Likemind Berlin: 4 Dec 2009

Phew. It seems to be the day of organizing events. Besides TEDxKreuzberg (see my blog post), it’s also time for a brief update on Likemind Berlin (Facebook page).
The next Likemind will be off schedule. Instead of the regular third Friday of the month, the November and December installment of Likemind will (globally) be merged into [...]


The Folks Behind Coworking: Patrick Tanguay

Patrick Tanguay founded Station C, a coworking space in Montréal. (Currently, he’s coworking from Berlin.) Installment No 4 of my series of interviews on coworking, in which Patrick shares his thoughts on coworking.
What’s does Coworking mean for you?
I’m not sure it’s a good analogy but it’s been coming to mind often lately when I think [...]


The Folks Behind Coworking: Tony Bacigalupo

Tony Bacigalupo is one of the heads behind New York City, a New York-based coworking space. In the third installment of my series of interviews on coworking, Tony shares his take on coworking.
What does Coworking mean for you?
Coworking means so many things to me, but overall I think it represents a big step in a [...]


The Folks Behind Coworking: Alex Hillman

Alex Hillman cofounded Indyhall, Philadelphia’s answer to San Francisco’s Citizen Space. (On a personal note, when Indyhall was set up I closely followed the whole process in their blog, which I think really kick-started my personal interest in coworking. Go check out the earliest posts!) In this second installment of my series of interviews on [...]


The Folks Behind Coworking: Chris Messina

Chris Messina is one of the folks who started it all. Together with Tara Hunt he founded Citizen Space (San Francisco). Also, Chris and Tara put a strong focus on the philosophy behind coworking to put it all into context: Coworking is not just about space, but also ideal. So here’s the first installment of [...]


LeWeb Pre-Conference Interview: Nicole Simon asks about Berlinblase

Cross-posting from Berlinblase.de, a link to an interview Nicole Simon did with me a few days ago:
As part of her LeWeb Pre-Conference interview series, Nicole Simon (@nicolesimon) kindly invited me to tell a thing or two about Berlinblase. You can listen to the full interview on CruelToBeKind, where we spoke in between Erno Hannink, Andrea [...]


How to pitch your service to TechCrunch? Mike Butcher knows.

Over on Blogpiloten.de, Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK explains how to successfully pitch your service to TechCrunch. It’s that simple, eh?
Klartext: Wie pitcht man bei TechCrunch? from Blogpiloten on Vimeo.
Full disclosure: We had this video (and a whole lot more) produced for Blogpiloten.de, which I’m project lead of, and who are clients of mine. The [...]


Two interviews: Likemind in NYTimes, Berlinblase on Trackback

Usually I don’t get interviewed often, but rather interviewing others, like for Berlinblase or Blogpiloten. So you can imagine I was pretty surprised to show up in two traditional media yesterday.
A brief, but fun email interview with the New York Times about likemind (which I had the chance to co-host recently – thanks Henrik!) got [...]


Interview: Tim O’Reilly about Mobile 2.0

To my great pleasure, at Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O’Reilly himself took the time (again) to share some thoughts with me and dotdean.
Tim O’Reilly about Mobile 2.0 from dotdean on Vimeo.
Disclosure: The interview was shot as a shared project between blogpiloten.de and Berlinblase, both in which I’m directly involved.


Interview with Stowe Boyd: Why email is broken

At Web 2.0 Expo, Stowe Boyd took the time to sit down with dotdean and me for an interview. (Some thoughts on his session “Better Media Plumbing for the Social Web“.)
Email is dead – Stowe Boyd from dotdean on Vimeo.
Disclosure: The interview was shot as a shared project between blogpiloten.de and Berlinblase, both in which [...]