“One day, the Web will be friggin’ empty”
That’s what the CEO of the German VPRT, the lobby of commercial broadcasters and tele-media, said on his keynote during the Munich Media Days last week. No, wait for the punchline! It’s also his...
View ArticleAngry nerds
Today the German version of Jonathan Zittrain‘s essay “The PC is dead” has been published (which he closes by saying we need more angry nerds), tempting me to comment on it in a lengthy post. Instead I...
View ArticleThe ubiquitous canteen
Several years ago, British comedy artist Eddie Izzard did a brilliant parody of Star Wars. In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the video: And there’s a big truth in there, because this happens all...
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…in my underwear
Going through Hugh MacLeod’s latest book last night, I felt reassurance that writing the last post the way I did was the right thing to do (at least for now). After all, what’s the point in trying to...
View ArticleNiche size
What’s the size of a niche, preferably one you can seize? Because they keep getting smaller, they need to be smaller the more you want to be the first or maybe only one who caters to and for it....
View ArticleWhat customers are paying for
They don’t pay for a product or service. They pay for an experience. This applies for consumers as well as for B2B. Which is why racing to the bottom makes less sense every day. How great an experience...
View ArticleSource vs. outlet
It’s worth remembering that money is not always being made at the source. Just because you create, build, assemble… that’s where the thing to be sold is made, but it’s only in commodities like crude...
View ArticleTwo essential questions
A few days ago, a colleague of mine launched her portfolio website. Of course I couldn’t help picking the holes, which brought me back to two questions that apply to any marketing effort someone is...
View ArticleOpposing Forces
Have you ever felt the pain of unfulfilled potential? I’m referring to the (at first) external one, a circumstance that causes you a regular dissatisfaction with the status quo. This can range from a...
View Article1,000,000,000 failures
Today it was announced that last year’s spendings in online advertising have been more than one billion Euros in Germany alone for the first time in Internet history. Here’s a thought: Has any company...
View ArticleProjects are doomed when…
… there is no desire to assign or take responsibility right from the start. … there is no desire to make it happen. … there is no desire to do it better than the last time. … there is no desire to keep...
View ArticleDe-Interlacing roundtrip
It’s quite amazing that hi-quality de-interlacing of video footage is still an issue not easy to be adressed, especially when it comes to encoding for web and mobile. The basic problem is that your...
View ArticleThe generation myth
Originally I intended to call this post “The Generation Y myth”, based on the article in the German Wikipedia and the links it refers to. But as it happens, I stopped for a second and looked it up in...
View ArticleConnecting to Avid ISIS 5000 on OS X 10.9
Though Avid doesn’t officially support this, it is entirely possible to connect your ISIS5000 Update: As of ISIS v4.6 this article is partially obsolete (see Avid KB). To make it work, you need to have...
View ArticleHow to delight an engineer
If you happen to work with engineers and they’re mostly unhappy with the way they’re being asked about potential projects, or if you’re an engineer in this very situation and your colleagues don’t seem...
View ArticleRise of the hacks (commodification vs. democratization)
There is no such thing as democratization of technology. If you think about it, this is quite obvious. Everything being sold as democratization of technology is commodification with glitzy marketing...
View ArticleUsing Avid Unity Media Network on OS X 10.8+
The last supported version of Mac OS X is 10.7.x with MN Client v5.5.5 (Mac only — the PC version 5.5.4 still works on Win7-64bit) — because 10.7.x is the last OS X version to support 32-bit...
View ArticleTo KBO or not to KBO
(KBO as in “keep bggering on”, like Churchill used to say) Do you sometimes find yourself wishing you wouldn’t have read something? Today, I did, here. And I really stopped dead in my tracks in every...
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