Berlinblase is back
With Barcamps abound and the Web2Expo just around the corner, it’s time to once more kick off a few side projects. One I’m particularly fond of is Berlinblase. (I hinted at it here.) Johannes Kleske was so kind to write up a neat brief summary, so please allow me to simply quote at length:
Yep, we’re […]
CNN introduces embeddable video
CNN just introduced embeddable video. The CNN behind the Scenes blog has the details:
We are very happy to announce our latest move in that effort with the introduction of the CNN.com embeddable video player, a stand-alone video player that can be virally distributed by using a code snippet to embed on almost any site or […]
The sun is Constantly Setting (watch it)
Out of Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino’s lab comes Constant Setting, a beautiful Flickr-based mashup. Constant Setting shows us photos (released under Creative Commons, tagged on Flickr with sunset and a location), from those places where the sun is setting right now. So what happens is, you get to see a never-ending flow of sunset photos from all […]
Downing Street 10 relaunches, goes all Web 2.0
Downing Street 10, the British Prime Minister’s office, has just announced a relaunch of their website. The new website is full of web-two-ishness: Prominent space for video (via Brightcove), Flickr integration, YouTube, Twitter, blog, you name it.
Screenshot: Downing Street 10 relaunch
As I’m testing it, the intro video about the new site won’t play, but by […]
The Big Picture: Stories told in photos by Boston Globe
I don’t know how I could have missed The Big Picture, the Boston Globe’s amazing photo blog. (It has been around since June). The Big Picture tells stories by featuring stunning, awesome, sometimes scary (and always: huge, i.e. 990px wide) photos, put in context by a paragraph of text.
Waxy interviewed Alan Taylor, the programmer […]
Four success factors for your organization’s blog
Christian Kreutz of GTZ (the German cooperation enterprise for technical international cooperation and development) has worked with blogs in his organization for several years. In a series of posts (”From A-Z to Organization 2.0″) he shares his experiences with blogging and lists a number of examples and success factors.
Besides the use cases for blogging (like […]
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 […]
Berlin couple share their pregnancy: RealBirthTV
When I was pointed to RealBirthTV first a couple of days ago, I have to admit I didn’t know what to think. Over-sharing or a logical thing to do? RealBirthTV is Berlin-based couple Erik and Jodi, who share the journey of their pregnancy, starting a few days ago in their third month.
Today I met […]
Documents Are Conversations: The Future of Work (is now)
A little while back, while I was visiting San Francisco, my buddy Max Senges (the proto knowledge entrepreneur) and I had a chat or two about the future of work, which both of us see in collaboration, sharing and networking/the cloud. Of course, just like for many of you, this has basically already become part […]
How to work The Internets (or not!)
I’m not much into bashing. But. Picking up on P.’s comments on my brief round-up post on online politics, I guess it’s time for a new series, or rather: two.
First, How to work The Internets, where I’ll collect examples of political campaigns making particularly good use of the web.
Second, and in best Borat […]