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Proudly present: Launch of online t-shirt store keingeschenk.de
In one of those spontaneous nightly actions, my friends Matze, Meike and I decided that neither of us could really find the t-shirts we liked. You know how it is: You see some nice shirts, and they’re alright, but it’s so hard to really find the exact thing you’d like, right? So we started to […]
Video: Esoteric south German blogger interviews German A-List Bloggers (in German)
Link: sevenload.com
At re:publica 2007, my buddies Volker and Bas, as well as Ole Lehmann and Anna Srivastava (featuring as the great south German esoteric blogger Irma) started a series of fun videos: Irma interviews A-List bloggers. Just not the way they’re used to it. It’s great fun to watch Thomas Gigold and Sven Dietrich squirm […]
Atheism Week video: Are you a sandwich?
Videoblogging Week is Atheism Week over at Mickipedia.
(via Micki’s twit.)
Video: Supermarket 2.0
The Art of the Prank weblog launched
Joey Skaggs lauched The Art of the Prank, a weblog about, well: Pranks.
BoingBoing’s David Pescovitz talked to Joey:
BB: What’s the big idea?
Skaggs: Art comes in many colors and hues, shapes, sizes and forms. It can be decorative, functional, socially iconoclastic, or even politically revolutionary. To me the prank is fine art. Perpetrating pranks has […]
Financial Times features Twitter on front page, “looks like someone forgot to separate their whites on laundry day”
While the hyperbole around Twitter is hardly news, the Financial Times (FT) front page is a pretty clear signal that Twitter is reaching out being reached out to the masses. (TIME went for it, too, as well as SPIEGEL Online. SPIEGEL, however, as sadly so often, doesn’t get it.) What really made my day, though, […]
These guys got it right (II): Impromptu meeting organized via Twitter-SecondLife-IRC mash-up
Christopher Penn describes a heavily mashed-up impromptu unconference that took place in Second Life - spontaneously agreed on via a wild mix of Twitter, IRC, Second Life, you name it:
As tastyblogsnack’s Justine saw it:
I noticed a few messages between Chris Penn and Britney Mason who were meeting on Jeff Pulver’s island, Pulveria. Within minutes, a […]
100$ Laptop + Twitter = The End of Information Control
The chances that Nicholas Negroponte’s awesome One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC, aka the 100$ Laptop project) offer for education are pretty obvious: Where there’s access to knowledge, there’s a better chance to get educated. It sort of levels the playing field, to some degree or another.
But with the capacity of those laptops to instantly […]
Twitter: False feeling of connectedness, or great way to deepen bonds?
Kathy Sierra posted a nice rant about Twitter. I wouldn’t necessarily agree, but she makes some good and valid points:
Twitter scares me. For all its popularity, I see at least three issues: 1) it’s a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key addictive element of slot machines. 2) The strong […]
Metaweb’s freebase combines Wikipedia-style encyclopedia and meta data. Rocks.
While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE. In many ways, freebase is the bridge between the bottom up vision of Web 2.0 collective intelligence and the more structured world of the semantic web.
Strong words, when coming from Tim O’Reilly.
Freebase is metaweb’s first project. While […]