DP DHL employee Ilkin Eivazov and his RAP (including Ringtones)

Ilkin Eivazov DHL Rapper

Inspired by his work at the Customer Service of DHL Express in The Netherlands, Ilkin Eivazov made his own rap. The beats of ‘You know us well, we are from DHL’, will accompany you for a while. Listen and react! DHL Rap You’re invited to click here to download  an extract of the song in…

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Turning 40!

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Some shots from my birthday. Lovely weather in Oberwinter and so used the opportunity to play with my Canon EOS 7D.

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Marc Benioff: The Move From Cloud1 to Cloud2 – The First Enterprise Java Cloud: vmforce

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Bringing 6 million java developers into the cloud(2). Marc Benioff’s vision for where the industry is going to: Cloud 2! Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com, explains the shift from Cloud1 apps, which are web apps like Amazon.com, to Cloud2 apps, which incorporate features like Facebook and Twitter. He goes on to introduce VMforce, the first…

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Live Updates on the european flight situation due to the vulcano Eyjafjallajökull

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photo credit: sfjalar Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation created an own twitter site “twitter.com/eurocontrol” to push their latest updates. Furthermore they have established an own site on their webpage showing their latest news. Flightradar24.com shows live aircraft traffic in the airspace above Europe and far more activities in the last 5…

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Innovation in Plain English: "The Making Of"

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Carlos Carranza and how he made an innovative movie about innovation for our Innovation Days. It doesn’t take a lot to be innovative, a smartphone and a smart idea how to get it into a fixed position is enough:

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Luxembourg causing significant traffic on the Internet

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Cliff Kuang published last week a very interesting article (“Infographic of the Day: Comparing the 100 Largest Sites on the Internet“), showing a lot of graphics how the internet is currently used and pointed me to the original source from BBC: “SuperPower: Visualising the internet” You can find treemaps about the current internet traffic categorized by…

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The impact of IT in Corporate Social Responsibility

I would like to shift a bit the topic from the previous entries in my blog. Today I would like to talk about Corporate Social Responsibility (C.S.R.) and its relationship to Business Information Technology. Before I engage deeper into the topic I would like to remark that my focus may divert from the Information &…

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Facebook launches zero.facebook.com – Text version of facebook for carriers

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At the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Facebook’s Chamath Palihapitiya, VP of Growth, Mobile and International shortly presented today zero.facebook.com. Presumably, Facebook will offer Facebook Zero to carriers for free, since it helps them make the social network as ubiquitous on mobile phones as possible. According to techcrunch.com, Facebook spokesperson Brandee Barker wrote back in reply to them…

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How to escape from Facebook after your Death! What is your Social Media Last Will?

As many of you are aware you can’t delete a facebook.com account, you only can de-activate it. I don’t know exactly why, but I was asking myself the other day, if at least your death could potentially put an end to the physical storage of all your collected data at facebook.com. This was the kick off…

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What are your friends buying?

Philip Kaplan is the co-founder of blippy.com. Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss the things people are buying. Based on a pretty provocative idea — it allows users to share all the purchase information from one of their credit cards – I doubt what the rationale behind this idea should be….

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