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Many people ask how other twitter users can have so many updates a day. Do they have nothing else to do, only tweeting.

In my article”Combine twitter, friendfeed, twitterfeed and RSS” I described how to bring your blog or webpage articles automatically in twitter. Today I will show how to automatically retweet articles.

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Today I tried the new search engine bing.com beta from Microsoft. Something really special happened. Since my tries I don’t know who I am anymore. First I searched for one of my best buddies, his name is Boris Wollny and see what bing.com sent me as the picture result.
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Since today digg doesn’t allow shouting anymore. What was a “shout” ? If you submitted an article or you find a good article at digg you could share this article with your friends. For sharing the article you sent a “shout” to them. If you wanted to communicate with one of your friends you could sent him a “shout” (message).

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Since last day/night Wolfram Alpha is alive.  The big question about Wolfram Alpha was if this engine can outclass google. This morning I made my own first experiences with Wolfram Alpha. My first impression is that google and Wolfram Alpha are completely different. The following article will show my first attempts and the results.

After my first three questions to Wolfram Alpha I was totally disappointed about Wolfram Alpha.  Sure I handled Wolfram Alpha like google and I believe everybody will do that by the first try.  So my first question was

“cheapest mp3 player”

here the answer of  Wolfram Alpha
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Today I saw a interesting map on the page of informationarchitects.jp. The WEB Trend Map 2009. This japanese company publishes every year this map with the most important Internet domains and the most important Internet personalities. The nice idea was to map the domains and personalities on a map of the Tokyo subway system.
This year they mapped the 333 most important domains and the 111 most important personalities.

How to read the map:
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I started using the TAGME plugin a couple month ago. It was really fun to tag your friends and other people
with nice tags. You can decide that TAGME puts a tag cloud on your myspace page with the tags you get. For tagging they offer a kind of tag cloud where you can pick your tag for somebody or you can make a own one. See the example:
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that is what Mr. Mathias Döpfner, head of the Axel Springer publishing empire, said today in an interview.
The whole article in German here www.welt.de

I don’t think that Internet makes journalism better. There was always good journalism and bad journalism. There will always be people how want to read the junk stuff and there are always people who want to read professional researched articles.
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Dress your garbage can - It´s one of the greatest business ideas I have heard lately.
I now this has nothing to do with Web 2.0 , communication and social networks but I think this subject is worth to write about it.

So a couple of month a friend of my told me about this idea but I haven´t believe there is a market for it. But it´s true most people have their garbage cans in front of the house or in the garden. In Germany the garbage cans are black colored and all time you watch out of the windows you see the nasty garbage can in your wonderful lay out garden. So he started dress the cans. Here a few examples of covers :
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Many people ask how they can get a high frequency of tweets for twitter.com and feeds for friendfeed.com. In the same time they don´t know how to promote the own blog. The easiest way is to combine all services. At least you can post everything full automatically to you facebook.com and myspace.com page. Here I´ll show one way how to do it. The advantage of this way is, that even if you have no time to write something by yourself you always post news on all pages.
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Just imagine that were ever you are, you lift the receiver or you take your mobile phone and every call world wide is for free.
From my point of view itś absolutely possible. In this article Iĺl explain how it could work, why no phone company will back this idea and how a none phone company can make good business with this idea.
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