Darmstadt: Even more regulars joining Cosima’s IT table on each month's...
O.k. it’s been some time, since I visited or even wrote about the tables for coding regulars taking place the second Tuesday every month in Darmstadt. What has changed since then not only is that you...
View Article9th JCI Leipzig "Wirtschaftstreff" 2009 at the Radisson Blu Leipzig
This time the public event at the Radisson BLU Hotel opposite from Augustusplatz includes an update by Ines Falkenhan on "Family Affair: Balancing Family And Work" for working parents living in the...
View ArticleFascinating Insights from the First Ontologist Workshop at...
Something extremely re-assuring I am taking away from this two day event, is not only the obvious development progress in the ontology sector, but also the fact, that even the most renowned experts in...
View ArticleHamburg and the Semantic Web Paradigms
While the talk by a Adobe representative’s talk on XMP did not exceed much what can be found on their respective websites, Hans-Peter Schnurr, CEO of Ontoprise GmbH, brought in not just some very...
View ArticleNH Hoteles now providing Under-Way Hand Washing to their Guests
I tried it out and it’s really impressive: You just pour some of the gel into your hands, rub them firmly, possibly casually dry them with a handkerchief — and that’s it. You got clean hands from just...
View ArticleThe Semantic Web is Meaning Less(at least to search engines…)
I’ll dare to offer semantically enhanced SEO ('Suchmaschinenoptimierung' in German) services, which we create for use with Google’s Universal Search or Yahoo!’s Monkey Business, as fully query-able...
View ArticleWorking @ Starbucks — the other way…
Even though Starbucks management by now may as well not have fully gotten the actual business potential coming with providing public co-working space — their prospects definitely have. Continue reading →
View ArticleMissing the customer — how your brand’s street cred suffers from poor execution
Case discussion on how the way an advertising message is delivered can actually communicate the opposite of what has been printed in the headlines. Continue reading →
View ArticleQR Chalking viable to mark-up the real world?
Marking-up real world places to connect them to references on the web at a reasonable price has been challenging ever since HP's e-squirts using infrared and our own approach with Bluetooth beacons....
View ArticleIn Defense of AIDA (and other 1@1 concepts…)
Shouldn’t we finally put this formular to rest in our history books as a 19th/20ieth century legacy item? Hm. Not so fast… Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Grassroots Dilemma, The Return Of Browser Wars And The Death Of The Plug-In
Please prepare for the most innovative technical changes to online experience since the late nineties, and watch out for those just wanting to cash-in on you for plain eye candy that will likely...
View ArticleBeyond all hype: The 3 simple things to get right with your company’s homepage
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View ArticleThe Empire strikes Back: NOKIA’s Return To Your Pocket And The Magic Of Context
With Apple's stock price ranging as high as it may ever get, but their once-superior phone engineering showing inceasingly more weeknesses in both concept and execution, this is the dawn for their...
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Where Current Mobile/Location-Commerce Paradigms fall Short And Why
The future of Mobile Business is in Location – now, really!?? Listening to the mobile technology, device and communication industries’ big players currently puts into place two core assumptions about...
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QR Code Professionalism @ BMW
“QR what?” I hear you say – and you are right. It’s just been a couple of weeks ago, that someone tried to convince me, that now (as both have become commonplace) marketeers finally have fully...
View ArticleForum Kiedrich: Seminar on Creativity Techniques
Today I attended another instructive seminar, hosted by Forum Kiedrich: Creativity Techniques taught by Prof. Dr. Horst Geschka. Though most of the participants were already familiar with the...
View ArticlePodcast from a Train to Madrid:Culturally different Approaches to do Business...
At more than 200miles/h onboard of a highspeed-train to Madrid and on their way home to the US, Guidewire Goup‘s official podcaster Cathy Brooks has a conversation with Chris Shipley about the...
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The Podcasts of Web Montag III [Frankfurt/Main]
Late as always, though nevertheless fairly interesting, come the podcasts of Web Montag 3 at Frankfurt’s Brotfabrik. Web2.0 (In)Security with Björn Schotte is all about security issues you get for...
View ArticleSee you @Web Montag 4 in Frankfurt
Today, as always, at Brotfabrik in Frankfurt/Main. For the first time I’m going to give a speech myself — on Microformats.
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Finally a fully featured Linus-FONero !
I made it ! I finally managed to make my brandnew € 5,- FON Social Router happily play together with the existing AVM Fritz!Box DSL-Router. FON is a Spanish start-up, founded by serial-entrepreneur...
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All amusing:The Chancellor’s Podcast Hurdles(and how to avoid them)
Now it’s the politicians. After the corporations having struggled with the two-way nature of blogging and even podcasting, it’s now on the politicians to realize that (though their propaganda-experts...
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State of the (Sema)Worx– the Blog’s Hiatus repealed
Hi all, thanks for being patient enough to read this, as there have obviously been no posts to this blog within the last quarter. This is due to a lot of efforts to keep up with the schedule to have...
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Forum Kiedrich: Founders Wanted Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Germany’s...
Being among the Forum Kiedrich Alumni with SemaWorx myself (though our presentation has been almost two years ago now), I am happy to help them promote their 20th Founders’ Market in the Blogosphere....
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Cosima’s cozy Darmstadt IT-Table for the Regulars (though not exclusively…)
Yesterday, for the second time already, I had been invited by Cosima Joergens, awesome host of the IT-Table, to join “the regulars” at the Kaminzimmer bistro in downtown Darmstadt (South-Hesse). As...
View ArticleWhat does it need to be successful ?
At the year’s end mostly everybody seems to have some sort of outlook and “best wishes” on their blog, website, paper, newsletter — or whatever one sends to customers to make sure they stay well and...
