Archive for December 2011
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10 predictions for 2012 about the internet and technology
7 Comments · Posted by Christian in Outside the box
Around this time of year you get to see a lot of predictions about what is going to happen for the coming year. I like to read these and decided to do my own set of predictions about what is going to happen on the internet in 2012.
But don’t hold me liable. 
Amazon · Apple · eCommerce · Facebook · Google+ · platform · RIM · Samsung · social media
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The dark side of applying Open Source mechanisms to a corporate environment
3 Comments · Posted by Christian in Good to know
I wrote about what companies can learn from the Open Source world before and why it wouldn’t work in some cases. I think there is a lot to leverage when you apply the Open Source mechanisms to your corporate environment.
However there’s a dark side to this that needs to be addressed to avoid false hopes.
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What you need to know about combining @depends and @dataProvider in PHPUnit
2 Comments · Posted by Christian in Good to know
Yesterday I was working on some PHPUnit test cases and couldn’t get two of them to work as I wanted them to.
The answer was actually in the documentation and taught me not only about why it wasn’t working but also a lesson about documentation.
Last week I was on holidays in New York as a christmas treat. I got myself a present as well and bought a shiny new Amazon Kindle Fire. It’s half the size of an iPad, not as shiny, Android (Amazon version of Gingerbread), has no 3G, camera or microphone.
And I love it!
Amazon · Cloud · iPad · Kindle Cloud Reader · Kindle Fire
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Vendor Lock-In – Approaches of Amazon Kindle Fire and Apple iPad compared
2 Comments · Posted by Christian in Economics
Most reviews of the Amazon Kindle Fire on the net compare it to the iPad. Instead you should try to see the different approaches to achieving a vendor lock-in to see the real competition of the two.
“In economics, vendor lock-in, [..] makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products and services, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs.” from Wikipedia.
Amazon · Apple · iPad · Kindle Fire · Lock-In
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Does a venture capital company need a CTO?
2 Comments · Posted by Christian in Outside the box
This weekend I read about an ex-colleague of mine who recently became the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of a venture capital firm and the first question that sprang into my mind was: does a VC company need a CTO (Chief Technical Officer) as well?
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Increase your AdSense CTR and revenue with multivariate testing
3 Comments · Posted by Christian in Just launched
Many of you are probably using Google AdSense and some of you might also know about Google Website Optimizer. But if you ever though about combining the two you will have learned that they are not exactly optimized to work together.
Well it can be done and doing it will eventually earn you more money!
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5 possible goals for your Social Media Strategy
No comments · Posted by Christian in Social Media
When looking at companies who act in one way or another in social media like on Facebook or Twitter one oftens asks oneself how do they make their money from that?
Well there are many different strategies to follow and each starts with the setting of one of five goals.
Facebook · social media · strategy · Twitter
Nothing to see here today. But take a look at yesterdays Facebook Developer Conference Summary. It was worth going and surely worth reading.
Tomorrow will bring a new day with yet another new blog post.
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Summary of the AllFacebook Developer Conference Berlin 2011 with all slides
6 Comments · Posted by Christian in Social Media
Funny how communities don’t mix sometimes. Despite the majority of attendees use PHP as their main programming language (well ok that and ruby..) I haven’t seen any of them at any PHP-ish conference.
Lets see how this divide affects the topics.
