Peter Bihr
About: I do web stuff. As a freelancer, I consult on online communication, blog, write, and do random stuff in between. You could probably call me a freelance web strategist of sorts. Also, I'm managing editor for blogpiloten.de.
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Berlinblase is back
--With Barcamps abound and the Web2Expo just around the corner, it’s time to once more kick off a few side projects. One I’m particularly...
State of the Blogosphere 2008 (brief summary)
--Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere is back, this time split up into five daily installments. (Start with the introduction.) What can I say...
October is web season in Berlin (come & play!)
--Just as last year, this October Berlin will be home to a whole bunch of great web events. Most notably, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo will be...
On the internet, we will always be beaten on price
--Image: We will always be beaten on price, courtesy of blackbeltjones Somehow this picture by Blackbeltjones really resonated with me. It seems to s...
FDCareer brings roleplaying games to business networking online
--A quirky, but interesting approach to business networking combines pen-and-paper style roleplaying games with career networking sites like LinkedIn...
Next-generation content management for newspapers (is in the making)
--Steve Yelvington helps newspapers get the web. Newspapers have a hard time adapting the new ways of the web, what with all this user-generated cont...
Pros and cons of net neutrality clearly laid out
--Opposing Views, a debating platform where experts go head-to-head on all kinds of issues, has put up a discussion page about net neutrality: Net n...
TechCrunch wants internet tablet, builds internet tablet
--Just a little over a month ago, Techcrunch announced that they’d like to have a simple, cheap, yet powerful internet tablet. It should run Fi...
A Swarm of Angels: Worlds Will Shatter
--Ground-breaking collaborative film project A Swarm of Angels just released the first video trailer, and boy, I can’t wait to see more: Wo...
Ubiquity brings text back to browsing, let’s you mash up everything
--Fresh from the Mozilla labs, Ubiquity looks like one of those plugins that might seriously change the way we do stuff on the web, or rather: in our...
Next-generation marketing: It’s the groups, stupid!
--David Cushman of Faster Future has this neat presentation about how PR works completely differently in networked environments, like on the web or m...
Timeline of Internet Memes
--Dipity lets you create timelines of all things internet. One of them I liked particularly, and that’s this timeline of internet memes: Enjoy...
Music 2.0 Dinner in Berlin
--Last Friday, I was very happy to get the chance to attend the first Berlin Music 2.0 dinner. (Thanks a lot to David of Hobnox for organizing it!) O...
CNN introduces embeddable video
--CNN just introduced embeddable video. The CNN behind the Scenes blog has the details: We are very happy to announce our latest move in that effort ...
New customized pixelated Waving Cat icon
--W00t: I just got this awesome custom waving cat icon. Melbourne-based multimedia designer and pixel artist Louise K of Agmyst Studio was so kind to...
How to pitch media, bloggers, the web at large?
--For PR folks, pitching to the web is a problem. Talking to a PR firm recently, we ended up chatting about the challenges traditional PR firms face ...
Seven rules for a corporate presence on Twitter
--Twitter still seems to be one of the bigger mysteries for many folks out there, particularly in the corporate sphere. No surprise, it’s one o...
The sun is Constantly Setting (watch it)
--Out of Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino’s lab comes Constant Setting, a beautiful Flickr-based mashup. Constant Setting shows us photos (released ...
Creating your online experience: Don’t be the capsule hotel
--When you’re creating the online experience for your organization, brand or even yourself, keep this simple advice in mind: Don’t be the...
Photographs changes video as we know it
--The header seems somewhat to enthusiastic you say? Well, judge for yourself. A piece of software called Photographs from Washington University loo...
Super endorsements: Comic characters for Obama
--Somewhat odd, but here you go: Comic character Savage Dragon endorses Obama, or so says the New York Times‘ The Moment blog: The celebrity en...
Free licenses hold up in (U.S.) court
--It’s official: Free licenses like Creative Commons (CC) hold up in court. Larry Lessig, founder of Creative Commons has the (obviously biased...
Downing Street 10 relaunches, goes all Web 2.0
--Downing Street 10, the British Prime Minister’s office, has just announced a relaunch of their website. The new website is full of web-two-is...
The Big Picture: Stories told in photos by Boston Globe
--I don’t know how I could have missed The Big Picture, the Boston Globe’s amazing photo blog. (It has been around since June). The Big P...
