Dropbox: Document Management and Online Backup for the Rest of Us

23.07.2009

I’ve been trying dozens of online storage and backup services in the last couple of years. I also have some experience with (Enterprise) Content and Document Management and have an understanding of the benefits and challenges with cloud based and SaaS services.
So here comes dropbox. Dropbox are quite successful in revolutionizing the way people (including [...]

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Too smart: MacBook Pro and iPhone Headphones

10.07.2009
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When Apple introduced the unibody MacBook Pros in 2008 I stumbled across a neat feature that I forgot about until today – I did not have the MacBook to test it:
MacBooks work with your iPhone headphones including the microphone and the button.

If you click the button on your iPhone headphones, iTunes pauses. Click again, and [...]

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Is GPS tracking a seasonal (summer) business?

04.07.2009
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The leading example for a seasonal business is the retail business that earns a large percentage of its annual profits during the holiday shopping season.
American Demographics magazine had an interesting study of seasonal businesses (“The Seasons of Business”, Wilson, Richenda, May 1992) listing all the predictable events that can influence sales in every month of [...]

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John Quelch with interesting figures on the Advertising-Supported Internet

02.07.2009

John Quelch, on of the experts profiled in Conversations with Marketing Masters, has an interesting post on How to Value the Advertising-Supported Internet on hbr.org. According to his post, the Internet employs 1.2 million people directly to conduct advertising and commerce, build and maintain the infrastructure, and facilitate its use. Each Internet job supports approximately [...]

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Report by Harris Interactive on the impact of Online Social Media on Purchasing Decisions

26.06.2009

Online social media, meaning social networking and all 2.0 style platforms following the principles of the architecture of participation are growing rapidly and get a ton of interest across industries. The understanding is, that these compelling interaction communities are the new access to consumer behavior and thus need to be leveraged for marketing and sales [...]

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Sattelegg

14.06.2009

Nice Sunday morning tour. Finally we got to do the Sattelegg. Weather was fabulous.

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GPSies Top 25 Navigation App in German AppStore

11.06.2009
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GPSies is the 17th most popular navigation application in the German app store. Thank you all for the great reviews and the lots of downloads.
Some of the reviews from Germany here:
“Super Apps – funktioniert und einfache Bedienung” – 5 Stars
Habe das Programm heute probiert, 50 km Radtour (Stadt und freies Feld) hatte mein iphone in [...]

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Revaluation of Social Networks

09.06.2009

Techcrunch has published their True Value of Social Networks Report for 2009 and the information actually made it on the front page of today’s tagesanzeiger.
The number given for Switzerland is 1.859 million unique users per month, which means almost 25% of the Swiss population visit Facebook regulary.
Marcel Weiss has a good analysis explaining why Facbook [...]

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Why Google Waves might be the next big thing

05.06.2009

I remember writing email to only to three other students in the CS lab and to the one other admin that I worked with as a student. It was not really reliable, because you had no idea when and if at all the person would actually get the message (“Did you get my email about…”) [...]

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Cross browser and platform testing in a single browser

03.06.2009

Ever since the times of Netscape and the early Internet Explorer versions we have been discussing useful cross browser testing setups. I’ve seen through my career as (web-)developer, tech lead, test lead, project manager and account manager very different setups of addressing the issue of different behaviors of webpages and applications in different browsers because [...]

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