Family, Work, Life

Microblogging

September 30th, 2008 Ansi

Moin

Lets find some slides on Microblogging, some videos and some examples. When I tell people about microblogging (or as some people call it “twitter“) they look at me like “what a freak!”. But let me try to explain why microblogging is realy something new and different from chat, blogs or SMS. First of all lets have a look on Slideshare what presentations are available on this topic.

Slides

There is one very good one in german language:

140 – einhundertvierzig
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: 4newbies deutsch)

And one in english with the basic facts:

Twitter and your Company
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web2 media)

Videos

Twitter in plain english


Twitter in pain german


The Bleeper Movie – MyVideo

Some Twitters:

IBM

http://twitter.com/IBM_System_z
http://twitter.com/sametime
http://twitter.com/ibmevents

Conferences

http://twitter.com/w2e_NY08

Election and Twitter

http://election.twitter.com
http://twitter.com/BarackObama
http://twitter.com/JohnMcCain

German politicans

http://twitter.com/muentefering
http://twitter.com/hubertus_heil
http://twitter.com/neuepolitik
http://twitter.com/diegruenen_at
http://twitter.com/pofalla

Satire

http://twitter.com/schaeuble
http://twitter.com/rolandkoch
http://twitter.com/merkel

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OpenStreetMap

September 30th, 2008 Ansi

Moin

Last weekend on the Barcamp in Stuttgart (#bc0711) I learned more about OpenStreetMap. Extreme impressing! What I really liked was the tremendous power of communities. Peter gave a very good presentation on Openstreetmap.

Presentation:

Openstreetmap im Tourismus

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: barcamp castlecamp)

Here are the live examples:

Buenos Aires

Google:


Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreetMap:


View Larger Map

Hanoi:

Google:


Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreepMap:


View Larger Map

Kapstadt:

Google:


Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreetMap:


View Larger Map

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The otherinbox

September 18th, 2008 Ansi

I plan to analyse at least one WEB 2.0 service per day and write a short blog on that.

Starting today with the “Otherinbox“. Nice combination of instant email service and web emailer. If you subscribe to the service you get a domain like ansi.otherinbox.com where you can use several email addresses like facebook@ansi.otherinbox.com or intershop@ansi.otherinbox.com. The service accepts all emails for this domain and shows them in a web based mailer in seperate folders. Nice and usefull. At the moment they are in closed beta but you can follow them on twitter at @otherinbox.

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Convert

September 18th, 2008 Ansi

Played around a little bit with ImageMagick and specially with the convert command.

Nice feature is to add Text on a picture like a watermark:

convert -font \
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/luximri.ttf \
-pointsize 160 -fill black -draw "text 0,590 'Text auf Spike'" \
P1020049.JPG spike.jpg

or make a border arround a picture

convert -border 10x10 -bordercolor "#000000" P1020049.JPG spike2.jpg

Nothing special but was nice to play with it.

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