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Everybody is talking about Web 2.0 nowadays. Contrary to public belief, I think it’s a good idea to give a different child a different name, i.e. naming what is going on as “Web 2.0″ is a good thing in order to differentiate it from the first Bubble. But I might have preferred to call it “Bubble 2.0″…

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Am Donnerstag, 20. April, veröffentlichte die Tagesschau.de (und viele andere Nachrichtenwebsites) unter der Überschrift: Gazprom droht EU mit Gas-Entzug:

Der russische Energieriese Gazprom hat der Europäischen Union mit einem Zudrehen des Gashahns gedroht, sollte der Expansionsdrang des Konzerns in der EU gebremst werden.

Seit Jahren (und nicht erst, seit dem unser Ex-Kanzler den russischen Präsidenten Vladimir Putin einen “waschechten Demokraten” nannte - mir zittern jedesmal die Knie, wenn ich überlege, wie sich Gerhard Schröder eigentlich einen “echten” Diktator oder Despoten vorstellt…) klingeln bei mir die Alarmglocken, wenn ich was aus Russland höre.

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There is lots of discussion regarding net neutrality these days. Most of the discussions comes from the proponents of Net Neutrality. They even contacted congress in order to get a legal solutions. How crazy can you be?

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One of the reasons why Video2000, a video-cassette system vastly superior to VHS and Betamax, wasn’t any commercial success at all was that they didn’t allow porn on V2000-cassettes - or so I remember.

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These days “Social Networking” is, to put it mildly, en vogue. Everybody wants to somehow do something with social networking. Of course, I am also member of OpenBC as well as LinkedIn. But still, I was always missing the more crucial usage of social networks, i.e. the usage for Knowledge Management. Here comes a company promising to solve that problem - finally.

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