October 2009
48 posts
Humdinger Winbelt →
Amazing innovation: The second most impressing green technology after Pavegen: The Windbelt™ uses a tensioned membrane undergoing a flutter oscillation to pull energy from the wind.
Oct 31st
Manager's & maker's schedules →
Do you split your day into manageable hour intervals? Or are you more the creative mind who prefers to use time in units of half a day at least?
Oct 31st
USA visa for entrepreneurs →
Eric Ries, Dave McClure, and Shervin Pishevar try to change policy around the EB-5 visa, which enables foreign investors to get a visa in exchange for starting a business in the US with $1M in investment capital and creating 10 US jobs ($500K for economically targeted areas). Inspired by Brad Feld and Eric Ries himself, they want to make it easier for entrepreneurs to immigrate and start a...
Oct 31st
Entrepreneurship turns inventions and innovations... →
A high rate of entrepreneurship increases the chances that knowledge turns into innovative products.
Oct 31st
“Repeat after me: Android is trying to kill Windows Mobile, not the iPhone.”
– M. G. Siegler
Oct 30th
The social games business →
How the “Big Three” make millions (according to TechCrunch).
Oct 30th
Twitter costs British economy less than people who... →
A slightly amusing statement that stands for itself.
Oct 30th
“Everyone’s model of work is a job. It’s completely pervasive. Even...”
– Paul Graham
Oct 30th
Listorious →
Discover read-worthy Twitter lists.
Oct 30th
Oct 30th
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Inc.com on bootstrapping →
Awesome. All you (might) need to know while founding your very own startup.
Oct 25th
50 sites that will help improving your photography... →
Oct 25th
How to clean your DSLR sensor →
Oct 25th
Google Insights for Search →
See what the world is looking for. Trends, seasonalities and such that might support your strategic planning.
Oct 25th
Dejure →
All German law codes online (and searchable).
Oct 24th
Lastnightsparty →
American club photography: Where were you last night?
Oct 24th
The archive of misheard lyrics →
Oct 24th
How computer stuff works →
Oct 24th
How to throw a kick-ass launch party (on the... →
Oct 24th
“Jimmac told me that on one of his first visits to Germany from the Czech...”
– Nat Friedman’s Green moments in Germany
Oct 24th
Pictures of Chinese pollution →
Oct 24th
Polyphasic sleep →
Oct 24th
A new entrepreneur's rollercoaster ride →
Oct 22nd
How to neutralize your default Canon 5D Mark II... →
Oct 22nd
Google spreadsheets allowing web form input →
Until now, I didn’t know of the possibility to track personal data easily like that.
Oct 22nd
Jackson Eaton, Australian photographer →
Oct 22nd
Sightwalk →
Explore Germany in panoramas. So far they’ve got Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Bonn.
Oct 22nd
10 things Songbird does that iTunes can’t →
Oct 22nd
Aviary Talon  →
Magically screen capture a webpage online. You could also try the fancy shortcut by adding Aviary.com/ to the beginning of any desired website’s domain. There goes your snapshot!
Oct 22nd
WatchWatch
Aaron Patzer (Mint) on startups.
Oct 22nd
How to be an intrapreneur →
Oct 22nd
Digital Photography School →
Discover how to really use your digital camera simply by subscribing to Digital Photography School’s (recommendable) feed. Make sure to check out (the recently gone offline) digg-like Photography Voter, DIYPhotography, Photojojo, Photocritic, the well-known Strobist blog, Zetson’s Flashfrog blog, Stu Maschwitz’ ProLost blog, Yuri Arcurs’ blog on stock photography and last...
Oct 19th
WTF is social media? →
Oct 19th
MapsKrieg →
CraigsList apartment listings (USA) mashed with Google Maps.
Oct 19th
Rules for brainstorming →
Oct 17th
“In 2007 Amazon’s tests showed that for every 100ms increase in load time,...”
– Using content delivery networks (like AWS S3 and CloudFront) to supercharge your website performance
Oct 17th
“Conversion-Steigerung im Anmeldeprozess [von Social Networks für die Genartion...”
– Projecter-Rückblick zum IdeaLab! 2009
Oct 16th
Streisand effect →
There it is.
Oct 16th
Looking for a Rails Developer? →
In case Elance is not an option, try finding your Rails developer here. Like Makandra GmbH, the first and only service provider listed in Germany so far.
Oct 16th
Insoshi →
Michael Hartl’s open source social networking platform developed in Ruby on Rails.
Oct 16th
jQuery visual cheat sheet →
You could also get your PDF copy right away.
Oct 15th
Oct 15th
“Zum Beispiel sind diese schwarzen, gebrauchten Suhrkamp-Taschenbücher (Adorno,...”
– Financial Times Deutschland: Ihr Kindle-lein kommet
Oct 13th
WatchWatch
UI Fundamentals for Programmers (Ryan Singer on Stage)
Oct 13th
Mc Donald's around the world →
Oct 13th
Oct 7th
OCR with Google Docs →
Google Docs is now able to perform (free) OCR on digital images that have been uploaded to your account (containing typewritten or printed text).
Oct 5th
China celebrates →
60 years in Boston’s (awesome) pictures.
Oct 5th