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When Pub­lic Enemy released their clas­sic hit Shut ‘em down, they were crit­i­ciz­ing author­i­ties. Yet recently, Google has given the track’s title a com­pletely new mean­ing: with­out any prior warn­ing, the com­pany shut down at least six renowned music blogs hosted on Blogger/Blogspot. Or, as Paidcontent.org puts, it, “wiped them from the inter­net”: Read the rest of this entry »

When Google launched their lat­est gad­get “Wave”, every­body was so keen on get­ting an invi­ta­tion — I’ve sent out about 60 invites via my blogs, yet I haven’t been using Wave a lot. Nei­ther in the begin­ning nor lately: it’s lame (even when used with Chrome, large mul­ti­me­dia Waves are basi­cally unus­able on net­books), it lacks a lot of impor­tant fea­tures and — most impor­tant of all — it’s gen­er­ally quite unsexy, Accord­ing to Sil­i­con Alley Insider, I’m not alone with this opin­ion. Read the rest of this entry »

Foursquare.com is get­ting gold: hype-searching geeks are mov­ing on, and these days their favorite URL is formspring.me: it’s a really sim­ple q-and-a plat­form — kind of like Twit­ter, but with­out the 140 char­ac­ter limit. The ser­vice lacks a lot fea­tures, it’s still in a pretty early stage, which didn’t keep me from reg­is­ter­ing though: formspring.me/datadirt.

The setup just takes a minute: like on Twit­ter, there’s the avatar pic, the home­page URL, a short descrip­tion and that’s it. When it comes to eye candy, formspring.me offers a cou­ple of tem­plates, but the more brand-aware user can also upload their own back­ground pic — now in 2 min­utes, because I’ve com­piled a Photoshop-template that speeds up the process of cre­at­ing a cus­tom form­spring tem­plate a lot. Read the rest of this entry »

On Tues­day night, the orga­niz­ers took us to a great tra­di­tional Roman­ian restau­rant where I real­ized that one of my favorite non-beef foods, namely “Sar­male” (cab­bage rolls filled with a spe­cial kind of cured meat), is a national dish here in Roma­nia. We also got to watch a group of dancers and we even engaged actively in the action (poorly though, at least in my case :). Later that night we vis­ited Planter’s club later. I must admit that get­ting up at 7 on Wednes­day was quite tough, but as soon as the first ses­sion began, the fatigue van­ished in an instant. Read the rest of this entry »

The first day of the World Blog­ging Forum 2009 was all about empow­er­ment and influ­ence: since 99% of the par­tic­i­pants are blog­gers it’s no sur­prise that we all agree on the total and com­plete dead­ness of old media — that’s just a ques­tion of the van­ish­ing point. But how to har­ness the power of the web to strengthen the civil soci­ety in dic­ta­to­r­ial states? This issue is far from easy to tackle! Read the rest of this entry »

The World Blog­ging Forum 2009 has started today. In the morn­ing, Mr. Tra­ian Basescu, for­mer mayor of Bucharest and now pres­i­dent of Roma­nia, greeted us with a warm wel­come; I actu­ally expected him to just drop by for a cou­ple of encour­ag­ing words, but Mr. Basescu obvi­ously is a quite avid fol­low­ers of the blo­gos­phere and even pointed out that he prefers polit­i­cal blogs over tra­di­tional media as they are a lot less biassed.

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This post­ing is also avail­able in Ger­man.

Just before I took off to Andalu­sia I got mail from Mihaela, ask­ing if I wanted to attend the World Blog­ging Forum 2009 in Roma­nia as a VIP guest. Yes of course! Flight and hotel room are already booked and I’m look­ing for­ward to a con­fer­ence a lot! The guest– and speaker-list con­tains a lot of pop­u­lar blog­gers who I’m glad to meet face to face, plus it’s the first time I’m going to visit Bucharest. The orga­niz­ers have invited the most suc­cess­ful blog­gers from 30 coun­tries to Roma­nia to dis­cuss the “ideas for a bet­ter dig­i­tal world”:

The most influ­en­tial blog­gers in the world: The event brings together some of the most influ­en­tial per­sons in the online media all around the world, in con­fer­ences and work­shops aim­ing to estab­lish clear para­me­ters of the devel­op­ment of the online media.

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National mar­kets beg to dif­fer: it’s not only about lan­guages, but about the sub­tle cul­tural dif­fer­ences which make the dif­fer­ence between top and drop. That goes espe­cially for Asian mar­kets. And there is another spe­cialty about the largest Asian mar­ket: Chi­nese gov­ern­ment strictly con­trols all inter­net access. This kind of cen­sor­ship not only influ­ences the polit­i­cal but also the eco­nomic sphere. Juer­gen Hoe­barth, who knows the Chi­nese online mar­ket like the back of his hand, wrote a white paper about Chi­nese start-ups which is def­i­nitely worth a look (espe­cially since it’s a free down­load!). Read the rest of this entry »

“Wel­come to the world of tomor­row!” No, that’s not right. Let me try again: “Wel­come to the world of the last seven days!” That sounds bet­ter! There’s a lot to show-and-tell, so with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s jump straight into last week’s social media news. Read the rest of this entry »

This weekly round-up comes with a built-in 24 hours of delay, as the author was extremely busy dur­ing the last week­end launch­ing the Aus­trian Inter­net Coun­cil [site in Ger­man]. This was an amaz­ing proof of the power of social media: within the short time span of 5 days we our project was the cover story on ORF Future­Zone, Austria’s biggest Tech News site. Crowd­sourc­ing is great, but it can be quite time-consuming, espe­cially when there’s a lot of inter­est and involve­ment. So, with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s jump right into this week’s hot social media top­ics! Read the rest of this entry »

Step in, ladies and gen­tle­men — wel­come to the weekly Blogistan-round-up! It’s my duty to enter­tain you (and some­times maybe even piss you off), but who cares — it’s all in the blog, st00pid! From Google Wave to the slut­ti­est brides in 2008, the blo­gos­phere is here to cover your every infor­ma­tion need. Read the rest of this entry »