Archive for May, 2008

Final exams — anyone with conacts to the Auswärtiges Amt?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Woah, I survived my final exams today and last Thursday. I had to write Maths today and German before. Those two are just followed by English on next Thursday and my vivas (final exams where I have to talk about a certain subject) at the end of this months. I chose “Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik” (which is German Security Policy).

Does anyone have contact to someone responsable for that, e.g. in the Auswärtiges Amt (German Ministry of Foreign Affairs)?

Why Friendfeed won’t and can’t kill Twitter

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Some minutes ago, I commented on a Friendfeed enty. I wanted to share the comment, because it can explain my opinion about the Friendfeed vs. Twitter discussion:

FF can’t kill Twitter. We are talking about different things for different audiences (FF = sharing content published somewhere else / Twitter = getting fast information, personal experience/opinion without clicking on a link). That’s a simplified example ;). And by the way it’s also a matter of the users. There are much more of my friends using Twitter (300) than using (not just having an account) Friendfeed (10). That’s what really matters for me.

But I agree with you. FF needs some new features that make it easier for us to handle with FF. But it will still be something different. At least in my opinion. Features I want: Liking comments, Permalink for comments, SMS/Mobile, …
Probably the only reason for not using Jaiku/Pownce: not enough friends of mine there using it regularly