michael reuter

Is Web Design a Matter of Taste?

Today we decided on the new webdesign. Did not expect that to happen during my lifetime so I am pretty relaxed now. Is design a matter of taste? Most people would say yes I assume. Or is there a good / bad design? Yes, sure there are good and bad designs - you might reply. But - who is right? Isn't there the one and only authority of design? Please - help ;-)

Keep looking

glumbert - THX for the Eyes

This loris is looking at YOU!

People fail sometimes

Again a nice piece: the failblog - a collection of pictures of people who fail - like we all do sometimes. And - some Schadenfreude permitted.

Web 2.0 at its finest: User Generated Diploma Thesis on YiGG

YiGG user @kartmann uses YiGG to create a User Generated Diploma Thesis. He asks the community to vote on six different proposals or to suggest another one. Cool.

Pregnancy Tips

Haha .... being myself a father of two those pregnancy tips made my day.

What happens to a Blog Post?

Wired has this fantastic visualization of the cycle of a blog post.

In Economic Downturn: Look forward

There's a lot of gloomsaying these days - not only in the banking scene or at Wall Street. The internet, web 2.0 and all new start-up business model seem - again - to be on a knife-edge. VCs are mulling over high evaluations - start-ups are being told (again) to become more humble. Since it's always easy to join the club of doomsayers at the right time the 'Look-Forward-post' of Fred Wilson should be seen as today's highlight. Fred encourages us to

assess what is working and what is not working in your business or your portfolio. Focus on the basics. Keep your costs down. Finance your company (or companies) intelligently and most importantly with money that will be around when you are no longer the high flyer darling of Techcrunch.
But don't look backward for the right model to follow. Look forward.

Thanks, Fred.

McCain: Putin, President of Germany

It' a matter of fact that for women there are glass ceilings everywhere. They have to fight hard to make it to the top. But even being there they must realize how lonely it is: Poor Angela Merkel....
Wait a second - did McCain say President? Ah - that changes everything: Poor Horst Köhler...

Conferences, the future of....and confirming evidence

Reading twitter and blogs on the DLD and Davos conferences I am wondering about the correlations between people looking into the future and the future itself. To be more precise: At DLD in Munich Ashish Patel of Intel, Morten Lund, Simon Levene of Accel and Philipp Freise of KKR discussed the future of investing. The panel was very entertaining (thanks to host Martin Varsavsky) and inspiring because of the people, but not because of new findings and/or daring predictions. Most of the contents on conferences you also could read in newspapers, blogs etc. Isn't there too much of confirming evidence? Especially when a certain breed sits together as is the case at every conference?

YiGG with new Eventblogging feature

Today we launched our new Eventblogging feature. We invite Bloggers to blog live from fascinating events. All blog posts will be aggregated in a special group Eventblogging and will be featured on YiGG homepage.