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Why Own It?

Thomas — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:20:44 +0000

Here is a new startup I like: Whyown.it. The name is pretty descriptive since it is about collaborative consumption. It's an app where people catalogue what they own and would be willing to lend. You connect your friend lists from Facebook and can find out what you can borrow from your friends. Simply idea, neatly done, I could take a look at the preview. I think sharing more physical stuff is a way of living more efficiently and resource friendly and a little step into solving the world's problem of excessive consumption. Respect and all the best to Phillip and his crew.

Testing the Quote.fm embed

Thomas — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:17:24 +0000

Nice, now quote.fm which becomes ever more important to me for finding interesting texts gets an embed feature. This will replace the "quote"-Style in blogs and make discussions about texts across platforms easier to collect and follow. Here is a fun one (in German):

Fußball - Bundesligen - Hauptstadt-Freizeittipps für BVB-Fans - Berlin, Berlin, was machen wir in Berlin?

»Ihr werdet schnell merken, Berlin ist gar nicht so cool wie alle immer sagen. Ganz im Gegenteil, Berlin ist ganz schön anstrengend. Wer es nicht glaubt, dem empfehlen wir eine gepflegte Partie »Berlin-Bullshit-Bingo«.«

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Why the bike lane is not always the safest place

Thomas — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:03:35 +0000

A guy gets fined for not riding his bike on the bike lane and shows us in the video why it is actually dangerous to ride on the bike lane. I feel with that guy. Not only have I been fined by police once for that (at 4am, in Göttingen, on a totally empty street, [...]

Dubstepping parrot

Thomas — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:22:07 +0000

I am so celebrating this. That guy is really feeling it. No cgi, just the pure effect of the music. I AM copying some moves from this dubstep crazy parrot. I know, it’s just a funny video, but it so needs to be on the Stylewalker blog. Thanks @herm for putting it on my wall.

Adventskalenderraten

Thomas — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:00:06 +0000

Jetzt wird gerätselt! Gesucht wird ein Bild in den Weiten des Internets. Jeden Tag erscheint dazu in einem anderen Blog ein Beitrag mit einem Hinweis. Hier geht’s zur Übersicht mit allen bisherigen Hinweisen. So wissen wir also schonmal, dass eine Person mit Zigarre und ein findiger Bursche involviert sind. Und hier ist der Hinweis für [...]

Man babies and terrifying easter bunnies

Thomas — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:56:00 +0000

Was es nicht alles gibt.. Terryfying easter bunnies (Click for more terrifying bunnies) Manbabies: GET MORE AT ManBabies.com!

Augmented Reality concert on a snack bag

Thomas — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:19:05 +0000

Doritos teamed up with several agencies (e.g. Mekanism and Proto) and Blink182 to present a concert on a snacks bag. In fall 2009, on www.doritoslatenight.com you could hold a marker printed on a Doritos bag into the webcam connected to a flash app that would recognize that code and put a concert video by Blink182 [...]

likemind Berlin april 09

Thomas — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:38:47 +0000

Likemind is a loose group aof people meeting up to enjoy coffee and conversation at an unusual time. Every third friday of a month, at 9 am, people meet and enjoy a sponsored coffee, talking about personal and project stuff, web-related and non-web-related. It started in NYC, founded by Piers and Noah and soon spread [...]

Wearable computer projects interactive display

Thomas — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:03:29 +0000

“Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done” [via Wired]

Fashionweek Berlin 09 Rückblick

Thomas — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:11:25 +0000

Als normaler Hauptstadtbewohner merkt man es kaum, höchstens wenn einmal ein schön gebrandeter Shuttle-Mercedes vorbei fährt oder der Mitbewohner mit prall gefüllten Taschen von der Bernhard Willem Show im Postbahnhof zurück kommt: Die Fashionweek war die letzten Tage in vollem Gang und neigt sich heute ihrem Ende zu. Zeit für einen kleinen Rückblick. (Bild von [...]

