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 […]


Breaking the Banksy: First interview?

A new Banksy mural ‘One Nation Under CCTV’ painted next to a CCTV camera at a Post Office yard in the West End. (Image: Dailymail.co.uk)
Half the world, it seems, has been chasing the British graffiti artist Banksy: Police for his vandalism, art collectors for his works, sprayers for his style, media for the scoop. So […]


How Creative Commons Can Interact With Commerce

Over the last couple of years, Creative Commons licenses have become pretty widely adopted in the non-commercial field. (You’ll find a great number of blogs and podcasts under a non-commercial Creative Commons license.)
But what about commercial use? Are Creative Commons licenses the natural enemy of commercially used contents? By no means, quite the contrary. Here’s […]


Tim O’Reilly tells his parents: What’s Web 2.0?

Link: sevenload.com
At Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, Tim O’Reilly kindly agreed to try solving the one issue all of us are sharing: How to tell our parents what we do? So here’s Tim, explaining to his parents: What’s Web 2.0?
“So Web 2.0: First off, it’s the idea that the Web, rather than the personal computer is […]