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A real digital jewel: A fancy way describing what the Internet thinks about you… More details available here.

I’ve been discussing this “oh my god, we’re all becoming so visible in the Internet” topic so often, this interpretation is really nice!

Via Jens Meiert.

Enjoy the evening,
– Till.

Within twitter a new craze is just growing (for the past day or so): Writing your favorite song in 140 characters in code

Some examples:

• SELECT * from dbo.streets WHERE name = ”
• this.WakeUp(); you.GoGo();
• wayToLeaveYourLover[50];for (i=0;i<50;i++) { alert(wayToLeaveYourLover[i]); }
• 10 PRINT “You gotta be starting some thing” 20 GOTO 10
• src=”/universe/saviour.swf?a=ah”
• foreach(note n in song) { n.play(); }

Fore more examples check here. Details about the trend can be found here.

Really fun!

Ahoj,

– Till.

A notable tweet from Lars Hinrichs:

I hope these people don’t have kids – stupidity should not be passed on to the next generation: http://bit.ly/NlwaJ

This is the video he pointed to:

Enjoy your day,
– Till.

Nice way of showing:

Enjoy your day,
– Till.

Somehow my tweet-rate droppped dramatically. Same with my blog-rate. What’s the reason?

Many studies showed, that this is a typical behavior of young tweeters: Only 40% of them tweet on after the first month. They just get bored by the type of information that are published through this media. Do I fall in this pattern too?

Honestly, I don’t think so. It’s true that I almost quit twittering, but the reason is another one: If I look at what happened in my life when I started and stopped twittering, there is one factor that clearly pops up: the iPhone.

I started twittering when I got it, I quit when it broke. Same applies to my facebook usage. Am I happier with or w/o twittering? I honestly don’t have the feeling myself that twitter & facebook were stealing me valuable time. I used time that was unused before to read & post.

So the real question is: Will I get an iPhone again? I don’t think in the near future. But I think that a proper twitter/facebook client will definitly be on the must-have list for my next smartphone. Until then I use Daniel’s old E90…

Have a good night & a good working week,

– Till.

• 10 hours connecticum in Berlin: mouth, brain & feet all hurt… #
• Back home from Berlin – off to bed… #
• Just watched the very nice ScreenCastsOnline episode featuring Tweetie http://bit.ly/weoSG #
• This looks like a nice gadget: http://bit.ly/GnjwV And using a 3G access through Wifi is included too! #
• #spielplatz #
• sonnenbrand beim rutschen… #

• No more iPhone at hand – plenty of free time http://bit.ly/81FKp #
• #yoga #
• #ASOT400 really nice for late working @ office: http://www.di.fm/mp3/vocaltrance.pls #
• How many users does Flickr have? #
• #ASOT400 in the office in munich at 1:47 #
• Back in the office #
• Preparing my session #
• Giving a presentation about #twitter #
• Till is waiting to join live #ASOT400 #

So, my iPhone is still dead. I still didn’t manage to get in touch with the insurance to get it fixed…

Anyway, there is another recent finding: W/o an iPhone at hand I have far more free time to spend. I used to spend a couple of hours playing with my phone every day – I think. Now this time is all free. You might notice a drop in posting frequency on twitter, facebook, even on my blog: Reading less RSS feeds I have less stories to re-submit, so less content for the blog.

Although I spent quite some time playing with my iPhone, this one is far worse.

Who knows who my online-times will be with a Android phone or a Palm Pre? Is online time a measure of quality for a smartphone? Currently I use the old Nokia E90 of a colleague: It has a lot of functionality, but surfing is no, twitter is no, facebook is no no. The whole thing is just built for business…

So long so good, have a good night,

– Till.

• That would be a piece of software I would buy http://bit.ly/IBovO #
• Time to go to bed…. #
• RT @garymccaffrey has a crazy idea. 19,530 new twitter followers in 30 days? Check it out http://tweetergetter.com/tillg #
• Cool concept & idea: http://tweetergetter.com #
• Trying to put #lightbox and #wordpress together for http://gartnerich.com #
• #wordpress + #lightbox = http://bit.ly/fBqgr – This piece of open source software is amazing! #
• RT @Drobo: Follow @Drobo to win a free DroboPro! http://bit.ly/iOCzM #
• Nice movie: http://gartnerich.com/naked-magicians/ #
• Heydo, #followers = #following. thx to http://tweetergetter.com/ #
• Finally posted my holiday pics: http://bit.ly/281f4P #
• cleaning the #balcony. Laurent & Frank, we need u here! #
• summer, Munich, #Flaucher #

• Working outside any office: http://www.delistar.de/amalien.html #
• On macs even viruses look stylish http://bit.ly/68lH4 #
• Working on a twitter presentation #
• Checking jobs in France: http://www.mgm-tp.com/mgm/career/france/DeveloperJ2EE #
• Finally back online! http://gartnerich.com/till-has-fast-internet-access-now/ #