Thomas on Technology

But I have a take on that – people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone!
Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.
So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.

— http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8681410.stm

iPad today:

iPad 0.5:

Just pre-ordered a iPad 3G in Germany.

• Apple still doesn’t mention iBooks on their features page (http://www.apple.com/de/ipad/features/). No Deal with Axel Springer, yet?
• One can preorder O2 and Vodafone MicroSIMs in Germany, not T-Mobile
• Awkward: When displaying 3G tariff details on apples store page (http://store.apple.com/de/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad), the O2 link says it links to Vodafone as well
• The link indeed points to O2 (http://www.o2online.de/ipad) – but it seems they’re not quite ready yet: The page results in a 404 error.

I held the following presentation at the iico2010 congress about the future of CMS (german language):

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.