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Thoughts from my daily life

Journal

I post notes about imaginaries, music, photography, technology, my travels & everything else that comes to my mind. Posts are not necessarily connected to my work.

Selfridges

boomf @Selfridges

Do you remember boomf? It’s your instagrams on marshmallows! I came across them last year in June and they seem to be quite popular these days. Just before Valentine’s Day, I spotted them at Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. Basically, they offered a special Valentine’s Day special, allowing you to upload your favourite photos to their system on a local wifi to get them printed on marshmallows, cupcakes or macarons. Also, you could choose from some preselected stock photos if you happen to […]

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Where have you cried in San Francisco? - 1

Where have you cried in San Francisco?

San-Francisco: When you tell your story to others you provide also the wisdom of your life to our human community. This digital storytelling collection by IDEO team member Ann-Marie Alcantaratakes place in San Francisco/ Bay Area. “Where have you cried in San Francisco?”. Actually, real deep. PS: The last story will kill you. (1m notes = megadeath)

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TOTO XIV

Upcoming new Album from Toto – Toto XIV

Toto is working in a new album, TOTO XIV. The whole album goes on sale on March 20 2015. Also, Toto are on tour in 2015. Their tour dates are updated regularly. “The new album is a realized vision three plus decades in the making exhibiting world-class musicianship, masterful arrangements, topical lyrical commentary, and melodies that the collective genius of Lukather, Paich, Porcaro, Williams and their assembled band-mates bring to life. TOTO XIV is the band’s first album of new material since […]

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Case Study - Google Apps for Business im Einsatz bei Scholz & Friends

Case Study – Google Apps for Business

While working at the international agency network Scholz & Friends, I implemented Google Apps as a SaaS business solution within the entire network across various locations all over Europe for 1200 users in 2010. Google created a case study with Scholz & Friends and published it on their success stories page dedicated to the German market in 2011. Among other clients such as GE, Genentech, Qype, Radio.de, Salesforce and myTaxi, Scholz & Friends is one of the most prominent customers. The case study can […]

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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Why my iPhone 6 Plus won’t replace my iPad Mini after all

Personally, I was absolutely certain I would buy the iPhone 6 when I went to the Apple Store a few months back. For sure, I didn’t want a bulky mini tablet for a phone… so the iPhone 6 Plus was out of the question. When I first tried the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, they both seemed huge in comparison to my outdated iPhone 5S. None of the two I could operate with one hand, reachability feature or not.  For […]

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FAST FORWARD IMAGING - Neumacher Award 2014

FAST FORWARD IMAGING wins Neumacher Gründerwettbewerb 2014

FFWI wins Neumacher Gründerwettbewerb 2014 – Congrats to FAST FORWARD IMAGING and the entire team. How incredibly cool is that. Even more reasons to try their awesome automatically cropped 360° hi-res product photography solution.

DISCLAIMER: FFWI is a company I am involved with as a managing director.

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Pull, Merge, Push – Online Music Collaboration

When I tried Composer the other day, I especially liked the approach they took on collaboration between musicians. They really seem to think of it like working with repositories when it comes to managing input from different sources and keeping track of revisions etc. Source: Online Music Collaboration, https://www.composrapp.com November 16 2014 So maybe there’s is github for musicians in the making, or at least there should be. What they really should do is, is provide an environment to share and collaborate […]

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Composr

Composr – Online Music Collaboration

Composr – Online Music Collaboration

Although I think the idea for this app is absolutely awesome, I am not quite sure what to make of it. In the end, for something real the app just lacks the functionality of any basic recording setup. Also in chrome the performance is pretty poor, even the metronome is laggy… I did’t try the iOS App I must admit. Collaboration is nothing new to music production although I admit, it is hard to find people to collaborate with on the internet. Once you find them, I suppose it is easier to work with conventional solutions like Logic or GarageBand etc. and share files and projects via Dropbox or Google Drive.

Leica - 100 exhibition

Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography

For true Leica aficionados or anyone who is in interested in the evolution of 35mm photography and the 100 year history of Leica photography, there is an exhibition at the Hamburg Deichtorhallen you don’t want to miss: EYES WIDE OPEN! 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY October 24, 2014 − January 11, 2015. A truly superlative Leica exhibition has opened at the Haus der Photographie at Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen. In addition to showing 500 photographs, there are technical exhibits, films 
and much more to attract […]

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