Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

No Competition in the German Tech Blogosphere Anymore

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Since last week there is one less excellent German tech blog to read: Martin Weigert of zweinull.cc is writing for netzwertig.com now and is quitting his own blog. zweinull.cc was one of the very few serious tech blogs in this country which was started only 14 months ago and quickly ...

My Personalized Memetracker

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Techmeme. Rivva. Tailrank. Megite. Yeah, memetrackers, that's right. While all of them provide a great service, there's always stuff I am not interested in. Also there is the language barrier: Rivva is focusing (mostly) on German blogs while the other three services only include articles written in English. That's not ...

Publishing Attention Data

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Attention Data While surfing the web we leave traces, some unintentionally, some intentionally. Sometimes we are aware of them, sometimes we're not. Unintentional traces (often they are even unavoidable by the average, non-tech savvy surfer) are cookies which can be read by ad services, IP addresses logged by websites, and much ...

Email? Send a Fax

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

People are telling me that faxes have become obsolete, no one needed a fax machine anymore; email and PDF documents had replaced it. Some people even proclaimed email to be old school. Well, in the last few days I have learned that faxes are still relevant. Last Friday I asked three ...