Kategorie: Allgemein

Well, I´ve recently posted here of changing your view of your company from the inside out. Now it came to my mind, that my designers are just doing that every day: They have to be very empathically, crawling into our customers heads, trying to find out what thoughts they have for their design. They start with a variety of several solutions, making prototypes, revolving the problem, and find the best way for our customers. So, this is exactly how leaders should try to run their company: get into the view of your customers, and involve them into your process of optimization.

This post from David Weinberger has some interesting aspects of the power and the structure of the internet: Taking the „Dean Campaign“ as an example he says, that the net is absolutely democratic, and information goes from a sender to an receipient – there´s no control. So, making a „campaign“ is a contradiction in its term itself: you can´t just determine what your receipients will see, they will take what they want to. I think, its a good example in the context of DRM: the internet will alwys be independent; users will always get what they want.

Driving my car,destination home,having my 6600 in one hand i wonder if there was any speech to blog interface?

As mentioned in this article on worthwile this is a fantastic new way of organize work: Take a good software, and let people work from home (mentioned here: secretary work for lawyers). Effects were quite great pleasured employes who were thankful for the new job.

As ftd.de reports,there will be an european wide alliance of vodafon,t-mobile,etc. In order to get open standards for mobile-phones,they will make pressure on manufactors like nokia (symbian) and microsoft.

As CNET reports, Gmail is under fresh attack of the European Privacy Group based in London. „Privacy International alleges that the Gmail service violates privacy law, both in Europe and in other countries. The complaint identifies a wide range of possible breaches of European Union law,“ director Simon Davies told Reuters. Backround is Googles announcement on seraching all the mails for keywords in order to deliver the right AdSense-Adverts inside the emialbodies. Let´s see how Google will deal with that. I bet they will change some of their sensing technoogy in order fit a legal suit. The business with 1 GB emailstorage and google search technology is too big to risk a stop by law.

Well, I think this is a quite complicated view of the role of Mr. Bush. The article mentions, that Bush claimed China as the next big opponent in the world after the former soviet-union was broken down in it´s role as a „superpower“. Additionaly Bush´s claim of „You are with us, or you are against us“ during the building of the anti-terror-alliance, was of an „international dialectic“, and therefore marxistic point of view. I have to add, that „marxism“ is of a social-, and „dialectic“ is of a philosphical context – so the author´s argumentation is quite wrong in this way. He also mentions, that 9/11 was a consequence of the different roles of the administration: Miss Rice as conservative, Mr Powell as liberal and Mr. Bush as a „neo-marxist“ had different interests in the way they wanted to lead the USA in international relationships. But can that be all? What about the fights between CIA, FBI etc…Though I think the author has got an interesting point of view, i believe, that the catastrophy of 9/11 was a consequence of a lot of mistakes and ignorements…

Dears, since I´ve just moved from movabletype to typepad I wanted to get my first Moblog running – but guess what: it didn´t work, I got funny error messages from typepads postmaster, that the emial adress, I was posting from, was unknown. So it took me nearly a day to find out, that you HAVE TO WRITE A SUBJECT OR MAILBODY in addition to a photo you want to send from your mobile phone. Otherwise it wouldn´t work. Well, typepad crew: I love your tool, but this was just too crazy…;-)

Well, thanks Oliver for this nice article on fastcompany that fits so well in the current discussions around the corporate use of blogs, and the trust into companies. As I´ve experienced from my own companies, the possibility to invite your customers into your companies structures and make your (their) projects transparent, becomes more and more important. Since we`ve established bascamp as project-management-tool last week, our customers are very happy and thankful for the „view inside of us.“ Basecamp let´s you manage your Todos, define Milestones, send messages around your team, comment on them, and stay informed of all that by using RSS-Feeds. Our customers become read- and sometimes writepermissions in order to post new ToDos and comment on what we´ve done . So you can see it almost as a kind of blog. Let´s see, how future customers will react on that, and if this technique might give us a head advance of our competitors 😉 P.S. Thanks Oliver for the suggestion to use Basecamp. Your are the best geek 😉

Due to the fact that I love good food and nice amosphere, here is the new category „Eat`n Drink“ and the first entry from the „L. Fritz in Hoppers Hotel in Cologne“.
It´s a gastronomie inside the Hoppers Hotel St. Antonius, and has a very modern, but somehow „sacral“ atmosphere: the nicest place might be the garden, in which a big statue of „St. Antonius“ stands. The name „L. Fritz“ comes from a very influencing photografer from the beginning of the twentieth century. The entries are very big – you might see them as a big snack. I had Bruscetta and calf-ragout as main meal which was fantastic. Though the food was very, very tasty they had enormous portions – hell, I had to eat some of my grilfriends Gnocchis, too, because it was too much for her. Staff was very friendly, and helped us with the wine. They accepted VISA for payment. All in all it was a very nice evening and it gets 7 out of 10 points on my „MCDonalds – RITZ“ Skala 😉