If you don’t want to spend all your money for just one night, this is the a good tip: Stay at Hotel Wagner. It’s beautiful located in Hamburg-Rotherbaum close to the ICE railway station Hamburg-Dammtor and the University of Hamburg and with bus connections to Hamburg central station and other tourist destinations in a few minutes.

I stayed there for one week while I was doing an internship in Hamburg near by. The staff is really helpful and it has free wifi, too! That’s one of the points a good hotel need in my opinion so that you can do stuff and finish work from hotel, too.

The style is also amusing: Hotel Wagner tries to catch old Hamburg style and combines it with new elements, really cool!

The building where it is located is called Dammtorpalais which houses five hotels. Although in a very busy, but also safe, district of Hamburg, the Hotel Wagner is still very noiseless (if you don’t get one of the rooms at the beginning of the floor wich everybody is passing to go to their own rooms).

Sue also talks about why it’s her mission to provide Great Apes. (Unfortunately I am not allowed to embed this video, so here is the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YRjaqlqzeeA)

Beside my article, there are written textes about using WordPress as a CMS, Livestreaming with Mogulus/Qik/Ustream, How to do Screencasts, Social Networks, Open Source Social Networks, Community kits (like Ning), Microformats, an interview with Frank Westphal (who is the developer of Germany’s Techmeme, called Rivva) and how to create a business plan.

Disclosure: I will be doing an internship for one year at T3N starting in two months.

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

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

I did a map with Goole Maps weeks ago where I marked all the sights which I wanted to visit. First on my trip was the famous “Place Kléber”, which is the lagest Strasbourg place according to Wikipedia. But not the most beatiful, if you ask me. After that, I went to the “Notre Dame de Paris” - an amazing church!

After that, I went to “Palais Rohan” near to a river (who can tell me the name?). Also the “Église Saint-Paul” was special, but not that much interesting as “Notre Dame” was.

But now, my favorite place in Strasbourg, where I stayed lots of minutes waiting for nothing, enjoying the sun and the silence (yes, silence, but it’s still in the middle of this city, amazing). The “Place de La République” is located directly beside the “Palais du Rhin” — also a highlight on Strasborug trips.

Shortly after that I discovered the “République” stop of the Tram (Strasbourg Subway) and decided to go to European Parliament with the Tram. I didn’t neither know how to pay nor how much I should pay, so I didn’t pay at all (I paid 1,30 Euro for another Tram trip though).

Strasbourg is one of the most beautiful city I have ever visited and the trip has been really awesome. I think that wasn’t the last time I’ve been there!

I will be in Offenburg this weekend, which is close to the French border and Alsace. It’s BarCamp time again, sponsored by Burda. I will be there for BarCamp on Saturday and travelling to Strasbourg next day, which is 30 minutes by train.

I will stay in Hotel Palmengarten. Wifi is available in the entire hotel, but is 9 Euro per hour, which means no wifi for me over night. It’s way too expensive!

Will show you some pictures after I am home again Sunday evening. You can keep up to date with my Twitter channel, I try to do most of the posts in English (which takes more time for me, so I will post German tweets when having not enough time).

Cannot remember when the discussion started, but it was in the thread “can you help me to learn english”, which a Chinese girl opened. I recorded a video for it when Chris was asking me for tips for learning and improving English skills.

First of all, English in school is mostly crap. It’s too much theory and too less speaking and writing. The teacher is talking German instead of English and if he is talking English, he has to explain the order twice, English and German after it, because not even half of the class understood what do to.

Of course reading English blogs and tweets is important. Listenings to podcasts also fills the important hole of pronouncing and listening comprehension. One of my favorite English podcasts, called Speaking English Podcast, is run by a German who studies American studies and English studied in Hamburg. He podcasts about grammatical problems and words that sound the same but are used in different ways and spelled different.

But what is passive listening and reading without asking questions and interact? In my opinion the most important thing is to interact with native speakers, it doesn’t matter where they are from (India, UK, US, ..). That’s how you can learn sayings and expressions used to describe things. Don’t hesitate to ask them for a correction of your textes. I did that for the “about” page, but don’t do this anymore for normal blog postings - making mistakes and err is human.

That’s all for now. Do you have any further tips?

I want to ask for suggestions. What is worth seeing and worth visiting in Strasbourg, France? Maybe you know some insider tips?

I don’t use it, by the way. I remember me registering but can’t find any emails from them. But even if, I wouldn’t use it. I think it’s just more needless information. I don’t want to know, if someone listened to something on Last.fm. People who are alway listen to music when they are on PC generate too much entries about their music taste. Don’t want to know that! I don’t want to know, what they blogged about — I subsribed to enough RSS feeds which show me.

I know, Web 2.0 is about losing privacy, but a place where every of my online activities is aggregated is not the right place for me, sorry. Maybe the Lidl bosses should just add the Friendfeeds of their employees (if they had one, of course). Would be cheaper than spying.

I tried to fill Jaiku with Twitter messages, Last.fm songs and blog posts. And of course I got and still get clicks on new posts. But I don’t want my online life on a single place — especially when it’s public for everyone (don’t know if you can hide it, but than there is again no need for me to register).

Note: I even know people with a stalker!

Any comments?