Café Solvey

Thomas — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:37:02 +0000

For the most time I have been in my current flat, the little store in the ground floor was filled with a computer store. The guys where nice, even had some hints for me from time to time but obviously they did not suceed with their business and closed last year. Some months later people [...]

P3000 Blogpost Widget from Sproutbuilder

Thomas — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:33:28 +0000

Greenhouse.sproutbuilder.com is an absolute blast. It’s a flash based widget builder which works entirely in your browser window and has a lot of editing features. Build sites with text, video, pictures, slideshows, maps, charts or insert RSS. Define size, fonts, colors, background, effects. Here are the most recent updates from the PANORAMA3000 blog in a [...]

Berlin Webweek begins

Thomas — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:25:19 +0000

The city is always crowded, especially on weekends but this time there will be internetsters from all over the world coming to Berlin to celebrate the “Berlin Web Week”. Just like on Sonar, many events have gathered around the Web 2.0 Expo taking place next week in Berlin. Wednesday night, the week started with a [...]

This weekend: Videoakt, Substance, Mediaspree

Thomas — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:50:19 +0000

This weekend in Berlin will see art, music, politics and overall a mashup of all: Friday night will see Substance, the biggest Dubstep party on the European continent so far, at Berghain, there is the big art festival Videoakt on friday and saturday where Stylewalker’s going to spin, and on sunday people living in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg [...]

Auch wenn mans nicht sieht..

Thomas — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:02:17 +0000

..aber hier hinter läuft jetzt WordPress 2.5.1. Muss ja auch mal gesagt werden. Und da ich grad so wenig Zeit zum Texten habe, schicke ich euch einfach mal auf ein paar nette Seiten, die können Traffic gebrauchen: Plurk Soundcloud Berlin Calling (ein geiler Film mit Paul Kalkbrenner von Hannes Stöhr, kommt aber erst im Oktober [...]

400 Onlinetools zum kreativ sein

Thomas — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:44:37 +0000

Komisch, dass mir diese Liste noch nicht untergekommen ist, aber ich will sie auf keinen Fall vergessen: Mashable’s 400 Online Tools für Fotos, Musik und Videos. Zum speichern, bearbeiten, teilen, abspielen, einbauen, mashen, und wahrscheinlich auch zum laser-3d-drucken.

Picnik

Thomas — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:10:33 +0000

Pic(k)nic(k) is not only a cool club in Berlin, Picnic is a great online tool for photo editing. So if you have no photoshop program at hand e.g. in an internet café or your flatmates mac, Picnic’s your choice (in the last case: mine).

Betterplace.org – ein Social Network mit gesellschaftlichem Engagement

Thomas — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:59:04 +0000

Überall wird über Kaioo geredet, eine Online-Community, die, wenn sie erstmal richtig brummt, ihre Werbeerlöse, nach Abzüge der Kosten und aufgeschlüsselt nach einem recht simplen zehn-Gewinner-take-it-all-Votingprinzip an gemeinnützige Organisationen verteilt. Das Ding kriegt massig Presse, zwei Ex-Bertelsmann-Manager sitzen im Vorstand und alle freuen sich, dass es nun eine “echte soziale Community” gebe. Dabei ist das [...]

Broder ist SPD-Fan

Thomas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:04:14 +0000

Und nebenbei fällt auf, dass Watchberlin nochmal ordentlich zugelegt hat, was User Experience, Interface und Surface und Underface-Design angeht. Mit anderen Worten, es flutscht und läuft und funktioniert (fast) alles. Hut ab. Update: Sowas, Watchberlin kommen nicht klar, erst hab ich ein hässliches De-Bug-Fenster auf meinem Blog und dann statt Broder Friedman im Film. Schade.

