History of the Internet - a Motiongraphics documentary
by Volker Weber
This documentary is part of the diploma work by Melih Bilgil, who recently graduated from university in Mainz, Germany. Very impressive in its own right, it also tells you about the early days of the Internet.
Watch in Quicktime here or as Flash on Vimeo.
[via Alper]
Web-Centric Platform and New Palm Pre Phone to Debut Exclusively on Sprint
by Volker Weber
LAS VEGAS, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Jan. 8, 2009 - Palm, Inc. today unveiled its groundbreaking Palm webOS mobile platform, built from the ground up to be constantly connected to the web, and the new Palm Pre, the first phone based on the new platform. Pre is scheduled to be available exclusively from Sprint in the first half of 2009.
Take a look at the screenshots and the description. This phone could be desirable. Sprint uses EvDO, not GSM or UMTS/HSDPA. Will need more information about worldwide availability.
View your Lotusphere Schedule on your Apple iPhone and iPod touch
by Volker Weber
Yes, it is true. Lotus iNotes now supports the iPhone and the iPod touch (using WiFi). Since WiFi hotspots will be available throughout the hotels at Lotusphere, you can stay updated with your iPod touch too! This is the new ultralite feature. All you need to do is point your device to the following URL while you're attending Lotusphere (please replace 'XXXXXX.nsf' with your mail file number):
www.ls09.info/mail/XXXXXX.nsf/iNotes/Mail/?OpenDocument&Form=m_HomeView
Just login and navigate to the first date of Lotusphere: January 18, 2009. Then just bookmark that on your device for easy viewing later.
Hmmh. What if I could just download the schedule as an iCal file? I would not need to login every time I want to look at my schedule.
One of the enhancements we have made to the Lotusphere Agenda Session Scheduler application this year is the ability to add your Lotusphere Schedule to your own default calendar so you can synchronize it with your smartphone and carry it with you while you are attending Lotusphere. We do this by giving you the ability to create an iCalendar file that can be imported into your own iCalendar compliant calendar application.
See, you only have to ask. :-) There is a small problem however. I won't be able to see the general events. Lotusphere has them, and you can view them online:
Check out your Lotusphere Mail iNotes calendar in Full mode. On the bottom left under My Calendars you will see that we have added a Google public calendar overlay. This calendar is a list of Lotusphere general events that are pulled from our Google pubic calendar. These include most of the events that are happening around the sessions you will be attending. This way you can easily check out when the Jamfest is, for example, or what time lunch is.
Does anybody know the Google Calendar URL for this file? I would love to just put this into my real calendar and not the one on Lotusphere Online that I won't check anyway.
You can also add your own Google calendars to your iNotes calendar by simply clicking Add next to My Calendars so you can add your own private appointments to your calendar to make the calendar more useful.
This is completely backwards. I don't want to make the iNotes calendar more useful. I want to make my calendar more useful. I know this is hard to do from an "enterprise view" where the iNotes calendar is the center of the universe. Lotusphere attendants don't work for Lotusphere. They work for thousands of other companies. We don't need to subscribe our calendars into the Lotusphere Online system but we need to be able to subscribe the Lotusphere Online calendards into ours.
Travelling vowe
by Volker Weber
Back after a week on the road. We had a wonderful time in Berlin. Now we are happy to be back at home. I think there will be a lot of postings over the next few days.
There is more travel ahead: Lotusphere, edcom Nachlese and finally GSMA Mobile World Congress.
No surprises at the PhilNote
by Volker Weber
No wonder that Steve passed the buck to Phil.
- New 17" MacBook was overdue. Surprise: you can buy non-glare screen.
- iWork 09. Check. I want it.
- iLife 09. Check. I want it.
- DRM-free iTunes store. Overdue as well. Hello Amazon. And the majors finally get their price differentiation. "Nice price". Yawn.
Notes and Domino 8.5 available
by Volker Weber
IBM closes second half of 2008. Notes & Domino 8.5 are now available from Partnerworld.
Winter in Potsdam
by Volker Weber
Ute and Sabine, Photo Alex
Peter O'Kelly: I am now a Microsoft employee
by Volker Weber
I’m psyched to announce that I have joined a new Microsoft team focused on enterprise collaboration optimization (i.e., communication, collaboration, and information architecture, for large organizations).
Ente Chop Sui
by Volker Weber
[Thanks, Hanno]
Zu verkaufen
by Volker Weber
Smart Passion, 40 kW/55 PS, bay gray met., Tridion silber, Glasdach, Klima, Softtouch (Schaltautomatik), Radio, CD-Wechsler, Soundpaket, Sitzheizung, Winter- und Sommerräder, EZ 8/2002, rund 65 tkm, Standort Darmstadt
Erstbesitz, Nichtraucher, unfallfrei, keine bekannten Mängel. Verbrauch 5,5 l/100 km (Ute) oder 6,0 l/100km (vowe). Interesse? So ein Smart ist größer als man denkt . :-)
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