Unternehmer und Geek

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cornelius Fichtner. Leadership is one of the important skills that a good project manager must possess. The reason for this is that in many cases, the project manager doesn’t have any authority over the team members for a project. This means he or she must manage the…

I really like Google+. I like it much better than Facebook. There are though two features that I really miss and I'm sure I'm not the only one: Short coming 1: Exclude streams I have a bunch of circles: Friends, Family, Followers and there's also the public one. So here's the usecase. I post an…

Just recently I was preparing for a mountainbike tour. I was though not sure about the weather. Dark clouds were at the horizon. Rain or not that was the question. For about 10 minutes I consulted several webservices. It didn't look good. I figured I would try it anyway. Going outside I had to realize…

Google had a pretty amazing stuff. I can understand that it is a little bit confusing. I found this really cool video explaining what it does and why it's better than facebook.   Just found this interesting graph today on the web. That's just really insane!   I'm wondering how the whole Google Suite could…

Open Source software is secure and of high quality. Everybody who tells you differently doesn't really know what he is talking about. I was just reading the article "The risk of using Open Source Project Management Software" on blog.projectmanager.com. I'm sorry, but I totally disagree! This seems to be someone who has never seriously worked…

Incredible. There is an Anti Powerpoint Party! Awesome. The worst is a PowerPoint presentation via phone conference with 15 people. You know for sure that at least half of the participants are doing something else besides that, which leads to awkward situations: "oh, ähm, hum, … Can you please repeat that again?" There are tons…

A Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine Women can deliver a baby in One month Thanks to @corneliusficht. That's just so awesome that I'm devoting this quote it's on blogpost!

Lets not get deceived by the shiny brochures and the hot marketing air offered by propriety system. Open Source systems have a lot to offer. A couple days ago, Google opened up it's social network platform Google+. I've already seen modules/plugins for WordPress and Drupal (both open source software). Quality of the plugins is not…

Google+ allows Google to further improve it's mission to organize content and make it accessible and useful, as it can rely on the people doing that work. Facebook is all about connecting people. Google+ goes further. It connects people and content. Let's have a quick look at those two giants. Zuckerberg developped Facebook to stay…

Cloud computing is a very easy and cheap way for running software, but be aware of what's happening when the service goes down or you loose your internet connection. trying to access my web todolist (http://t.co/NJfBLsQ), but 502 bad gateway that's the #problem of #webapps #blogpost #fb The cloud is in. The cloud is cool.…