Thomas on Technology

I am going to be at CeBIT today – and taking part on a discussion panel about the Future of Web Content Management. If you’re there, please join me at 11:30 in the Webciety Area:

http://www.de.webciety-conference.de/programm/referat/1741.html

Update: If you want to see some pictures, take a look at my flickr album CeBIT 2010 … this fair definitely had seen better days … finally the age of trade fairs seems to be over. Maybe it’s because of this thing called “Internet”?

Quoting Steve Ballmer:

There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

— Interview USA Today, April 2007

Ballmer says they screwed up with Windows Mobile. Wishes they had already lauched WM7. They completely revamped the team.

— Microsoft Venture Capital Summit, September 2009

I am going to hold a talk about Web-Controlling at the Online-Marketing-Convention in Wilhelmshaven tomorrow. Details at http://www.infopark.de/2376250/20090918-online-marketing-convention. Slides will follow.

Update:

The Slides of my talk are now online:

http://www.contentmanager.de/magazin/artikel_2209_zukunft_cms_content_management_system.html

I recently held a workshop at a client about corporate blogging. You can find the introductionary slides on SlideShare (in german language). In case, you’re interested also about the implementation possibilities in your organization, feel free to contaact me anytime and let’s see, what our Company can do for you.

… and – hooray! – it allows to suppress loading of images in Mails. No more spam accidential spam confirmations. Thank god. If you are looking for the CalDAV configuration: Settings > Mail/Contact/Calendars > Other.

Here are the direct Download Links: iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G - and of course via iTunes!

P.S.: Also worth noticing: You can set the double click on the home button also to Search!

Today I’ll be attending the Infopark Internet Congress 2009 and I’m going to hold two talks. Stay tuned – and follow my twitter account for continuus updates about the sessions I’m attending.

P.S.: You can find the slides of my (german language) talks about Ruby on Rails and Online Marketing on my SlideSpace on SlideShare. Also you can some more impressions from iico09 on Twitter Search using the tag iico09 and get some visual impressions of the congress on flickr.

When watching the WWDC 2009 Keynote, I wondered how they realized the “Find My iPhone”-Service.

In a comment on vowe.net I’ve found out, that …

Find My iPhone seems to use the network connection opens for Notification to request the current location of the phone. If you disable notification on your phone, Find my iPhone doesn’t work.

Maybe Apple is going to open up that service to 3rd party service providers – like Google Latitude? Having the Browser open for using Google Latitude doesn’t seem to me as a viable solution anyway.

It’s currently an incredible exciting time beeing involved in the IT industry and watching the changes this industry is currently undergoing.

The interesting thing is, that lots of people in executive positions do not realize the changes which are currently happening – or at least they don’t want to realize it. I do regulary speak at conferences and workshops, and of course, one of the big things in the last years was: Web 2.0, obviously (even if I don’t like this term too much).

I’ve been talking about this topic for quite a long time, and I was watching the developments carefully, especially because I’ve got a quite good insight in the german blogging community.

But all these things which are so obvious – like the conversation on the web – seem so far, especially for the ones working at big companies. There are not that much large companies who do have a web strategy which covers the fact that customers want to talk directly to them on the web.

We’re a bank, why should we allow customers to rate our services on our website. Sun does it? Well, not our business.

Really?

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