Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: One of the reading club assignments was to read the paper about Google Pregel and Signal Collect, compare them and point out pros and cons of both approaches. So after I read both papers as well as Claudios overview on Pregel clones and took some notes here are my [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The first meeting of our reading club was quite a success. Everyone was well prepared and we discussed some issues about Google’s Map Reduce framework and I had the feeling that everyone now better understands what is going on there. I will now post a summary of what has been [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Since I went to Brussesl to attend the Free Open Source Developer European Meeting and give a talk about graphity I had also some time to attend some interesting talks. Since I will teach a class in summer for students about creating a basic webserver and webbrowser I decided [...]
Continue reading about Attending Mozilla Devroom at FOSDEM: Hacking Gecko by Bobby Holley
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Ok no secret here that I am a Google Fan. But listening to the Google Report of 2011 I am just amazed and speechless. Everything is growing: $10 bn revenue / quartal ==> more than $100 mio. / day!!! 90 Mio Google+ users over 60% of plus users engage [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Obviously education is one of the topics that is important to me. recently I wrote about a teach first project. 6 month ago I was participating in a workshop organized by the Universities of Koblenz. This workshop was for future entrepreneurs teaching them some basics about design thinking and [...]
Continue reading about Internet educates africa! Open education – a success story!
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The discussions about the ethics of facebook are old and everyone knows my oppinion on their ethics. But now I discovered a youtube video shared by a Google Product Manager on Google plus that Facebook will filter out your invitations to Googleplus from your friends facebook news stream. It [...]
Continue reading about Propaganda, filtering and blocking by Facebook?
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey everyone! Last week I sent out over 100 invitations to Google Plus. I know some of you are still waiting to be allowed to join. But for those who have seen G+ I would love to hear your oppinion on Google Plus. Do you think it will become [...]
Continue reading about Will Google plus be the Facebook Killer? What do you think?
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Finally Google made the big step to enter the social networking market. (Here my first thoughts and impressions on Google+. ) There were quite a lot of rumors about it and of course everyone saw it coming. In the actual discussions, there seems to be a lot of confusion [...]
Continue reading about Why Google Plus and social networking is so important to Google
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Yesterday I was finally able to receive an invitation to Google+ (thanks to Lisa!). After seeing it from the inside, I am convinced that this is the killer application that will stop Facebook. Google+ feels totally comfortable. It also allows you to make your communication much more effective. When [...]
Continue reading about First Impressions of Google+ Usability Reminding of Apple
If you need an invitation to Google Plus just leave a comment or subscribe to my newsletter! This site really seems to be an alternative to Facebook! Great! I just invited about 50 interested people from different mailinglists and my blog. I have to get back to work now! The invites will come!
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