Archive for the ‘This n That’ Category
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
How often do you change your browser startup page? Mine has been the New York Times website for at least 8 years. We all have our own ways to find our news. I usually start with the New York Times then I wonder over to Spiegel.de and Sueddeutsche Zeitung - ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
The leading German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung has a column named “video of the week”. Many great web videos have been featured here already. A lot of funny, exotic or otherwise special videos do get listed here.
When we checked the column today we all started to smile: The winning video “Global ...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Rumor already had it: Google swallowed YouTube for $1.65 billion. They bought 5% of AOL and have a long term agreement in place with MySpace where Google provides the advertising.
Google is spinning a very tight net around many (if not all) social marketing websites. Their war-chest is still ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
The World Cup is over, the Italian sirens have silenced down - especially since four of their top clubs were sentenced for fixing games in the Italian Championship. Half of the players in the World Cup final are looking for new employers right now. We don't ...
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
We are looking at the World Cup that changed into a European championship. Italy, France, Portugal and Germany are the final contenders. I am in London today, still contemplating weather I should wear my German shirt in the pub tonight. If this is the last posting you'll ever see on ...
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
The FIFA tries for many years already to expand the range of leading soccer nations. More nations were allowed to participate. The ration of European countries was reduced. Development resources were poured into potential new markets.
True: The gap between the teams did shrink quite ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
The group games saw pretty solid referees performances. A lot of good calls. That has has changed quite a bit with the heightened intensity of the knock out round.
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
The world cup is in a transitional phase right now. The first teams are returning home (and let go of their coaches). The remaining teams are hyping up a bit more.
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
The answer is pretty simple: All of them.
Here is the reason why:
Related to Forrest Gump you could say that soccer is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.
Some of the most acclaimed teams have performed rather poorly and ...
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Here is a team that has been written off by their national press. The have the strongest league in the world but much of that is credited to the foreign superstars in their teams.
It looked like the blend of the Spanish players sans their foreign stars was ...
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