October is web season in Berlin (come & play!)

Just as last year, this October Berlin will be home to a whole bunch of great web events. Most notably, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo will be in town, and no doubt will attract all the movers and shakers of the Web 2.0 world. Last year it was a blast. (One of the fun things: Asking […]


Web 2.0 Summit 08 shares web 2.0 lessons learned with the public

This year’s Web 2.0 Summit is a who is who of the internets. What I find particularly cool is this year’s theme: Sustaining, applying and expanding the web’s lessons. The summit won’t be just an insiders’ game, but instead aims at spreading the love knowledge with the less focused, more mainstream crowds.
This is really […]


Bits exist to be copied / LIFT Talks

Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management, here filmed at LIFT ‘06. As always it’s a great talk.
(update: I removed the embedded video because it automatically started to play. Please click here to watch Cory […]


Meet up at Dresden Future Forum 2008

Thursday, I’ll be blogging from Dresden Future Forum 2008, more or less live. (Probably, I’ll be twittering, too.) (If wireless permits.) If you’re there, make sure to say hi! Should be fun. There’s one thing on my to do list that I’m very excited about - an interview with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics. Should […]


Berlin Web Buzz This Fall: Web2Expo & BarCampBerlin 3

This fall, Berlin will be buzzing with web stuff once more: O’Reilly’s Web2Expo will be in town, and it’ll be surrounded by a lot of smaller events. Most notably the way-more-intimate BarCamp Berlin in its third installment, aka #BCB3. Last year, this meant a week or so full of web events as the Twitterati flocked […]


next08: wrap-up

Back in Berlin after a day of liveblogging at next08 in Hamburg. You can read our coverage (mostly German, some English) on Fischmarkt.de.
Good fun & nice folks and a number of good panels. Also, it was interesting to see how our group live blogging developed - between the four of us we tried to cover […]


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 […]


Re:publica 08 #1

So far, I haven’t been able to blog about re:publica 08, Germany’s top blogger & social media conference. Not because it hasn’t been interesting - quite the contrary - but because I ended up chatting with a lot of cool folks. Which is, let’s face it, the main point about this kind of congregations. The […]