On October 4th 2007, the day Steve Ballmer was in Switzerland and talked about “Next Era of Software” Sascha P. Corti demoed Microsoft’s newest child called Silverlight. Wikipedia describes Silverlight as “competition for Adobe Flash and Sun’s JavaFX”. Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, […]

No, I have no Facebook account. No, I was never curious about it. Yes, I see all those news about Facebook, Facebook Apps and discussions about it. Now people are talking funding Facebook Apps. Is there really a business in Facebook Apps? Can you really make a buck or two from that? And why do […]

First of all: Thank you Reto and thank you Internet-Briefing. This was the coolest and best non-BarCamp (un-)conference I have ever been! I just loved it. The atmosphere is great, you all call yourself by your first name (- Hi, I’m Corsin. – Oh, hi. I am Hans). I really think about joining and becoming […]