So — who needs to fuel by himself or even a gas station attendant anymore? Comes the gas station robot Tankpitstop! This humble servant fuels your car with consideration — he is not the fastest one — but you don’t have to leave your car! But — how to pay the robot?
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
Microsoft and Yahoo — that makes sense indeed
Today Microsoft announced a $44 billion bid for Yahoo — either in a friendly or unfriendly takover transaction. Within minutes twitter and blogs have been full of comments on that announcement — nowadays it can be assumed that twitter users know theses things before most Yahoo employees do. Interestingly most comments in the German blogosphere or the old media have come with negative headlines and mocking undertones, like: “Zwei angezählte Riesen heiraten
February 1, 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
January 27, 2008
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
January 23, 2008