Like Ken Auletta’s Googled gave the backstory on Bill Campbell and the Google part of early 2000s, these 80 minutes with Jason and Travis Kalanick give you all the backstory of Scour (p2p music, even before Napster), Red Swoosh with Marc Cuban and other internet history stories. Seriously, if you can’t wait for the Encyclopedia […]
I just watched the demo for Bank Simple, the start-up that aims to reinvent the way we do personal banking. It is backed by prominent VCs, closely watched and got even more attention when Alex Payne left Twitter to join the Bank Simple team. I am no economics major, but what I have seen in […]
Groovebug aims to solve (or help) the issue of musical serendipity in the iPad way. I like this, so I will probably like this, and I get nicely done biographical info on the artist, preplays on music (all the tracks available in iTunes, yes, the app makes money via affiliate), and videos (YouTube). Groovebug solves […]
Walk the talk heißt es in der englischen Sprache. Practice what you preach. Ui, ui, ui, was ist denn da Ende letzter Woche passiert? Einfach mal alle schlechten Zahlen die man finden kann in eine Reihe bringen, ein Zitat dazu, und schwups ein neues “… ist tot”-Meme starten? Thilo Specht (Cluetrain PR-Artikel) und Olaf Kolbrück […]
Vor knapp zweieinhalb Monaten titelte Nico “Twitter ist konzeptionell am Ende”. Und es ist mir eine Freude, dagegen Stellung zu beziehen. Nicht in dem Sinne prophezeien, welches Netzwerk am Ende überlebt (so wie Wolfgang das getan hat 😉 ). Stattdessen ist meine These, Twitter is here to stay, Twitter ist Google sehr ähnlich und wird […]
Update: I’ll raise my score to 8,5 of 10. Why? I have been listening constantly and liking most songs more and more. Still no 10, because I still think that you can hear that writing took place without Mangini. But the album has definitely entered my top 5 DT album list. After the first listen, […]