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The mathematician Conrad Wolfram straightens the image of his subject: "Mathematics is the engine of a computerized knowledge-based society," stresses the inventor of the search engine WolframAlpha. It is simply a good way of thinking about the world and making // more

Lukas Kubina· 02/03/10 · 10:56 AM· 0 comments

Schlingensief receives Käutner award

DLD-Speaker Christoph Schlingensief will receive the Helmut-Käutner-Award today, March 2nd in Düsseldorf. He gets honored for more than two decades of campaigning for the German Film; from the very beginning he has used all possibilities of creative film-making, the jury // more

Marvin Barnie· 02/03/10 · 10:32 AM· 0 comments

Atlantic community's DLD interviews

Our friends from the Atlantic Community have released three more videos from the DLD Conference. The first video features an interview with Jimmy Wales: The Wiki Way to Create Change in Global Politics. The other video features Peter Berger, Suite101.com, // more

Marvin Barnie· 02/03/10 · 10:09 AM· 0 comments

Post Web - visions by David Gelernter

The "Lord of the cloud" and brilliant computer scientist David Gelernter is analyzing the status quo of the Internet and gives an outlook on the evolution of the web in a pamphlet published in the FAZ. Overall, the Internet has // more

Lukas Kubina· 01/03/10 · 11:35 AM· 0 comments

Cheryl Cole No. 1

This year's DLD musical act Cheryl Cole, who performed at the DLD-Starnight, January 25th, is now ranked number one on the German iTunes single charts. To download her song from iTunes click here (Cheryl Cole on iTunes). Her song "Fight // more

Marvin Barnie· 01/03/10 · 10:04 AM· 0 comments

Marc wins a Stevie

TheLadders.com has been awarded a Stevie Award for Sales Department of the Year - Computer Services at the fourth annual Stevie Awards for Sales&Customer Service. Marc Cenedella, CEO and founder of TheLadders.com says: "While the Great Recession forced many employers // more

Lukas Kubina· 26/02/10 · 01:47 PM· 0 comments

Dichotomy in social networks

Xing's CEO Stefan Gross-Selbeck shares his views on the developments and trends in the web in an interview with German newspaper 'Die Welt'. He underscores that the continuously evolving social networks figure as a basic function like the search engine // more

Lukas Kubina· 25/02/10 · 10:49 AM· 0 comments

Cosmonaut Training Diaries

Thought leader and philanthropist Esther Dyson spent part of 2008 and 2009 training to be a cosmonaut. A few years earlier she invested in Space Adventures Ltd., the company that arranged space travel for Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, and other // more

Lukas Kubina· 24/02/10 · 12:23 PM· 0 comments

Ciclops presents new findings

Speaker from previous DLD Conferences Carolyn Porco sent out an email yesterday informing us that the "scientific findings from Cassini's last November flyby of the Saturnian moon Enceladus are finally ready for prime time". Among the new results are a // more

Marvin Barnie· 24/02/10 · 10:09 AM· 0 comments

Conversations with thought leaders of the Digital Age

Stimulating conversation and triggering debates, that is an important aspect of the DLD Conference. During DLD10 Journalist Philip Banse had the chance to have many interesting conversations with some of the most interesting personalities of today's online world. These conversations // more

Marvin Barnie· 23/02/10 · 11:12 AM· 0 comments

China experts in dialog

DLD-speaker and long time DLD-friend Thomas Crampton, Ogilvy, has recently published a blog entry with a video interviewing Doris and John Naisbitt at the DLD Conference a couple of weeks ago. To watch the China-Panel, where the three of the // more

Marvin Barnie· 19/02/10 · 05:54 PM· 0 comments

DST wants to invest $1 Billion in Social Media

DLD10 Speaker and CEO of Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Yuri Milner, has declared that he wants to invest about one Billion US Dollar in Social Media Sites within the next five years. DST has already invested several hundred million Dollar // more

Marvin Barnie· 19/02/10 · 05:35 PM· 0 comments

Google donates $2 Million to Wikimedia Foundation

The DLD Community sticks together and supports each other wherever they can. The most recent example from just a few days ago: Google has donated an incredible amount of $2 million to Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used // more

Marvin Barnie· 19/02/10 · 10:55 AM· 1 comment

Caterina Fake's new project HUNCH

Flickr Co-Founder and Aenne Burda Award winner Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon are two of four co-founders of hunch.com - a user input based recommendation site where you can get recommendations from cameras to books to vacations to things you // more

Marvin Barnie· 19/02/10 · 10:30 AM· 0 comments

Teaching geometry to a search engine

Today, networks usually offer a two dimensional view: a list of results, a document, a video, or a photo. Cyberspace remains an abstract concept, virtual worlds like Second Life are the exception. Most of the networks are still plane and // more

Lukas Kubina· 18/02/10 · 11:41 PM· 0 comments

Edge.org continues conversation

A couple of months ago, in the summer of 2009, physicist Freeman Dyson, pointed out a vision for the future. Analog to the novel "The Age Of Wonder" by Richard Holmes, where the author described the importance of chemistry and // more

Marvin Barnie· 18/02/10 · 12:06 PM· 0 comments

The Future of Social Networks

Facebook's Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer talks on the future of social networks. Watch a short interview on ZEIT Online to get a glimpse of his vision. // more

Artur Schmidt· 16/02/10 · 10:53 AM· 0 comments

Filling an information gap

Demand Media poses a great challenge to established content producers in the US. Every day, Demand floods the web with thousands of articles and videos - which are created at unbeatable low cost. Demand does not make news but operates // more

Lukas Kubina· 16/02/10 · 10:44 AM· 0 comments

Hope for a sustainable Switzerland

The visionary solar pioneer Bertrand Piccard wins a "Prix Nature". The DLD 2010 speaker is awarded the prize for his courageous and groundbreaking project "Solar Impulse", his role as a beacon and pioneer in clean-tech, and his work for the // more

Lukas Kubina· 15/02/10 · 11:17 AM· 0 comments

Om Malik comments on MySpace

The prestigious tech-journalist and DLD 2010 speaker Om Malik shares his thoughts on the recent events at Myspace on his website. He reflects on the investment of media-tycoon Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp's ecosystem, and the bigger malaise of MySpace // more

Lukas Kubina· 15/02/10 · 10:16 AM· 0 comments

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