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18. December 2008 Ã–ffnungszeiten von diesem und jenem GeschÃ¤ft Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) \| Search (wiki) - urs @ 08:36:14 Wahora [1] stellt einen ganz nÃ¼tzlichen Dienst zur VerfÃ¼gung, wobei die Ã–ffnungszeiten ortsspezifischer Dienstleister abgefragt werden kÃ¶nnen. Hoffen wir mal, dass die Zeiten auch stimmen. [1] http://www.wahora.ch/query.php?cmd=s&search=pickpost+basel Related post(s): Keinen Rappen fÃ¼r die Software (3.43) Mangelnde Wahrnehmung der Opensource AktivitÃ¤t in der Schweiz (3.09) Kopieren und einfÃ¼gen bitte (2.71) Bundesratswahl online verfolgen (2.64) Gazosa (2.35) Related tags(s): open_source, intellectual_property, government, technology, culture Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 20. June 2007 Public transport map offering realtime data Government (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| Geodata (wiki) - urs @ 10:16:08 Helsinki City Transport offers service, where the current position of every bus is being displayed online. Each bus has a GPS delivering position specific data. The information is shown in real time on Google maps. There are official maps owned by the government that are fare more detailled [2]. In such cases it would make sense to (re)use resources that have been payed via taxes already by the citizens. [1] http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/ [2] http://kartta.hel.fi/opas/main/?lang=en Related post(s): ApacheTop - a realtime overview for Apache (7.53) Open Database Transport Protocol (6.52) Using Atom as common transport and storage format for Blogs and Wikis (6.25) What is the public domain? (6.08) fossdays logo - public voting (5.57) Related tags(s): apache, event, government, intellectual_property, politics Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 01. June 2007 Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more PHP (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| Best Of (wiki) - urs @ 14:55:21 Watch out Liip AG on www.liip.ch - they are hiring Flash/Java Multimedia Developers, JavaScript Developers, PHP/XSLT Web Developers and offer Interns in Web Development and Publishing [1]. They are going to become real big. And they have really interesting projects. As a small sidenote - if you get hired by Liip, just mention to them to send that iPod to Basel ;) [1] http://blog.liip.ch/archive/2007/05/23/liip-is-hiring-yet-again.html Related post(s): DeLaRue is hiring (7.62) Google in ZÃ¼rich is hiring (6.34) adfinis is hiring (4.21) Bitflux is hiring (4.01) Related tags(s): technology, economy, content_management, open_source, php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 02. March 2007 adfinis is hiring PHP (wiki) \| Open Source (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 21:37:33 adfinis GmbH in Bern is looking for a web developer Zur UnterstÃ¼tzung unseres jungen Teams bei Neuprojekten und Wartung/Erweiterung von bestehenden LÃ¶sungen suchen wir per sofort eine/n PHP Entwickler/in mit Pensum nach Vereinbarung, ca. 80-100%. More details can be found on their blog [1]. [1] http://www.adfinis.com/node/177 Related post(s): phpug V (8.30) Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more (8.18) DeLaRue is hiring (7.62) Google in ZÃ¼rich is hiring (6.34) Lenovo Thinkpad mit Linux Kubuntu Feisty Fawn (5.68) Related tags(s): moblog, best_of, technology, economy, linux Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 01. March 2007 Bitflux und Mediagonal Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) \| Best Of (wiki) \| Technology Transfer (wiki) - urs @ 15:30:49 Gratulation an die Involvierten [1,2] u.a.m. ;) [1] http://blog.bitflux.ch/p3900.html [2] http://gassert.ch Related post(s): Bitflux is hiring (7.61) Donate! - to get an exciting WYSIWYG editor GPLd (6.67) Bitflux CMS is said to run on Windws (6.37) Bitflux Editor Howto Part I (6.11) Why web site content in (X)HTML is not fundamentally bad (6.10) Related tags(s): content_management, economy, xml, weblog Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 31. August 2006 Spiralfrog und Universal am Werbetrommeln Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) \| Media (wiki) \| DRM (wiki) - urs @ 09:55:46 Es war nicht zu Ã¼berhÃ¶ren - Universal bringt mit Spiralfrog Musik zum Gratisdownload; werbefinanziert. GemÃ¤ss Techcrunch [1] sieht das dann so aus: Spiral Frog will offer a desktop downloader for Windows Media Files (no iPods!) that can be listened to on one PC and two portable devices. Hereâ€™s the kicker - you must log in to the Spiral Frog service at least once per month, and see their ads, or your files will stop playing! Sowohl Usability als auch InteroperabilitÃ¤t werden dadurch kÃ¤umlich gesteigert werden, wenn man sich erst durch eine werbefinanzierte Plattform durchwÃ¼hlen muss, um dann DRM geschÃ¼tzte Dateien herunterladen zu kÃ¶nnen. [1] http://tinyurl.com/pz9up Related post(s): Marklar follow-up (3.96) crossPost Plug-In for Manila (3.96) Electronic Product Code (EPC) (2.30) Related tags(s): apple, weblog, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. June 2006 Google Book Library - Auswirkungen in Deutschland Economy (wiki) \| Intellectual Property (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 21:21:14 GemÃ¤ss Spiegel und Google Blog hat Google in einem Prozess in Hamburg gegen die Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft einen Erfolg erzielt. Das Gericht erkannte keine Verletzung des Urheberrechts, nur weil Google BÃ¼cher des Verlags einscannt. Das Urteil ist soweit ersichtlich noch nicht online verfÃ¼gbar. [1] http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-424113,00.html [2] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/germany-and-google-books-library.html [3] http://fhh.hamburg.de/stadt/Aktuell/justiz/urteilsdatenbank/start.html Related post(s): Book on Demand (6.23) Add the Google Toolbar to your browser (5.86) Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses (5.63) Google in ZÃ¼rich is hiring (5.47) Google news for Switzerland (5.32) Related tags(s): content_management, open_source, privacy, creative_commons, search Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 15. November 2005 Post-Grokster world with a closed P2P eDonkey Economy (wiki) \| Random Thought (wiki) \| Copyright (wiki) \| P2P (wiki) - urs @ 22:12:37 Sam Yagan, President of MetaMachine, Inc., explains his companies "capitulation" to the RIAA and the conversion of eDonkey to a "closed" P2P system [1,2]. Regarding the creation of software, that can be used for legal and illegal purposes Sam Yagan says: Because the Grokster standard requires divining a company's "intent," the decision was essentially a call to litigate. This is critical because most startup companies just don't have very much money. Whereas I could have managed to pay for a summary judgment hearing under Betamax, I simply couldn't afford the protracted litigation needed to prove my case in court under Grokster. Without that financial ability, exiting the business was our only option despite my confidence that we never induced infringement and that we would have prevailed under the Grokster standard. Later in the testimonial he states: Imagine if for the last ten years we had been able to convert just 1% of the estimated tens of billions of shared files into paid downloads. There is a market solution to be found - it may well be one that fits in to the business model of the incumbent entertainment industry, but it also may not. If all those P2P software companies die, there will be not less file-shareing but less control by the record industry. As experianced earlier, users will simply turn to other services with similar offerings. What might help