Gerrit Eicker

"RWW: “The new version of Citysearch puts more emphasis on the social experience by highlighting reviews from your Facebook friends while browsing through reviews. Besides making the sign-in easier for new users, Citysearch now also allows you to publish your updates on the service to your Facebook profile. On the service itself, setting up a profile has now become easier, though you can’t really do too much with these profiles besides adding your profile picture.”" - Gerrit Eicker

"I believe that is what Murdoch thinks: “The newspaper, or a very close electronic cousin, will always be around. It may not be thrown on your front doorstep the way it is today. But the thud it makes as it lands will continue to echo around society and the world.”" - Gerrit Eicker

"RWW: “CloudFront appears to have answered concerns about both cost and reliability for smaller organizations. The service leverages the same Amazon infrastructure that has made S3 such a popular solution - with eight edge locations in the US alone - and the pricing seems to fall in line with the affordable S3 offering, as well. … To take advantage of the new service, Amazon users can save their objects to an S3 ‘bucket’ and then register that bucket with CloudFront. That makes those objects accessible via a simple API call.”" - Gerrit Eicker

"Persönlich gefällt mir der neue Auftritt des WSJ deutlich besser." - Gerrit Eicker

"AdAge: “‘Yahoo has the greatest scale and the greatest potential as a brand builder in the online world,’ said Rob Norman, CEO, Group M Interaction. That doesn’t mean it is guaranteed success at a time when the online display market will be challenged in 2009. J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan last week dropped his growth estimate for the category to 6% from 16%. How that will affect Yahoo depends on how advertisers react.”" - Gerrit Eicker

"TC: “Barack Obama is already being called the YouTube President because of the 1,800 YouTube videos that help propel him to win the election and have been watched more than 110 million times. So it seems fitting that Obama will continue to use YouTube to get his message out once he takes office. … These ‘fireside chats‘ were started by FDR during the depression as a way to reassure Americans that everything was going to be all right. Now Obama will have some of his own reassuring to do as we grapple with the current economic crisis.” RWW: “Some people are already saying that posting to YouTube is just the strategy of the week for pandering to young people. They point out that Obama’s account on Twitter, almost the most popular account on the service, has been dead silent since the election ended. … It’s hard to know if the political policies of the next administration will be radically different from the last one, but at the very least the technology of the Presidency should be more..." - Gerrit Eicker

"Shouldn’t you point to the Deutsche Telekom’s privacy-disasters (”loosing” data, spying…) in Germany instead of their marketing-gimmicks in the US? - Just have a first look at the German and English Wikipedia." - Gerrit Eicker

"SZ: “Affärengeschichten beginnen oft ziemlich schrill und werden dann immer leiser. Meist verliert das Publikum nach einer Weile das Interesse. Die Telekom-Spitzelaffäre dagegen zieht zwar genregemäß immer weitere Kreise, wird aber im Gegensatz zu anderen Skandalgeschichten nicht monotoner, sondern immer rätselhafter.“" - Gerrit Eicker

"Censi, I simply can’t confirm what you’re saying: In my opinion the Britannica Blog is maintained pretty well and I personally didn’t face or hear of any sort of censorship. Maybe you should give them a little more time to approve your comment/s. Cross- and double-posting doesn’t help anyone and usually doesn’t accelerate approvals." - Gerrit Eicker

"TC: “YouTube has long resisted selling search results, but it has now caved in. Now anyone can promote their YouTube videos for specific search keywords on a pay-per-click basis. This should generate substantial new revenues for Google. YouTube has a lot of search inventory. (Viewers search on the site more than 2.5 billion times per month). This should also generate a lot more spam results.” pC: “Even with the new deals, Reuters says some analysts are expecting YouTube to generate only between $200 million and $250 million in revenue this year - or just about one percent of Google’s roughly $20 billion annual take. It’s also paltry in comparison to YouTube’s $1.6 billion price tag - though Google’s top brass continue to maintain that the video network’s value proposition goes far deeper than it’s money-making potential.”" - Gerrit Eicker

"RWW: “Windows Live Photos is one of the most interesting new applications … The new Live Profile aggregates and displays your activity on Windows Live and third-party services. … Windows Live People is the central address book for all Windows Live services. …Overall, these new services represent a major upgrade to the online part of the Windows Live suite. Microsoft is clearly trying to challenge both Yahoo and Google with its new photo application, while the new profiles and groups tie all the Live services together into a very sophisticated social network. …Judging from what we have seen so far, Microsoft has definitely succeeded in creating a compelling set of applications that, thanks to its tight integration with Microsoft’s desktop applications, will surely drive a lot of new users to Windows Live.” TC: “Users are automatically connected with any friends they have on Windows Live Messenger, which is by far the most popular instant messaging service worldwide (Comscore: Microsoft..." - Gerrit Eicker

"OÖN: “Auch Programmdirektor Wolfgang Lorenz wird pensioniert. Er hat sich jüngst mit Aussagen über das ‘Scheiß-Internet’ selbst disqualifiziert. Gezählt sind weiters die Tage der kaufmännischen Direktorin Sissy Mayerhoffer, des von Jörg Haider auf diesen Posten gehievten Hörfunk-Chefs Willy Mitsche und von Online-Direktor Thomas Prantner.”" - Gerrit Eicker

"RWW: “Interestingly, Google Talk, Google’s desktop chat program does not have any video functionality yet, though Google enabled voice chat for Google Talk a long time ago. By adding voice and video chat, Google is clearly going up against Skype, which has made video chat one of its main features in the latest version of its software.”" - Gerrit Eicker

"Herzlichen Glückwunsch!" - Gerrit Eicker