Hundertfünfzig Worte
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The tweet that made my day, pt. 2
Thank you, Alex!(Here's another one ;-) Permalink | Leave a comment »
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How you will order a cab in the (hopefully very near) future
UberCab sounds like a great service (with a cool name): It lets you order, pay and rate cabs through an iPhone application. The driver gets to rate customers, too. Because drivers are also using an iPhone app, Michael Arring...
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Updates from Project M
The Sandbox Zurich team has relocated to Frankfurt for two weeks to follow Project M, an international creative school bringing together 40 young people from all over the planet. We're documenting what we see and hear on a separat...
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The Wilderness downtown
Aaron Koblin from Google and Arcade Fire teamed up to create an interactive movie for the Arcade Fire song "We Used To Wait". It's built entirely in HTML5 (and intended to showcase what HTML5 can do). Permalink | Leav...
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Google wants to help you fight e-mail overload
Google announced the rollout of a new feature in GMail today: Priority Inbox. As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are import...
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Introduce me!
Sandboxers Allan Grant and Tyler Willis have created Introduction Agent: Sending great email introductions is hard work - and bad intros create lost time and reputation for everyone involved. With Introduction Agent, you can...
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The GeoSocial Universe
Great infographic by agency JESS3 on mobile usage of different online services. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Game dynamics and community management
Fascinating TED talk from TEDxBoston; I especially liked the 4 "game dynamics" he is describing:1. Appointment dynamic: You have to do something at a given time in a given place. Like taking care of your Farmville plants. Or taking pr...
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Crowdfund your business with ProFounder
After Kiva, which does microlending, and Kickstarter, which specializes in crowdfunding for social and art projects, ProFounder aims to give start-ups the possibility to raise their capital not through VCs or business ange...
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«Data is the new soil»
Great TED talk by Davic McCandless, who also writes the wonderful blog «Information is Beautiful». Permalink | Leave a comment »
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The top 10 innovation trends
Great blog post summarizing the 10 innovation trends catalyzed by technological developments as identified by McKinsey.Trend 1: Distributed cocreation moves into the mainstream. Getting incentives right for people to particip...
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«Erich, warum bisch du nid ehrlich?»
So macht Abstimmungskampf Spass: Müslüm, die Kunstfigur eines Berner Komikers, verulkt in seinem Song den SVP-Politiker Erich Hess, auf dessen Betreiben hin die Berner (wieder einmal) über das Kulturzentrum Reitschule abstimmen mü...
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The Internet of Things
frents ist ein soziales Netzwerk, das dir die Möglichkeit bietet, alles zu benutzen, was in deinem Freundeskreis und deiner Nachbarschaft zur Verfügung steht.Ich bin mir zwar noch nicht sicher, ob das Konzept von Frents funkt...
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Are blogs dying?
Blogs might be dying - but not blogging in the sense of sharing personal information and thoughts online:Broad swaths of the blogosphere lie fallow, abandoned. But again, this is a sign of adaptive behavior. Much of the communication o...
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The values of 18-year olds
I stumbled upon the Beloit College Mindset List in an article. The list, compiled annually, aims to give insights into the values and thinkings of current (American) 18-year olds. Although I am not sure yet what the methodolo...
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Paul Graham on post-medium publishing
Another old text (almost a year!), but I enjoyed reading it again: Paul Graham on the future of publishing.In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was...
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Lost in new media
In web standards, this essay is incredibly old - over 4 years, to be exact - but I didn't know it and think it has still some relevance: Why «Lost» is genuinely new media. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Doing good with your credit card
Sandboxer Steli Efti has created a wonderful little side project with some friends: SwipeGood. The site aims at creating a huge amount of microdonations. And here's how it works: Register your credit card with SwipeGood.Sele...
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I'd rather live in...
Expatistan is a wonderfully simple website where you can compare costs of living between different cities worldwide. The beauty of it is that the data for calculation are crowdsourced: The site asks its users about prices for dif...
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The web is dead. Or evolving. Maybe both.
Wired has stirred up some discussions with its article arguing that that the (browser-based) web is dead and that internet use is shifting towards more proprietary systems - i.e. apps. Mathew Ingram thinks WIRED is just late...
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Privacy as a luxury commodity
The connection between regularly posting content on Facebook and adjusting privacy settings highlights the interplay between privacy and content; privacy settings are especially useful to those who are sharing information so that they ...
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Politiker im Netz
Die Schweizer Polit-Diskussions-Plattform Politnetz geht Freemium und startet das Angebot PolitnetzPlus, mit dem Politiker ihre Präsenz im Netz besser verwalten sollen können. Ich finde die Idee sehr interessant; bin ge...
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Clients from hell
Sandboxer Toby Jaeger points me to this wonderful site, Clients from Hell, a "collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers". Enjoy. Permalink | Leave a comment » ...
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A simple tool for time zone calculations
Scheduling calls in different time zones is a pain, and I have long been looking for a simple tool helping me figuring out what time it is now in other places and what time it's gonna be there later. Now Eddie Harran found i...
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Warning labels for newspapers
Comedian Tom Scott has created some great warning labels that newspapers can use to alert readers to bad journalism. Here's the full list, including a downloadable template to print your own.(Thanks Eddie Harran&nbs...
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The Good Wallet
My good friends from Holstee have a new product out: A wonderful wallet made out of recycled material in India. I've had mine for some days now, and I love it - it's slim, practical and beautiful. And it's not just me: ...