is to turn this P2P software to be used for something "good". Therefore some random thoughts: What about a P2P network that only accepts open content licensed files? And what about heading towards that 1% conversion, if the price per song - if we take music as an example - is considerably lower than e.g. in the iTunes Music Store? What if the price is not fixed but depending on supply and demand? What if some start an Open Music Stock Exchange to produce appropriate revenue? I appreciate your response! [1] http://drn.okfn.org/node/78 [2] http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1624&wit_id=4689 Related post(s): Complicated world (7.61) world of rolex (5.76) wget to POST data (5.16) Miyazaki Seagaia Ocean Dome in Japan (4.97) Finding related tags to blog posts (4.95) Related tags(s): civil_society, intellectual_property, php, database, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 13. November 2005 iTunes als Business Modell fÃ¼r CC Musik? Economy (wiki) \| Creative Commons (wiki) - urs @ 22:36:09 Sie mÃ¶gen sich vielleicht erinnern; das Magazin Wired [1] lieferte in der Ausgabe vom November 2004 eine CD mit Songs, welche jeweils unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz lizenziert worden sind. Auf die Songs kann online Ã¼ber die Website von Creative Commons [2] und Ã¼ber die Seite legaltorrents.com [3] noch immer zugegriffen werden. Dennoch, bei der Suche nach Now Get Busy von Beastie Boys im iTunes Music Store wird man fÃ¼ndig. Der Song kann fÃ¼r CHF 1.50 gekauft werden. Wie ist das mÃ¶glich? Auf der Wired CD wurde Now Get Busy unter der "Noncommercial Sampling Plus" Lizenz verÃ¶ffentlicht. Songs under this license allow noncommerical sharing and noncommercial sampling. Mit dem Lizenzelement "Nicht-kommerziell" behÃ¤lt es sich der KÃ¼nstler eben gerade vor, sein Werk spÃ¤ter auf eine ihm genehme Weise zu vermarkten. Als eine dieser VermarktungsmÃ¶glichkeiten scheint sich iTunes zu anerbieten. Wie aber kommt man als Musiker dazu, sein unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz lizenziertes Album im iTunes Music Store zum Verkauf anbieten zu kÃ¶nnen? Der Store kennt kein "Please upload your songs here..." oder Ã¤hnlichen Mechanismus. Die Dokumentation [4] und Recherche im Netz gibt eigentlich wenig her. Der Zugang scheint nur Ã¼ber eines der Major Labels mÃ¶glich zu sein. Dem ist nicht zwingend so. Nach einigen weiteren Recherchen bin ich auf ein Formular gestossen, wo sich kleine Labels bei Apple bewerben kÃ¶nnen [5]. Thanks for your interest in the iTunes Music Store. Please use this form to tell us more about the types of music you have to offer. We are evaluating hundreds of applications, so it may take longer than we'd like to get back to you. But don't worry - we will review your application and contact you if we are interested in including your music in the iTunes Music Store. We will also keep your application on file for future reference, so there's no need to submit it more than once. This inquiry is intended solely for use by persons who either own or control a catalog of sound recordings for digital distribution, or are an authorized representative of someone who does. GemÃ¤ss Formular kann ein Label auch eine Privatperson, sprich ein KÃ¼nstler sein, bspw. als "Independent Music Label". Eine wichtiger Punkt in Schritt 2 von 2 des Formulars lautet: Please tell us more about the size of your catalog and the type of music you have to offer for which you have both digital track and digital album rights. Digital album rights; die Rechte mÃ¼ssen beim Musiker oder Label liegen. GrundsÃ¤tzlich steht der Zugang zum iTunes Music Store also auch jenen offen, die ihre "Freie Musik" mittels iTunes (eigen-)vermarkten wollen. RÃ¼ckmeldungen betreffend allfÃ¤lliger Erfolgsbeispiele sind herzlich willkommen. [1] http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample_pr.html [2] http://creativecommons.org/wired [3] http://www.legaltorrents.com [4] http://www.apple.com/chde/support/itunes/ [5] https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZLabel.woa/wa/apply Related post(s): Rock and roll with mpg321 (10.6) iTunes Shop fÃ¼r die Schweiz? (7.11) RSS as a marketing instrument (6.93) Rhythmbox - iTunes for Linux (6.58) iTunes with podcast (6.12) Related tags(s): music, p2p, copyright, technology_transfer, open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. November 2005 Open Content Business Models Economy (wiki) \| Culture (wiki) \| Intellectual Property (wiki) - urs @ 11:54:35 Gestern hatte ich die Gelegenheit, am Tweakfest teilzunehmen. Im GesprÃ¤ch mit ZuhÃ¶rern und Rednern waren Freie Software und Open Content, insbesondere Creative Commons, oft die massgebenden Themen. Nebst der Revision des Urheberrechtsgesetzes, DRM und den neuesten Rootkits wurde ich einmal mehr auf die Frage aufmerksam gemacht, wie man mit Open Content Geld verdienen kann. Das ist ein Thema, zu welchem es keine eindeutige Antwort geben kann; ausser vielleicht der, dass man im konkreten Einzelfall nach dem geeigneten GeschÃ¤ftsmodell suchen muss. Dass einem massgeschneiderte Modelle nicht auf dem roten Teppich dargeboten wird, dÃ¼rfte einleuchten. Um hingegen selbst aus den Erfahrungen und Ideen von bestehenden Modellen zu lernen und eigene GeschÃ¤ftsmodelle zu prÃ¤sentieren, wurde die Plattform openbusiness.cc gegrÃ¼ndet: The openBusiness project will collect the best entepreneurial ideas to write the OpenBusiness Guide and everyone is free to participate. So join us now and help create the authorative source on open business models. [1] Die Plattform wurde erst vor wenigen Wochen ins Leben gerufen, bietet aber einen guten Ausgangspunkt fÃ¼r eine anregende Diskussion. Ihr Beitrag ist gefragt. [1] http://www.openbusiness.cc Related post(s): 1st OPCOSO Thinkathon (12.5) Open Content Alliance launched (10.5) Jahrbuch zu Open Source und Open Content (8.11) MSN search in Open Content Alliance (7.02) Open Content Speech (6.90) Related tags(s): talks, education, p2p, copyright Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. October 2005 Optimizing the business - ask for feedback Economy (wiki) \| Best Of (wiki) - urs @ 20:39:53 Ark Clothing [1] produces picture bags. For their next collection they offer a form where the public is asked to vote for the most favourite designs. The top scored bag designs will go for production. Then vote for your top ten favorite designs below and help us decide what the next lineup of ark bags will look like. Best of all, the draw. Winning retail customer and friend will receive a free bag of their choice, sent anywhere in this damn world. Winning wholesale customer receive 10% off first orders from the new collection. As looking forward to 2006 I would say that bags with football designs might be a good choice. [1] http://www.arkclothing.net/new_pb_05/voting.htm Related post(s): 4.1 Billion (5.36) RFID course - Technologies and Applications (4.16) QR code - decoder to proof the concept (3.99) Open Source meets Business (3.94) 1st OPCOSO Thinkathon (3.85) Related tags(s): technology_transfer, linux, open_source, talks, intellectual_property Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 12. September 2005 4.1 Billion Economy (wiki) - urs @ 16:52:47 That is a lot for a company, its technology and fame(?). eBay bought Skype [1]. It is said that there are over 50 Million registered users [2]. It looks as if the internet business is back again. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4237338.stm [2] http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/08/50_million_skyp.php Related post(s): IBM Millipede - Trillion-Bit Data Storage Density (4.37) Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 19. April 2005 Acting with local messengers Economy (wiki) \| Social Network (wiki) - urs @ 16:51:57 Just got a surprise-visit of habi [1] at our office ;) [1] http://habi.gna.ch/blog/ Related post(s): BlogChalking - search local blogs (4.49) How to find a new flat in Bern (4.23) Apache2 with PHP5 CGI and PHP4 module on OS X (4.12) Local OSCOM Sprint @ Zurich, Switzerland (3.98) phpize uses automake (3.91) Related tags(s): weblog, civil_society, economy, apache, open_source Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 12. April 2005 Linux Konferenca Slovenia 2005 - Call for Papers Open Source (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| Talks (wiki) - urs @ 17:24:34 Brian King fame asked me to spread those news and of course I will no hesitate to do so. Brian is part of the organizing team of the 4th annual International Business Linux Conference in Slovenia [1,2] and was speaker at the LOTS 2005. [1] http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/index.php/archives/41 [2] http://www.linux-konferenca.org Related post(s): LOTS 2005 - Call for Participation (10.9) Call for papers - PHP Conference 2002, Frankfurt (10.0) Festival of Creativity and Free Culture in Slovenia (7.68) User-mode Linux (7.21) International PHP Congress in Frankfurt, Germany (6.24) Related tags(s): drm, technology, linux, technology_transfer, travelling Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 10. April 2005 Links zu map.search.ch Economy (wiki) \| Intellectual Property (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 19:42:14 Ein Kommentar des search.ch Teams zur Frage der Verlinkung von map.search.ch Links: [Redaktion:] Links ohne kommerziellen Zweck sind sehr willkommen! Die URLs sind absichtlich einfach gehalten um verlinken (und auch das versenden per mail!) zu erleichtern. Links auf die Homepage sind auch praktisch nie problematisch. Bei direkten Address-Links mit kommerziellem Charakter bitten wir Sie aber vorher mit uns Kontakt aufzunehmen. Diese EinschrÃ¤nkung ist eine zwingende Auflage einer unserer Datenprovider. (Das gilt leider fÃ¼r alle Links, ob in neuem Fenster oder nicht) [1] http://about.search.ch/archives/2005/04/08/mapsearchch-mit-mehr-informationen/#comment-722 Related post(s): New map service by search.ch (7.71) search.ch with a new CI? (5.72) map.search.ch with new feature (5.17) Indexing PHP search engine (4.87) search.ch has a blog now (4.75) Related tags(s): software, art, technology_transfer, open_source, creative_commons Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 06. April 2005 Chainless (Kardan) Bicyle Economy (wiki) \| Technology Transfer (wiki) - urs @ 23:37:38 It was love at first sight, when I discovered a Biomega Copenhagen [1] chainless bicycle at the Velokurier-Laden [2] about two years ago. But one cannot always buy what he likes ;) Anyway, the other day I started to look around what the chainless bicycle market currently looks like [3]. There are some Shops that provide one or more models suited with the kardan-transmission. The transmission is mostly produced by Taiwan Sussex chainless transmission bicycle manufacturer, although I could not figure out a price for the transmission. What really astonished me is the fact, that there is a Chinese company called Shanghai Zhimei Rolleu-Chainless Bicycle Co.,Ltd which has a full set of bicycles with chainless transmission but not even one European dealer listed on their website [4]. So, if I was a bicycle dealer in Switzerland, I would at least try some of their models. Let me know if You start importing them ;) [1] http://www.biomega.dk [2] http://www.velokurierladen.ch [3] http://del.icio.us/urs/bicycle [4] http://www.zmchainless-bicycle.com Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 22. March 2005 Swiss bleibt Swiss Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 20:52:24 Das jedenfalls sagt Wolfgang Mayrhuber. Ein Ã–sterreicher, ein Deutscher und ein HollÃ¤nder unterzeichnen die Ãœbernahme der Swiss International Air Lines AG durch die Lufthansa. Sinnbildlich, dass kein einziger Schweizer in dem Moment am Tisch gesessen hat. Es kann nur noch aufwÃ¤rts gehen. Zur Erinnerung [1] fÃ¼r Kinder und Enkelkinder: Aktionariat Zuletzt aktualisiert am: 11. MÃ¤rz 2005 Das Aktienkapital von Swiss International Air Lines AG betrÃ¤gt CHF 948.07 Millionen und ist in 52 670 405 Namenaktien mit einem Nennwert von CHF 18 eingeteilt. Jede Aktie berechtigt zu einer Stimme. Insgesamt zÃ¤hlt Swiss International Air Lines AG rund 15 000 AktionÃ¤re. Am 31. August 2004 verlÃ¤ngerte eine Gruppe von 29 AktionÃ¤ren, welche 86.1% der Gesamtzahl ausstehender Aktien vertreten, die Verkaufssperre fÃ¼r die anlÃ¤sslich der KapitalerhÃ¶hung zur GrÃ¼ndung der SWISS gezeichneten Aktien bis Ende August 2005. [1] http://www.swiss.com/web/DE/NS6/about-swiss/sw-oc-ir-aktionariat.htm/ Related post(s): About neohippie token ring mechanism (11.8) Swiss Government goes E-GOV (8.68) Swiss Blog Awards - nomination period started (8.12) Swiss Post buys search portal search.ch (7.92) CH7 - first Swiss movie under Creative Commons (7.45) Related tags(s): civil_society, random_thought, politics, best_of, deutsch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 01. February 2005 Migros offers Music Download Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 18:21:14 Migros has launched a Music download service on i-m.ch [1]. Unforutanely Firefox users are not welcome yet: The site you have tried to enter requires Internet Explorer 6 (or better) with Windows Media Player 7 (or better) on Windows XP, 2000, Me or 98. Click Here to use our Doctor Download application to help you check your configuration alternatively Email Dr Download. Please try again. The service seems to be provided by On Demand Distribution [2]. [1] http://www.i-m.ch [2] http://www.od2.com Related post(s): amaroK LiveCD - Open Music Player (8.19) crowded entry in front of migros (8.09) Migros Magazine about Blogging (7.75) Wieder mal Intimes aus der Bloggerwelt (5.79) Music Library in Bern (5.64) Related tags(s): open_content, moblog, deutsch, humor, government Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 06. January 2005 Six Apart bought LiveJournal Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 18:15:08 Too many blog ASPs around, as it seems [1] ;) The page may load slowly as there are more that 2674 comments on this entry. [1] http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/82926.html Related post(s): LiveJournal backend presentation (8.04) did not know that i bought one (7.32) Novell becoming a new OpenSource leader? (4.57) Gulf War 2 (4.49) Google buys Pyra (3.84) Related tags(s): technology, moblog, linux, politics, weblog Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 10. December 2004 The WEF antipode on posters Economy (wiki) \| Culture (wiki) \| Politics (wiki) - urs @ 12:28:37 [via andreas, 1] The WEF antipode on posters [2]. [1] http://blog.andreashalter.ch/archives/37-WOW-WEF-again.html [2] http://plakate.netzwirt.ch Related post(s): Blogging on a regular base (4.36) Related tags(s): open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. December 2004 Google news for Switzerland Economy (wiki) - urs @ 09:35:23 Google is collecting Swiss News [1]. [1] http://news.google.ch/nwshp?hl=de&gl=ch Related post(s): UN - Security Council recommends Swiss Membership (6.08) Add the Google Toolbar to your browser (5.86) iTrip FM Transmitter (5.49) Google in ZÃ¼rich is hiring (5.47) Google Book Library - Auswirkungen in Deutschland (5.36) Related tags(s): gadget, content_management, privacy, search, mozilla Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 02. December 2004 German Firefox Campaign Mozilla (wiki) \| Open Source (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 23:15:59 German Firefox fans have fundraised a