CCC Freedom Stick, Olympics Special Edition
--It’s been around for awhile, but CCC’s Freedom Stick, a memory stick loaded with powerful privacy software, is now also available in an...
Creative Commons explained by Lawrence Lessig
--Larry Lessig’s talk at the iCommons Summit 08 gives you a nice overview of the history of Creative Commons: Check out Larry Lessig’s ...
Four success factors for your organization’s blog
--Christian Kreutz of GTZ (the German cooperation enterprise for technical international cooperation and development) has worked with blogs in his or...
Web 2.0 Summit 08 shares web 2.0 lessons learned with the public
--This year’s Web 2.0 Summit is a who is who of the internets. What I find particularly cool is this year’s theme: Sustaining, applying a...
12seconds: Twitter for video (and video for Twitter)
--A new day, a new video service. Today: 12seconds, which has a refreshing take on web video: Record a video message of exactly 12 seconds, the movin...
Aurora shows future user experience for the web (which rocks)
--Aurora is Adaptive Path’s take on a possible future user experience for the Web. As you can see in the video below, it rocks. Aurora (Par...
Berlin couple share their pregnancy: RealBirthTV
--When I was pointed to RealBirthTV first a couple of days ago, I have to admit I didn’t know what to think. Over-sharing or a logical thing to...
LegalTorrents gives you… legal torrents
--Filesharing - legal or illegal - is here to stay. While many users are confused about the legality of filesharing platforms and protocols like BitT...
Frogloop: 3 Keys to successful online campaigns
--Nice and simple, this brief post on frogloop gives you three keys to successful online campaigns: Don’t listen to the man Fail, fail, then f...
Beijing 2008: Reporters and bloggers face threats
--Sadly, the whole idea of giving the Olympic Games to China in order to get the government to respects human and media rights more has turned out to...
You donated $9.55 to EFF through my ads (thanks!)
--A little while back, I proposed to run social ads on blogs and to donate the revenue. This, it seemed, would be the easiest way to raise some funds...
Launched: www.IWorkForTheInternets.com
--I’ve mentioned it before: I work for the Internets. Together with two co-conspirators, we also set up an on demand print store. More importan...
Is Google making us stupid? (No.)
--The Atlantic just ran an article asking “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” which two friends forwarded independently - always a clear indica...
Test: Live Blog with CoverItLive
--What you see below is a test of the live blogging tool CoverItLive. It looks promising indeed: Of course this was just a test run without anything...
Traditional media goes mobile streaming: Gannett & Mogulus?
--As Techcrunch announced today, video streaming service Mogulus just got a big of extra cash ($10 million). What interesting here is who that money ...
Can you trust the information in Wikipedia? Wikitrust tells you.
--A very interesting project going by the name Wikitrust (part of the Wikipedia Quality Initiative) analyzes if information on Wikipedia is trustwort...
Tooltips for syncing slides and video
--VCASMO is a pretty neat tool to sync video and slides. Just sayin’. VCASMO syncs videos fromm youtube or similar sources, and slideshows from...
Learn from the Fail Whale: failing doesn’t need to hurt
--If there’s one thing all Twitter users have in common, it’s that they’ve experienced down time. Twitter is famous for it’s ...
perspctv: Who’s talking about McCain, Obama?
--perspectv visualizes who’s being talked about more: McCain or OBama. Or as TechCrunch calls it: “An Election Mashup That Proves Nothing...
Social cooperation & music distribution
--In the Commons Research wiki, I stumbled upon this Free Culture paper (PDF abstract). In the paper, Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School, author of T...
State of the Web Summer 2008
--The State of the Web Summer 2008 is a neat visual summary of what has happened this summer on the web so far, in 11 steps by Matthew Inman. I like.
Bits exist to be copied / LIFT Talks
--Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory ...
Workshop on social media in higher education (follow-up)
--As mentioned before, earlier this week I had the chance to hold a workshop on social media in higher education at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (...
Protect your tweets - or don’t
--Recently I proposed to add a little Twitter feature, namely an indicator for why you protect your Twitter feed. (Why is this important? To prevent ...
Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education
--Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual universi...
