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Quo vadis, Facebook?

Posted on December 31, 2010 by jke

Im Herbst 2010 saß ich in einem Meeting zu einem deutschen Forschungsvorhaben, bei dem Zwischenergebnisse aus den Untersuchung auch auf Facebook bekannt gemacht werden sollen. “Was ist Facebook?”, frug daraufhin ein teilnehmender Vertreter aus der Industrie. “Bei uns werden all … Continue reading →

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German M-Pesa – would it be successful?

Posted on November 23, 2010 by jke

(…in English, und nicht auf Deutsch, because I’d love to see comments from non-German speakers as well. Dankeschön!) Mobile payment solutions, or m-payment, aren’t anything new to the interested mobile user. There are different (technical) models for mobile payments: Premium … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Germany

Posted on November 18, 2010 by jke

(source) Google Street View Germany was launched this morning after a soft start two weeks ago. It currently covers 20 larger cities in Germany – the screenshot above is from a street in Frankfurt where a friend used to live. … Continue reading →

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panem et circenses

Posted on July 22, 2008 by jke

Two interesting, but also kinda controversial articles that appeared on Der Spiegel Online today, the website of the German weekly magazine: The first one on the ailing German blogosphere (in German) that has been busy trying to constantly polemize itself … Continue reading →

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