Monthly Archive for February, 2007

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Web 2.0 panel talk

Published on February 4, 2007 in Tech. Closed Tags: , , , .

This was posted already on several weblogs, but still it’s worth mentioning: an excellent panel talk at the World Economic Forum in Davos about

The rapid rise of online social networks is both a social and business phenomenon, the impact of which is only beginning to be understood. The consumer-powered Web 2.0 creates innovative ways for businesses to operate and people to communicate.

1. What is driving the emergence of virtual communities? Is the rapid rise in their valuations justified?
2. How are companies beginning to use social networking strategies for product and market development, as well as for communication?

Discussants:

  • Caterina Fake, Founder, Flickr, USA
  • William H. Gates III, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, USA
  • Chad Hurley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, YouTube, USA
  • Mark G. Parker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nike, USA
  • Viviane Reding, Commissioner, Information Society and Media, European Commission, Brussels
  • Dennis Kneale, Managing Editor, Forbes Magazine, USA

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EULAs

Published on February 2, 2007 in Tech. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .

Parallels is making it around some news sites today, for mainly two reasons:

  1. Parallels 2.5 RC2 is out and brings again some improvements, and
  2. Microsoft’s VISTA EULA forbids running of Windows Vista Home versions in virtualization environments such as Parallels, while allowing an install under BootCamp. Isn’t that weird? Btw, Apple’s EULA apparently contains very similar things about virtualization of Mac OS X…

After the update of my Parallels installation I found out that in Coherence mode I can drag&drop files between Windows Explorer and Mac OS X Finder even from and to external drives not visible in Windows. Pretty cool, didn’t know it before. I always shut down Windows, added the drives to my Parallels Windows set-up and rebooted Windows again to access them.

Citizens against global warming

Published on February 1, 2007 in Other. Closed Tags: , , , , .

Don’t forget to turn off all electrical lights and appliances today at 19:55 CET (find it in your time zone) for 5 minutes and take part in a world-wide initiative to raise awareness for climate change.