It seems that you can no longer hide apps in the facebook newsfeed (as in “hide all posts from this app”): Can’t say I’m a big fan of this. FB will argue they prune the newsfeed anyways (you only see about 2% of all posts from friends), but it’s a pretty obvious move towards pushing more apps […]
Author Archives: Philipp
Some links – after a long long time…
You should read these: The iPod Nano Watch Is Here and It Is Glorious – Is this cool or what? Now get it some Wifi and foursquare checkins (actually, a whole new category of passive iOS apps, BTing into your iPhone data connection) and I am really sold. The Man Who Makes Your iPhone – […]
Working from home
I work quite a bit from home – both because I can and because lots of things come up during the weekend/evenings. We have a mantra of “when it gets done, it doesn’t matter where you are” at Seedcamp, so I just stay home some days to focus (and have music pumping all day). The key […]
Facebook was big before you knew it was
Gigaom has some cool facts about Facebook from October 2005: Facebook by the numbers, Oct. 26, 2005: 5 million users 5.5 billion page views in the month of September 2005 The three stats Zuckerberg said he cared about: 70 percent of users come back daily, 85 percent come back weekly, 93 percent monthly Over 20,000 […]
The 10x problem
Today, manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is about 166,000, lower than it was before the first PC, the MITS Altair 2800, was assembled in 1975 via Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs – BusinessWeek. Heard about this piece on ‘this week in venture capital‘ – the best podcast I listen to – […]
It’s oh so quiet
Cause I am busy having a blast preparing Seedcamp Week. I can not describe how much fun, work, and emails I have. I stopped drinking coffee for a week because I am high on adrenaline. One apt description is that the people who were showing up in my feedreader are now in my email inbox, […]
Tech support lifehacks
I worked for Mercedes Benz’ excellent customer service program during my undergrad. It was a fun job with great colleagues and I learned a lot from it. I derive massive lifehack value from these times until today, because it is actually quite easy to make customer service work for you (not the people, but the […]