2008.07.10
WebTuesday 2008-07-08: Lightning Talk by Patrice Neff about SOA
Lightning Talk by Patrice Neff about the benefits of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
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2008.06.29
Dipity profile created
Overview of some of my online activities:
2008.06.27
WebTuesday 2008-05-13: Apache sling by David Nuescheler
Google video has been giving me problems and I cannot get it to make videos downloadable. The video quality is also pretty low.
Enter Viddler. Much nicer interface, taggable, downloadable... What's not to love?
So here is last month's WebTuesday presentation that I produced. The topic is Apache Sling (formerly known as micro-jax) and the presenter is David Nüscheler from Day software.
What is JCR (elevator pitch)
REST meets JCR meets Ajax
Building TSS as a content application
JCR = Content repository API for Java
See also: http://jcr.day.com/
2008.06.23
Tips for startups from Maya Elhalal
While researching startup funding practices I came across a post from Maya Elhalal who has gone through the process of finding funding for startups herself and now teaches and consults on the topic.
Her recommended reading list contains one excellent book that I already have, The art of the start
by Guy Kawasaki. The other books seem to complete the picture and answer the detailed questions that remain after reading "The art of the start".
by Guy Kawasaki. The other books seem to complete the picture and answer the detailed questions that remain after reading "The art of the start".2008.06.03
St. Anton am Arlberg in High-Res on Google Maps
St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria was a big smudge on Google Maps until not too long ago.
Now you can actually see some details, as for example in this video created with Google Earth of me skiing down one of my favorite bits of off-piste.
Interesting is that the pictures were taken in the middle of construction of the new Galzig lift.
Here is the base station under construction:
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And here's the top station:
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Now you can actually see some details, as for example in this video created with Google Earth of me skiing down one of my favorite bits of off-piste.
Interesting is that the pictures were taken in the middle of construction of the new Galzig lift.
Here is the base station under construction:
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And here's the top station:
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Mahalo daily viral videos
Andrea Rene and Leah's potentially viral videos are done.
Interesting to see what happens if one sets out to intentionally create a viral video.
I didn't get Leah's video at all at first because I hadn't seen Mariah Carey's "Touch my body" video. (I don't have a TV.) Now I have seen it and the original is just as weird!
They both make clever use of keywords that are sure to capture some hits in searches.
Interesting to see what happens if one sets out to intentionally create a viral video.
I didn't get Leah's video at all at first because I hadn't seen Mariah Carey's "Touch my body" video. (I don't have a TV.) Now I have seen it and the original is just as weird!
They both make clever use of keywords that are sure to capture some hits in searches.
2008.05.25
Leah gets it too
Leah D'Emilio tracked me down on Facebook to say thanks for voting!
I voted on the Mahalo Daily Vlog Idol contest organized by the creators of the Mahalo Daily podcast fo find their next host.
Which candidate do you know that personally tracks down (slightly unsettling ;-) people who voted for them to thank them for their vote? She really seems to get it when it comes to the possibilities of *buzzword alert* social media.
All the more reason to go vote for her.
You still have a few more hours as of the timestamp of this post, 'till midnight Sunday May 25th, (US/Pacific I assume).
Here's Leah's competition entry.
Gary Vaynerchuk's inbox, or: how to gracefully deal with potential email bankruptcy
Gary sollicits lot's of email. On his podcast and other online appearances he asks people to please write him. Result: more than a thousand emails on some days.
He also says he personally deals with each single one of them: every one is important!
Sounds like excellent advice. But what if you can't cope with the sheer amount anymore? Do you get an assistant?
I sent Gary an email just when he was on vacation and I got an automated response that explains how to deal with this in an effective and friendly manner.
The solution? Help people help themselves!
The automated response gives you a link to a page with a video message from Gary in which he appologizes for not being able to get back immediately and then he explains how to get an answer to 80 - 90% of the most common inquiries. (My estimate, but hey 73.4% of all statistics are made up.) He also refers people to those colleagues of his in the best position to help out.
(Since the message is in your viddler channel for everyone to see, Gary, I hope you don't mind linking to it.)
A long time ago I worked in a department that runs a helpdesk for thousands of government workers across the entire state of Florida. The most important lesson that the leader of that department taught his colleagues came down to the same principle: always help everyone who has a question. Even if you don't know the answer and even if it is unrelated to your area of expertise, help them at least one step further in the direction of a solution.
(If nothing else, suggest other sources of information.)
Why?
You can do it too!
2008.04.25
Swisscom Labs project profiled
Marc Osofski posted a video on the Optaros blog from Josh Bernoff, Forrester Analyst and author of Groundswell
See the video here.
I am not embedding the video because it starts playing automatically and loops... very annoying!
It was a very succesful example of a proper User Centered Design project.
For more information on the project, see: Swisscom Mobile Labs profiled on the Optaros Website. (Includes a nice screencast.)
2008.04.22
Amazon Webservices on WebTuesday video
The video of the WebTuesday hosted presentation about Amazon's Web Services by Mike Culver is up on Google Video.
2008.02.04
Flickr + tags + creative commons + maps + geotagging = mashup
Schmap Guides richly annotates online maps to create guides for a big number of travel destinations. They make a nice mashup with existing maps sites and scour flickr for relevant pictures to use (and link to) on their site. A creative-commons licensed picture of mine was found by the editors of Schnap and they asked for permission to include it. (Yes, of course.)
Most of the people whose pictures are featured will probably spread the word. Good marketing!
2007.12.12
Vint Cerf's Zurich talk on YouTube
Vint Cerf gave a talk in Zurich last month with the title "Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century".
Well worth watching for some perspective on internet related developments (and some humor too ;-).
2007.12.06
The B Series: Brainstorm's how-to on doing an awareness campaign... but wait, there's more!
Here's a nice set of articles by Brainstorm that chronicles their awareness campaign called The B Series.
It contains links to a set of beautiful PDFs about Web 2.0, social networking, the (online) media landscape, etc.
Very clearly explained!
The diagram on the last page of this The Mediasphere document is especially interesting.
(Via: mynameiskate.ca)
2007.11.21
Lefsetz on Licensing, copyright, Creative commons & Larry Lessig
Bob Lefsetz has an excellent post about music (content) licensing and copyright where he goes into a bit of history, analyses the role of P2P and major players in the music industry and shares his opinion on Creative Commons.
About Creative Commons:
"I don’t know if Larry’s Creative Commons is a solution to our problems. I believe it’s close to a nonstarter, because it doesn’t have enough heavyweights behind it, because it lacks momentum. Then again, too many of the creators who could jump-start it are locked up by the copyright bullies. But the issues Larry raises… They are important."
I disagree with Bob. I think Creative Commons is "a" solution. (As opposed to "the" solution.) It is one tool for content creators who find traditional copyright too restrictive. Nex to that it is an instrument and a catalyst in the discussion about copyright and licensing methods reform and in the actual transformation process that is going on right now.
Creative Commons is just young. It may (probably will) look differently 10 years from now.
The original version of Larry Lessig's TED Talk is here.
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