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Google - The Silicon Valley Monolith

DLD friend Steven Levy explores Google's anatomy and looks under the hood of the legendary search engine in an article of the March 2010 edition of Wired Magazine. Browse through the concentrated juice of his exclusive look at the web's // more

Lukas Kubina· 17/03/10 · 10:50 AM· 0 comments

David de Rothschild - A very respectable adventurer

For three years he has waited for this moment - DLD-friend David de Rothschild will soon start his ocean crossing from San Francisco to Sydney. Why would a descendent of one of the most famous families plan a trip like // more

Marvin Barnie· 15/03/10 · 11:40 AM· 0 comments

Embrace the opportunities

Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the British Guardian, argues explicitly against paid content models on the Internet. His standpoint constitutes the counterpoint to the powerful proponents of paid content, such as Rupert Murdoch, Axel Springer Verlag, and the New York // more

Lukas Kubina· 15/03/10 · 11:15 AM· 0 comments

HULU CEO Jason Kilar interview

DLD-friend, -speaker and HULU CEO Jason Kilar recently gave an interview to Holger Schmidt where he spoke about the generation issue that regular TV is facing. The general audience that is watching TV is getting older because the younger generation // more

Marvin Barnie· 11/03/10 · 02:51 PM· 0 comments

Mel Rosenberg's DLD Impressions

Professor of Microbiology in the Human Microbiology Department, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, and the Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Mel Rosenberg, who attended the DLD Conference this January wrote a phenomenal blog entry a // more

Marvin Barnie· 05/03/10 · 09:42 AM· 0 comments

Glam among the world's 50 most innovative companies

In the march 2010 special issue of Fast Company, Glam Media was rated number 37 of the world's 50 most innovative companies. The vertically integrated women's network of blogs and magazines is among the most-trafficked Web properties in the US. // more

Lukas Kubina· 04/03/10 · 04:53 PM· 0 comments

Mercedes F800 Style - Envisioning the Future

Ever since their cars hit the market, Mercedes has been great at pairing efficiency with elegance. DLD Partner Mercedes-Benz has revealed its most recent master piece just a few days ago: The research vehicle F800 Style - a vehicle that // more

Marvin Barnie· 04/03/10 · 03:58 PM· 0 comments

The Hidary experiment

At DLD 2010, Jack Hidary conducted an unusual experiment. He set out to determine the nature of the social network of DLD attendees and the influence patterns across the network. It is the first time a conference of this scale // more

Lukas Kubina· 03/03/10 · 06:06 PM· 0 comments

Wired's secret

Since last autumn, Wired magazine has been studying how fresh thinking has been transforming businesses for the better. They tapped into an awesome pool of knowledge, consulting CEOs and startups, experts at Harvard Business School and the LSE, venture capitalists // more

Lukas Kubina· 03/03/10 · 01:56 PM· 0 comments

More Courage!

The experienced entrepreneur and investor Stefan Glänzer analyzes the deficits of the European structures in the digital arena. The DLD regular criticizes the underdeveloped eco-system for true innovation and the lack of courage of European players. Explore his diagnostics and // more

Lukas Kubina· 03/03/10 · 12:22 PM· 0 comments

Hans Ulrich Obrist interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung

This past weekend Süddeutsche Zeitung published a full page interview with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, who was moderating the "Maps"-panel (based on his still work-in-progress-book "Maps for the 21st century") at DLD10, which you can watch below. In the interview // more

Marvin Barnie· 02/03/10 · 12:34 PM· 0 comments

Well calculated

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

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