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Kevin Wammer

Kevin Wammer

Kevin is from Cologne. You can find Kevin’s tweets at and website at www.procrastinate.de.

Vicenarian, Pentalinguist, Half-Blood, Geek, Blogger, Student, Tech Aficionado, Journalist, and so much more...

Kevin Wammer
Facebook is filled with people I barely know, chain-emails and disaster news about the sky falling that reminds me of my own past as well as my “friends” at every turn. The Internet is here today and all about tomorrow, and I prefer my social media to reflect that, and that’s why I love Twitter.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Kevin Wammer But it still seems as if Twitter doesn't really care about this fact. All they want us to do is to connect with brands. BRAAAAANDS!

    December 1, 2012
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“Werden Sie im nächsten Jahr NOCH mehr Blogger einladen?” Hört sich stark nach der Angst an, bei der nächsten Präsentation keinen Platz mehr abzubekommen. Und tatsächlich bestätigen mir einige Printkollegen im späteren Gespräch, dass es in der klassischen Schreiberriege eine steigende Bersorgnis gibt, wir könnten ihnen in Zukunft irgendetwas wegnehmen. Schade eigentlich, das ist doch gar nicht unser Ziel.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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Live in the future, then build what's missing.
Estimated reading time: 30 min
Recited from Marcel Wichmann
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And maybe that's the real reason behind all of this: the less time I spend trying out some new or improved app, the less time I spend tinkering with settings or worrying if Dropbox or iCloud is the better synching solution, the less time I can spend with my eyes glued to a 3" glowing rectangle, means more time I can spend doing things that really matter. Like writing an essay, building a fort with my kids, or enjoying a glass (bottle) of wine (whiskey) with my wife. It's that simple.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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Aber es soll den Leser ermutigen sich nicht zu sehr mit der Note aufzuhalten, sondern sich viel mehr mit dem eigentlichen Rezensionstext zu beschäftigen, denn da steckt die meiste Arbeit des Journalisten drin. Falls derjenige auch gut schreiben kann, ist zusätzlich noch der ein oder andere Lacher dabei. Plus sie sind oftmals informativ und Dinge wissen, ist nie verkehrt. Die Wertung ist nur ein langer Arm des Textes, der ohne seinen Körper leider nichts wert ist.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Kevin Wammer Bewertungen, Benotungen, Reivew-Scores... Alles kaputt!

    November 23, 2012
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He picked up a pen and crossed out “CEO” scribbling over it “unemployed.”
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Kevin Wammer This is a different kind of story. It's not about success. It is about failure.

    November 21, 2012
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The next time someone asks what you do, don’t tell them you’re working on a startup — tell them you’re working on a business. Maybe “business” isn’t as sexy as “startup,” but at least it’ll still be around in three years to continue being unsexy.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Kevin Wammer Build a business, not a startup

    October 24, 2012
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Nun ist den Springer-Blättern ihr investigativer Erfolg zu gönnen, doch der taktische Nachteil für die Mannschaft, auch wenn sie gewann, lag auf der Hand.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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    Kevin Wammer Qualitätsjournalismus Bild. Den Sieg der eigenen Nationalmannschaft gefährden, nur um der "Erste" zu sein!

    June 24, 2012
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The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Kevin Wammer Studien zeigen, dass Menschen die 2 Sprachen beherrschen durchschnittlich "intelligenter" sind. Was ist wenn man 5 Sprachen fließend beherrscht?

    March 21, 2012
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In the midst of the arrests, the FBI seized a whole lot of Megaupload’s assets, including 10 Mercedes Benz cars, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and an impressive collection of 65 to 108-inch TVs.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Kevin Wammer Und soll mal einer sagen mit dem Internet verdient man kein Geld!

    January 24, 2012
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On Tuesday, Iranian Radio Payam reported that a local company is manufacturing a toy version of the stealth drone one eightieth of its size that will be shipped to the White House.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
Kevin Wammer
Commenting leaves a lot of baggage that we simply don’t have the time maintain, and that’s not a good thing for us or our readers. Instead of putting readers in danger by failing to moderate a malicious link, or failing to moderate an offensive opinion, we’re simply going to remove comments and leave commenters the choice of using Twitter or their personal blogs to write informed and well spoken opinions that our comments section doesn’t provide room for.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Kevin Wammer Das Team hinter Macstories.net hat sich dazu entschieden, bei ihrem nächsten Update die Kommentarfunktion abzuschalten. Gut gemacht!

    January 5, 2012
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We aren’t born racist.  We aren’t born knowing what to value and what to devalue.  In fact, babies aren’t born knowing how or what to pay attention to.
Estimated reading time: 12 min
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    Daniel Rottschalk Then again, we're actually not born with speech. Yet language is hard-coded into our brains. Imagine 20 babies that survive a shipwreck to miraculously grow into adulthood on a deserted island. This survivor society will most likely use its own language for communication.

    What now if that same society chanced upon outsiders for the very first time? Further suppose that the newcomers brandished in-concealable traits (e.g. skin or hair color) that gave away their outsider status. What would the invisible field scientist observe?

    My take is that racism may not be in-born, but stereotyping is. We cannot "fight" racism (or drug-abuse, or terrorism, or obesity) by distilling complex scenarios and relationships into over-simplified boxes of received wisdom.

    We can, however, choose (more)to foster positive alternatives (tolerance, curiosity, life-long learning, mindfulness) within our own circle of influence (starting with ourselves, our families, the community we are part of and, ultimately, society at large).

    January 13, 2012
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    Daniel Rottschalk Francis Collins as quoted in The Economist: »The downside of using race is that we are reifying it as if it has more biological significance than it deserves. Race is an imperfect surrogate for the causative information we seek. To the extent that we continue to use it, we are suggesting to the rest of the world that it is very reliable and that racial categories have more biological meaning than they do. We may even appear to suggest something that I know is not true: that there are bright lines between populations and that races are biologically distinct.« ( www.economist.com/node/6795348)

    January 14, 2012
Kevin Wammer
Except in a few cases, which I'll explain, the apps that appear in the multitasking bar are not currently running. When you press the home button, iOS will tell the app to quit. In almost all cases, it quits, it stops using CPU time (and hence battery) and the memory it was using is eventually recovered if required.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Kevin Wammer Selbst nach mehreren Jahren iOS war ich mir nicht 100 prozentig sicher, wie der Multitasking Tray funktioniert. Jetzt schon!

    January 2, 2012
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What really made me change my mind about offering freemium was when I sent a thank you email a couple of days ago to everyone who used the site this Christmas. Many free customers flagged the email as spam!
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Kevin Wammer Tyler Nichols erzählt, weshalb er nichts mehr kostenlos anbieten wird.

    January 2, 2012
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