Frühstück

Thomas — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:51:04 +0000

“Seid ihr schon einmal morgens aus dem Haus gegangen, habt am nächsten Kiosk euch ein Bier geholt und damit zur Arbeit gegangen? - keine Panik. Ich auch nicht. Es fällt mir aber wieder auf, wie viele Leute das hier tun. Auch Mädels, die keine zwanzig sind. Dafür aber magersüchtig.” Simone Schlindwein, Spiegel-Korrespondentin in Moskau bloggt [...]

Matthias (Jimdo) at Robert Scoble’s show

Thomas — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:27:18 +0000

Wow. These guys don’t stop. First, Jimdo’s enthusiastic start in Germany, then they go to China with a Chinese version, plus they get one of the best promotion in the geek scene: An interview with Robert Scoble. And Matthias is not only smart but also a very modest and charming representer for the German internet [...]

Bill von Tokio Hotel bei breakster.de

Thomas — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:40:11 +0000

Eine nette Geschichte, die sich die PR-Firma Euromarcom für die Schüler Community Breakster ausgedacht hat: Bill Kaulitz, Sänger von Tokyo Hotel sei dort angeblich anonym unterwegs, aber an der Stimme erkannt worden! Stimme? Genau, und gleich wurde noch die Nachricht untergebracht, dass Breakster auch kostenloses VoIP zwischen Gruppenmitgliedern ermöglicht. Schließlich wird noch auf die Betreiberfirma [...]

Flickr-Alternatives

Thomas — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:22:15 +0000

Yahoo und seine Produkte machen sich wirklich nicht besonders beliebt in letzter Zeit. Der Streit um die Zensur bei Flickr, die heftigen Reaktionen der Leser auf die Yahoo-Werbung in Adical-Blogs, immer wieder mit dem Verweis auf die Enthüllung von Regimekritikern in China und nun auch noch das Löschen von Hinweisen auf Open Source Produkte in [...]

HoeBot und LoveBot von StudiVZ

Thomas — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:58:04 +0000

HoebotAlso, ich hab die beiden jetzt schon so vielen Leuten gezeigt, es wird Zeit, dass ich die mal verlinke: Die Geschichten von Hoe Bot und Love Bot, zwei nicht unsympathische Roboter, die eine Weile auf StudiVZ unterwegs waren. “Da uns im Studivz schnell langweilig wurde, begannen wir das System zu ergründen, und herauszufinden was man [...]

Papermint: The Austrian alternative to Second Life

Thomas — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:24:55 +0000

Papermint ScreenshotThe description could be even more specific: Papermint is in fact Vienna’s alternative to Second Life. The “3D virtual realities design company” Avaloop is creating a virtual Vienna, comicstyle; funny enough, Papermint will be 2D and has a very special look and feel. Avatars look like little superheroes, very cute and indvidual. Right now, [...]

Jimdo rocks

Thomas — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:23:13 +0000

Nachdem ich einigen Leuten in letzter Zeit das tolle, kostenlose Content Management System Jimdo empfohlen haben, will ich auch diese bescheidene Plattform nutzen, um über dieses wertvolle Tool zu berichten. Jimdo bietet einen ganzen Katalog von Funktionen, Layouts und Einstellungen um ratz-fatz eine Webseite zu erstellen. Navigation, Header, Gästebuch, Bildergalerie mit Slideshow inklusive Upload – [...]

Beatportplayer

Thomas — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:16:29 +0000

Beatport, probably the world’s leading online store for club and electronic music has developed a great tool: The Beatportplayer which generates a code you can put into websites to play track snippets according to certain criteria. Here’s an example for the recently issued tunes in the deep-house genre. Nice toy and great viral marketing, just [...]

JoinR and Kitchen Beatbox

Thomas — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:10:42 +0000

JoinR is a new social network which has an intriguing surface, very ajaxy, you can play with boxes and mash up your profile. Let’s see who’ll be hanging out there. Check it out: Joinr.de. I, of course am stylewalker.joinr.de, but have no fancy profile yet. Note: It’s early beta and obviously aimed at younger people [...]