campaign for the Version 1.0 of Firefox to appear in major German newspapers [1]. [1] http://www.firefox-kommt.de/?q=node/40 Related post(s): Firefox and Pop-ups (6.39) SVG in Firefox (6.29) Tidy extension for Firefox (5.64) Firefox smart update (5.37) Firefox search plugin fÃ¼r Bundesgerichtsentscheide (5.13) Related tags(s): deutsch, mozilla, xml, apple, law Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 26. November 2004 Habis 0.5%-chance to win a million Economy (wiki) \| Social Network (wiki) - urs @ 10:37:38 Habi, I just wish You luck and smartness [1]. ;) Update: Habi (the lucky one) on the stage with Mona Vetsch [2]. [1] http://habi.gna.ch/blog/archives/000477.html [2] http://ch.tilllate.com/DE/picpage.php?fid=1667547 Related post(s): Economizing holidays (4.47) 4.1 Billion (4.44) PHP on more than 4.5 Million Domains (3.96) Plagiarism in the Opensource Community (3.47) Waiting at the airport (3.45) Related tags(s): economy, law, civil_society, culture Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 25. November 2004 RFID enabled cell phones Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 13:29:31 The RFID journal [1] has an article about RFID-enabled cell phones [1]. Besides WLAN, Bluetooth and the like I tend to predict that this technology-mix might have a chance in various markets if: an accepted standard of the RFID communication protocol is used; or otherwise, the RFID reader is flexible enough, to read/write multiple RFID formats; enough products have those tags (eq. RFID chips) implemented. Let's consider an example: On a Sunday, where - at least here in Bern - the local stores are closed, I am walking alongside the shopping windows in the city. Oh, Kitchener [2] has some new fancy toys! Unfortunately the price tags are not visible on that certain Uglydoll. I'll grab my RFID-enabled mobile phone and simply scan all the products within the reading range. They get displayed by categories in my phone... shoes, t-shirts, toys etc. Among them there is that Uglydoll Ox [3]. Until here, there has no WLAN, no GPRS, not UMTS been used. What is left to do? Select the product and send the order to the shop. Or maybe I just would like to compare it with an ebay-offer? ;) Bye, bye privacy. [1] http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleprint/1020/-1/1/ [2] http://www.kitchener.ch/html/de/shop/index.php?mg=11&ug=16&br=4803 [3] http://uglydolls.com Related post(s): KEITAI-L - mailing list on the changing role of mobile phones (9.43) RFID course - Technologies and Applications (7.98) Locative Technology on Nokia Series 60 phones (7.13) Google Maps on a mobile phone (7.01) Microsoft dives into RFID (6.82) Related tags(s): technology_transfer, geodata, economy, weblog, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. November 2004 Big Finance meets Microfinance Economy (wiki) \| Culture (wiki) \| Politics (wiki) - urs @ 16:48:14 The UN year of Microfinance started today [1]. About a year ago I read the autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and actually initiator of the principles of Microfinance [2]. In 1974, Professor Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist from Chittagong University, led his students on a field trip to a poor village. They interviewed a woman who made bamboo stools, and learnt that she had to borrow the equivalent of 15p to buy raw bamboo for each stool made. After repaying the middleman, sometimes at rates as high as 10% a week, she was left with a penny profit margin. Had she been able to borrow at more advantageous rates, she would have been able to amass an economic cushion and raise herself above subsistence level. Worth a read, I would say. [1] http://www.admin.ch/cp/d/419cb2bd_1@fwsrvg.html [2] http://www.grameen-info.org/book/index.htm Related post(s): Ov(om)altine - Moving from Novartis to ABF (4.79) Open Source meets Business (3.78) Related tags(s): open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 07. November 2004 DeLaRue is hiring Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 21:12:19 De La Rue [2] Cash Systems Schweiz is hiring four specialized engineers for their CSD Detector Group at their location just outside Bern. [1] via andi, http://newsli.andudi.ch [2] http://circle.ch/blog/media/delarue_ausschreibung.pdf Related post(s): Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more (8.18) Google in ZÃ¼rich is hiring (6.34) adfinis is hiring (4.21) Bitflux is hiring (4.01) Related tags(s): best_of, technology, economy, content_management, open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 05. November 2004 Bitflux is hiring PHP (wiki) \| Open Source (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| XML (wiki) \| Content Management (wiki) - urs @ 10:09:49 chregu [1] of Bitflux GmbH is looking for a developer with strong skills in XSLT and PHP. Bitflux has strong competences in realizing custom client projects while mostly using their own Bitflux CMS (BxCMS). An other interesting product is their Bitflux Editor, a Wysiwyg XML Editor. Most if not all of their tools are Open Source. [1] http://blog.bitflux.ch/archive/work-at-bitflux.html Related post(s): Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more (8.18) DeLaRue is hiring (7.62) Donate! - to get an exciting WYSIWYG editor GPLd (6.67) Bitflux CMS is said to run on Windws (6.37) Google in ZÃ¼rich is hiring (6.34) Related tags(s): economy, xml, best_of, deutsch, technology_transfer Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. October 2004 Google in ZÃ¼rich is hiring Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 07:45:29 Google [1] is hiring [..] talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists. Feel free to follow that request! ;) Update: Just found the outlined legal positions [2] ;) [1] http://www.google.ch/jobs/index.html [2] http://www.google.com/jobs/legal.html Related post(s): Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more (8.18) DeLaRue is hiring (7.62) Add the Google Toolbar to your browser (5.86) Doctorow in ZÃ¼rich (5.59) Google Book Library - Auswirkungen in Deutschland (5.36) Related tags(s): content_management, privacy, civil_society, creative_commons, search Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. September 2004 Blogs controlling the mass media? Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| Civil Society (wiki) - urs @ 00:36:29 Take it as checks and balances of the mass media, what currently happens to CBS. Bloggers around the world have strong arguments that the National Guard documents presented by the CBS are likely to be fake [among others 1,2]. [1] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211285/posts [2] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts Related post(s): Corporate Blogs at Sun (6.61) Blogging at the University of St.Gallen (5.62) BlogShares - a killer app (4.61) Blog Comment Spam (4.50) Multiuser Worpress evolved (4.45) Related tags(s): weblog, law, rant, language, social_network Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 25. August 2004 Bluewin is testing TV over ADSL Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 07:16:37 Bluewin [1] is going to provide 25 TV and five Pay-TV channels in Switzerland; based on Microsoft TV IPTV. The product will be tested in about 600 households. [1] http://www.bluewinag.com/cont/pm/040824_d.html Related post(s): Testing trackback links (6.73) Pingback testing (5.87) PHP 4.3.0 released (4.61) Pure Java PHP Editor (3.33) Denial of service attack for Apache on Windows (2.70) Related tags(s): weblog, economy, deutsch, open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 24. August 2004 Back online Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 20:29:29 Thanks to a cablecom service technician I am back on