Waving Cats in China
--Photo by Frank Franz* Patzig (licensed under Creative Commons by-nc-sa). Thanks for the dedication! * Sorry :)
Twitter feature request: Protected updates options
--One thing that’d be really useful for Twitter: If you could signal somehow why your Twitter updates are protected. Some folks do it because t...
Is Twitter the new Google?
--Well, of course that title is slightly misleading. (Come on, what did you expect?) However, it’s not just there to draw a few more eyeballs. ...
Twitter plus Flash as a simple CMS
--Patrick, one of the awesome flashers here at Panorama3000, has coded this neat flash website for an actor friend of his. Usually I’m not a hu...
Relaunch: Slowly getting there
--Slowly, but steadily, I’m getting to the point where my website looks acceptable again. To be fair, that’s only partly my achievement: ...
Dopplr’s new public profiles: gorgeous stats
--Last week I noticed that some Dopplr users’ profiles looked somewhat different than others’ and wondered why. Well, now it’s publ...
[please ignore: design changes]
--Just recently I’ve made a few changes to this blog’s design, but somehow wasn’t happy with the way it ended up. So again, I’...
Wordle: Create wordmaps on the fly. (Good fun!)
--A word cloud of my del.icio.us tags, created with Wordle. One thing just became a bit clearer to me: Just how much I use my social bookmarks to rea...
Documents Are Conversations: The Future of Work (is now)
--A little while back, while I was visiting San Francisco, my buddy Max Senges (the proto knowledge entrepreneur) and I had a chat or two about the f...
Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody
--I just got myself a copy of Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (buy on amazon.com). Haven̵...
Breaking the Banksy: First interview?
--A new Banksy mural ‘One Nation Under CCTV’ painted next to a CCTV camera at a Post Office yard in the West End. (Image: Dailymail.co.uk...
Writing email that gets answered
--Chris Brogan summarizes how to write email so that it’s easy to process further: Key points: One Decision Per Email (so it’s easy to ...
How to work The Internets (not!) #1
--No 1 of my new series How to work The Internets (not!). Under the unflattering title “Webtards: Mc Cain And Obama Reps Hold Worst Presidenti...
How to work The Internets (or not!)
--I’m not much into bashing. But. Picking up on P.’s comments on my brief round-up post on online politics, I guess it’s time for a...
ePolitics: What’s happening right now?
--I’d like to give an overview over the whole ePolitics space, from online campaigning to e-participation. Of course, that’s hardly possi...
Mobile apps I’d like someone to build
--Part one of my new series “mobile apps I’d like someone to build“, where I’m going to collect all those mobile apps I’...
Ameritocracy: Beta invites for you
--A few days ago I wrote a brief post about Ameritocracy, a collaborative fact-checking platform with a focus on U.S. politics. The Ameritrocracy te...
Alaska Airlines rethinks check-in, saves millions (and a lot of time)
--Alaska Airlines saves millions by rethinking check-in flow: A great example of how companies can greatly improve their services & structure by...
Ameritocracy: Collaborative Fact-Checking
--If there’s one thing the internet is pretty good at, then it must be crunching lots of info by having a lot of folks look at said info. Call ...
Social Media Noise vs Info Overload
--Just stumbled over a series of posts on ReadWriteWeb I’d like to share with you. Without further commenting, there’s plenty of info the...
Hobnox: Slick new player. (May work.)
--Hobnox, an up-and-coming community site for artists, has quite a few assets. One of them is an audio tool WIRED loves. Another one, which I’d...
There’s money in Web 2.0…
--…says Forrester’s Josh Bernoff, author of Groundswell. It’s just that quite often, the most successful Web 2.0 companies arenR...
Yahoo releases Reputation Design Patterns (Yay!)
--Yahoo’s Design Pattern Library is a pretty awesome collection of design patterns - proven solutions for common or well-known problems. The id...
“How to become a freelance web strategist?”
--…asked my reader Chris in an email: To impose a question, is it financially lucrative to be a freelance web strategist? I am considering such...
Tomorrow: TechCrunch/CrunchGear Meetup Berlin
--Tomorrow, there’s a TechCrunch & CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin. Should be good fun to see Germany’s web people congregate in this (k...
Obama’s Election Campaign: It’s The Social Media, Stupid!
--The U.S. elections have been an interesting spiel of old vs new, of traditional vs social media. While Republican Senator McCain and Democratic Sen...
