People asked me, how it comes that my blog feed is published as goo.gl shortened URL in Twitter. The solution is rather simple. All you need to do is have your feed being publicized by Feedburner and active the following settings: “Publicized” -> “Socialize” and add your Twitter account. Thanks to OAuth, Google does not […]
Continue ReadingLacie Promotes Wuala with new Hard Drives
How could I miss that? Swiss idol startup Wuala, part of French Lacie, gets integrated with new hard drives from Lacie. If you buy a new LaCie Rikiki drive (either 250, 500 oder 640 GB) you get at least 10 GB of Wuala online storage. To bad there is not more information on the Lacie […]
Continue ReadingIdea: A Better Copy and Paste Function
Computer software and techniques evolve. From the keyboard-only interface to the mouse over to touch or voice commands is just one example. From mainframes and thin-clients to workstations, to home computers to cloud services is another one. Many parts have changed over the year. But one thing that hasn’t is your clipboard. That is the […]
Continue ReadingHow To Correctly Inform Your Customers, @slideshare
SlideShare is updating its webservers. How I know this? Because I got lucky. There is no notice on the website or on the blog. The homepage loads fine. But if you click any link or want to view a presentation, all you see is a stupid 500 error message. At around 7:21 am CET, the […]
Continue ReadingThe Online/Offline Gap
Maybe it’s because I am working on my own recommendation system or because I keep my eyes open on all things. But recently I have started to see a larger and larger gap between my online and offline (real) life. For example just today Facebook suggested, I say hello to a co-student of mine. I […]
Continue ReadingCablecom Outage – Internet, TV, Phone
Update 12:00: Cablecom confirms on their website problems with the Internet connectivity. No ETA or reason is given though … According to various reports on Twitter, Swiss Internet Service provider Cablecom is down for service, including TV and Phone, all across Switzerland. Reports are reaching to us from Zurich, both sides of the Lake of […]
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