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Gestern wurde in mein Auto eingebrochen – und zwar genau hier: Größere KartenansichtDas ist eigentlich eher ein „schicker“ Bezirk in Düsseldorf, handelt es sich doch um das Linksrheinische Viertel Oberkassel. Ich habe genau um 9:21 mein Auto abgestellt (da war gerade das WDR5 Zeitzeichen zu Ende) und kam um 9:43 von der Hunderunde zurück, als…
I just stumbled upon a german platform called susuh.de, and they are offering a service to find local service-providers like haircutters, groceries or what ever. So what makes them unique is the ability to send a request via twitter to the platform. I personally haven’t tried the service yet (just because there’s no party to…
My parents just went on holidays to switzerland – and what was the first thing they did? They called me on the phone to say „boy, everything is fine – we are in switzerland – by the way: go to the grindelwald webcam section and say hi!“ I did, and there they were, sitting in…
I was looking for a hotel in London the other day, and tried an experiment: post my search on twitter and see what happens. And there you go: Just some minutes after my post I got retweetet by @frau_one and about 3 minutes later, @ukseries (service with trips to england, tickets, events etc.) followed me.…
Been on a weekend trip with my best friend, and we each were riding the BMW R1200 – damn, what a great piece of technology. The boxer ca. 100 hp strong engine comes with 6 gears, with 3 and 4 for the „big push“ 😉 While it’s been rather difficult to handle the ca. 300kg…
I often read articles like „P2P filesharing doesn’t have impact on the music-industry: the music industry is just not able to find new business models“. I thought about that, and I found a point I can understand the industry spending millions on lawsuits against filesharing users. One often brought argument is „people are willing to…
A friend of mine works for a pr agency, and she is currently evaluating the use of twitter for one of their customers – an online shop in germany . She came up with an idea, which from my first impression, sounded brilliant: use the direct contact to potential customers from twitter, and tell them…