I Work For The Internets: The shirt arrived
--A few days ago MT and I shirt up on Spreadshirt that reads “I work for teh internets“. (Not to be confused with The Google that George ...
Widgets Are Your Friend
--Tony Hirst, author of this neat RSS manifesto and edupunk extraordinaire, produced this little gem of a pro-remix, pro-sharing, pro-widget rant: ...
Social Networks Enter Popular Culture
--Social Networks have hit mainstream. (The student body on Facebook isn’t enough to really be mainstream, or is it?) How can you tell? Social ...
U.S. University Tracked 100.000 Cell Phone Users’ Movements
--Another day, another very creepy instance of user tracking: As CNN reports, scientists at Northeastern University used cell phone data to track th...
Meet up at Dresden Future Forum 2008
--Thursday, I’ll be blogging from Dresden Future Forum 2008, more or less live. (Probably, I’ll be twittering, too.) (If wireless permits...
Did Deutsche Telekom Track Journalists’ Movements?
--Over the last couple of weeks, a major privacy scandal has been unfolding in Germany: Deutsche Telekom - the company that also monopolized use of t...
Berlin Web Buzz This Fall: Web2Expo & BarCampBerlin 3
--This fall, Berlin will be buzzing with web stuff once more: O’Reilly’s Web2Expo will be in town, and it’ll be surrounded by a lot...
Little Brother: Protect Your Privacy To Protect Your Freedom
--Privacy isn’t usually the most sexy topic. At least it isn’t usually treated that way, which is a shame. All the better: Cory Doctorow&...
One Bihr less, plenty of family more
--Last Friday, my sister Kristina married her long-term boyfriend and fiancé Martin, officially joining both our families, which have long since beco...
Slideshow: Free Traffic. Social Media Marketing 101
--At Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, Muhammad Saleem gave this great presentation on Social Media Marketing. It covers the basics as well as some advance...
Your Brand Is: Their Gut Feeling
--First, a brand is not a logo. Second, a brand is not an identity. Finally, a brand is not a product. A brand is a person’s gut feeling about ...
What will The Next Newsroom look like?
--Mainstream American media have experienced shipwreck and newsrooms need to transform themselves to survive. Sounds harsh? Not if you ask Journalism...
Don’t make your users suffer through error messages
--If you use a web service and encounter an error, it’s bad enough as it is. Don’t make your users guests suffer even more by giving them...
Email subscription is up
--For those of you not too comfortable with RSS readers, I just implemented email subscription in the right navigation bar. Let me know if it works f...
Negroponte Unveils Second Generation OLPC
--Just a few months after shipping the first laptops, the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) is getting ready for round two. Chairman Nicholas Negro...
I work for teh Internets
--During the last couple of days, particularly at next08, I’ve had a few very funny discussions about the nature of our jobs, and how you can&#...
Muji comes to Berlin
--This is completely off-topic for this blog, I guess, but: Today, Muji opened a store in Berlin. And since I’ve been a total sucker for Muji f...
next08: wrap-up
--Back in Berlin after a day of liveblogging at next08 in Hamburg. You can read our coverage (mostly German, some English) on Fischmarkt.de. Good fun...
Where do they find the time? Clay Shirky on the Cognitive Surplus
--In this rare gem of a video, Clay Shirky talks about the time, energy and potentials that used to be lost to dumbly watching TV. How many Wikipedia...
Video wrap-up from re:publica 08
--Just noticed that kosmar has cut a neat time warp video from re:publica 08, featuring the whole crowd. Thanks, Kosmar!
Liveblogging from next08
--Tomorrow I’ll be blogging live from next conference in Hamburg, Germany. next08 is is one of Germany’s top web conferences and I was th...
How I tried (and failed at) legally buying music in Germany
--Please note: What’s about to follow is a rant. It’s also advice to music labels. Short-short version, dear content traders: Make your s...
Working on a relaunch
--As I’m looking into a bit of an optic overhaul for this blog, the site might look somewhat odd occasionally over the next few days. Also, if...
Chinese Anti-CNN Campaign
--Note: I won’t touch the politics behind this campaign in this post. If you were looking for any political opinion on this subject, feel free ...
[citation needed] Challenges Ads, Truthiness
--On Michelle’s new blog, I just stumbled over a very neat art (or rather: protest?) project, all sticker-based. [citation needed] questions th...
