If you're trying to use OmniAuth with Google and OAuth2 and keep on getting 400 Unauthorized Errors, you may need to add a scropt to your config:

  config.omniauth :google, 'CLIENTID.apps.googleusercontent.com',  'SECRET',
                  {:scope => 'https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/'}

Have been looking for hours for the correct solution. Even there is some code in the OmniAuth gem, it doesn't work correctly.

It seems that four years after the release of the original iPhone, Nokia finally came up with a phone which may at least compete with the iPhone, the N9.

But is it just me, or do they even copy the typical Apple Videos in their video "Swipe" with this nice technical dude beeing complete excited about the product and how it's beeing manufactured? And even the language about "change" ...

It seems that Apples new iMessage service which debuts in iOS 5 is very smoothly integrated into SMS composing. I guess the carriers won't like that - as well as the people from WhatsApp. Seems that Apple is gathering lots of good ideas from App Store Apps and copy-cat'ing them...

Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account. At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to make $1, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any cheaper. They’re already projected to make close to three billion dollars in revenues this year. If you can’t figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

— http://shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/6142108636/groupon-ipo-pass-on-this-deal

So a company that owes $230 million more than it has, and appears to be burning through $100 million or more a quarter, is using money raised from later investors to pay back early investors? Sounds vaguely familiar.

— http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/groupon-groupon-ipo-tech-stocks-linked/6/3/2011/id/34936

Long time no updates, I know … I'll try harder. Anyway, I held some talks in the last weeks, and here are the slides. First talk was at the AWS Tech Summit for Developers and Architects, called «Lessons Learned from Converting a Web Application to Multitenancy and Deploying it to Amazon Web Services using Scalarium». Second one was at the iico.de 2011 about «CMS, SaaS und Cloud».

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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.

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).

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