Here in Ticino they pay homage to white Merlot. I tried it now several times but still it’s the opposite of what I understand as a decent white wine. But then I might be biased.

The German Society for Computer Science will held a workshop in September in Munich. The call is out. They are aiming at “a good mixture of theoretical and practical research”. That’s probably one of the reasons I’m on the program committee.

Informatik 2008: : ” The workshop on digital social networks will analyze these issues from theoretical and practical points of view. Contributions are solicited on these topics:

• Methods for analyzing digital social networks and social interaction
• Social networking services and social software
• Trust, reputation, authentic contents and social control in digital networks
• Applications, services and APIs on social portals
• Search engines for people, trend analysis and prognosis on social portals
• Special graph properties in social networks
• Technical modeling of social structures
• Business cases and economic evaluation of digital social networks
• Legal and social aspects of online communities
• Social networks and games
• Technical questions in digital social networks
• Security, privacy, identity protection and media usage in social portals
• Interoperability, data exchange and data synchronization in social portals
• Personalization and adaptation to user preference
• Case studies, if they exhibit unique feature”

Brief reflection on what’s going on in the mobile space. Since I’m with Playyoo - a mobile gaming platform - that’s something we think about every minute. Still not easy.

Will D2C drive mass market content consumption?: “The mobile web is making off-portal content more compelling to consumers. But I’m not sure I agree that direct-to-consumer will be the primary driver of mass market content consumption.”

I found these lately:

• tweetpeek - twitter groups
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• Reverse lookup for country code 63 -
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• Reverse lookup for country code 63 -
  Tags:telephone country_codes
• post-thumb-revisited -
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• ScreenFlow -
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• Photonic: A Flickr desktop client for Mac OS X - recommended only if you don’t use iPhoto with it’s Flickr exporter.