the Net. Just four days ago some other technician installed a filter in the house of the neighbours, which cut down the signal. Strange story. Related post(s): GeoURL is back online (7.60) Get a complete working back-end! (5.99) get that stuff back (4.94) back at work (4.94) dani back from canada (4.83) Related tags(s): travelling, rant, humor, content_management, database Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. August 2004 Off the net Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 14:04:15 Mein Modem ist wieder mal vom Netz gegangen. Bereits vier Tage. Am Telefon bestÃ¤tigt die Cablecom zwar eine StÃ¶rung und offenbar habe sich "das Modem nicht wieder einklinken kÃ¶nnen", doch wird man als Endkunde wieder mal im Ungewissen gelassen. Im Rapport der StÃ¶rungen, das bezeichnenderweise in der Navigation "Unser Netz" statt "StÃ¶rungen" heisst, ist nichts davon zu lesen [1]. Statt mir umgehend ein Modem zu schicken, das sich von selbst "einklinkt", muss wieder mal ein Techniker her. "Das kann ein, zwei Tage dauern, bis er sich meldet"; super. "Dabei wird er mit Ihnen einen Termin vereinbaren"; noch besser. Ach ja, beim EinwÃ¤hlen auf die Supportnummer, wird man schon fast standardmÃ¤ssig vier Minuten warten gelassen, um dann ab der 10 Minute mit CHF 2.-/min beraten zu werden. Wie heisst es doch gleich: "Ich liebe es"... ah sorry, das ist ja ein anderes Unternehmen. [1] http://cablecom.ch/internet/hispeed/hispeed_products_support/hispeed_support_net/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 12. August 2004 Get Atom feed statistics via FeedBurner Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| XML (wiki) - urs @ 21:25:18 FeedBurner is currently running as a "pre-alpha" platform providing variuos tweaks on your feeds. FeedBurner e.g. turns your Atom feed into RSS, reports statistics or provides services such as the "Mobile Filter": Mobile Filter Strips feed to essential items for browsing on mobile feed readers Purpose Optimize your feed for mobile devices. Mobile Filter puts your content on a crash diet. Feed Effect Creates a summary version of your feed and removes extra information that is only useful to desktop feed readers, shortening feed download size/time/cost over wireless networks. Thanks to Matt Shobe [2] for giving me good reasons to move from Atom 0.2 to 0.3 ;-) [1] http://www.feedburner.com [2] http://www.burningdoor.com/matt/archives/000666.html Related post(s): Gmail with Atom feed (13.8) Atom 0.1 feed generator for Wordpress (10.6) Echo/Atom/Pie 0.2 feed available (10.2) PHP-GTK Atom feed reader (8.85) Atom enabled Weblog in PHP (8.24) Related tags(s): software, php, wireless_and_mobile, creative_commons, apple Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 19. July 2004 Corporate Blogs at Sun Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 23:19:17 It seems that Sun has their own platform for corporate blogs including a blog by Jonathan Schwartz, President and Chief Operating Officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. [2]. [1] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/ [2] http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan Related post(s): Blogging at the University of St.Gallen (5.62) BlogShares - a killer app (4.61) Blog Comment Spam (4.50) Multiuser Worpress evolved (4.45) BlogChalking - search local blogs (4.23) Related tags(s): weblog, php, rant, xml, apache Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 03. July 2004 Eurotax - vehicle valuation Economy (wiki) - urs @ 00:12:58 I talked to a friend this evening who is going to sell his car to get anotherone. He mentioned Eurotax, which is usually something, that the reseller calculates for you. Eurotax is also online [1] and estimates the value of your car for about CHF 9.00. [1] http://ch.eurotax.com Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. June 2004 Easypay by Swisscom for micro content Economy (wiki) \| Wireless and Mobile (wiki) \| Content Management (wiki) - urs @ 22:04:09 Swisscom has a cool product called Easypay [1]. You buy a prepayed card with denominations of CHF 25.00, 50.00 and 75.00 at local stores, Kiosks, Post Offices etc. If you like to buy a product via an online store or like to use an online service you simply enter the Easypay number in the window on the providerâ€™s website and press "buy". The Easypay service is also available in combination with mobile phones. This is very very practical for providers of microcontent such as blogging services with MMS or mp3 music shops. I have no idea how simple it is to implement that service on the provider's side; but it is worth a try. [1] http://www.swisscom-fixnet.ch/fx/content/products/easypay/index_EN.html Related post(s): Swisscom at ITU (7.44) swisscom welcome show at ITU 03 (6.99) Flatrate GPRS with Swisscom (6.23) VentilwÃ¤chter (Tire Deflator) fÃ¼r volle Staatskassen (5.79) Swisscom Mobile Unlimited on Kubuntu (Linux) (5.24) Related tags(s): moblog, random_thought, linux, economy, php Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 24. June 2004 To buy or not to buy Economy (wiki) \| Culture (wiki) - urs @ 22:40:52 Just occasionally I walked into a mobile phone shop today and asked for the new Nokia 7610 [1] with the megapixel camera and lifeblog feature. Well, they have it on stock since two days. But it is just a bit too expensive for me, so I went into a flower shop and invested a percentage of this amount in roses for my girlfriend ;-) [1] http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54665,00.html Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 22. June 2004 Weblaw is looking for a Webpublisher Economy (wiki) - urs @ 11:19:39 Weblaw [1] is looking for a webpublisher. Weblaw is located in Bern, Switzerland and does a lot of Internet related consulting for Lawyers. [1] http://www.jobpilot.ch/misc/adframe/chde_weblaw/7d4/16/1074037.htm Related post(s): Firefox search plugin fÃ¼r Bundesgerichtsentscheide (3.66) Related tags(s): mozilla, deutsch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 07. June 2004 Flatrate GPRS with Swisscom Economy (wiki) \| Wireless and Mobile (wiki) - urs @ 18:18:48 [via mosi, 1] It seems like Swisscom decided to move a step forward and introduced Â«Portal PackÂ» [2]. From the beginning of July 2004 the GPRS prices for data transmission in Switzerland will be only CHF 00.10 per 10 KB (previously 00.19). If you are a moblogger [3] you can enter the Â«Portal PackÂ» at a monthly all-in price of CHF 5.-- which allows unlimited data transfer via GPRS. I am sure this will boost a lot of mobile applications that way. [1] http://blog.li/mosi [2] http://www.swisscom-mobile.ch/prv_asp/prv_home.asp?nid=1662 [3] http://www.circle.ch/wiki/?page=Moblog Related post(s): Swisscom Mobile Unlimited on Kubuntu (Linux) (9.37) GPRS upload transmission performance (8.23) Swisscom at ITU (7.44) swisscom welcome show at ITU 03 (6.99) Easypay by Swisscom for micro content (6.04) Related tags(s): linux, technology, moblog, content_management, php Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 05. June 2004 search.ch has a blog now Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 11:48:51 Bernhard Seefeld reports that search.ch uses a blog-style engine [1] to report about news, fetures and the like. Some weeks ago I found an informational article about RIM written in German [2] ;-) I posted some of my thoughts about the merger [3] earlier already. [1] http://about.search.ch/archives/2004/06/04/post-kauft-search-ch [2] http://rim.bild.li/1723/view.html [3] http://circle.ch/blog/p1443.html Related post(s): search.ch with a new CI? (5.72) New map service by search.ch (5.69) map.search.ch with new feature (5.17) Indexing PHP search engine (4.87) Google search plugin based on