View ArticleApple’s iPhone: A Really Revolutionary Interface. But wait — haven’t I seen...
Hi, and a really great new year to all of you. When I watched Steve Jobs’ keynote (QuickTime required) opening Macworld this week and he showed the ‘brandnew’ multi-touch display of their new iPhone, I...
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Yahoo! letting A Thousand Semantic Trees blossom
Update: It seems, SemaWorx is going to face some stiff competition… Their new developer app Yahoo!Pipes can possibly generate services like the ones we are going to provide to consumers. This could...
View ArticleCeBIT and the Rhineland-Palatinate Exhibition: Is this the End of...
In March I visited two exhibitions: The worlds (almost) biggest IT fair CeBIT and the far more local Rhineland-Palatinate Exhibition, a local oriented fair about household items, fashion,...
View ArticleForum Kiedrich: Second Table for Founding Regulars
The table for start-up founders we organize together with Forum Kiedrich every second month has been a huge success with its second instance. We had around 15 visitors, all Alumni of the Forum Kiedrich...
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Luigi Colani’s ANYFIX Mobile Phone Loading Base
Have you experienced this either ? Somewhere on a trip you realize you forgot your cellphone’s power adaptor at home or the last hotel you visited and you’ve just run out of power. Of course a...
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Jens Kunath: Answering my Start-Up Founder-Type Question on his Blog
Web 2.0 Angel Investor Jens Kunath just answered my question about preferred character types of founders when choosing a start up for an investment. As a basic result he mentions on his blog, that...
View ArticleMoving, Me, Leipzig
Yes, it’s true I moved to Leipzig and started to work at customized apparel manufacturer Spreadshirt.net. Though, the moving procedure was somewhat bumpy this time, and left me without reliable web...
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The Macintization of Windows’ Mice
Being a powerful interface widget for Mac users for quite some time now, Exposé has now come to Windows either. Well, sort of. When I first experienced this, I actually thought it was the recently...
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Buzz: Semantic Web in The Economist and on Tim’s Radar
It’s been Tim O’Reilly who wrote on his "Radar"about the perception of the Semantic Web as it has been reported by The Economist in a mistaken context recently, as a sort of name for any Web 2.0...
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MashMaker — Intel entering Semantic Web"through the back door" ?
That’s at least the way they put it. As I unfortunately have not yet been able to make it among the lucky ones, who get the first bunches of early-adopter tickets for Intel’s MashMaker, I have to...
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Want To Generate Buzz ? Try Loïc’s social video !!!
Celebrity Blogeur and renowned serial entrepreneur from France Loïc Le Meur is just beginning to podcast every day of setting up his new social web video startup Seesmic. After months of rumours and...
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Revenue 2.0: Is it really just about advertising ?
Currently most institutional Web 2.0 investors still seem to think of advertising as the key revenue driver for any type of web-project. Considering the advertising market being a rather volatile one,...
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OUTSIDE INnovation by Patty Seybold
Admittedly, I’m late. Patricia “Patty” B. Seybold’s work OUTSIDE INnovation already came out more than two years ago. And even though I started reading (or better: ‘devouring’) the first chapters...
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Re-Thinking Checkout: As for Conversion We p(r)ay…
Checkout sucks. Really. Adopted to the web from the world’s retailing industries, "checkout" basically describes the procedures within the purchasing process from the point a customer has added goods...
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A Checkout Re-Visited: The Basket (Step 1)
The term checkout has been known for decades as the point-of-sale from within a variety of industries; no matter if on- or offline. In e-commerce, however, the checkout is mostly referred to as the...
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Checkout Re-Visited: Step 2 — Registration or Log-In
This is a tougher, though nevertheless more annoying subject. If a web-store requires you to ‘register’ (the most horrible word to be chosen for the procedure; do you smell the bureaucracy and...
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Checkout Re-Visited: Step 3 — Entering Your Shipping Information
Does any online vendor need to know where you live and when you move and who you would like to send a present to ? Isn’t that you having to pay the shipping anyway !?? Furthermore with every new...
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An Opposable Mind: Business Week interview with Roger Martin on "Integrated...
This week in an approach to broaden my problem-solving skills and just after having subscribed to ROTMAN Magazine, I came across this highly interesting Business Week Feedroom interview with Roger...
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6th Wirtschaftstreff 2009 at Radisson Blu Leipzig
Coming Tursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 07.30 p.m. the Leipzig JCI "Wirtschaftsjunioren" chapter invite to their social gathering "Wirtschaftstreff" at the Radisson Blu Hotel’s "Spagos" Bar/Lounge. The...
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Checkout Re-Visited: Step 4 "Your Payment Details, Please."
It’s Whom You Trust. Security risks of long-distance business with unknown people had not necessarily been of interest to end-customers before the widespread advent online trade in the late...
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Checkout Re-Visited: Step 5 — check it out before you check-out: the...
Probably the only page you really will not want to dispose from checkout at all. It offers an overview of all the products you chose, collects the billing and shipping details you provided and...
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Checkout Re-Visited: Step 6 — when the deal is done; The ORDER SUCCESSFUL Page
If one would really want to add use to this page (thereby exeeding its functionality beyond the one of a simple check mark…) probably adding some of the following features could do the job: Display...
View ArticleSwine Flu: Federal Initiative to Fight current and future Variants of Influenza
Update: Now more current data about the virus spreading is being provided by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), including updates on possible protective measures in a variety...
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Book Review: Never Eat Alone — with Keith Ferrazzi
Do you know, what it’s like to drive a real Ferrazzi ? Well, as far as this book is concerned (with a German Edition available as well), this Ferrazzi (model "Keith") clearly is driven by making both...
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