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Listening to This Week in Startups #26 with Matt Mullenweg Jason explained a small idea culturally, with the insight coming from observations in Asia. One could always search Google for the answer to a question. But it is much more social to ask friends/the community, sometimes even when you the answer ...

3 big news items: Amazon emails, Twitter firehose, Amazon On Demand

1: Amazon Germany is now connected to DHL. When DHL transmits the information that a parcel couldn't be delivered and is back at the station, the recipient is informed per email as well. 2: Twitter opens the 'firehose' to everybody (at some point early 2010). This will be huge in a ...

Hacking yourself with music

(This could also be in my posterous blog, mmh. Maybe I'll cross-post...) Listening to music as a pick-me-upper is nothing new. I can remember doing this for example prior to taking my driver's license exam, blasting "Feeling Alright" from the Heights soundtrack and certainly some Lynch Mob which I was into ...

A day to remember: SixthSense and Square

I don't know but the little boy in me feels pretty psyched today thanks to two most innovative videos I saw today: Pranav Mistry's presentation at TED India paints a picture of today that I thought was years away from a "consumer-friendly pricing". Apparently not. And mind-blowing applications. I urge you, ...

The German collectors – reasoning why Germany will be Gowalla territory, not Foursquare

Will Europeans use Gowalla or Foursquare, asks Techcrunch Europe. With the amount of articles and podcasts I have done on Gowalla, e.g. this German piece, I don't want to become 'the Gowalla' guy, but I think I can venture a guess and argue for Germany being Gowalla prone. #1: We (ze ...

Props to For Immediate Release and 500 shows

I am unhappy with myself because for the last three years I had an idea how to contribute to For Immediate Release - The Hobson and Holtz Report podcast and have not converted yet. Episode #500 (!)would have been a great occasion but I didn't deliver. Oh well. Another time?! ...

Twitter Direct Messages back on your cell. SMS is dead. Almost.

Well, well. I might well be that you all know this feature already. But it just made "click" for me. For quite a while I had unchecked the "allow push-notifications"-settings on my iPhone. I did this as a pre-setting with every app. With the advent of Gowalla and Foursquare I ...

NHL hockey players interviewed about Twitter and their privacy

I thought this was an interesting find on ESPN.com:

Top 3 ultimative tips for personal mobility

1. When you ride your bike make sure the tire have enough air. There is nothing as transformative in cycling than going from an almost flat to a fully-pumped tire. 2. When you go jogging, try to run forward. Sounds strange. Look at all the people running up- and down and moving ...

James Earl Jones (Darth Vader’s voice) performs Shapespeare at the White House

Gripping performance!