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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!

YiGG with display advertising

Last night we final­ly launched dis­play adver­tis­ing on YiGG with our part­ner Tomor­row Focus, one of he big Ger­man media agen­cies. We chose ToFo since they man­age the adver­tis­ing inven­to­ry of big news web­sites like FAZ or Focus. Fur­ther­more they seem to have a good under­stand­ing for Web 2.0 sites like us, fea­tur­ing user gen­er­at­ed con­tent like news and opin­ions. Dis­play adver­tis­ing is one of the old­est ways to gen­er­ate revenues

Jan­u­ary 17, 2008

Police Helicopter Chase makes Australian a Youtube Star

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European Founders Fund acquires stake in Facebook

Ger­many based VC Euro­pean Founders Fund EFF is said to acquire a stake in Face­book. Run by the three Samw­er broth­ers (sold Alan­do to ebay, later Jamba to VeriSign) the Euro­pean Founders Fund nor­mal­ly is known for small­er invest­ments at early stages. Marc Samw­er said that EFF’s stake would not match Microsoft­’s but they would be the third biggest investor in Face­book after the soft­ware com­pa­ny and Hong Kong bil­lion­aire Li

Jan­u­ary 15, 2008

The Potrzebie-System of Weights and Measures

Would be com­put­er sci­en­tist Don­ald E. Knuth (later known as the ‘Father of Analy­sis of Algo­rithm’), devel­oped a Potrze­bie Sys­tem of Weights and Mea­sures at High School — after a run­ning gag in Mad mag­a­zine. The basis of this rev­o­lu­tion­ary sys­tem is that 1 potrze­bie is equal to the thick­ness of the Mad mag­a­zine issue #26 or 263348517438173216473 mm. via Jeff

Australian Tesla Coil Enthusiasts

this and much more of that funny stuff via Luke

PETA’s KFC tombstone prank

PETA had placed a tomb­stone in the Louisville ceme­tery in which the founder of KFC was buried. It turns out that the grave­mark­er, which was approved by the ceme­tery, con­tained a hid­den mes­sage: KFC TORTURES BIRDS

Use the iPhone as wireless Webcam

amazon.com acquires stake in woot.com

amazon.com is said to have spent 4 mil­lion dol­lars for a small stake in woot.com and the option to buy the com­pa­ny when cer­tain mile­stones will be matched. What is the ratio­nale behind that idea? Cer­tain­ly woot.com is a great idea — but what would it cost ama­zon to copy this busi­ness model? 1 devel­op­er, 4 weeks, 1 pur­chas­er? Per­haps some ana­lyst will help to explain 😉

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

Techblog gizmodo.com barred from CES for life

CES banned gizmodo.com blog­gers for life on vis­it­ing CES because they inter­fered with hun­derds of plas­ma and lcd dis­plays with their remote con­trol TV-B-Gone as it can be seen here:

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

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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