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Re: Memo to eBay: Just sell Skype already

Nico — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:22:11 -0000

Mathew, could you maybe elaborate a little bit on your Dunkin Donuts / Skype business model? Would love to hear that... ;-)

Re: Hitler sure made some funny videos

Nico — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:50:14 -0000

Well, after having watched two of those Hitler videos, I'm still not sure what I should think of them. I don't find them particularly funny, but that's probably just because I understand German and know what they're actually saying.

I agree that you should be allowed to make fun of (almost) anything, including, of course, Adolf Hitler. And the fact that the Hitler video meme is so popular is probably a good thing, because it shows how far away the horrors of the WWII are. But at the same time, that also worries me - because what happened then should never be forgotten. "Those who fail to respect history are doomed to repeat it" wrote one commenter over at TechCrunch. That may be a bit too dark - but isn't there some truth in that as well?

Re: Tools I use: A close look at Feedly

Nico — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:22:20 -0000

Mathew, thanks for this! Have been using Google Reader for years. Just installed feedly, and it looks really cool.

Re: democracy 2.0

Nico — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:30:51 -0000

Great idea, Dave!

Here's two sites from Switzerland that go in the same direction, although none of them is an "all-inclusive" platform:

- Smartvote is a site that lets candidates answer a set of questions on different political issues. Users can then go to the site, answer the same questions and based on that get recommendations on who to elect.

- NZZvotum is a blog platform hosted by Zurich-based newspaper NZZ. It has blog channels for all the political parties and lets the candidates blog themselves. It proved to be very popular in the months before the national election in October.

Re: Brown Bag Lunches 2.0 (Innovation Training)

Nico — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:55:19 -0000

@Dave: Do you know the Common Crafts Show? They did something very similar, a series of short videocasts about web services in "plain english". http://commoncraft.com/show

Re: Boxee Review

Nico — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:12:49 -0000

if you still have an invite left, I'd like to have one ;-) Thanks!

Re: 20 nouvelles invitations pour Seesmic!

Nico — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:18:50 -0000

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Re: democracy 2.0

Nico — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:30:51 -0000

Re: Brown Bag Lunches 2.0 (Innovation Training)

Nico — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:55:19 -0000

@Dave: Do you know the Common Crafts Show? They did something very similar, a series of short videocasts about web services in "plain english". http://commoncraft.com/show

Re: Twitter down

Nico — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:00:35 -0000

So BusinessWeek is the reason that Twitter went down? Thank god, I already feared that there has been another earthquake somewhere.

Re: Blogmagazin der Schweiz

Nico — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:05:19 -0000

Eine verlockende Idee! Es gibt ja auch einige schöne magazinartige Wordpress-Themes (etwa dieses hier), mit denen sich so etwas umsetzen liesse. Allerdings denke ich, dass der redaktionelle Aufwand für die Auswahl und Aufbereitung der Blog Posts schon relativ gross sein wird... Aber einen Versuch ist's auf jeden Fall wert!

Re: Introducing Publish2: Networked News

Nico — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:42:07 -0000

Congrats, I like the idea a lot, especially the collaboration part. Journalists spend a lot of their time consuming other media, but they seldom share their knowledge. When I was working at a newspaper about a year ago, I tried to set up an internal blog where staff could post links to interesting stories. The project failed, however, because my coworkers were unwilling to spend extra time for writing the blog. If Publish2 manages to create a set of tools that make this kind of sharing easier, it really might be of great help.