Walter Soldierer’s Blog

Another smart acquisition by Google, proving that miniblogs are considered an important social networking phenomenon by big influencial organisations, too. I was wondering which of the miniblogs would be bought first. Twitter lost. With its strong mobile integration and RSS capabilities, Jaiku obviously was a more interesting acquisition target for Google. Here is the announcement. Lets hope that Google keeps up Jaiku’s good work.

I was wondering why Nokia had not bought Jaiku already. The Jaiku founders are former Nokia employees, and Jaiku works great with mobile devices, with special client software for Nokia phones. Also, Nokia is building the OVI interactive portal as the next step in “connecting people”, with music and games. Jaiku’s social networking features would have nicely complemented this service. For more information about Nokia’s OVI site see my on-conference blog post.

Jaiku is great. I let it import CSS feeds from all my social networking sites. Webvet.jaiku.com is the easiest way to track me online

You’ve probably met some wise computer veterans who constantly tell you that they started computing decades ago. And usually they talk about their first Atari or Commmodore 64, and how they wrote cool Assembler code to get it to do what they wanted it to do. I can’t impress anyone with my first 80286 desktop PC, but take a look at my first Laptop… (more…)

Blütenpollen können sich auf Solarmodulen absetzen und bei ausreichend hoher Dichte eine deutliche Gelbfärbung der Moduloberfläche verursachen. Da kommen die Sonnenstrahlen doch ganz sicher nicht mehr durch, oder etwa doch? Abwaschen kann auf jeden Fall nicht schaden, oder besteht bei kaltem Wasser etwa die Gefahr des Berstens der Module? Wen diese Fragen beschäftigen, der sollte sich unbedingt den Artikel Staub auf Solarmodulen des Solarenergie Förderverein Deutschland e.V. (SFV) durchlesen. Ich habe das Abwaschen selbst getestet… (more…)