XMLHttpRequest? (4.75) Related tags(s): art, search, content_management, privacy Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. May 2004 Swiss Post buys search portal search.ch Economy (wiki) \| Random Thought (wiki) - urs @ 01:53:17 My favourite search engine for domestic searches, search.ch, has been bought by the Swiss Post [1,2]. This is an interesting deal of a company dealing with letters and packets mainly. The Swiss Post itself has its own online portals providing services like e-banking, ticketing, mail and sms, e-payment etc. etc. To integrate a search portal seems like logical if you look at it now, but who would have guessed that ;-) I am quite interested in how the Swiss Post intends to enhance the services provided by search.ch. You might argue, that a typical Post company should not burn its hands with e-business, then you should keep the following in mind; even if the citizens tend to travel or move around more than they did ten or twenty years ago, they mostly are at residents somewhere. Traditional services as delivering snail-mail can be combined with online services. The Post company has probably the most actual data regarding addresses. To give an example; the first thing one does after having moved to a new location, is letting the snail-mail get forwarded to the new address. This can be done by signing a contract at the Postoffice. So, the Swiss Post does know beforehand of that change; probably earlier than the Bank, the assurance company or the telecom company. Where does a search engine or search technology come in? Well, you better ask Swiss Post ;-) But search.ch already combined search technologies with the lookup of telephone numbers resp. addresses. One of their latest feature is the "related websites" ("Websites zum Eintrag"): http://tel.search.ch/result.html?name=B%E4rengraben&kanton=BE Since I am not an economist, I can not say exactly, how valuable "early bird" false-free address-information in combination with online services is. But I would guess, the earlier you get them, the better. Froogle "only" does allow smart shopping - in other words - seeking products on demand. But if the Swiss Post creates a site, where one can set up his or her own profile, the Swiss Post should be able to create a "portfolio" of possibly interesting products based on some search magic matching to that profile. Finally, Postfinance offers a comfortable way to pay the bill. Just a random thought... Oh, and congratulations to Berhard. [1] http://www.bernhardseefeld.ch/archives/000096.html [2] http://www.post.ch/SiteOnLine/DE/Accueil/1,1727,17704,00.html Related post(s): New map service by search.ch (13.1) search.ch has a blog now (11.6) search.ch with a new CI? (11.4) Finding related tags to blog posts (10.9) map.search.ch with new feature (10.3) Related tags(s): art, technology_transfer, social_network, creative_commons, search Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. April 2004 WEF has a weblog Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 13:56:44 The World Economic Forum [1] - with its annual meeting usually taking place in January in Davos - has now a weblog hosted by Typepad [2]. Typepad Europe, pushed by Loic seems doing well ;-) [1] http://www.weforum.org [2] http://wef.typepad.com Related post(s): CC-ch weblog (4.64) Caching weblog pings (4.25) Microsoft gets creative (4.10) Weblogs and ISSN (4.07) Sunlog - another weblog tool (4.03) Related tags(s): creative_commons, government, open_source, xml, wiki Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 19. April 2004 Meister Proper for two days Economy (wiki) \| Culture (wiki) - urs @ 10:14:45 I spent the whole weekend with slipping into the role of Meister Proper. Together with my ex-roommate Frank we started cleaning our previous three room apartment. In Switzerland one is used to pass over a totally cleaned apartment to the owner when you leave it. You are free to clean it up by your own or arrange a service to handle it for you. They charge at about half the rental fee (just my personal experiance). So Frank and I decided to use that money as "investment" for the new apartment and spend our spare time instead to get windows, walls, floors, refrigerator, oven etc. etc. as glistening as necessary ;-) PS: hispeed modem is still not online (day 19) Related post(s): meister petz (8.90) boxing days (6.23) My early Wiki days (4.67) Removing obsolete session from the DB (4.09) Serendipity weblog to release soon (3.48) Related tags(s): moblog, projects, weblog, culture, travelling Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 14. April 2004 hispeed im Schneckentempo Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 16:04:24 Am 2. April hatte ich mich erstmals bei Cablecom gemeldet und die StÃ¶rung dem technischen Dienst sowie die AdressÃ¤nderung der Administration bekanntgemacht. Heute erfahre ich - natÃ¼rlich erst anlÃ¤sslich einer telefonischen Anfrage, dass offenbar ein Techniker vor Ort sich "in den nÃ¤chsten Tagen" mit der Liegenschaftsverwaltung in Verbindung setzten werde. Erneut werde ich von der Ã¼beraus freundlichen Sachbearbeiterin auf die AGBs hingewiesen, dass ich doch bitte die Ã„nderungen schon 30 Tage vor Umzug hÃ¤tte bekanntgeben mÃ¼ssen. Tja, und nun heisst es immer noch; warten auf Godo... Related post(s): Meister Proper for two days (3.76) Off the net (2.87) Off the Internet (2.13) Related tags(s): culture, economy, technology, deutsch Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 06. April 2004 Off the Internet Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 09:54:04 Bin vergangene Woche umgezogen. Seit mehreren Jahren nutze ich Cablecom Hispeed und bin mit dem Produkt im Allgemeinen sehr zufrieden. Der Umzug jedoch hat mich einmal mehr Ã¼ber die Serviceleistungen in Staunen versetzt. Ein Telefonat an den Techniksupport wurde mit dem Ergebnis beendet, dass das Modem zwar vom Support erkannt, aber nicht auf seine FunktionstÃ¼chtigkeit hin geprÃ¼ft werden konnte. Ich mÃ¼sse den Wohnungswechsel noch melden, falls dies nicht schon geschehen sei. Ok, also ein weiterer Anruf. Ein anderer Mitarbeiter weist mich freundlich darauf hin, dass Cablecom die AGBs geÃ¤ndert hÃ¤tte: Der Kunde hat einen Wohnungswechsel drei (3) Monate vor dem Umzug der cablecom mitzuteilen. UnterlÃ¤sst der Kunde dies und entstehen durch diese Unterlassung der cablecom Kosten, so hat cablecom das Recht, diese Kosten dem Kunden in Rechnung zu stellen. Wer gegenwÃ¤rtig gerade eine Wohnung sucht, weiss wie kurzfristig solche UmzÃ¼ge von statten gehen kÃ¶nnen. Jedenfalls dÃ¼rfte eine Frist von drei Monaten von den wenigsten eingehalten werden kÃ¶nnen. Im Resultat; ich muss damit rechnen, noch zwei-einhalb Monate Miete fÃ¼r ein Produkt zu zahlen, das mir wÃ¤hrend dieser Zeit gar nicht zur VerfÃ¼gung steht. Noch besser gefÃ¤llt der zweite Satz; fÃ¼hrt eine Unterlassung der Meldung zu Folgekosten, werden diese auf den Kunden abgewÃ¤lzt; Da erstaunt es niemanden mehr, wenn ADSL einen solchen Auftrieb erfÃ¤hrt... Sollte also jemand von mir nicht umgehend eine E-Mail-Antwort erhalten, so dÃ¼rfte sich das mit obiger Darlegung erklÃ¤ren... ;-) Related post(s): Hemmunglose Internet-Selbstdarsteller (3.29) Coral - open peer-to-peer content distribution network (3.25) KDE 2.0 Final Released! (2.95) Philosophers on the Internet (2.84) OSS-Strategie der Bundesverwaltung (2.82) Related tags(s): rant, civil_society, apple, deutsch Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 17. March 2004 How to find a new flat in Bern Economy (wiki) \| Civil Society (wiki) - urs @ 14:18:29 For as long as about three month we were looking for a new flat with at least three rooms. It was quite an exhausting undertaking; we advertized at local stores, in the local newspaper, gave our