary 11, 2008

New geotargeting feature mapNews on YiGG

Today we launched the new geo­tar­get­ing fea­ture map­News on YiGG. Every news can be enriched with its loca­tion code, a city or even a com­bi­na­tion of a city and a street­name, like ‘München, Lind­wurm­strasse’. On the detail view of every news users can see where all those YiG­Gers inter­est­ed in this news come from, by open­ing the google map via the ‘Karte’-link. Then there are two tabs ‘Aktuell’ and ‘Beliebt’. ‘Aktuell’ shows the latest

Feb­ru­ary 4, 2008

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.

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

Jan­u­ary 27, 2008

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.

Joi Ito’s Digital Garage invests in Twitter

Twit­ter goes Japan. That is the mes­sage of today’s announce­ment of Joi Ito and his Dig­i­tal Garage VC. Joi invests an undis­closed sum in Twit­ter to help the microblog­ging plat­form to grow in Japan. That should be a per­fect match. Con­grats Joi, Evan and Biz!

User Generated History

Today in a Ger­man week­ly: The author scoffs at Web 2.0, Inter­net start-ups in gen­er­al and these User Gen­er­at­ed His­to­ry sites like miomi, mem­o­loop, xakasha or einestages in par­tic­u­lar. In Ger­many inter­net entre­pre­neur bash­ing is en vogue at most times. Media fan­cies itself as the wise coun­cil hav­ing it all known long before. But — think a moment: User Gen­er­at­ed His­to­ry is it. It real­ly makes me cry not hav­ing launched one

Jan­u­ary 15, 2008

Media Business Models on the Web

Chris Ander­son start­ed a list of Busi­ness Mod­els on the Web and Fred Wil­son added his thoughts what Dave McClure also did. So far there are 28 dif­fer­ent mod­els: — CPM ads (“cost per thou­sand views”; ban­ner ads online and reg­u­lar ads in print, TV and radio) — CPC ads (“cost per click”; think Google ads) — CPT ads (“cost per trans­ac­tion”; you pay only if the cus­tomer brought to you from

Jan­u­ary 14, 2008

Italian-style Starbucks

One very offline busi­ness idea came into my mind: You all know Star­bucks. Star­bucks entered a over­crowd­ed mar­ket (you got your cof­fee near­ly every­where) with a com­mod­i­ty prod­uct (cof­fee). The result: they are extreme­ly suc­cess­ful and are run­ning 13.000+ stores world­wide. In Europe, espe­cial­ly in Ger­many, Ital­ian food is ubiq­ui­tous — here in Munich we have hun­dreds of lit­tle pizza restau­rants and Ital­ian cof­fee bars. I think it’s time for an Italian-style Star­bucks: restaurants-cum-takeaways

Jan­u­ary 7, 2008

Advertising provokes Premium Users

In Decem­ber 2007 Xing, a Ger­man social net­work, announced to show dis­play adver­tis­ing to add anoth­er rev­enue stream to their pre­mi­um user fees. With the begin­ning of Jan­u­ary 2008 the ads have been dis­played. For all users, free accounts as well as pre­mi­um accounts. Many (2500?) pre­mi­um users seem to be in a rage and have begun to express their anger in forums and blogs, as well as in Xing groups. So

Jan­u­ary 5, 2008

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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