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DLD News: February 2010

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

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 comment

FACTS & FIGURES DLD10

The DLD10 Conference was a great success and we enjoyed it very much being a host for more than 1,000 guests in Munich (+130 speakers, +850 participants and 180 journalists). Please find below additional statistical data regarding DLD10: During the // more


Artur Schmidt· 12/02/10 · 11:01 AM· 0 comment

Buzz in the discount network landscape

An investment group consisting of Klaus Hommels, Stefan Glänzer, Oliver Jung, and Michael Brehm invests a seven-digit € amount in the German start-up dailydeal.de. "After an intensive analysis of the European market, we decided to invest in the German market // more


Lukas Kubina· 11/02/10 · 04:11 PM· 0 comment

EU Membership for Turkey - a comment

Martti Ahtisaari comments the prospects of the possible EU integration of Turkey. In The European, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Ex-President of Finland analyzes the status quo of the process. The DLD 2010 speaker states that the country already // more


Lukas Kubina· 11/02/10 · 02:52 PM· 0 comment

Vente Privee - a sexy company

Vente Privee, the retailer e-commerce company is enjoying a boom in spite of the economic downturn thanks to the growing popularity of online shopping. The French website which sells leftover stock, will make about 1 billion euros in turnover by // more


Lukas Kubina· 11/02/10 · 11:04 AM· 0 comment

Bycicle Built For Two Thousand

In the Award Ceremony of both the transmediale Award 2010 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010, a Distinction worth 2,000 Euros was given to Aaron Koblin - DLD 2010 artist - and Daniel Massey for their work Bicycle Built // more


Lukas Kubina· 11/02/10 · 10:44 AM· 0 comment

Special Offer: Accelerate the world of internet video automatically

Special offer to dld-conference.com visitors only: Enjoy SpeedBit Video Accelerator premium, the award winning software that makes YouTube buffering go away, as featured on DLD 2010, at 75% discount for the first year ($9.99 instead of $39.90) ONLY for dld-conference.com // more


Artur Schmidt· 10/02/10 · 11:04 AM· 0 comment

Localized Internet

The New York start-up foursquare is at the forefront of a new web-hype: location-based services that link information and communication with the current location of the user. A fundamental function for the localization of the web is the "check-in": users // more


Lukas Kubina· 09/02/10 · 05:18 PM· 0 comment

A hackers perspective

Pablos Holman, notorious hacker and inventor at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, is talking about the state of security. The DLD speaker 2010 shares his unique view into both breaking and building new technologies in an NZZ interview. "I have never seen // more


Lukas Kubina· 09/02/10 · 04:36 PM· 0 comment

Humanitarian Aid and Social Media

In the context of the tragic natural disaster in Haiti, Yves Daccord - General Director of the Red Cross - adresses a video message to the DLD community. Embedded in Claudia Gonzalez' keynote, his message stresses the importance of social // more


Lukas Kubina· 09/02/10 · 03:12 PM· 0 comment

Happy Birthday Hubert Burda

DLD Chairman Hubert Burda turns 70 today. The DLD community wishes you happy birthday and many more birthdays to bring you delight. Below you can watch birthday messages from the DLD community. // more


Artur Schmidt· 09/02/10 · 10:17 AM· 3 comment

Talking iPad

Charlie Rose had The Wall Street Journal/All Things D's Walt Mossberg, The New York Times' David Carr and TechCrunchs' Michael Arrington on his show to discuss the Apple iPad. Four excellent journalists, one red-hot topic, enjoy! // more


Lukas Kubina· 09/02/10 · 10:00 AM· 0 comment

Customized Browsers and Data Security

"Browsers are likely to become something like a concierge, a personal secretary, a virtual self." says Mitchell Baker, leader of the Mozilla Project and this years Aenne-Burda-Prize winner. In an interview with Zeit Online, she is sketching out her vision // more


Lukas Kubina· 08/02/10 · 06:36 PM· 0 comment

Social Media transform humanitarian work

The Atlantic Community interviewed the former head of Public Relations and Special Projects of the UNHCR, Claudia Gonzalez at DLD 2010. She explains how social media raise awareness and establish communication platforms for those suffering through humanitarian crises. Twitter, YouTube, // more


Lukas Kubina· 08/02/10 · 02:17 PM· 0 comment

Social Media Challenges International Organizations

The Atlantic Community interviewed Jeff Jarvis at DLD10 on how Social Media challenges international organizations: The internet is putting power in the hands of global citizens. Large international organizations are missing opportunities to harness that power to improve relations with // more


Artur Schmidt· 08/02/10 · 10:37 AM· 0 comment

Why Do We Care about Disruption?

At the DLD10 Conference we have featured a discussion on "Disruption". Four disruptive entrepreneurs (Jimmy Wales, Niklas Zennström, Mitchell Baker and Yossi Vardi) discussed what disruption is all about. On the Harvard Business Review website you can read some additional // more


Artur Schmidt· 05/02/10 · 03:37 PM· 0 comment

Spotify's International Expansion

Spotify chief executive and DLD 2009 speaker Daniel Ek commented the much-anticipated, much-delayed U.S. launch of Spotify. In an interview with Billboard's Glenn Peoples, Daniel said the company is having extensive conversations with artists and managers as well as labels // more


Lukas Kubina· 04/02/10 · 06:20 PM· 0 comment

DLD Special on "The European"

The European, a new independent online news platform conducted several interviews at the DLD Conference in Munich. Here you can watch following interviews: Randi Zuckerberg on Facebook, its role in politics, future initiatives and monetization Jimmy Wales on the wikipedia // more


Artur Schmidt· 04/02/10 · 02:17 PM· 0 comment

The Internet Revolutionizes Politics

Social media is becoming an increasingly powerful political tool. People are using Facebook to express their opinions on politics and to reach out to policymakers, says David Kirkpatrick, technology journalist and author of an upcoming book on Facebook (The Facebook // more


Artur Schmidt· 03/02/10 · 02:23 PM· 0 comment

Social Networks for Things

ReadWriteWeb features DLD's "Internet of Things" discussion in an article called "Social Networks for Things". Read the full story here or watch the DLD session on our video platform. // more


Artur Schmidt· 02/02/10 · 01:51 PM· 0 comment

Through the eyes of a DLD10 participant

Renee Blodgett (magicsaucemedia) attended the DLD conference in Munich from January 24 - 26, 2010. Here and here you can read more about her impressions she took back home to San Francisco. // more


Artur Schmidt· 02/02/10 · 12:06 PM· 1 comment

Andrian Kreye's thoughts on internet and culture

DLD10 speaker Andrian Kreye shares his thoughts on internet & culture in yesterday's feuilleton of Süddeutsche Zeitung. Read the article here // more


Artur Schmidt· 02/02/10 · 11:45 AM· 0 comment

Google as an operating system for online advertsing?

DLD10 speaker Nikesh Arora has been interviewed by Holger Schmidt, Economic Editor at F.A.Z. Nikesh Arora, who is President, Global Sales Operations & Business Development, talks about google's display advertising strategy and its mobile plans. You can read the interview // more


Artur Schmidt· 02/02/10 · 10:57 AM· 0 comment

All DLD10 Conference Video Content available

All DLD10 Conference sessions have been recorded and are available on our video platform. There you can also find the entire video archive of previous DLD conferences. Moreover, you can also watch any session on your mobile. Just type in // more


Artur Schmidt· 01/02/10 · 04:56 PM· 0 comment

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