http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog On Life, Technology and Venturing Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:12:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I visited the Tracey Emin exhibition in Kunstmuseum Bern. Before I have been a bit sceptical about her work as I have regarded her more a publicity-seeking person with regard to the way she is presenting herself. However, already at the beginning of her 20-years retrospective I received another ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/life/tracey-emin-exhibition-in-bern/ Seems I manage only to write about long-awaited features from my favorite online apps in this blog. This time it comes from Qype. I just discovered by accident a tiny link called "Book a table now" below the review of Cheyenne restaurant in Zurich Oerlikon. When you click it, a widget ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/technology/qype-quietly-launches-online-reservation/ Just explored on XING the new Map feature in my address book - something I have waited for nearly two years after having looked closer at location-based services and their possibilities to interact with social networks. Currently, this mash-up based on Google Maps just displays the business address of my ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/technology/location-mapping-on-xing-finally/ Just this week I received a call from a friend who is looking for a new idea to build up a prosperous business. Sure, in my job I am looking at quite some new business ideas. But as also my colleague Nicolas pointed out in his latest article on the ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/venturing/in-search-for-ideas/ Near Wangen in Allgäu (Dec 23, 2007) After I have not managed to blog this last year I at least want to keep up the tradition of blogging the theme of my Christmas mailing. For the upcoming days I wish you all some time to relax, to look back at the ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/life/merry-christmas-2007-and-a-happy-new-year/ "Weihnachten 97" by Max Kaminski (1997) I wish you all a merry Christmas time with your families and friends. That all your dreams may come true in the New Year 2007! http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/life/merry-christmas-2006/ Actually the best about Flock is the easy ability to blog web snippets with a few clicks. The del.icio.us implementation could have be done better - regarding the tags pre-selection and the usability in general. Otherwise, I am looking forward that also other photo sites, namely Zooomr, are embedded. And ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/technology/post-from-flock/ I will migrate all my stuff from my current blog here to my shiny new Wordpress blog, which then should also be in the center of my website. So far, I am really impressed about the easy setup - took me indeed only 5 minutes - and the speed of ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/technology/hello-world/ I just signed up as # 68,163 to Martin Varsavsky's FON community. I waited for a long time as the router seemed with EUR 25.00 plus transportation /VAT not that cheap. With the new pricing of EUR 5.00 plus transportation / VAT - thanks to FON's incredible EUR 18m funding ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/technology/joined-fon-community-finally/ I started online photo sharing in 2001 with Pixum, a German photo service site, after I bought my first digital camera. Missing more contemporary features beyond albums and unlimited storage - as long as you have a look at every album once in a while -, I switched to Flickr ... http://www.sven-eppert.de/blog/index.php/technology/switching-incrementally-to-zooomr-from-flickr/