biographies 2.0
New HQ at Panorama3000 / Berlin
I’ve moved my office to a new place. From now on, the great folks over at Panorama3000 are giving me shelter in the form of our neat sublet office space. Sharing our little coworking-like arrangement is freelance illustrator Matthias Pflügner, and the occasional guest freelancer or PhD candidate.
I’m excited to be here - the atmosphere […]
What’ll happen to our data after Facebook jumps the shark?
Facebook has, very recently, made it possible to delete accounts instead of just deactivating them. Deleting the account is the only option to really make Facebook let go of your personal information, and until recently this was notoriously hard to accomplish.
Facebook has pretty decent privacy features, or at least privacy control features, as online social […]
How do you get your daily info shot?
Recently, I was asked how I go about getting my daily information. And since I’m quite an info junkie, that got me thinking. So I sat down and jotted down where I go to get my daily info shots. What’s in your info diet?
Here’s what I scan:
A few basics:
Spiegel (German) and New York Times for […]
Infinite Touch Points
David Armano shares some great insights into the way we interact with people, brands and companies in the digital age:
(Image courtesy of David Armano, Logic + Emotion)
David’s conclusion: We move towards a world where the voume of “social touch points” becomes basically infinite, fragmentation becomes the norm.
Later on, I’ll be posting some more thoughts on […]
Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants: Too Simple A Metaphor?
The term Digital Natives has been around for a little while. It’s being used to describe those of us who move naturally in the digital world, as opposed to those who have a hard time finding their way into this new world. (Please note that all of this, and particularly the term Digital Immigrant, isn’t […]
Study: Real vs Fantasized Identity on Social Networking Sites
FaberNovel Consulting has just published a study on best practices from social networking sites.
The whole study contains a great overview over what’s important if you analyze social networking sites. Two aspects stood out for me, though:
First, the authors pointed out four dimensions to help distinguish social networks:
Second, the study also covers the way, identity is […]
How relevant is Facebook? Just like your phone contact list.
Trying to explain how relevant Facebook really is? I’ll try like this:
It’s like the contacts in your mobile phone compared to your email contacts: Everybody gets into your email contact list, but only so many people are so important to you that you save them in your mobile. That’s how relevant Facebook is.
A Vision of Students Today
Michael Wesch created this video in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. A tad too much on the melodramatic side for my personal taste, but it’s a pretty neat video still, with some good points about the education environment students face today.
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Twitter vs Blogs, Revisited
After a week of Barcamp and Web2Expo Berlin, I have to take a look back to what I’ve been writing about the relation between Twitter and blogs. (If you like to read up on the discussion, you can find my posts on Twitter here, the most relevant posts here being probably on inattentive trust, my […]
Tim O’Reilly tells his parents: What’s Web 2.0?
Link: sevenload.com
At Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, Tim O’Reilly kindly agreed to try solving the one issue all of us are sharing: How to tell our parents what we do? So here’s Tim, explaining to his parents: What’s Web 2.0?
“So Web 2.0: First off, it’s the idea that the Web, rather than the personal computer is […]