I was browsing some Japanese sites with the help of the Google translation tool, when this rather reassuring message appeared on screen. I don’t like the way they belittle it, but otherwise they are right with the statement. I’m only wondering how they found out…
Recently Googleblogger Matt Cutts talked about the nofollow-tag. While what he reported was about 90% of what a Google rep emailed me several months ago, what immediately caught my attention was a screenshot he had posted. I took the liberty of cropping the interesting section of it: This gives quite an interesting insight into what … [Read more…]
So the magic spells to create gold in the information age go like this: Oh, mighty Sergey, I will always buy peritoneal mesothelioma, never talk to mesothelioma lawyers even though I ask myself “what is mesothelioma”? Oh, might Eric, if I need to consolidate loans, or if I am refinancing my mortgage, or if I … [Read more…]
Steve Rubel did a nice list of “25 Things I Learned on Google Trends“. I couldn’t resist to do a few on my own: Linux is more popular than Windows XP WordPress is more popular than Typo3 Mambo is less popular than Typo3 Canon and Sony battle head to head with HDV camcorders 3DS Max … [Read more…]
The Center for Online and Internet Addiction put a test online (ha!), which helps you to find out if you are an Internet addict. While having to work with and on the Internet as a major part of my job I had nothing to fear, but still I was a bit nervous. But it worked … [Read more…]
I managed to attend the roundtable last night, after I missed out on the first one. Attendenca was rather low, but we had a reporter from the local newspaper there. Hopefully next time it will draw more attention. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Aachen
I just returned from a business trip to the UK. The town I went to is a rather small one, some 700km from my office. By car, it would have taken me about 7 hours to get there according to map24.de. By plane, it took me – well – about 6 hours to get me … [Read more…]
So. has it really been a year already? Unbelievable. So let’s see what this year in the “blogosphere” (I still don’t like the word) achieved: Creating a place to collect some random thoughts: Check! Learn how blogging works and what’s it all about: Check! Remain current with events and developments: No check. Develop a network … [Read more…]
I knew it! It was bound to happen! Google/SketchUp has just released a free version. I guess it won’t take long for gazillions of Google Earth 3D models to become available. I’m looking forward to it!
@Last, the company behind the easy-to-use 3D software Sketchup, was acquired by Google today. This is actually not very surprising. Sketchup is so far the only widespread, low-cost, commercially available tool to create 3D structures for Google Earth. There’s actually quite a lot of people who buy Sketchup for this sole purpose. However the guys … [Read more…]