best while applying for this or that flat and finally got one. So, here I would like to mention some of the online repositories we read on a daily base: - http://www.alle-immobilien.ch - http://subwww.unibe.ch/wohnen/ - http://www.immobern.ch - http://www.homegate.ch - http://www.immoscout24.ch - http://comparis.ch/immobilien/marktplatz/intro.aspx There are other too but don't forget, there are still people who do not at all advertize their flats in the internet. The best resource for us still was the newspaper called "Anzeiger Region Bern" [1]. [1] http://www.stadtanzeiger.ch Related post(s): Flat file database supporting SQL (6.77) Blogger Meeting in Bern (6.12) More Plone for Bern (5.18) Tibits - Titbits in Bern (4.93) meister petz (4.89) Related tags(s): php, culture, government, music, random_thought Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. February 2004 LOTS - Let's Open The Source Overview Economy (wiki) \| Intellectual Property (wiki) \| Software (wiki) - urs @ 11:28:05 The Organizing Team is pleased to present the first edition of LOTS; an attractive event dedicated to Open Source. There are about 12 FLOSS related companies, 29 speeches, 17 projects, six workshops and a lot more to see and hear. Most of the presentations will be held in German, some in English. Would be nice to see you there [1]. [1] http://lots.ch/Programm.html Related post(s): 1st LOTS Open Source Event in Bern (13.3) TÃ¤gliche Ration Open Source (12.7) Keinen Rappen fÃ¼r die Software (10.0) Apache Cocoon and Lenya Workshops (9.16) Jahrbuch zu Open Source und Open Content (8.73) Related tags(s): economy, open_content, government, talks, geodata Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 01. February 2004 Adds disturbing the Blog frontpage Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| Social Network (wiki) \| Wiki (wiki) - urs @ 15:52:50 The ad banner, which was below the latest post, was kind of disturbing the whole frontpage of my Blog so I decided to remove it. Even though it would have helped to support this site I changed my mind. When I started blogging some years ago - at that time I called it "posting news" - I did not expect that anyone would ever read those snippets at all. Serious. It was more a digital post-it [1] notes like style of jotting down some of my ideas and enabling a resource for myself as well. Quite often I use the search feature of that blog to look up for something which I nearly forgot, that I ever wrote about it; by the way... I need to extend the search feature on both, the blog and the wiki. Thanx for reading and commenting... [1] http://www.3m.com/office/postit/ Related post(s): TAN adds more security (7.02) Nvu Web Authoring for Linux (4.57) Personal WAP Gateway on Windows (4.30) Atom 0.1 feed generator for Wordpress (4.04) GIS Maps and mobile blogging (4.00) Related tags(s): law, creative_commons, humor, java Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 31. January 2004 Davos Blogging Panel Videos Weblog (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) \| Social Network (wiki) - urs @ 10:32:08 LoÃ¯c Le Meur [1] added movies from the Davos Blogging Panel to his own blog. Haven't had the chance to look at all of them. Quite a piece of Blogging History ;-) [1] http://www.u-blog.com/loic/note/57190 Related post(s): Back from Davos (10.8) Luftwaffeneinsatz Ã¼ber Davos (7.45) Tricky voting in Florida (5.68) w.blogger - remote blogging (5.11) Migros Magazine about Blogging (4.87) Related tags(s): culture, travelling, deutsch, humor, politics Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 30. January 2004 Apache Cocoon and Lenya Workshops Open Source (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 19:40:22 As Gregor [1] and Bertrand [1] already mentioned: The LOTS Open Source event in Bern, Switzerland on February 18th is approaching. Have a look at the registration form for the workshops which is open until Febrary 16th [3]. [1] http://greg.abstrakt.ch/archives/001586.html [2] http://codeconsult.ch/bertrand/archives/000217.html [3] http://www.lots.ch/Workshops.html PS: Urs HÃ¶lzle will not be at the LOTS event; but the Google fellow is going to talk next Monday in ZÃ¼rich [4]. [4] http://talks.it.ethz.ch/event_en/02.02-0.html Related post(s): University of Bern with Apache Lenya (11.4) Supersonic tour of Apache Cocoon (11.3) Chaperon - structured text to XML conversion (6.23) Apache compile HOWTOs in English and German (5.47) Apache 2.0 released as beta (5.05) Related tags(s): content_management, wiki, xml, apache, apple Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. January 2004 Apple is offering iBook repair Apple (wiki) \| Economy (wiki) - urs @ 10:02:53 According to CNET [1] Apple launched a worldwide repair program for faulty iBook hardware as the the serial numbers is in the range of UV220XXXXXX to UV318XXXXXX. [1] http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5149813.html?tag=st_lh Related post(s): Some new dma_sound information for an iBook (11.7) Sound on iBook running Debian (9.65) Installing Debian on an Apple iBook (9.48) Replacing the harddisk of an iBook Tangerine (7.88) Jaguar eaten by the Panther (7.14) Related tags(s): moblog, apple, wireless_and_mobile, academic, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 07. January 2004 RÃ¶ssler Geschirr Economy (wiki) \| Civil Society (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 19:28:19 Heute lese ich, dass die RÃ¶ssler Porzellan AG [1] eines ihrer Werke per Ende Februar schliesst [2]. Ja, das gelbe Geschirr, mit dem kleinen Pferdli auf dem Aufkleber; genau das. Es soll jetzt im Ausland irgendwo hergestellt werden. Irgendwie bedauerlich - einmal mehr. Nun, da werden sich die BrokenhÃ¤user freuen [3]. Vielleicht wird sogar da noch der Markt spielen und die Occasionspreise in die HÃ¶he schnellen lassen. Deshalb gilt es jetzt, soviel wie mÃ¶glich von dem gelbem, oder grÃ¼nen noch zu kaufen. Oder alternativ vielleicht mal einen Besuch bei den Grosseltern in Betracht ziehen; natÃ¼rlich nicht ohne Blumenstrauss und einer guten Flasche Wein unter dem Arm. Gesagtes gilt nicht fÃ¼r mich; meine Grosseltern haben das RÃ¶ssler lÃ¤ngst abgeschafft ;-) [1] http://www.fontina.ch [2] http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/wirtschaft/337790.html [3] http://www.broki.ch/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=r%F6ssler Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. November 2003 Vodafone live! as a carrier-change motivator Economy (wiki) \| Wireless and Mobile (wiki) - urs @ 11:42:05 Swisscom started supporting Vodafone live! phones [1] (Vodafone owns a 25% stake of Swisscom Mobile AG). I played around with the three available phones the other day, as there is the Sharp GX20, the SonyEricsson Z600 and the Motorola V525. Vodafone live! can be seen as a common menu or navigation for mobile phones making it easy to call up photos, games, sounds, pictures and messages and share them with others. Vodafone UK offers setups for a range of other phones than only the ones mentioned above [2]. One reason to provide phones with a common menu may ground in the delivering of phone-independent services at a later stage. The fun aspect is good argument to introduce such a common desktop but further more also a possibility to motivate customers to change their carrier, as they usually do not change them before their next upgrade of their handsets [3]. As most, if not all of the new phones come with java support I am wondering if the Java Desktop could not be rewritten to run on those phones [4]. This would enable access to a wide variety of applications. Just a thought. [1] http://www.swisscom-mobile.ch/live [2] http://mmsota.vizzavi.co.uk [3] http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083179063.html [4] http://wwws.