just stumbled across this news item at GigaOM:
First Web 2.0 IPO, Xing?
Does anyone have more details?
just stumbled across this news item at GigaOM:
First Web 2.0 IPO, Xing?
Does anyone have more details?
I can confirm this. If you want to hide something, hide it in a long text.
WordPress plugin du jour – for future reference:
P.S. Has anyone tried it out yet? Is it better than integrating Google Calendar?
This Lisbon street scene reminded me of the Jeff Wall show I saw at the Schaulager some time ago…
http://www.schaulager.org/de/popup.php?pfad=archiv/jeff_wall/intro
Only that in my case it’s a snapshot…. instead of a careful composition.
Tomorrow in Riehen/Basel:
I’m a substitute for one of the Lauftreff teams. For the 4.9 km distance. My very first race.
See also this Wikipedia article on Ekiden races
Just got back from a beautiful, long weekend in Lisbon. It was great. Fairly warm. Although everybody was talking about “mau tempo”. It rained a lot on Sunday, but no problem for this northern light: I had all of my rain gear with me. Plus this kind of weather was great for a city trip. I spent a lot of time walking around with my gadget arm in click-ready mode. I’ll post one or two pics in the next couple of days.
i am tired… too tired to write an entry.
I agree with this gapingvoid post:
“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this — the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”
Publishing has just gotten faster, delete all the buzz words, and ignore the same old blogging discussions, and get moving…
Om Malik was wrong and the rumors were right:
Google purchases Youtube for 1.65 bn $.
Somehow I felt Google wouldn’t be put off by the copyright nightmare.
What’s next?
P.S. GooTube is already taken.
useful:
Megapixels Chart – although sizes in cm and DIN would be more helpful for Europe.
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything personal in my blog. Mostly because this isn’t a confessional blog. A couple of weeks ago I read thu all entries here at chiperoni.ch. And I like the nice side-effect that I can hold onto a fleeting moment by documenting it in words (even if it’s just a link to the plug-in du jour). Time is flying so fast. And we need to spend our time savouring the moment.
Usually I just skim thru the weekly Duden email newsletter. Not today. Here’s a quote from today’s newsletter regarding the spelling of foreign (usually English) loan words in German:
Neue Rechtschreibung 2006 – Zusammengesetzte Fremdwörter
Zusammengesetzte Fremdwörter werden zusammengeschrieben. Besteht die Zusammensetzung aus Substantiven, kann zur besseren Lesbarkeit ein Bindestrich gesetzt werden:
– Desktoppublishing (auch: Desktop-Publishing)
– Airconditioning (auch: Air-Conditioning)
– Sciencefiction (auch: Science Fiction)
– Midlifecrisis (auch: Midlife-Crisis)Ist der erste Bestandteil ein Adjektiv, kann zusammengeschrieben werden, wenn die gemeinsame Hauptbetonung auf dem ersten Bestandteil liegt. Andernfalls gilt nur Getrenntschreibung:
– Longdrink oder Long Drink
– Hotspot oder Hot Spot
– Aber nur: High Fidelity, Electronic Commerce, Top TenBei Substantivierungen aus dem Englischen, die auf eine Verbindung aus Verb und Partikel (Adverb) zurückgehen, setzt man gewöhnlich einen Bindestrich; daneben ist auch Zusammenschreibung möglich:
– Black-out (auch: Blackout)
– Count-down (auch: Countdown)
– Kick-off (auch: Kickoff)
Weird. Anyway, who cares about spelling on a Friday evening…
A couple of links that crossed my paths this week:
Buon weekend.
it’s official: September 2006 was (a lot) warmer than August 2006.
For the full comparison see:
SF METEO
I’m going to Lisbon for a long weekend. Can anyone recommend a hotel, or bed and breakfast, or “clean and tidy” youth hostel somewhere in the downtown area? Things to do?
My personalized Google start page includes random links from wikiHOW. Some are hilarious and make me lol.
Today’s suggestion:
How to Make SIM Card Earrings
via gapingvoid’s post on meaningful work:
This guy has got some very nice WordPress themes:

If you run out of things to do…
There’s always pantone matching
source: SwissMiss
for future reference:
Customizing Vanilla
A couple of Youtube videos I’d like to share:
buon weekend,
nchenga