My silicon valley experience

I am running Ubuntu since a few days and am pretty unexperienced with Linux in general. I just needed to install the build-essentials but it wanted me to insert the installation disc. Since I am in the university right now this was not at hand. There seemed to be a thread at http://ubuntuforums.org but the […]

In the last days I listened to two German podcasts (SWR2, Werbeblogger) talking about privacy in the times of the web2.0. Alot people are sharing information on the web that usually would supposed to be private. We publish photos on social networking platforms or flickr. We update people about the status of our relationship, who […]

According to the O’Reilly radar the iPhone is getting really popular among managers. The iPhone is able to convince by it’s user friendliness and elegance. Apparently this convinces managers to switch to Apple products also for their computers. Some of them did that not only with their private machines but also do this switch at […]

I had to do a little survey about three different mashup tools for university. Those tools where Microsoft Popfly, Google Mashup Editor and Yahoo! Pipes. I first tried Yahoo! Pipes and was really amazed how easy it is to build simple Mashups. Because it was fast and easy I decided to build a simple application […]