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Re:publica 08 #2
Today is day 3 of re:publica 08, the last day of this year’s installment of this conference. Re:publica is the biggest and most important blogger & social media conference in Germany, organized largely by the Newthinking Team (i.e. the net activists whose most prominent member is probably Markus Beckedahl, author of Netzpolitik.org. Thanks Markus, and […]
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 […]
Twitter In Plain English
Lee LeFever has struck again: This time, he explains Twitter In Plain English:
If you’re not familiar with the format, make sure to check out the other installments of The CommonCraft Show - so far, they’ve failed to disappoint, ever. It’s just great stuff.
(If you speak German, there’s also a quite funny take on Twitter on […]
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 […]
Why Small Organizations See The Internet As A Chance, Big Ones See It As A Challenge
There is a thing about the internet, a notion that has been around since the early days: That the internet offers a chance to anyone to do something big, to start their own projects, companies, or even movements.
While this is true, what’s easily forgotten is that anyone refers mostly to individuals, or small organizations: […]
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 […]
Wikia Search: First Reviews Are Coming In
Today’s the day Jimmy Wales’ open search project Wikia Search goes alpha, bringing in a new flavor of a human-machine-hybrid. (Some thoughts on human vs machine based search.)
By now, the first reviews of the Wikia Search alpha are coming in, with so so results. Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington rips it apart for not involving […]
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.
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 […]
Barcamp & Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
It’s been a bit quite here on the blog, but that’s a good sign: It’s been rather busy during the last couple of weeks, what with Barcamp and Web 2.0 Expo coming to Berlin. So there’s a few things to announce and share.
First of all, and some of you may know this already, I’m thrilled […]
Opening the Social Graph
Lately the web has been buzzing with talk about the Social Graph (or Social Network Portability, as others prefer to call it).
The basic question? Who owns your social network, and how can you move it back and forth between different services and applications? (You should be the only one with complete control over your […]
Do You Know How to Use the Web to Innovate?
The internet isn’t just a means to send email and look up information. It’s a powerful tool for all kinds of networked communication. But it’s also a great tool to innovate - in your product, your business, or your organization.
Lately, I’ve had a number of chats with my buddies and collaborators Max Senges and Thomas […]
A Swarm of Angels: Poster release
If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you might be familiar a film project I find to be really neat: A Swarm of Angels (former posts of mine here) will be a real, and radical, innovation: It’ll be big-ass, professionally produced movie funded (in terms of both money and creativity) by a community of […]
Newbies Guide to Twitter
When Twitter is mentioned outside the net community, more often than not you get kind of irritated looks: What’s the point of Twitter, exactly? This sounds so useless!
(Changes after playing around with Twitter, mostly. But that’s a different story.)
Chris Brogan wrote a great brief piece on his blog, explaining the basics of what Twitter is, […]
exPhone.org: How to create a simple but rich web application in just three days
Citizen Agency’s Chris Messina shares his story about a very cool pet project of his, going by the name of exPhone.org.
exPhone is one of those examples of how the web can (and should) be applied to find great, quick solutions for a problem.
Chris had a simple enough question: What to do with your old […]
My name is Peter Bihr. I live in Berlin, Germany. As a freelancer, I consult on web strategies, communities, blogging and social media. In this weblog, I jot down random thoughts, ideas and news. Hopefully, you'll find some are interesting for you, too. 