Andreas Kwiatkowski on personal things, photography, the web and everything. Almost. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1075810-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @kwiat)http://blog.kwiat.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyknba5Lff1qz57qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Bye bye, Hamburg!</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16705216320http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16705216320Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:59:34 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyh3s1x1kE1qz57qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Hello Elbe!</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16591005504http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16591005504Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:04:00 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly66w7YU1h1qz57qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Lovely design, <a href="http://creativemarket.com" target="_blank">Creative Market</a>, but probably not the most popular e-mail example nowadays.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16251100255http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16251100255Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:38:00 +0100<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aR6jLD1USW0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McNamee" target="_blank">Roger McNamee</a> on Disruption and Engagement—as published on the <a href="http://rogerandmike.com/" target="_blank">Hypernet blog</a></p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16250596612http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16250596612Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:29:37 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxyxqw2I9b1qz57qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Office Lola is just lovely.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16033635087http://blog.kwiat.org/post/16033635087Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:37:44 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxt3q6E4Fb1qz57qso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Minimizing the time to market of just about every piece of the puzzle: Roughly a weekend’s design work from start to finish for all views. And development has already started—looking forward to an App Store release in the next couple of weeks hopefully!</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15886769192http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15886769192Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:30:05 +0100<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvbte0vHVn1qz57qso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sometimes it’s just that simple.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15885987355http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15885987355Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:07:35 +0100“Blogging isn’t writing, it’s graffiti with punctuation.”<br/><br/> - <em>Some dinosaur of a doctor talking in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/" target="_blank">Contagion</a>.</em>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15843005749http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15843005749Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:31:24 +0100<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqp0t1i3N1qz57qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Most popular cities where <a href="http://www.eisenhower.me" target="_blank">Eisenhower</a> users come from.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15773820559http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15773820559Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:48:29 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqf7iHqux1qz57qso1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Ever since we <a href="http://blog.simfy.de/blog/02-01-2012-simfy-dockt-an-deine-facebook-chronik-an" target="_blank">introduced</a> our Facebook Social Graph integration, friends keep complaining about my musical taste. How can that be? Just for the record: I’d rather call it “broad”. </p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15769906097http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15769906097Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:16:30 +0100“Every click is a wish,<br/> every link is a promise.”<br/><br/> - <em>Recently quoted by Mark Rees in a discussion on user experience.</em>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15666686884http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15666686884Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:09:58 +0100<p>Startups are like people: They are born, they grow, and when they die, they take all saved memories with them to their graves. Except these memories are not really theirs, but yours instead.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15584400591http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15584400591Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:20:00 +0100“The beauty of the Amazon.com making-doors-into-desks tradition was not that it was cheaper (it probably wasn’t), but rather the mentality that it engendered that Amazon was a place that didn’t waste money on fancy furniture. In its early days, Intrepid Learning Solutions used to give out “Scrappy Awards” to employees who demonstrated superhuman abilities to save money.”<br/><br/> - <em>David Cohen and Brad Feld in <a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0046H9BBM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=billbeat-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=B0046H9BBM" target="_blank">Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup</a> (Page 96)</em>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15449267555http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15449267555Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:48:27 +0100<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx4ddobljW1qz57qso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Japan in The Big Picture.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15124090758http://blog.kwiat.org/post/15124090758Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:29:48 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwz66dzPfF1qz57qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>With snowflakes on YouTube even Warren Buffett is funny.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14979523121http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14979523121Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:06:13 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgx09AvCk1qz57qso1_400.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14469467774http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14469467774Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:31:00 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwgwbkzIIr1qz57qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.do" target="_blank">Dexter</a> has been great … until now. C’mon, seriously?</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14468763473http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14468763473Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:16:00 +0100<p>Watching education videos while working on e-mails and stuff sounds efficient. But in the end, it’s more effective to do things separately in approximately half the time. Because both tasks tend to require your full attention.</p> <p>However, depending on your personal IQ, you can easily listen to more or less complicated academic podcasts while driving, because driving - at least after a couple years of experience with both the car and the route - is nearly entirely controlled by the subconscious only.</p>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14419127108http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14419127108Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:02:00 +0100<a href="http://www.quora.com/Strange-Stuff/What-are-some-of-the-most-mind-blowing-facts">What are some of the most mind-blowing facts?</a>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14209990859http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14209990859Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:03:03 +0100““I am truly astounded that any company could still be so absurdly arrogant and short sighted as to ask consumers to spend good money on what is an incomplete and inherently inferior product to many that are already in the market.””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://musically.com/2011/12/13/omnifone-unveils-rara-digital-music-service-but-faces-arrogant-claims-from-merlin/" target="_blank">Merlin CEO Charles Caldas on the launch of rara.com</a></em>http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14164732525http://blog.kwiat.org/post/14164732525Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:17:00 +0100