Dear subscribers and readers of my blog. I thank all of you for your interest in my posts and hope you will stay with me also the next year.

I wish all of you a Happy New Year and a great party today!

Cheers,

Herbert

Just found a nice video about twitter and it’s users called the Twittersphere.

(via blogdrauf.de)

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Here you can see the livestream of BarCamp Graz 2008. The Channel is online next time: today at 2.30pm.

(thnx to Heinz)

First BarCamp in Graz November 2008

This weekend the first BarCamp of Graz, Austria is going on. Location is the Karl-Franzens University and today it is going to start at 10.00 o’clock am. BarCamps are a growing type of events. A BarCamp is a so called unconference. On wikipedia you can read:

BarCamps are organized and evangelized largely through the web, harnessing what might be called a Web 2.0 communications toolkit. Anyone can initiate a BarCamp, using the BarCamp wiki.

The procedural framework consists of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site, typically using white boards or paper taped to the wall. This is a form of the open-space approach and has been dubbed, with another play on words, The Open Grid approach.

While loosely structured, there are rules at BarCamp. All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session. Everyone is also asked to share information and experiences of the event, both live and after the fact, via public web channels including (but not limited to) blogging, photo sharing, social bookmarking, wiki-ing, and IRC. This open encouragement to share everything about the event is in deliberate contrast to the “off the record by default” and “no recordings” rules at many private invite-only participant driven conferences.

Well it’s my first BarCamp and I am very looking forward. If you would like to participate, just come to the location and participate. Registration is free and everybody who is interested is welcome. If you cannot participate you can follow the BarCamp on Twitter, TwitterSearch, or on my Weblog.

Additional information about the first BarCamp in Graz, Austria can be found at the BarCamp Graz Wiki.

Just watch and enjoy:

Matrix for Windows 

Check out Matrix XP as well. 

(via Basic Thinking Blog)

Few minutes ago I saw this message on twitter:

Twitter is over capacity

Did anybody of you encoutner the same message? Interesting that this service went down because too many people tweeted.

Need a Problem?

Three guys from Switzerland have found a new business model: They create problems for their customers. You might know the film called “The Game” where Michael Douglas as a bored but rich investment banker gets involved in a kind of game.

The three guys from Switzerland make a lot of money with their project called “need a problem” now. On the website www.needaproblem.com you can pay and they are going to give you a problem to solve. Prices vary from Swiss Franc 1.- for very small problems to Swiss Franc 5000.- for nearly unsolvable problems.

The German newspaper “Die Zeit” writes in an article:

Gerade diese Geheimniskrämerei macht neugierig. Ein verratenes 5000-Franken-Beispiel lautet etwa: „Unsere Kollegin Christiane Brum erwartet Sie am Sonntag im Hotel Othon Palace, in Belo Horizonte, auf ein gemeinsames Mittagessen. Treffpunkt um 12 Uhr Ortszeit.“ Nicht zu unterschätzender Teil des Problems ist, dass Belo Horizonte im Inneren Brasiliens liegt. Was genau den solventen Kunden dort erwartet, ist vollkommen offen, „denn die Probleme sind sehr unterschiedlich“, wie Koncilja betont.

For everybody who doesn’t know German language the text says that because of making a secret out of every problem it is interesting for customers. One 5000 Swiss Franc problem was for example the following: “Our colleague Christiane Brum is waiting for you at Hotel Othon Place in Belo Horizonte this Sunday in order to have lunch with you. She is waiting there exactly at 12.00 o’clock midday.” Doesn’t sound so difficult. But if you think about the fact that Belo Horizonte is in the center of Brasil (see in Google Maps) then you might agree that is is difficult.

Very interesting project which seems to work very well. By now I don’t have to get problems created manually, I have enough problems to solve. Well check out their site if you are interested or leave me a comment on what you think about this project? Do we need to create problems manually?

(via zeit online)

Tomorrow I will write the first mathematical analyis exam for this term. By now I solved all the exercise sheets and I think that I am well prepared. Need to pass this lecture this year since it is the last term of my undergraduate studies. Professor Grabner presented us this video about the mathematical analyis:

What do you think about this video? I think it’s weird. Well wish me luck for tomorrow. For further Information check out the website of the lecture “Analysis T1“

Check out this amazing video wich I have found on Basic Thinking Blog. Don’t froget to close your mouth after you have seen it.

(via Basic Thinking Blog)

Hier mal ein kleiner Film zum Thema Arbeitsschutz!

Der bekannte deutschsprachige Film “Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus” sollte jeder der einen Gabelstaplerführerschein macht gesehen haben! Natürlich wollte ich Euch diesen Film nicht vorenthalten!

Viel Spaß damit!