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The end of the Blackberry culture

I’ve been using my blackberry as phone and email device since 2 years – and will stop it now. During my 2 weeks on holiday I had completely switched the device off, and boy: this was really relaxing. I feel I have to focus more on the work I’m currently doing and not having one of my two eyes completely stuck to the red LED of the device, always checking (even during meetings) mails, answering, editing… I am convinced, that the „always on“ mentality in itself is not the problem – it’s the „always avaliable“ thing, that made myself unproductive. I ordered an iPhone two days ago: because: I want and need an email device to be „always on“ but I want to choose when and how I read and react to emails.


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Once upon a time: „SYMP“

Tonight I’ve been doing some backup stuff, and when I went through all the files, I found a directory called „backup_240106“: it contained a neat PDF I had forgotten: a first presentation of „SYMP“, which I had written on the 24.08.05 – SYMP (which fancy-like stodd for Sync Your Mobile Phone) was a kind of „MobileMe“ which I had thought of back in ’05 – and I remember a guy called „Nico“ which I had some nice discussions about that (and several beer in cologne, if I remember correctly 😉 ). The idea was to have a kind of open source CVS or SVN for everybody, with easy to use Accessing-Apps as well for the Desktop, as for your mobile. Of course, there was no idea about the iPhone back then, but I was thinking of J2ME, as it was (is) widely spread among mobiles in that times. There should have been a kind of XML index, for all syncing files, so that on your mobile, only the xml would have been parsed – and if you „ordered“ a document within, the device would have downloaded it, in order to reduce traffic-costs (which back then were the main problem). I feel like I should have thought about that idea in more depth, but as Loic can’t stop saying: Only execution matters. 😉

SYMP Presentation (german)

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motionet XMAS Party

Together with our friends from clicktivities we had a great XMAS-Party: The biggest Rock-Contest in Germany took place during that evening – see some pictures below 😉


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Black Macbook MagSafe Board

After I „offered“ my Macbook to the rain in last August, the battery didn’t charge anymore, though the macbook works seamlessly. After reading a lot on the net, I now decided to get myself a new magsafe board, which is a small piece sitting inside the macbook, and connects the magsafe connector to the mainboard – I suppose, this is broken due to the rain. After trying 120345890 times to get someone at gravis to the phone, I finally went there last saturday, wanting to order the spare part. All they said: Apple dosen’t sell spare parts, and so do we (ehm, well, ok…). Now I ordered it at comtecedv.de Let’s see how this will work out.

UPDATE:I’ve just finished installation of the new Magsafe board – but it didn’t work – so, the mainboard seems to be defect ;( Damn – could have been so easy. Btw: got two screws left – hope that doesn’t hurt my MB 😉

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My trip to Sweden and Lativa

During the last weeks I made a small but very nice trip to the north, fliying from Dusseldorf to Stockholm (ryanair), taking the ferry from Stockholm to Riga (Silja Lines) and flying back from Riga to Dusseldorf (ryanair).
For accomodation I chose the community couchsurfing.com which I can highly suggest to anyone out there wanting to travel „the special“ way. The cool thing with couchsrufing.com is, that thre are people from all over the world who host you on their couch. So of course, no money for hotel etc. but most important: you get your guide for free 😉 I really liked the idea of getting connected to people who live in the towns you visit – and it really worked out for me, getting to know Stockholm and Riga from the „insight view“ (Thanks to Olov and Agnija). These guys where so helpful and pleasant, that I had a wonderful time in both cities (photos following 😉 ). What really excited me was Riga, the capital of Latvia, with their young people, fully addicted to the internet – first thing I discussed with Agnija was the impact of converged media – she is studying somethint like media science. I was a bit disappointed by Stockhom, because during my stay, streets were nearly empty – but this might have to do with holidays and it was quite cold, so no need to go outside for the Swedish, only stupid german tourists like me were walking around… 😉
I think my next travel to the north will be in summertime – because Riga and Stockholm are really beatiful towns, with lots of green and water.
Now, refreshed, and back to work, kickin 2009…


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Whew, wheres 2008 gone???