Berlinale, Schlämmer, Vanity Fair, Agnes Obel

Thomas — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:20:42 +0000

Wow, only a few posts and already there’s a war around my writing on the Berlinaleblog (Watch more pictures and read the whole story about how I sneaked into the big gala night). This campaign is maybe the best blog / brand / personality campaign so far in Germany: Schlämmerblog, branded entertainment. German bloggers are [...]

Celebrity Mii contest

Thomas — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:55:41 +0000

When I tested Wii I had to notice that despite all the impressive controller system, the people on the screen did not really appeal. They looked strange and unready. But you can do your own, Kottke explains how and starts a contest.

Comics about nerds and geeks

Thomas — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:48:54 +0000

If you can laugh about Kopozky you have become someone who might spend too much time with the internet, codes, scripts, servers, accessibilty, webdesign, exhausting customers and online business. I think it’s damn funny! Take a look at these sympathetic protagonists of this nicely drawn comics. They all seem to have a real correspondent since [...]

Audi R8 Site

Thomas — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:46:17 +0000

Turn the volume up and lets ride. Big sounds, brilliant graphics, a storyline and intelligent additional information. Since I never would be able to afford such a thing I cannot feel betrayed by the advertising and link to this masterpiece of webdesign: Audi R8 Microsite. I am still trying to find out who built it. [...]

Geeky videointerviews

Thomas — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:10:04 +0000

Videopodcasts done by prominent bloggers and charismatic heads from the internetscene have been popping up recently (like the one I referred to yesterday) and here’s a little top 4 of what I think is worth watching. Robert Scoble started a videoblog with interviewing Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO www.gruenderszene.de is a german videocast by one of [...]

Paris street techno parade

Thomas — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:01:06 +0000

One of my favourite fotographers, cute Gonzale has some pictures! By the way, this is her blog, I found her because she made some pretty impressive pictures about the Paris students demonstrations this spring.

Beobachtungen zweiter Ordnung

Thomas — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:16:26 +0000

Systemtheoretiker und Konstruktivisten aufgepasst! Wenn wir die Welt nur durchs beobachten konstruieren (Matrix und so, vielleicht sind wir ja alle angeschlossen und keiner merkts, you know), dann ist das eine Beobachtung erster Ordnung, right? Wenn wir durch Medien wie TV oder Blogs die Welt beobachten, dann ist das wohl eine Beobachtung zweiter Ordnung. Wenn Tita [...]

Random header

Thomas — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:38:20 +0000

It took me some time to figure out how to make the random header plugin work with my wordpress pool theme. Now I got it! Thx to Valentin and Pit also! You can now enjoy a new shiny header (the one on top) picture with every reload which also symbolizes Stylewalker being in Berlin now. [...]

How many brands can you see in a stupid shot?!

Thomas — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:51:40 +0000

Steve Rubel is one of the favourites in my feedreader. Watch an entertaining interview with this geek/ blogger/ socialmedia/ pr/marketing-expert/ nice guy about the internet people and his new job at Edelman PR on Rocketboom, a show that has not become worse since Amanda Congdon left it. Don’t forget to watch the end!

Lastnightsparty.com

Thomas — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:26:04 +0000

Imagine Terry Richardson taking party pictures. Than you have something like the pictures of lastnightsparty.com. Definetely hedonistic, definetely dirty (not really sfw), definitely full of life. Reminds of the Cobra Snake and apparently Bronques, the head behind the site has been dancing at Cobra Snake parties. Here’s another story on stylewalker.net about lastnightsparty or go [...]

The hype machine

Thomas — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:44:07 +0000

Hype machine is a live aggregator for music linked from blogs. With the inbuilt player it’s like playing global blogmusic-charts. I could experience how much blogs might be on the vanguard of a global search for hot cool music by myself this morning. I blogged about Wax Tailor and his great song “Qué sera” in [...]

“The internet is not a big truck”

Thomas — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:49:36 +0000

True, and funny, but the background is a little more serious. For those, who have not yet heard about the discussion about “net neutrality”, here is a humorous introduction.

