Archive for the 'News' Category

Maps for Games

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

There are now some vectorized maps in Europe. Thanks to the Olympic Games in Torino. So are we getting vector maps in germany this summer for the world cup?
I also read that there is a prototype navigation system by VW which runs on google earth (via schockwellenreiter).

Live web

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

By the way technoratis new feature ‘View in mini’ is a nice way to follow urgent topics besides subscribing interesting topics with your feed reader. Watch any tag or search in a small window being updated every minute. Where is the widget?

Happy ham remover

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Tim wrote about How to not be removed from a newsletter. I just searched for mailoff_m.php3 and found points24.com. According to Tim they have 4.000.000 subscribers. More or less willingly, if you read this thread (including unwillingly Tim). So he is right in asking, what to do!?

New Orleans

Monday, September 5th, 2005

I just want to point out two statements.
War on Error - Doc Searls
US Bashing - No Information

Live Landing

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

I’m watching a live video of the Discovery landing via Yahoo! News. Looks good.
Update: Successful. Congratulations!

Fox buys MySpace

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

I hate MySpace anyway. It has a really bad website interface. I’m not speaking of functionality, it’s more that I hate the GUI. And I think it’s also no fun for browsers too. There are self designed ugly pages with background sound, a video player and animated gifs. So click on a friends friend and [...]

Freedom of expression

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

“Reporters Without Borders” is calling to vote for blogs defending the freedom of expression. Among the nominated blogs are:
Burning Bagdad
A Baghdad women

Sometimes food

Friday, April 8th, 2005

Something must be wrong in the land of Muppets.
The greatest muppet from the Sesamestreet is now making advertisings for healthy food and singing a song called “A Cookie is a Sometimes food”. Lets throw cookies at him, poor nowadays kids. It turns out that Sesamestreet is now more hippie than in the 70s. I don’t [...]

Catraini Industries

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Valboa (aka Schrotti) did a rebrush of his website at the weekend. Look at catraini.com.
With a little help of Karsten.

Company blogging

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Yesterday Felix started the new Aperto blog. It’s nice to see that blogs and wikis really get professional. Wikis are used instead of complex intranet applications, cause they are very easy to maintain and everyone is able to fill it with his own stuff (sounds like anarchy but it isn’t). So your project documentation will [...]