Twitter – a love and hate relationship

I’ve been very reluctant to really give twitter a serious try – and having had a number of conversations on that very topic – many others felt the same.

It is so obvious: Twitter is a waste of time!

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Browsing POIs on maps just got way easier – meet Geocubes

There a two major problems that all web-services that try to plot loads of POIs on a map face at a certain point in their product development life cycle.

  1. Designing a dynamic GUI that is intuitive and does not create the usual clusters of overlapping POI flags that you can’t navigate properly
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How to gain back hours of time a week you waste on ’social’ media sites

Lately I have been increasingly annoyed by the fact that I would spend more and more time on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, LinkedIn and so on with little to no real gain or benefit.

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In Germany owning an iPhone will set you back another 5,76 Euro a month now

You have to love German efficiency. Since this year 2009 iPhone owners have to pay an extra of 5,76 Euro per month on top of the fee they pay for the monthly plan at T-Mobile.

The GEZ (Central radio and television toll collecting agency) in Germany does argue that the iPhone is a device that enables you to access the internet (that’s true) and they use the money to provide the citizens of Germany a basic coverage of news and information of all kind. This is an old approach they translated form the television part of media where the argumentation goes that by collecting the fees they gather the money to ensure that media is not influenced by advertising or big money quite as much and you will get rather unbiased news coverage.

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Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro – and no gun to my head

Due to the fact that I have not tried, played around or worked with Windows Vista to this date, I thought the free Windows 7 Beta was the perfect opportunity to see what’s going on on the Windows side of life.

Windows 7 on MacBook Pro using VMWare

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