So I havent blogged for a while-and yes,twitter is one reason for that 😉
Many things have happened: I now live in a cute flat in ehrenfeld in cologne, with direct view to the Dom – unfortunately I am not yet ready, and I have to live with the boxes 😉 it’s too much work to do-but I don’t want to complain- no, not for a second! Motionet is really growing and we mamaged to finish some really exciting projects this year- and there are still some great new customers to be anounced 😉 but for me personally our p2p in-browser streaming tool emundoo is the most exciting project,and I’m really proud of what we managed to reach this year – there is still a long way to go, but we are going into first public tests by the beginning of the new year,and boy: these partners really rock…
I’m not quite sure how the current financial crisis will work out and if our business will be affected- but we have a great team and so I think we will manage what will come whatsoever…
I’ve just organized my first holidays since ages: I am going to fly to Stockholm, Sweden, on the 27th for some days and will then take the ferry to Riga, Lattvia-I am going to meet a good friend of mine and stay there for new year-during planning I found couchsurfing.com a very cool community for finding and sharing your couch with people from all over the world:for Stockholm alone there seem to be more than 1000 acommodation possibilities -that’s impressive. Let’s see how things are going to work out-I’ll let you know and post some „cold) pictures 😉

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typepad account

got a reminder today from typepad regarding my blog account: the credtit card information wasn’t valid anymore. DOI had to remember the „good“ times when oli got me into blogging which was back in 2003-yes we are getting old 😉 and I had to remember some strange kind of deal oli and I made to pay each others typepad account because we got one year for free for that. Don’t remember what kind of goodie typepad gave us back then exactly…;)

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damn rain today

huh bad weather today! Let’s see how our boys from the german team will perform today against Croatia. My bet: 3:0! 😉

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emundoo: our p2p video-streaming system

For over a year our team has developed emundoo, and we are now in "geek mode" which means, we are running a closed alpha to find all the bugs and cracks we need to fix to offer emundoo to the public asap.

What is emundoo

                                 
                        

emundoo is a Content Distribution System targeted at Video on Demand
services. It uses advanced Peer-2-Peer networking technology to
distribute the load on the network to all participating machines. The
system is still in development. Currently it provides the basic
functionality required to deliver video content to users. emundoo is
video format agnostic, so that nearly all video formats developed until
today can be transported by the system. It is built around open
standards to ensure interoperability with third party software.

                                 

How does it work

                                 
                        

In
its current implementation emundoo in essence provides you with a local
streaming server that will fetch the data you request on demand from
the emundoo network. The emundoo network is comprised of personal
computers around the globe running the emundoo client software. Each
time a video is requested by a user, the video data is transferred as
needed to the user’s local machine, where a portion of the data is
stored for later redistribution to other participating machines.

If yoou want to participate in emundoo and give it a first glance, please drop me an email at ingmar at motionet.de and I’ll send you an invitation…

                                 

                

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Why I like TV under public law

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Last saturday night I somehow could not sleep so I watched TV: boxing on ARD, which is the first program in germany. Castillejo (Spain) vs. Sylvester (Vorpommern, Germany). Castillejo (called „The Fox“) 40 y old with lots of KO on his winners-list vs the young german guy who knocked Castillejo K.O. in the 12th round – and boy: Castillejo really didn’t look that good afterwards. It took him appr. 5 min to get back to his feet again. What I found truely remarkable is that the cameras of the TV went away from him: they didn’t show ONE SCENE of him laying on the floor – the reporter told us, he looked like mess, but they didn’t show. And I liked that – I liked the way the editors let him his intimacy in this moment of defeat. I am not sure, if a privately held station would have acted like that. Is moral a question of money? Is courtesy a question of Adimpressions?