Rebtel, the Sweden-based VoIP company, is being blocked again in Germany by E-Plus. Rebtel is letting E-Plus bypass their foreign calling rates by giving a cheaper alternative to calling expensive foreign numbers – through VoIP. Alexander Drewniak wrote about the incident in the company blog.

Architecture Design and Building in Germany 01 - Places - ArchitectureWeek Online Library: "MERCEDES-BENZ BUILDING | With the bulging prow of its aluminum and glass skeleton looming beside the fast lanes of Highway B14 in Stuttgart, Germany, the new Mercedes-Benz Museum lives up to the German automaker's refined engineering image.

Episode: VMC #172 - Heiko Hebig, 3 Tags
The 3 Tags serie, is a self-folksonomy introduction to some of the bright minds I know in the web industry. It’s a first input to let you then connect, network and discover more about them…

Episode: VMC #163 - Meeting the Needs of 21st Century Customers in the Age of the Social Web, Heuer & Messina

Epsiode: VMC #160 - Henriette Weber, Rockbandism [Next09]
Rockbandism or ‘Why every Company should be a Rockband’
Henriette Weber, Toothless Tiger, Moderator: Bahne Carstensen

Here’s my Next09 report on episode #447 of FIR (For Immediate Release - twice weekly podcast of Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz on public relations and technology).
Special thanks to:

Next09 Conference, Hamburg (Germany) - May 5&6
I’ll be there as premium blogger. This year event’s theme is the Share Economy

Episode: VMC #132 - Paul Carr on Social Media & Journalism
This is another video I recorded with Paul. He is a journalist and writes for the Guardian. In this episode:

Episode: VMC #130 - Art @ DLD
My friend Oliver Gassner tells me more about art at the DLD StarNight party.

Credits & Show Notes: DLD conference, Oliver Gassner

Episode: VMC #129 - Lady GaGa @ DLD Conference
From the extra footage that I took during the DLD conference there’s this performance of Lady GaGa. Yep she came to perform exclusively for DLD. I have no idea how they got her there, but it turned out in a great concert. Enjoy the video summary below!
Andrea

Episode: VMC #128 - StarNight, DLD Red Carpet
If you followed the posts that I released from Munich you probably understood that DLD was a great event. What I didn’t share (yet) was some info about the DLD StartNight party.

• Twitter / tweetbomb - By following @tweetbomb, you agree to allow yourself to be Tweetbombed.
• 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them - Smart brands use Twitter in meaningful ways, and most of them use their brand name as a way to make sure customers can find and recognize them.
  

Episode: VMC #123 - Marissa Mayer (Google)
As DLD Official Blogger I recorded this video together with Marissa Mayer (Google - VP, Search Products & User Experience).
We talked about:

This week I was part of the great DLD Bloggers Team that live blogged directly from the DLD conference.

Episode: VMC #122 - Thoughts on DLD Conference

Show Notes & Credits: DLD Conference

Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)

Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)
To offer you a better live coverage during this session I’ll focus on Adam Valkin, Jason Glickman and Arne Rees. Thomas Praus will cover Jeremy Allaire and Axel Schmiegelow.

Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)

Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)
Speaker: Joi Ito CEO of Creative Commons.
Today we’ll talk about the sharing economy.