Martin Weigert recommended Der Lehrling from spiegel.de:

Rösler steht in der Mitte der Besuchergruppe und schaukelt auf müden Beinen hin und her. Diekmann steht am Rand und hat Probleme mit seinem iPhone. Die Sonne steht hoch am Himmel, er kann das Display kaum erkennen. Er scheint Rösler nur als Ausschnitt wahrnehmen zu wollen, der in einen Bildschirm von vier Zoll passt.

Martin Weigert recommended Not Tonight, Honey, I Have a Penis from gq.com:

The sitcom stereotype goes like this: Guy is always horny, guy tries to have sex with girl, girl shoots him down. But as Siobhan Rosen tells it, the script's been flipped. And now there's an awful lot of young, perfectly sex-capable dudes who won't get off their asses to, well, get some

Martin Weigert recommended an article from zeit.de:

Auch zwanzig Jahre nach der Einführung des Browsers gilt das Netz den hiesigen Politikern nicht einfach als Alltagsmedium, sondern immer noch als Ausweis einer metaphysischen Zukunftskompetenz.

Martin Weigert recommended My one talk with Marissa Mayer from 4df.r2.ly:

When you sell your company, no matter what promises were made, you sold it. It's theirs now. They will do what they want to with it. Promises don't matter.

Martin Weigert recommended Selfie Swag! from thoughtcatalog.com:

That is what the selfie is! It marks a time when someone feels beautiful and self assured. When they are having fun and are not worried about the daily personal problems we all have to face. In a time when feelings of insecurity run high and people shy away, the selfie is an instant of boldness.

Martin Weigert recommended Yahoo! And Tumblr: It’s About Display, Streams & Native at Scale from battellemedia.com:

For now, Yahoo’s move gives it an asset that its branded display sales force can sell as sexy: native, content-driven advertising at scale.

Martin Weigert recommended Wer braucht schon Datenhalden? from fxneumann.de:

Lies: Was die Selbsthostfraktion für sich (und generalisierend für alle) als Freiheitsbeschränkung sieht, ermöglicht vielen erst, überhaupt das Netz als soziale Kommunikationsform zu nutzen. Nur weil etwas für mich Freiheitseinbuße bedeutet, heißt das nicht, daß eben dieses Niveau an Freiheit für andere nicht ein Freiheitsgewinn ist.

Martin Weigert recommended The A380 becomes mainstream, with 103 now in service: which airlines, destinations, stage lengths? from centreforaviation.com:

There are 103 A380s in service as of early May-2013. Emirates has 33 and Singapore Airlines has 19, so when assessing network scheduling, these two and their hubs predominate: of the 1,048 weekly A380 flights, 402 are from Emirates alone. Dubai and Singapore airport see the most A380 flights.

Martin Weigert recommended The truth behind testosterone: why men risk it all (Wired UK) from wired.co.uk:

The fundamental lesson is that there is no such thing as a pure human intellect that is not tainted by the hormonal waves and other signals that arise from the rest of the body.

Martin Weigert recommended How to build a travel industry giant in 3 years: 8 lessons f from whiteboardmag.com:

“You will find someone to acquire you or if you’re big enough, you can IPO. But building for an acquisition seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Because you’ll shape your company with that in mind, and you become dependent on a few players.

Martin Weigert recommended Bitte noch erfinden: WLAN-Scanner mit integriertem Aktenvernichter from neuerdings.com:

Man stelle sich das vor: Dokumente, die nicht für die Augen anderer bestimmt sind, werden durch den Aktenvernichter geschickt, davor kurz eingescannt und für uns in der Cloud oder auf dem heimischen Rechner gespeichert.

Martin Weigert recommended A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries from m.washingtonpost.com:

In only three of 81 surveyed countries, more than 40 percent of respondents said they would not want a neighbor of a different race. This included 43.5 percent of Indians, 51.4 percent of Jordanians and an astonishingly high 71.8 percent of Hong Kongers and 71.7 percent of Bangladeshis.

Martin Weigert recommended Jason Fried from thegreatdiscontent.com:

Every time I’ve seen people go down the wrong path, it’s because they’ve tried to do too much too early.

Martin Weigert recommended The Story of App Annie: Building A Company For The Mobile App Economy from techinasia.com:

While other data providers provide SDKs to track what’s happening for apps in terms of usage. At App Annie, Bertrand says that things are done different because it is connecting to the backend of the stores to get the data. To put it simply, App Annie works with Apple and Google directly.

Martin Weigert recommended Payment mit dem Dongle-Ding: Wer punktet am besten? from etailment.de:

Die Akzeptanz von Mobile PoS ist jedenfalls groß. Doch während Anbieter wie Payleven offensiv um Restaurants, Döner-Buden und Kioske kämpfen, gilt das Interesse der deutschen Händler weder dem US-Vorbild Square noch dem anderen Test-Primus iZettle sondern einem anderen Player.