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ePolitics: What’s happening right now?
I’d like to give an overview over the whole ePolitics space, from online campaigning to e-participation. Of course, that’s hardly possible, so I’m not even going to try. (If you have such an overview, please share in the comments!) Instead, I’ll just point out some things, projects & news that have struck me as interesting […]
Tomorrow: TechCrunch/CrunchGear Meetup Berlin
Tomorrow, there’s a TechCrunch & CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin. Should be good fun to see Germany’s web people congregate in this (kind of) intimate round of 250 invited guests. (Also, thanks to the sponsors.)
Looking forward to meeting old & new friends there! If you’re there, make sure to say hi. For easier coordination, there’s a […]
U.S. University Tracked 100.000 Cell Phone Users’ Movements
Another day, another very creepy instance of user tracking: As CNN reports, scientists at Northeastern University used cell phone data to track the whereabouts of 100.000 cell phone users:
Researchers used cell phone towers to track individuals’ locations whenever they made or received phone calls and text messages over six months.
In a second set […]
Little Brother: Protect Your Privacy To Protect Your Freedom
Privacy isn’t usually the most sexy topic. At least it isn’t usually treated that way, which is a shame. All the better: Cory Doctorow’s latest novel Little Brother (download for free, buy on Amazon) more than makes up: Little Brother is a passionate & compelling rant against government surveillance, and a rally cry to protect […]
Video wrap-up from re:publica 08
Just noticed that kosmar has cut a neat time warp video from re:publica 08, featuring the whole crowd. Thanks, Kosmar!
Liveblogging from next08
Tomorrow I’ll be blogging live from next conference in Hamburg, Germany. next08 is is one of Germany’s top web conferences and I was thrilled that SinnerSchrader asked me to be one of four livebloggers at their conference. (Thanks a lot, Martin!)
This year’s theme is get realtime:
The main theme will be get realtime. We want to […]
Re:publica 08 #4 (Wrap-up)
So re:publica 08 is over, it’s the week after and things are back to normal. I’m only posting this just now since my weekend pretty much went into moving to a new apartment, but now that I’ve settled in, I’m back on a more regular schedule after after a trip to New York and San […]
Forrester: Online Community Best Practices
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Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang shares this great presentation about Online Community Best Practices. It’s 51 slides packed with useful advices for those of you who are planning to launch an online community of any kind. Note that this presentation won’t save you proper consulting and/or experimenting. But it contains excellent […]
Upcoming: Valley Trip. Wanna meet up?
Most of you live in the States - that’s what my blog stats say, and that’s my experience from talking to you, too. Also, with quite a few of you I’ve emailed, chatted, or talked during the last couple of years. (I just realized: This blog is turning two years old just about these days.) […]
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 […]