Deutsche Post’s Ex-CEO Klaus Zumwinkel has been picked up early in the morning by tax investigators — staged live with TV cams. In the following days Mr Zumwinkel’s tax evasion was the No 1 content in German
February 25, 2008
Is Print dead? Brockhaus stops printed edition.
Gutenberg was a great guy. He enabled billions of people to read what others had written. That was in in the 1450s. Today, on 13th of February 2008, publishing house Brockhaus announces the stop of their printed
February 12, 2008
Microsoft and Yahoo — that makes sense indeed
Today Microsoft announced a $44 billion bid for Yahoo — either in a friendly or unfriendly takover transaction. Within minutes twitter and blogs have been full of comments on that announcement — nowadays it can be assumed
February 1, 2008
Is Web Design a Matter of Taste?
Today we decided on the new webdesign. Did not expect that to happen during my lifetime so I am pretty relaxed now. Is design a matter of taste? Most people would say yes I assume. Or is there a good
January 30, 2008
Conferences, the future of.…and confirming evidence
Reading twitter and blogs on the DLD and Davos conferences I am wondering about the correlations between people looking into the future and the future itself. To be more precise: At DLD in Munich Ashish Patel of
January 23, 2008
DLD Munich
Today DLD in Munich started. Hubert Burda, Jossi Vardi, Martin Sorrell, Joe Schoendorf and Richard Wurman opened the conference with some perspectives on the (digital) future. While Sir Martin was very pessimistic about the future for
January 20, 2008
Wikis and Wikifarms
Today I started a new wiki using a wikifarm called wikidot (which is a smart tool). Used Wikis all the time but never ran one by myself. It’s different — when you are the one in charge of navigation and
January 19, 2008
A Day at the Datacenter
Today we spent a few hours in our datacenter in Frankfurt. What does a datacenter loook like? In my younger years I imagined a datacenter a huge cool and clean area with the size of a soccer field. Today, or with the
January 18, 2008
European Founders Fund acquires stake in Facebook
Germany based VC European Founders Fund EFF is said to acquire a stake in Facebook. Run by the three Samwer brothers (sold Alando to ebay, later Jamba to VeriSign) the European Founders Fund normally is known for
January 15, 2008
PETA’s KFC tombstone prank
PETA had placed a tombstone in the Louisville cemetery in which the founder of KFC was buried. It turns out that the gravemarker, which was approved by the cemetery, contained a hidden message: KFC TORTURES BIRDS
amazon.com acquires stake in woot.com
amazon.com is said to have spent 4 million dollars for a small stake in woot.com and the option to buy the company when certain milestones will be matched. What is the rationale behind that idea? Certainly woot.com is
January 15, 2008