Entries from hebig.com tagged with 'web 2.0'
Michael Smolens and dotSUB
Michael Smolens is on his way to Linz to receive the Ars Electronica Award tomorrow for creating dotSUB. This browser-based tool is taking a wikipedian approach for creating subtitles. We had the exciting opportunity to meet with Michael in...
TripsByTips - congrats!
Berlin-based travel community TripsByTips launched its service in May 2007 and already lists 20,000 travel reports and vacation images. Today Burda Digital Ventures announces an investment in TripsByTips. Congrats to the founders Uwe Frers and Boris Wertz!...
Aunt Jemima? Uncle Ben?
Mister Wong....
Flickrvision 3D
Flickrvision is now available in 3D view (and so is Twittervision) - which is actually a lot of fun to watch if you have a large screen close to your desk. Link: sevenload.com...
Jetzt live: Mein Focus
Jochen Wegner und sein Team sind pünktlich zum Freitag, den 13. Juli, fertig geworden mit Mein FOCUS. Mehr Infos zu dem komplett personalisierbaren FOCUS gibt es hier. In diesem Sinne: viel Glück und eine spannende Beta-Phase! ;)...
sevenload got widgets!
Hey, hey, hey. The wonderful team at sevenload released three types of blog (or MySpace) widgets this weekend. Of course I volunteered to be the guinea pig....
Bekannt 2.0
Ach ja, die gute alte Zeit. Man war jung und brauchte das Geld. Man verdingte sich als Schlagersänger und schaffte es, wenn man Glück hatte, bis in die Hitparade. Damit war der Zeitpunkt gekommen, bis auf alle Ewigkeit mit dem...
Martin's take on online video
Martin Varsavsky: My Investments in the Video Online Space and My Take on the Whole Sector...
Expanding FOCUS Online and FOCUS TV
In a series of new ideas and formats that are currently cooking in the Burda family kitchen, I am quite happy to point to these new video-on-demand specials at sevenload: Focus TV, Focus Health Channel as well as Bunte Startstyle...
frazr - a twitter clone
Compare frazr.de with twitter.com and you will wonder why they didn't even bother to move the navigation bar over to the left......
Go, Sevenload!
Handelsblatt broke the news tonight: Burda steigt bei Videoportal Sevenload ein. I am very excited that we are finally able to talk about this deal in public as it has been in the works for several months. Sevenload's technology is...
Supermarket 2.0
Supermarket 2.0 is a kinnernet production....
Flickr got new features
Now you can edit your Flickr photo page and create collections. Neat....
The out-of-browser experience
Trillian's new web-based client works outside the browser. Very cool. Just watch....
FOCUS Online relaunched
Congratulations to Jochen Wegner and his entire team! The new FOCUS Online went live earlier this afternoon. What I like in particular is that every news item has a time stamp clearly visible on the front page. And btw, the...
John Edwards on Twitter
Even John Edwards is on Twitter. Are you?...
Birds eye view of Offenburg
Microsoft Live Maps: Hubert Burda Media in Offenburg (probably doesn't work in Safari)...
Rocketboom user survey results
The results of the Rocketboom user survey are now available for download. Statistics, like steaks, always taste better with a grain or three of salt. But if you needed confirmation that online videos can appeal to a wealthy, male, educated...
StudiVZ exit
Back in November 2005 I asked: Where is the German Facebook? Now StudiVZ has emerged as the winning copy cat, selling their community for a rumored € 100 million to German publishing company Holtzbrinck [Holtzbrinck Ventures]....
Script.aculo.us
Script.aculo.us is an AJAX framework for the rest of us. Maybe you remember the "dot clear" trick used for white space control in the pre-CSS days. I have a feeling Script.aculo.us will have a similar impact on the way websites...
Wikio
Pierre Chappaz announced that the German version of Wikio is launched today....
Psst
As previously hinted (here and here) we are currently in the middle of launching a new community site. Nora is in New York City these days and met with Esther Dyson who made a very nice comment over on Flickr:...
Robert doesn't like MySpace, says the NYT
New York Times: MySpace Aims for a Global Audience, and Finds Some Stiff Competition “People here think the design is bad,” Robert Basic said, “and that is important for Germans.”...
Next exit community
Peter Turi über den geplanten Relaunch von FOCUS Online: Nächste Ausfahrt Community...
Zeitschriften 2.0
Die Jahrestagung des Verbandes Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger (VDZ) hat begonnen und das Zeitschriftenblog berichtet live....
Hot dogs for everyone!
Red hot dogs, red sauce, and red carpet....
eShopping 2.0 at Otto
Otto, the world's largest mail order company, showcases their vision for a "2.0" shopping experience at the conference. Among other things, they are launching a product browser based on MS Vista / Presentation Foundation. Most used word at the presentation:...
Weblogs at Siemens
Michael Rossa is presenting the Siemens case study on launching an internal blog platform tied into the global Siemens corporate intranet. The case study is about lessons learned in the first 100 days after the platform launch. The blog...
Web 2.0 Kongress
Andreas Weigend is opening the Web 2.0 conference in Offenbach (close to Frankfurt). I will be speaking later this afternoon. It's not quite busy yet... maybe that's because the sun is just rising....
FOCUS jetzt 2.0
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See you at the book fair
Frankfurter Buchmesse: Web 2.0 - und das Netz gehört Dir?! - a discussion with Ibrahim Evsan, Kurt Jansson, Oliver Wagner and my humble self on Saturday, 7. October 2006, 13:30 - 14:30 h...
Internet killing the TV star?
Jeff Pulver: Guide to TV Shows Only Available on the Internet...
Meeting Jerry Michalski
Today we had lunch with super-nice Jerry Michalski, an Internet veteran, writer and technology evangelist. It was great to exchange some views on the so-called "Web 2.0" and find out that there actually is a common ground based on...
Google News Archive
Dating back a long, long time: Google News Archive Search. More over at Paidcontent.org....
ProSiebenSat.1 invests in MyVideo
WELT reports that ProSiebenSat.1 took a 30% stake in MyVideo.de, a German YouTube clone. The Samwers' European Founders Fund is rumored to be an early stage investor in MyVideo as well. Update: According to this press release, MyVideo currently hosts...
Letting others works for you
Google Image Labeler - assuming that most people are right most of the times might be a good guess after all. See also: Human Computation [video] and the ESP Game...
Newspapers and the web
Todd Zeigler: Ways to Improve Newspaper Websites...
Developers!
Do you code? Do you like AJAX? Want to work in Cologne? Nico is looking for your talent: Entwickler!...
"In Deutschland fehlt die Begeisterung"
Jessie Seyfer is a visiting journalist from San Francisco and writing for FOCUS Online: Angst vor der Dotcom-Blase. In her article, Jessie explores why Germans are slow in picking up the Web 2.0 hype....
Holly smoke: Amazon EC2
Amazon kicks some serious ass: TechCrunch Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service. Also see the review of their new web service over at Cast Blog. Related: Amazon S3...
Jogmap - a nice German "Web 2.0" app
Check out jogmap.de - and make sure you don't miss the jogmap creator based on the Google Maps API. Maybe I should start jogging, too....
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