Inside Out

You are on Twitter and instead of being productive your time gets consumed by watching others being productive, staying informed and following links? Pretty bad but friendfeed now offers a possibility to make it worse: friendfeed realtime! You could simply sit there and watch friendfeed update itself. I love the tool but I won’t use [...]

Due to a nasty Chinese Virus my computer at work died. As I just got a new Laptop (as shown in the post before) I’ll pimp my Firefox at work in the same way my laptop is pimped. The question here is not which browser to use, cause I’m in love with Firefox even though [...]

Last Weekend the ArtCamp Hamburg took place at the University. One thing was exactly like on every other “whatever”camp - except the Women’s BarCamp. Everybody had a Macbook. Does this picture look somehow familiar to you? Jup, business as usual. The big difference here was the kind of conversation. They tried to define art.
The ArtCamp [...]

I’ve talked about Viscape and how they use Social Media as a Online Company. Paulo Coelho is not necessarily connected to Social Media, as a famous Author he could as well sit in his house and use an old school typewriter and the publisher would do the rest for him. Well maybe the publisher adds [...]

I can’t remember when and why it started, but one day Viscape was following me on Twitter. I followed back. Every now and then a message popped up and added some more information to the rough idea the Twitter Bio had given me before. Being familiar with the name, Viscape passed my selective attention filter [...]

I tried to sign up for Linkarena a German social bookmarking site and encountered the following problems. In fact 2 of 4 fields came up with very creative error messages:

1. User name: green -> not taken. great.
2. Email address: “steiss@gmail.com is not a valid email address…”
WHAT??? I’m using it for years now and I have [...]

Yesterday I tried to explain social media to a friend and ended up confusing everybody. Inspired by ProBloggers Social Media Love in I drew a chart, sorting out my social media services and their connections:

To me that looks like a lot but whoever uses that stuff know that thats easy to handle. But I didn’t [...]

Yesterday I started writing an innocent blog entry. Starting with the fact that due to being German I might just get about 82% of the English articles I read. On top of that there’s far too much information which makes me skip through stuff, so how much information might get stuck in my head at [...]