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem Related post(s): ascii video live streaming (7.61) Jollix - Gentoo Live CD (7.09) Megapixel camera phones (5.68) University of Bern with Apache Lenya (5.42) CSFB to be engaged in saving US Airways (5.12) Related tags(s): apache, content_management, politics, government, deutsch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 04. November 2003 Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Espace Media Groupe und der Bund Verlag AG genehmigt Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:20:24 Die Wettbewerbskommission hat sich fÃ¼r eine Ãœbernahme des Bund Verlags durch die Espace Media Groupe [3] ausgesprochen. Weiterhin unklar ist aber, wie und ob sich die Espace Media Groupe an "20 Minuten" beteiligen kann: Der Entscheid betreffend der 17-Prozent-Beteilung der Espace Media Groupe an der Gratiszeitung "20 Minuten" wird gegen Ende Januar fallen. "Auf dem Platz Bern kÃ¶nnen die Beteiligungen der Espace Media Groupe am Bund und '20 Minuten' nicht ganz unabhÃ¤ngig voneinander betrachtet werden", sagte Patrik Ducrey von der Weko [3]. [1] mobile.swissinfo.org [2] http://www.espacemedia.ch [3] http://www.espace.ch/newsticker/newsml/20031104115152252172019048030.html Related post(s): Open Source Strategie beim Bund (7.54) EM 2004 Blog for the Newspaper Der Bund (5.90) TÃ¤gliche Ration Open Source (5.79) Registerharmonisierung in Bund, Kantonen und Gemeinden (5.39) Bleublog powered by Kaywa (5.21) Related tags(s): government, wiki, science, media, open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. September 2003 The correct price of a new product Economy (wiki) - urs @ 17:51:50 [via inluminent.com, 1] Companies habitually charge less than they could for new offerings. It's a terrible habit. According to the authors - Michael V. Marn, Eric V. Roegner, and Craig C. Zawada - prices of new products are only in 1 or 2 cases out of 10 calculated correctly [2]. In all other cases the run for the big money is said to be more important that the appropriate price. Product prices are often tied to the prices of their strongest competitor etc. Finding the highest, lowest possible price and other guidelines pointed out in this article should help companies to approach the real value of new products. [1] http://www.inluminent.com/weblog/archives/2003/08/20/on_pricing_a_new_product/ [2] http://www.inc.com/articles/2003/07/pricing.html Related post(s): Walmart sells PC with Lindows at less than $200 (5.98) Nobel Price for Kurt Wuethrich (5.50) SD (Secure Digital) WiFi for more connectivity (4.90) QEMU Accelerator Module (4.50) RFID enabled cell phones (4.29) Related tags(s): wireless_and_mobile, content_management, weblog, linux Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. August 2003 Economizing holidays Economy (wiki) - urs @ 20:02:33 I have never asked myself that question this way round, but today I read my mailboxes while being twelve days behind. The antivirus program finally catched 39 examples of W32.Sobig.F@mm [1] and a bunch of messages marked with "undeliverable" from some "postmaster" of people I eventually luckily never had the chance to meet. If even the virus is marked to be medium destructive there is still some point of being behind reading emails. It took me about an hour to read through the mails and get rid of the warning messages. Having had the chance to read The Times [2] last week and being alerted to Sobig, those holidays might have had some economizing effect regarding the gained time; it was probably nerve-saving as well. [1] http://www3.ca.com/solutions/collateral.asp?CT=27081&CID=49259 [2] http://www.timesonline.co.uk Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 02. April 2003 SBB with clickrail service Economy (wiki) - urs @ 14:15:00 The Swiss Federal Railways SBB offer now a special service for tickets to be bought online in a short-term (today, tomorrow, after tomorrow) at heavily reduced prices [1]. [1] http://sbb.ch/pv/clickrail/ Related post(s): Sony HMD-A200 quit service (4.63) Easypay by Swisscom for micro content (4.42) SharedID and talkr.net ideas (4.14) Blog Comment Spam (4.11) Denial of service attack for Apache on Windows (4.08) Related tags(s): content_management, crosspost, moblog, php, software Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. February 2003 Concentration of Private Banking Economy (wiki) - urs @ 13:25:42 The UBS her Private Banks, Armand von Ernst, Banco di Lugano, Bank Ehinger, Cantrade und Ferrier Lullin and GAM (Portfolio and Assetmanagement), to a - not yet named - Holding [1]. [1] http://www.nzz.ch/2003/02/18/wi/page-newzzDCBOFBIT-12.html Related post(s): Embracing Linux and Windows 2000 (3.69) Liquid manure for WEF demonstrators (3.32) Location based API (2.78) Swiss Post buys search portal search.ch (2.38) Rudimental Drumming Notation in SMuFL (1.72) Related tags(s): technology, economy, random_thought, music Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us TAN adds more security Economy (wiki) - urs @ 09:11:42 The online-broker Swissquote [1] adds more security to its portal with giving individual TAN-lists to its users. [1] http://www.swissquote.com [2] http://circle.ch/tr/?u=http://nzz.ch/2003/02/18/bm/page-article8M3FL.html Related post(s): Security resource link list (7.74) Using PHP Securely (5.79) Retype security code before submitting a comment (5.71) Security and PHP, Part 1 (5.36) UN - Security Council recommends Swiss Membership (5.18) Related tags(s): weblog, law, wireless_and_mobile, xml, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. February 2003 Roche buys Disetronic Economy (wiki) - urs @ 13:17:13 Disetronic has been bought by Roche [1][2][3] . Disetronic is the world's leading supplier of infusion systems for the treatment of Type I diabetes. [1] http://nzz.ch/2003/02/11/wi/page-article8O98F.html [2] disetronic.com [3] roche.com Related post(s): Google buys Pyra (4.99) Swiss Post buys search portal search.ch (2.24) Related tags(s): weblog, economy, random_thought Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 03. February 2003 Let me explainify the war Economy (wiki) - urs @ 09:37:44 "Let me explainify the war against Iraq a little bit in Texas terminologragry." [1] [1] http://democracymeansyou.com/satire/explainified.htm Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 24. January 2003 Giovanni Agnelli 81-jÃ¤hrig gestorben Economy (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 10:27:15 Fiat EhrenprÃ¤sident Giovanni Agnelli [1] ist im Alter von 81 Jahren gestorben. Er war der bis zuletzt der starke Mann an der Spitze des Unternehmens [2]. Sein Grossvater hatte 1899 die "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino" (FIAT) gegrÃ¼ndet . [1] http://www.rasscass.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=25&RID=1 [2] http://fiat.com Related post(s): Bundesrat bestimmt Tagesthemen (3.83) Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us	Werbung: Beiträge von Dritten: Nachfolgende Titel verweisen auf von mir gelesene Weblogs. Feeds: Blog Content Blog Comments WikiAgenda: Comments: Good question, but... Hi, thank you very... Unter http://www.s... Ich weiss mir nich... ThanQ matthias. Th... in case you just w... ich liebe dir, urs... hi there, sorry i... Hoi Leo. I haven'... Do you know the si... Archives: Blog stack: Bill Humphries monorom Wendy M. Seltzer Christian Stocker Roger Fischer Sandro Zic Wez Furlong Ben Hammersley George Schlossnagle Joichi Ito Lawrence Lessig Derek Slater Karl-Friedrich Lenz John Palfrey Bernhard A.M. Seefeld Gregor J. Rothfuss Rainer Langenhan Elke Engel Sebastian Bergmann Simon Willison Jeremy Zwaodny Udo Vetter Axel A. 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