Timo Heuers Weblog

I bought a Flickr Pro account some days ago and started uploading all my photos to Flickr. The main reason to switch and pay money for stuff like creating unlimited sets / collections and storage was the FlickrExport for iPhoto, which I am using a lot since I semi-switched (still own a Desktop PC with Win) to Mac OS X. I am tagging a lot on iPhoto so I needed something, where also the tags are exported. When I was using Cologne-based sevenload before, I had to tag the pictures again. This was dawle! So I decided to switch with all of the important photos. I have a bunch of photos on my Desktop PC which are not tagged by iPhoto, so I tagged them on Flickr. Was fun. I already renamed them and gave them a name that sounds better than 100_002 or so.

You will find the photos here. I did not only upload photos about my conference appearences. There are sets about my day trip to Rødby, Denmark (where I ate the best french fries in my life, by the way) or Gargnano, Italy.

It’s true, Microsoft will be acquiring Yahoo! (one of Google’s strongest competitors) to be the number one in the online sector. German online magazine SPIEGEL Online says, the money amount for Yahoo! will be 31 dollar per stock, which will be 44,6 billion dollar at all.

I am not amused about the deal, because I think, Microsoft’s power will be too strong after they ate Yahoo. We know Google and what they are able to do if they want. We know Microsoft and I guess they can be much more evil than we think.

After I switched my domain weeks ago, I now have access to my English blog, too. Will be putting some more posts up the next days. Also theme will change (I hope…). Stay tuned!

will be switching this domain the next days.. maybe some failures and errors! sorry for that!

Everybody’s writing about OpenSocial, Google’s new initiative to build applications for social networks, comparable to the Facebook Apps.

Ning, an American micro Social Network creator, is a part of the project together with some other notable names. Ning’s founder, Marc Andreesen, who also founded Netscabe, explains the concept in this way:

# “Containers” — social networking systems like Ning, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, and Friendster, and…

# “Apps” — applications that want to be embedded within containers — for example, the kinds of applications built by iLike, Flixster, Rockyou, and Slide

Andreesen says, Facebook is using proprietar languages and APIs called FBML (Facebook Markup Language) and FQL (Facebook Query Language). OpenSocial will be using HTML and Javascript!

I think OpenSocial is the right step into the things I mentioned in my article “Introducing the future of Social Networking“. I think it’s necessary for Social Networks to open for third party developers and let users add apps to their profiles.

A few days after the deal, Myspace joined the alliance.

And I think I like the project’s slogan: “The Web is better when it’s social”. That could be the slogan for the new Web which is open. I don’t know how to call, but maybe we could call it Open Web. It’s

Ah, to mention the headline in my text: I don’t think Facebook will die. I think they are the innovator for the Open Web - they were initiating a reform! And the reform is changing the Social Networks.

Yeah, it doesn’t only seem working, it is working!

Google, yes, the “Don’t be evil” company, become stronger and stronger. After they took over Jaiku a few days ago, I read a great article about how strong Google could be, if they wanted. It’s by Michael Agger and called “Google’s Evil Eye“. He shows, what Google knows about you, even your voice.

After I read an article about the same written for Mashable, I blogged about it over in my German blog.

Google knows our voice, as I wrote above. They will know a lot of more things through the Jaiku acquisition. For example, “what you’re doing on your phone, what other applications you may be using, where you’re current location is, your social interaction, and if you’re available to chat, the openness of it all may be scary to some.”

Imagine what you will let them know while using the announced Google Phone!!

It’s one of the breaking news on twitter right now! Jaiku got acquired by Google and confirmed that just a few minutes ago, as Mashable writes. Also Google confirms on their corporate blog.

Mashable writes: “In a world where price is no object for Google, it’s surprising they would opt for Jaiku and not Twitter.”

Congrats to the Finnish guys, who really rock!

It is amazing! The second BarCamp in Germany’s capital Berlin, which will take place the weekend before Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, has opened it’s doors. 66 places reserved in less than an hour. It’s great!

And it’s also good for you my English readers, because it’s the first international BarCamp here in Germany. Official language are English and German. I’ll be there! Let me know, if you go and we’ll met.

“Free Burma” is an initiative to help Burma. It became popular in Germany, because the German blog god, may I call him so?, blogged about it: Robert Basic himself. He’s also one of the contact persons as well as Dario Salvelli. There’s also a wiki explaining what they want to do. Publish only one post on October 4th. Title: “Free Burma”. Of course you are able to add pictures.

I think it’s a great idea. I join the group!