cruel to be kind

Summary: The internet is changing us and society so fast – how we work + communicate + interact + shop + research – that it is not enough anymore to just observe and only partly dive in. “Internet” is not about going or being online any more, it is as relevant to our daily live as much as having warm water. I place “being connected” on my personal Maslow’s pyramid. It is nothing you should be looking at separately any more and still, many still do. The new motto should be: “Get playful, get experimental – or stay behind.” and …

This cought my eye this morning: A blog council made for enterprise sized corporations, to share and learn. As expected, the blogosphere is all over the clueless corporations again, though missing the point behind it. I welcome this step, but do have the question why the blog council claims to be vendor free yet have two of the biggest player in corporate (Microsoft and SAP) on board.

Robert Scoble: Will new Blog Council help big companies get small conversations?:

I’m pretty skeptical. Why? Cause I’ve done enough speaking to enough corporations now that if they don’t get why they should be talking …

Blognation has just launched the blog about India and slowly we are getting more and more countries together. Great to see the different posts roll in and I already had some people ask me “is there really a web 2.0 scene in Italy?!!” Yes. :)

So, currently we do have the following countries up and running:

• India (feed)
• Italy (feed)
• Belgium (feed)
• Ireland (feed)
• USA (feed)
• United Kingdom (feed)
• Germany (feed)
• Canada (feed)

Now, if someone could help me convice those German companies to start adding themselves into our Company index, that would really help. I can’t believe how hard it is for people to actually enter just a little bit of information about their company – after …

This place is cool and already see a lot of people I *have* to talk to! Podcast Hotel is not as huge as the Portable Media Expo but sorry, the content is much much better. :)

Well it looked so great. A connect everthing to every country powerplug adapter, bought at heathrow.

But guess what – it does not work with my German power plugs – and I idiot never tested it of course. At home there are now 3 working adapters and I am here with one universal – just not for me.

Thank god the hotel had this baby for me – but I am afraid they want it back which is why I do some charging of batteries now – not sure when I will find the next available one :(((

Anyone wanna buy that baby …

Jason Calacanis enjoys a ‘perk’ of the American mobile phone system:

Crushed by twitter bill… Ugh. Be careful people!

He pays nearly 240 dollars – may I note again that sms receiving does not cost anything over here? ;)

I would be interested to see a comparison of text message usage in the States and in other parts of the world. If I would not know better, I would assume the providers got together and said “Let’s make an app which makes people text like crazy!!”

btw, I am still skipping nearly everything at the moment on my twitter as I have def. no time for …

There is an amusing thread over at Flyertalk about Gave up my apartment to live in Hotel’s. Given my current travel patterns I still could not justify this. ;) But this entry really cracked me up:

I did this for several years in Germany. I always had a problem with the residency registration. In Germany you have to have a Meldeadresse (official address) registered with the government. It was always extremely difficult to convince them that my residency was in a hotel.

Beyond that one of the funniest experiences in my life was the day I moved out. The other guests looked …

Although I am not much of an Apple Lover (they are just not compatible with me) I do acknowledge which role they have played and what has happened throughout the last years because of this the company – and of course the Ipod.

On Google Video there is an over 40 min long Discovery channel documentary about it and although I am only half way through you should take a look too.

[And i have said this before: Where is my "pay 20-50 cents to the make of this documentary" button on those videosites (of which the person please also gets the money?

I …

When I first read about Performancing metrics going to Payperpost I thought “ouch – exactly the reason why I do only trust a few tools”. Because it was users and data for mining which would have been sold. And the backslash from the community was not small.

Interestingly now the Payperpost people “regretfully” decided that the deal was not right for them and the feedback from their community was not positive etc etc. Yeah right. As TC writes it in Amateur Hour At PayPerPost:

In a

If you have been to any major tech conference in the last years I assume you will recognise the following situation:

“We are proud that our sponsor XYZ will provide us with this gigantic connection to the Internet to make you all happy! Go forth and blog about it and be happy.” says the conference host and everybody starts the game.

Throughout the conference you then spend your time trying to connect, get happy for some minutes, try to get back on. Where again is the powerplug? Lost connection again. Shoot! I just want to do IRC which is like the lowest …