Feb 4, 2009
One great pleasure of Davos and DLD this year was hanging out with uber-blogger Jeff Jarvis. He has a great sense of humor, outlook and fantastic new book that I read on the flight back to Hong Kong: What Would Google Do? In his book, Jeff does an intellectual road test of what a variety
Jan 28, 2009
Nora Abousteit co-founded BurdaStyle – an open source fashion design website – and expresses her artistic flair as a Graphic Designer for hikarufuruhashi.com. Now based in New York, Nora has lived in Egypt, doing Middle Eastern studies at the American University in Cairo and later working in Business Development and Corporate Marketing for a Kuwaiti
Jan 27, 2009
When not updating his buzzmachine blog or writing a media column for The Guardian newspaper, Jeff Jarvis is a professor and director of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. In the course of these activities he has lately been thinking a lot about What Would Google Do – so much so
Jan 27, 2009
Mike Butcher is the European editor of TechCrunch, which was recently named best Web 2.0 and business blog in the UK. He specialises in the coverage of Enteprise Technologies, software, gadgets and social media. In July 2008 Mike was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry the UK
Jan 26, 2009
Nora Abousteit, co-founder of the social media sewing website Burdastyle, offers the lessons learned from a recent uproar of users on the site. Burda Style, which I profiled three years ago in the IHT has been built out of the traditional but highly innovative German media company, Hubert Burda Media. (Burda organizes DLD, the conference
Jan 26, 2009
Conductor Itay Talgam leads attendees at DLD in a piece of group music by Ping Pong. The idea was to get all attendees in harmony before the conference. I can’t speak for the harmony, but Ben Hammersley was clearly gunning for a top 40 hit!
Jan 25, 2009
Esther Dyson, who is living in Russia’s Starcity for training to be a cosmonaut, describes next week’s lessons. The upcoming skillset includes learning what to do when you accidentally ditch your space capsule in the wilderness. Esther came down for the weekend to Munich and was presented with Hubert Burda media’s Aenne Burda Award.
Jan 25, 2009
In this video, leading new media thinker Jeff Jarvis speaks about some of the key themes in his book, What Would Google Do, which will be launched this Tuesday. Jarvis says that all companies need to start thinking more about what Google would do to their industry, and this includes industries as “old-line” as car
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
