Lots has happened in the past few weeks in which I have not blogged here so I’m back with the latest news out of my life. The biggest event in my life to date occured September 21st when I married my girlfriend Maike in Hamburg. It was a wonderful celebration with many great moments. My […]

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Well, this site is still around even though it is being used a lot less than before. All of my extra work is still flowing into Europeskate.com, Give Earth a Hand and Socialbitz. Currently a lot of that was based on Europeskate as the feedback has been enormous and you have to keep up with […]

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I’ve been working a lot on growing the Europeskate site and feedback has been coming in, now even from people at the local skatepark which is good sign. Still planning on geting the community larger, integration of videos and a gallery and new sections about music, people and companies/stuff. So that will continue to grow […]

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I have been investing a lot of time into getting my new project (SocialBitz.com) up and working. The Joomla CMS is very interesting to work with and there are many plug-ins and quirks that have to be looked at, integrated into the back-end and tweaked to fit in to the working site. It is exciting […]

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It has been yet again a while since my last update but this is probably the first time I am not coming up with ideas about why I haven’t been blogging here.
The reason is that I have been working hard on my three main sites: Europeskate.com , Give Earth a Hand and SocialBitz.com
It goes without […]

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Google Gears is an open source browser plugin which allows users to work with applications bothe offline and online. Developers will be able to use the API to create applications using the Javascript API. The plugin is supposed to be around 700 kb large and it will work with Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.
There […]

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MyBlogLog, a blog community interface system which was acquired by Yahoo earlier this year, has introduced a tagging functionality for their users. If you have signed up, you can list your blogs which you run and meet other people who have blogs. The tagging allows the user to describe quickly what the main focus […]

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And I thought that mony was being thrown around in the years before the Internet bubble burst. When you read about the acquisitions going on by companies like Google, News Corp or Microsoft it almost makes me dizzy. Take a look at these facts and numbers:
- Microsoft acquires aQuantive for 6 billion dollars
- Yahoo is […]

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As I becoming more interested in learning about possible integrations for my own social network system, I keep on finding new and old tools and widgets which can be used. The question to be answered is: are they worthwhile and will the community take up the possibility to integrate these widgets in their page. That […]

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A new slider window application based on Prototype and the effects.js from Scriptalicious can be viewed and downloaded here. I like the slick movement of the windows and the possiblities to navigate easily between different content areas. I’ll be looking at this for a possible integration into the homepage over at Give Earth a Hand.
DoJo […]

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