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Finally vacation! The first long holiday since September 2008, when I travelled along the west coast of the US. This time I am going to visit Asia – Thailand to be precise. In the same way I kept a travel diary during our trip in 2008, I will again update www.urlaubsnotizen.de (in german) on an [...]

“Social Media isn’t a fad, it is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.” is one of the main quotes from this clip, which nicely lists a few impressive facts about what’s happening in the social media space. For your bookmarks:

While everyone in the world is (rightly so) concerned about the election and the questionable democracy in Iran, we have to acknowledge the fact that German politics is just about to make a small step towards censorship as well. It’s not as big a news as Iran, but it does concern quite a few people [...]

Mark Lazen is bold on the idea that facebook might soon be on death watch. One of the main points is that Facebook is trying to be all things to all people. (Sort of like AOL a few years ago.) Which is supposedly the first step of being nothing to nobody, resulting in comparative irrelevance. [...]

People learning English have the possibility to receive “One Word a Day” via email in order to improve their vocabulary. The word of today is funny, I wouldn’t have thought that it makes its way into regular vocabulary so fast: Your word for 20th March 2009 is * * * twittering * * * Please [...]

I love the TED Talks series, been listening to it/watching them many times. Now, TED2009 is currently happening. It’s the 25th anniversary, and the videos are updated daily on the TED website as well as on YouTube. Did they have a blog last year? This year they do, with daily updates. The talks are always [...]

I just wrote a fun post about the post election hang over many supporters allegedly face according to “the onion”, and just two seconds later I see this hint in one of Jeremiahs tweets: http://www.change.gov/ The team of Obama just launched a new site. A site that will run (at least) until the time of [...]

I have written about the notion of campaigning vs commiting and the fact that social media is not about short lived campaigns but more often about building up conversations and long term relationships. The online part of the election campaign of Barack Obama was one of the most sophisticated social media campaigns I have seen [...]

It’s been a long time since my economics studies, and the way this is explained is easily understandable. (Found at presentation zen) For your bookmarks:

It’s an advert, but the message is generic. Any competitor of Nokia, especially Apple with the iPhone could have said the same. The underlying idea, though, is fascinating. And very true, in my opinion. Just give it a few years until a majority owns mobile devices of that kind. For your bookmarks:

… is starting tomorrow. Well, not quite, we’re first flying to NY. But on Monday, we’ll arrive in Phoenix and then hit a few national parks, drive along the west coast from San Diego to San Francisco and back to Phoenix. For all of those speaking German, you can find updates, travel diaries and many [...]

A new blog for each topic. After a blog about new and cool stuff on the net, tips for inspiration and motivation, as well as funny videoclips I have now opened a new blog – a travel blog named urlaubsnotizen.de.  It is, my dear english readers, also in german – as the others. (This blog [...]

Just a quick note: While read/writeweb writes about information overload and how it has caused a productivity loss of $650 billion, Google boasts about having indexed 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) Websites. Add Email, twitter, SMS and possibly even paper producst like books and newspapers, the amount of information available – or battling for our attention – [...]

is, that I am hardly blogging any more. Well, it’s not really the iphones fault. There is a lot happening right now, which kept me busy. (Bauer Agency Cup – 3.000 mad ad people partying; learning how to play Golf, etc.) Nevertheless, the iphone is a fantastic product, I can’t take my fingers of it [...]

I am very much looking to the next weekend. The University of Stirling, Scotland, celebrated its 40th anniversary of the University of Stirling. For me it will be the 10 year anniversary, having studied in Stirling from ’94 till ’98. One of the guys has organised a reUNIon for all of the alumni of ’98, [...]