Life, IT & the Rest

Interview with Zend about current “consolidation” and plans by Björn Schotte

Björn Schotte of php-magazine talked with Jürgen Langner, Global Marketing Director at Zend Technologies about recent sacked people in R&D and the current Zend roadmap.
Jürgen Langner said, that I is a goal of Zend to stand on own feet without more money by investors.
Interview Jürgen Langer on it-republik.de

Those men hit it: Aussies strike it rich with $15m Google buyout

Here is a little serenade for the Omnisio guys, 2 weeks old but still fair enough…

http://www.omnisio.com/liquid/dancing-liquid

Congratulations!

Gregg Pollack of RailsEnvy created an amazing Video of OSCON 2008 asking Speakers to sum up their point in 30s. Thats fast forward, guys, watch this Oscon in 37 minutes Freak show! The viddler.com video even has an index of speakers:

Keynoters Tim O’Reilly, Damien Conway, Tim Bray, Robert Lefkowitz, David Recordon, Nathan Torkington, and Danese Cooper….

Headliner Mark Shuttleworth on stage taken from Flickr

Some guys from the HdM Stuttgart did a nice TV documentation on “the” Web 2.0:

• barcamping
• Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
• Interviews (partially english) with
  • Alpha Geek Tim O’Reilly
  • Enterpreneur Peter Ambrozy
  • Blogger Oliver Gassner
  • and many many more web 2.0 “aware” people
• and you won’t believe it: economic background

The film was sponsored by dmc, Cisco & Otto, broadcasted in german TV on 3sat and ZDF. It will be “reloaded” tomorrow 31.07.2008 13.30h on ZDF-infokanal.

Have a lot of fun!

Links Background

• http://www.web2null-derfilm.de/
• http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/view_news?ident=news20080729173439
• http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/neues/sendungen/magazin/123704/index.html

Links Stream

• http://www.3sat.de/webtv/?080729_webzweinull_neues.rm
• http://de.sevenload.com/videos/nJE9sqq-Web-2-0-Der-Film

Yesterday at the OSCON 2008 in Portland the launch of the “Open Web Foundation” was announced. This is a solid approach towards Open Web standards

• TechCrunch news about the launch of the Open Web Foundation
• Open Web Foundation Members so far
• OSCON Slides of the Session by David Recordon

The small but nice T3N magazine on “Web 2.0, PHP, CSS, TYPO3, Linux” announced a press release by BITKOM that states, that “the business” starts to use bleeding edge technolgies like Blogs & Wikis for internal & external communication. It goes on starting with a funny situation

• The new technology came from private sector & community to the enterprise, inversing the typically direction
• Social Network features are more & more used to organize employees over geographical or organizational barriers
• 2/3 organisations using Web 2.0 technologies made “positive experience”
• The reasons “against Web 2.0″ were
  1. unclear benefits
  2. fear of unclear cost
  3. Security concers

I’d say: “we can work it out” :] Contact your local web guy!

Links:

• Yeebase News
• BITKOM Conference KnowTech 2008 Frankfurt am Main, 08.10.2008 - 09.10.2008
• BITKOM Press report about this study

Today I tell you “The secret to making money online”. It was blowed by David “Ruby on Rails” Heinemeier Hansson.
37signals://981-the-secret-to-making-money-online/

• Watch the integration of the slides in the video in the “dock”
• That guy talks about working 5h/day _really_ productive
• He says “take no Venture Capital, solve problems you know about, take your time”
• “Do a great app, set a price on it, (…care about your customer…) & make profit”
• “Don’t get lost trying for 1 Billion $, make a million”

By the way: You can roll your own Omnisio Presentation like this

http://www.omnisio.com/v/iSTLnTidjhG/dancing-liquid

on that side

http://omnisio.com/