Cool DJ mixes with numbers

Thomas — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:46:44 +0000

Joe 90 at FutureboogieCurrently on my headphones: Joe 90ies fluffy Futureboogie Rootdown mix of housy nujazz tunes and Ed2000s clear to the point and souly drum’n'bass mix on Ibreak. Joe90 [audio:http://www.fbaudio.com/live/LIV_235_2005-08-16_joe90.mp3] Downloadlink Ed2000 [audio:http://www.ibreaks.co.uk/archived_shows/Ed2000.mp3] Downloadlink

World cup stuff – I’m a Berlinizer!

Thomas — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:08:57 +0000

I am exited. Today finally is the world cup kick off, world cup mania in Germany, a unique experience. Especially in Berlin, we expect many, many people, hopefully a lot of sun and we want to be hospital and helpful and just have a good time all together. “Berlinizers” is a campaign to make Berlin [...]

Multiplayer Online-Soccer

Thomas — Fri, 12 May 2006 10:56:21 +0000

Worldcup-madness and you can’t resist? Thinking about the round thing all the time, want to see it dither in the knitting? Now you can, with some überstylish football simulation: The Netzkicker. It’s easy, effective and fun, the most straight forward football simulation I have seen on the net. (And I have seen many: Yahoo has [...]

Futureboogie Mixes back online

Thomas — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:13:39 +0000

Hurry! Last month they cut the connection because they had too much traffic. Futureboogie is an online platform by guys who are really fans of Jazzanova, Compost, Sonar Kollektiv and Ninja Tunes. Just like Stylewalker. They host sets of people they like, as well their own ones, packed with the best British taste since Gilles [...]

Gnarls Barkley – Listen today!

Thomas — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:53:02 +0000

Gnarls Barkley are DJ Dangermouse (remember the grey album – most downloaded music in history) and singer Cee-Lo who just made history with the first UK number 1 hit that was based on online sales alone. From today until sunday you can listen to their album “St Elsewhere” on their MySpace-site. Album release is the [...]

Sven Väth is alive

Thomas — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:14:33 +0000

Foto von Christian JakubaszekThe godfather of techno is in a good mood and his message is cristal clear: “Gude Laune, Aldaaaaaaaaaaaaa..!” Love, peace and crazyness, ecstasy and ayurveda.. Everybody who thought Sven Väth these days is only about vegan food and healthy lifestyle was obviously mistaken. Voll drauf, Alda! Snippet taken from this years Time [...]

Techno is alife

Thomas — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:48:23 +0000

..with Martin Landsky in Brussels. Watch a video packed with clubfeeling. Deep, sexy, sweaty music and party impressions from P3P-club in Brussels. The P3P-people have more movies and music on their, in my opinion, brilliantly designed page. It’s clean, it works, it’s stylish, it’s all there. We need more club documentations! If you see any, [...]

Barcelona Street Art

Thomas — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:06:13 +0000

Dear visitor from barcelonastreetart.com – welcome! This is a blog, almost daily updated, about music, lifestyle and science from Berlin, Barcelona and the net. Go to the homepage, use the categories to browse to the content or the RSS-feed to stay updated! While looking for Pian&Hase on Google (because they failed to give me their [...]

Let math and design mingle

Thomas — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:56:52 +0000

Ricard Marxer Piñón is an artist who combines the mathematics of signal processing with the esthetics of font, fotos and sound. On a highly abstract level he e.g. uses reduced letters to create new shapes out of words. The animation on the right side is a processed picture of burning gas in a glass. He [...]

Guns for sale in GB?

Thomas — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:50:27 +0000

Did you know, in england, they sell guns on TV? Here’s a the Teleshop that put the spot even online! It seems funny, in the end it is rather sad. More guns than ever sold today. This viral campaign by Amnesty International UK wants to raise attention for an international arms trade treaty which should [...]