The digital age raises numerous questions as towards the credibility of news, images, audio and video footage.
I believe, I’ve found the universal answer. Turn up your speakers, switch to fullscreen and watch carefully:
A quote about Google’s Android
25/11/2009 By 4 Comments
I recently stumbled across this quote somewhere on the AppleInsider website. I’ve got nothing to add, so here we go:
“Google only wants to give phone makers and providers enough code to allow them to deliver their own customized, distinguished products so that it can continue its core business of selling ads and paid search to mobile users. Those partners actually want to have control over differentiated, compelling features that they can use to sell their Android phones in competition with other Android makers.
So rather than Android being a platform being pushed forward by Google, it will largely be advanced by Motorola, HTC, Sony Ericsson, and other makers who all have a history of making dozens of phones with terrible user interfaces and bizarre bundled apps and hardware features that are poorly implemented. [Read more...]
Getting in charge for The Next Web Germany
19/11/2009 By 1 Comment
Today I’ve agreed to become the Editor for the German branch of The Next Web network: The Next Web Germany.
I’ve long been an author for The Next Web International and occasionally contributed to the German blog, too. We all know that many of the really, really cool technology news originate from the US. Even in our almost 100% virtualized world, that’s a clear location advantage for blogs targeting an English speaking audience.
The Next Web Germany is available since roughly two months now and I’m planning to make some slight adjustments to the content strategy over the course of the next weeks. We might add more commentary posts and will also increase the number of articles from our mother, that we offer as a German translation.
I’m also looking forward to add some really cool new resources to our German team.
They’ll add upon the many different angles and perspectives we try to provide on the stuff that forms the next web. (If you’d like to get in touch, email me at ralf@thenextweb.com, please!)
That said, I’ll continue to write for The Next Web International but am feeling honored to take full responsibility for our German baby!
Finally, I’d like to ask you for your support by
- following TheNextWebDE on Twitter,
- becoming a Fan on Facebook and
- subscribing to our RSS feed.
Thanks and looking forward to get your comments over there!
A couple of weeks with the amazon kindle and I love it!
06/11/2009 By 15 Comments
Living outside the US feels unfavorable when it comes to movie release dates, availability of international TV programs and more often than not new gadgets and software releases.
When amazon announced the international availability of it’s much acclaimed ebook reader platform, the amazon kindle, I immediately ordered one.
A couple of weeks later I’m deeply satisfied with the entire experience, from purchasing, via delivery, through setup and everyday use. The buying process, as expected when purchasing from the world’s largest online retailer, worked seamlessly. A couple of days later the kindle shipped. [Read more...]
Federate Google Wave sandbox with your own (FedOne) server. Here is the step-by-step guide and tutorial.
05/11/2009 By 31 Comments
Ever since Google presented Wave – a collaboration and communication platform – to the world during Google I/O 2009, the Internet has been a buzz with all things Google Wave.
As with every new technology, controversial use case discussions quickly dominated the technology and geek blogosphere.
Google Wave is constantly evolving. Before we start: To stay in touch I kindly ask you to follow me on Twitter (@24z).
One of the key aspects of Google Wave is its federation architecture. Much as email is distributed across hundreds of thousands of distributed servers, implementing standards as POP3, SMTP and IMAP, Google Wave servers are designed from the ground up to support federation, too.
Not only does this allow third parties, including open source initiatives, to come up with their very own implementation of Google Wave servers, it also facilitates (corporate) security, scalability, innovation and, I’m sure sometime soon, hosted offerings.
Given that federation is such a key aspect of Google Wave, it comes as no surprise, that a recent article I’ve published over at The Next Web unveiling Google’s plans to open their developer sandbox environment, quickly ended up on Techmeme’s front page.
This blog post covers my journey in getting federation between my server and the Google Wave developer sandbox to work.
It’s been a tough ride.
I’m by far not an expert on the Google Wave Federation Protocol, yet, and without the tremendous amount of support from the wave-protocol discussion group, I’d likely have failed big time.
Many aspects of Wave federation are still very beta – some folks on the wave-protocol list suggested they are even pre-alpha – so details of my findings are guessings and assumptions. Feel free to correct me where I’m wrong.
I anyway hope, this contributes a bit to the passionate Google Wave scene and hope to hear back from you.
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A brief update
01/11/2009 By Leave a Comment
My loyal readers have noticed that my updates here at 24100.net slowed down a bit over the last couple of months. My last post is well over a month old. Here’s why:
1. Twitter kills the blogger star
There’s no doubt that we are headed to the real-time web. More capable mobile devices, a general trend towards mobility and the rise of social networks are rapidly adding new ways to communicate and stay connected to our lives. As in my professional life I’m dealing with communication technologies since more than a decade, it’s quite natural for me to try out all the latest and greatest. [Read more...]