Creative Commons for German Public TV Could Save Costs, Archives
--German public TV and the Some Rights Reserved content licenses by Creative Commons don’t seem to be a natural mix. Then again, maybe they do...
Re:publica 08 #4 (Wrap-up)
--So re:publica 08 is over, it’s the week after and things are back to normal. I’m only posting this just now since my weekend pretty muc...
Re:publica 08 #3 (Law)
--One of the best panels My favorite panel at re:publica was Henning Krieg’s panel on law and blogging. At pretty much every other conference I...
Re:publica 08 #2
--Today is day 3 of re:publica 08, the last day of this year’s installment of this conference. Re:publica is the biggest and most important blo...
Re:publica 08 #1
--So far, I haven’t been able to blog about re:publica 08, Germany’s top blogger & social media conference. Not because it hasn̵...
Valley Trip Summary: Half-time.
--I’m about half-way into my trip to the Bay Area, i.e. Silicon Valley, so I figured it’s time for a first summary. First of all, I’...
Presentation: print is dead, at least to the young
--The print vs online discussion is as old as the internet, and I can’t even recall how often I’ve heard that print is dead. However, it&...
Presentation: print is dead, at least to the young
--The print vs online discussion is as old as the internet, and I can’t even recall how often I’ve heard that print is dead. However, it&...
Forrester: Online Community Best Practices
--| View | Upload your own Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang shares this great presentation about Online Community Best Practices. ItR...
On Bebo.com, and why it’s important to make invitations opt-in
--Web companies of the world, if there is one lesson to learn, it’s this: Be careful when sending out invitation emails. I just spammed, by com...
My Masters Thesis On Weblogs And Political Journalists: Now Available On Amazon
--Exciting news (well, for me): My masters thesis on the Relevance of Weblogs for the Work of Political Journalists just went into print. (It’...
My Masters Thesis On Weblogs And Political Journalists: Now Available On Amazon
--Exciting news (well, for me): My masters thesis on the Relevance of Weblogs for the Work of Political Journalists just went into print. (It’...
Upcoming: Valley Trip. Wanna meet up?
--Most of you live in the States - that’s what my blog stats say, and that’s my experience from talking to you, too. Also, with quite a f...
How to create the best workplace? Ask 37signals
--37signals and their smart & usable (translation: awesome) web solutions like the project management pack Basecamp have always been inspiring. ...
Twitter In Plain English
--Lee LeFever has struck again: This time, he explains Twitter In Plain English: If you’re not familiar with the format, make sure to check o...
New HQ at Panorama3000 / Berlin
--I’ve moved my office to a new place. From now on, the great folks over at Panorama3000 are giving me shelter in the form of our neat sublet o...
Social Network Use By Country
--(Click the image or this text to jump to the original map.) French newspaper Le Monde has this great chart showing which region prefers which socia...
Well Done: Lonely Planet To Sell Guidebooks By The Chapter
--Lonely Planet has always been very good at thinking from their customers’ point of view. You can see that clearly by the structure of their g...
Tim Berners Lee Explains Web Philosophy In Two Minutes
--Internet Pioneer Explains Web PhilosophyWatch more DIY videos on 5min.com Two minutes is all it takes for internet pioneer Tim Berners Lee to expl...
Video: Don’t Feed The Troll
--The basics of online etiquette, explained in a neat 8bit video. How To Behave On An Internet Forum (via)
Why Small Organizations See The Internet As A Chance, Big Ones See It As A Challenge
--There is a thing about the internet, a notion that has been around since the early days: That the internet offers a chance to anyone to do somethin...
Leave Video Comments On My Blog With Riffly
--Videos are fun. So when I just stumbled over the Riffly plugin that allows readers to leave video comments, I had to try it out. So for awhile, I&#...
What’ll happen to our data after Facebook jumps the shark?
--Facebook has, very recently, made it possible to delete accounts instead of just deactivating them. Deleting the account is the only option to real...
Avoid Clichés: Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
--What happens if an aesthetic gets over-used? It becomes a cliché. (That’s bad.) This is what happened to rounded corners, reflecting logos, d...
The LEGO Lesson: Embrace Your Fans
--In Forrester’s Josh Bernoff / Charlene Li blog, Josh relates this story by Jake McKee (formerly Lego) of how Lego changed by engaging with AF...
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