Stephanie Czerny, the host of the DLD and Maria Furtwängler-Burda, Hubert Burda’s wife who is hosting the upcoming panel “Woman Power”
This morning was an intense one: starting with a glorious chat with René Seifert,  a true global citizen who provides the ground with his company Level 360 in India on two major areas: Globalization and Web 2.0, also being an angel investor in companies in the media/tech-space, he seems to be at the same time everywhere else in the world (get a glimpse of his world tours here).
Just shortly afterwards …

Outside of Pinakothek der Moderne
First day of DLD always means to feel like being back in childhood when Sundays still felt like Sundays: blue sky, an incredible beautiful and empty Hofgarten where I walk through on my way to Pinakothek der Moderne where we have a date with its major design curator of “Die Neue Sammlung“, Dr. Corinna Rösner, will give us a private tour around one of the world’s leading museums of 20th century applied art, and indeed the largest of industrial design.

It is such a pleasure to start …

Gestern war ich aufgeregt. Es passiert schließlich nicht alle Tage, dass prestigeträchtige Awards Berlin besuchen. Und da es sich dabei um die Auftaktveranstaltung der Webby Awards handelte, und diese wohlgemerkt den „Oskar des Internets“ vergibt und an Orten wie diesem …

Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel
… zur Verleihung dieser hohen Würde lädt, ja, mein Gott, da darf ja wohl das Glamourseelchen ein wenig zittern.

Nun ja, gezittert hat es dann nicht, aber dafür ordentlich fremdgeschämt.
Aber von vorn:
Zu Beginn war alles gut. In die Bar Tausend gehen wir ja alle immer gern, und …

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Take this: a supermodel, inventing new media into fashion, building a successful company around it and manage to stay one of the hottest models and, as a little side job, become a loved one in the underground art scene for being a great MOBILE artist.
Impossible? Not. Here comes Anina. I met her at LeWeb08 where Anina’s red hair would seem to glow everywhere, always on the run for interviews, such as the one she did with Marissa Mayer from Google talking with her about her personal …

1700 participants from all over the world. Some “little” difficulties with fulfilling the basic needs like getting warm, getting something to eat and having some w-LAN at an internet conference. I guess Loïc Le Meur’s heart had a pretty stressfull time behind the scenes.
Loïc Le Meur
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But it seems that LeWeb’s fascination did not suffer. Thousands of blog entries summed it up: participants would fly home, after freezing, being constantly hungry, but very happy with especially one thing: opportunities! As Ewan Spance brings it to the point, LeWeb is the …

I already feel like a real Parisienne this morning when I am running down “my” street at the wonderful République, wearing a really French style hat and hopping on the métro to head to LeWeb again. Not sure, if these drinks last night at the mySpace Party in the illustrious Palais Maillot were really good for the look of freshness but they helped to deal with my electronic seeking ears which, of course, would not get what they were longing for this night.

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Ok, but let’s get back to business. …

Paris in winter feels kind of the same as Berlin does. NOT nice. But I ignore the mean cold wind as I am on my way to le web which is to be said the biggest web conference in Europe. Looking at the programme it feels it is also the one with the strongest focus on technology. Urgh. At least they try to add a little bit of content, presenting “love” as the overall theme. Will see how lovely this turns out to be. I will do my very best …

Ha! Ich wusste, dass Gefühl irgendwann Ratio auch businessmäßig überholen wird.
Ich persönlich bin wahnsinnig gut im Umwerfen von durchaus durchdachten Plänen für den Tag, wenn ich mich plötzlich so ganz anders fühle und demzufolge sofort und auf der Stelle andere Stimuli brauche als angedacht. Nein, nein, das ist nicht hedonistisch, nur natürlich…und bringt mich zur Verzweiflung, wenn ich dann nicht weiß wohin. Weil die Stadt da draußen zufälligerweise gerade Teil des Wochenendtrips ist. Natürlich könnte ich mich in das am Tag zuvor entdeckte Café der örtlichen Bohème begeben und stilsicher …

New. Now. Different. Better. Unique…innovation is the key for our hectically breathing 21st century. But the time when hecki techi engineers developed new amazing products in their mystic labors has passed.
With the rise of  social media, innovation was suddenly driven by…the mass (uuhhh…). Which turned out to be a good one for creativity: It would finally get the full infusion of ideas which would be shared and shared and shared.

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“Turn users into producers and consumers into designers” (Charles Leadbeater at TED) is the message which brings innovation on a …

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Wenn das Seelchen da drin nach Streicheleinheiten ruft, und Berlin da draussen manchmal ganz schön drauf haut, dann geh zum kuchenduftigsten Ort in dieser Stadt mit dem weltbesten Kaffee. Hilft. sehr.
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