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Particle physics, the aria

The Boston Globe recently published an interesting Q&A with Harvard theoretical physicist and DLD speaker Lisa Randall who is collaborating with composer Hèctor Parra and artist Matthew Ritchie on a chamber opera project entitled "Hypermusic Prologue: A projective opera in // more


Bernd Hölzner· 22/12/08 · 04:32 PM· 0 comments

Socialmedian purchased by XING

Today XING founder and DLD-friend Lars Hinrichs announced the purchase of NY-based socialmedian Inc., a leading innovator in the online news industry. Socialmedian gathers information from about 19,000 sources, including social media services such as Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Flickr or // more


Bernd Hölzner· 19/12/08 · 03:47 PM· 0 comments

The new high-tech smithy

German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" recently wrote an extensive piece about Israeli innovation and start-up culture. Israel has become the "miracle country" for technology founders and developed to the second-largest high-tech smithy in the world after Silicon Valley. Ideas and // more


Jil Heinrigs· 15/12/08 · 06:12 PM· 0 comments

Technology enables Success

Without any doubt, technology is an important component for the economical success of a business. The technology to utilize depends on many factors like implementation speed, costs, process optimization, customer access etc. What technological solution can support the success of // more


Bernd Hölzner· 15/12/08 · 02:13 PM· 0 comments

Le Web '08

Yesterday European internet conference LeWeb started in Le104, Paris for two days full of panels, discussions and networking. Organized by our dear friends Loïc and Geraldine Le Meur, more than 1,800 guests signed up for this 5th edition to hear // more


Jil Heinrigs· 10/12/08 · 05:30 PM· 0 comments

WEF Technology Pioneers 2009

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced 34 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their ability as innovators and whose technologies will have a deep influence on business and society. Among the nominees is DLD Speaker Robert Kalin, // more


Jil Heinrigs· 08/12/08 · 02:29 PM· 1 comment

Ai Weiwei at Art Basel Miami Beach

Chinese artist and DLD Speaker Ai Weiwei installed a site-specific work of one hundred blue ceramic bubbles at Art Basel Miami Beach which opened yesterday. The Bubbles are spread over an area of 600 square meters on Watson Island. The // more


Jil Heinrigs· 05/12/08 · 01:18 PM· 0 comments

Human Rights Watch wins UN Prize

Human Rights Watch has won the 2008 United Nations Prize for Human Rights. The award will be bestowed in New York on 10 December 2008 -- the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- in recognition of // more


Bernd Hölzner· 04/12/08 · 11:20 AM· 0 comments

Huffington Post raises $25 million

Political news site "The Huffington Post" announced that it has raised $25 million from Oak Investment Partners, a California-based company. The HuffPo, as it is commonly called, also declared the appointment of Fred Harman, chief executive of Oak, to its // more


Jil Heinrigs· 03/12/08 · 04:38 PM· 0 comments

Rothenberg about Internet Display Advertising

Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and good DLD friend recently wrote on his blog about the future of online display advertising. The reason for his statement is the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for the second // more


Jil Heinrigs· 01/12/08 · 06:20 PM· 0 comments

Dercon: "Made in Munich" at Haus der Kunst

After stops in New York, Paris and Rotterdam, DLD friend Chris Dercon became successful director of "Haus der Kunst" Munich in 2003. In a recent interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung he spoke about art as a profession and which direction it // more


Jil Heinrigs· 26/11/08 · 02:54 PM· 0 comments

Social Internet

In a campaign ad for the Democratic Presidential nominee, Barack Obama told American voters that John McCain is a poor choice for the highest office in the US because he "doesn't know how to use a computer" and "can't send // more


Marcel Reichart· 25/11/08 · 04:33 PM· 0 comments

Shai Agassi to establish electric car network

Shai Agassi's electric car company Better Place will design America's first electric car network in the San Francisco Bay Area until 2012. The company plans to build a network of charging stations which will enable the drivers of its electric // more


Jil Heinrigs· 24/11/08 · 12:14 PM· 1 comment

Nonsphere installation by Luis Berrios Negrón

American artist Luis Rafael Berríos Negrón just created a new prototype of his so called 'Nonspheres'-Installation for the trendy design-boutique Joyce in Hong Kong. His recent project 'Nonsphere' is a reference to the Noosphere-concept of the Soviet naturalist Vernadsky who // more


Jil Heinrigs· 20/11/08 · 02:48 PM· 0 comments

Gizmodo Gallery: Apple Phone prototype by Hartmut Esslinger

On 4-7 December Gizmodo Gallery in NYC will show a historic selection of gadgets, rarely seen prototypes and artifacts -- among them an ancient Apple "Proto-iPhone". The phone includes a monochrome stylus touchscreen and was worked on by frog Design // more


Bernd Hölzner· 19/11/08 · 06:13 PM· 0 comments

Esther Dyson to train for space travel

Technology visionary, journalist and investor Esther Dyson is currently training for the ultimate travel experience: a private space flight with Space Adventures, the company that provides human space missions on the Soyuz spacecraft. Dyson who is already an investor in // more


Bernd Hölzner· 17/11/08 · 04:41 PM· 0 comments

David de Rothschild's voyage of the Plastiki

David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology and close friend of the DLD community, will depart in March 2009 on an new expedition: a 7,500-mile voyage from San Francisco to Sydney in a boat made of recycled materials, mostly plastic // more


Bernd Hölzner· 14/11/08 · 12:36 PM· 0 comments

Tobias Rehberger designing futuristic light-box

Frankfurt and Berlin based conceptual artist Tobias Rehberger designed a colorful light-box at the cafeteria of the new "Sueddeutscher Verlag" building in Munich which opened this week. His artistic work ranges from space installations and wall paintings to sculptures and // more


Jil Heinrigs· 12/11/08 · 12:37 PM· 0 comments

SEED sets science and design to talk

The last issues of Adam Bly's science magazine SEED featured some of our dear DLD friends, including Paola Antonelli who is a senior curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art and biologist Craig Venter. In a // more


Marcel Reichart· 11/11/08 · 07:00 PM· 0 comments

The need of diversification

How to beat the economic downturn, the world is facing? Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, the world's biggest advertising and marketing services conglomerate, gave answers at a Royal Television Society audience last week. Sorrell, speaker at DLD08, pointed out // more


Jonas Grashey· 07/11/08 · 05:25 PM· 0 comments

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