As some of the readers of this blog know I am also working on projects in the field of search and semantic search. So I eagerly had a look at the Miiget project for a new people search engine. As one can see in the query above also very sophisticated solutions have their limits: the […]
Google seems to say goodbye to its longterm strategy of clear and clean startpages. I don’t like that at all and I am using more and more the very clean interface of Yahoo! Search (not the Yahoo! Portal site – the clean search part). On the Mac there is even a very cool toolbar add […]
The US has a new president and it’s part of democracy to wish a new leader good luck and enthusiasm to do a great job – espescially in these difficult times. Let’s hope Obama will deliver what he promised.
Flush toilets have become such a standard part of our lifes that we cannot even imagine that the majority of the world population does not have access to even modest sanitation facilities. The first time I became really aware of that fact was when I read Kishore Mahbubanis new book where he mentioned in a […]
If you like your iPhone as well but the autocorrection makes you feel crazy as it does to me then it’s time to act now: sign the disable-the-autocorrection-online-petition. Perhaps the swiss way of solving problems by democracy helps making the iPhone an even better device – without autocorrection 😉
Today I seem to have been in contact with customer service reps from two planets: After one hour of normal working on my PC with internet connection suddenly my Internet connection by Cablecom was broken. As always in situations like that I disconnected both – the cablemodem and my Zyxel router from the power suppy […]
These days catch phrases like “yes, we can” or “hope” of Obamas 08 campaign seem to let so-called liberal Europeans forget about what it’s all about. Why bother with critical distance and evaluating what would be the best next US president from a European point of view – when the world can be that easy: […]
After some days of response time today I got an “answer” from Apple regarding my account paymant problem: They just sent me the same two links to two non-related FAQ entries than they showed me automatically before I could fill in the contact form on the support sites. Obviously they did not even read what […]
As a long-time .mac-User I was never really happy with the range of functionality Apple offered to its .mac-customers. Imho – compared to Yahoo, Google or any other local provider – the price for Apples service was always too high and there were always too much functions missing. But still – I used my private […]
After running through all the ups and downs – it’s ready now, my newest baby: Semacle! And there’s even a blog 😉