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Kochen für richtige Männer
In Hamburg habe ich mir die aktuelle Ausgabe von «BEEF!» gekauft. Das war eine tolle Idee, denn ich wollte schon länger mal wieder so richtig über etwas herziehen. Danke, «BEEF!» «BEEF!» ist, so sagt es die Unterzeile, ein Magazin für ...
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Some pictures from the Sandbox dinner in Berlin
Some pictures from yesterday's wonderful Sandbox dinner in Berlin at the Betahaus. The food was prepared by "metaphoric" chef Cristiano Rienzner. See and download the full gallery on posterous Permalin...
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Ich fresse auch Hamburger
Gefunden, logischerweise, in Hamburg. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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That dent is your Ph. D.
Wonderful explanation of what a Ph. D. is in pictures. Here's the full thing.(via David Bauer) Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Is it a pencil? Or a pen?
The Sharpie is both:New from Sharpie, the Liquid Pencil is the prodigious spawn of too many wine coolers at the annual Pencil Fraternity / Pen Sorority mixer. Its liquid graphite “ink” allows the user to erase at will for up to th...
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The tweet that made my day ;-)
When I got up this morning, I saw this tweet from NYC-based Sandboxer Soraya Darabi: Soraya is currently building her own startup Foodspotting; previously, she headed the social media marketing at the New York Times and&...
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How Twitter was used during the World cup
This isn't really fresh anymore, but I found these graphics on Twitter use during the World Cup interesting nontheless: This graph (from here) shows Tweet intensity during the whole duration of the tournament.This word cloud shows the ...
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The 22-minute meeting
Good presentation on how to make sure your meetings don't last longer than 22 minutes. I especially like the "no chairs" idea - we'll try that at the next Sandbox meeting ;-) Permalink | Leave a comment »
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IDEO for everyone
The famous creative company IDEO has released a web platform called OpenIDEO - a collaborative online community to design solutions "for a better world".OpenIDEO is a place where people design better, together for s...
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Chatroulette for businesses?
Success in business increasingly relies on chance encounters, argues a new book that is reviewed in this week's Economist:[...] today’s technology, especially the internet, is undermining the old top-down approach to business...
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Postmodernes Lesen?
Im Nachgang zu meiner Kritik von Nicholas Carr's neuem Buch auf NZZ Online hat mir Sandboxer Jonas von der Heyden eine Seminararbeit über "Literale Nichtlinearität" zugeschickt. Ein paar Auszüge:"Bezogen auf das Lesen hi...
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Friday readings: Thinking and forgetting
As part of my new work habits, I try to spend Friday afternoon reading stuff I've come across during the week. Here are some of the things I read today. Jeffrey Rosen has a great article about forgetting on the web in the NYT Maga...
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Into The Shallows
I've published my extensive review (or, rather, rant) of Nick Carr's «The Shallows» yesterday on my NZZ blog [in German]. Here's a (very short) version of my argument:Carr argues that the web - or, rather, reading on the web ...
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Not feeling like work today?
Instead of working, why don't you consider doing something like this in your office today: (via @yannwanner) Permalink | Leave a comment »
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The HackFwd Startup Flowchart
European tech investment group HackFwd has a great flowchart explaining the Startup cycle (they call it the "Startup Blueprint"): Download now or preview on posterous The HackFwd Blueprint.pdf (...
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Friday readings: Protectionism and startups, the death of the browser, and Russia's internal abroad
As part of my new work habits, I try to spend Friday afternoon reading stuff I've come across during the week. Here are some of the things I read today."Simply put, the U.S. has become wildly inefficient at creating American tech...
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Some good slides on Social Business
Some good (if mostly too colorful ;-) slides in this presentation on Social Business: Dion Hinchcliffe at SBS2010View more presentations from Dachis Group. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Mobile donations on the rise
Mobile donations are on the rise, reports a study by Pew: 10 percent of cell phone users have made donations through their mobile phones, and even 19 percent of 18-29 year olds. What's interesting is not the figure itself (26 perc...
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Zach and Oprah
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/28/zach-anner-the-funny.html<p>Zach's oprah deal from Zach Anner on Vimeo.</p>Zach Anner, a US comedian with cerebral palsy, submitted a video in a contest run by Oprah Winfrey to find a ho...
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A fine price
I just watched this recently released TED Talk by Clay Shirky on the "cognitive surplus". In it, Shirky cites an economic study made famous by the book "Freakonomics". In 2000, two economists publishe...
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The rollbot
A good friend of mine is part of a team of students from Zurich's Technical University that built Rezero, an amazing "ballbot" - a robot running on a single ball. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Serien ohne System, oder: Darwins und Foucaults radikale Historizität
In seinem Buch "Darwin und Foucault" wagt der Historiker Philipp Sarasin den Versuch, zwei oft zitierte und gleichzeitig oft missverstandene Denker aufeinander prallen zu lassen. Ich habe das Buch als Laie gelesen - ich kenne mich we...
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Got acquired? Let a monkey puppet rap about it
Imagine: You're a startup, and you suddenly get acquired by a huge company for a large amount of money. How do you announce the big news?If you're a normal startup, then you probably send out a press release and have your CEO a...
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Friday readings: The internet will save us all, and how to get into Harvard (hint: no big ears)
As part of my new work habits, I try to spend Friday afternoon reading stuff I've come across during the week. Here are some of the things I read today.Not only is the internet making you smarter - in fact, it is the only thing c...
