Today, I learned something really interesting. It seems as if Skype is not respecting French law and therefore is "illegally operating" in France. At least, that’s according to the blog Tic et Net of the French magazine L’Express. It is … Continue reading →

Quoting the tagline of that classic movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito "Only their mother can tell them apart" and for me it was quite a shocker last week. I got followed by doMore on Twitter early last week … Continue reading →

In the 80s and early 90s we had a show on German television with the title "1000 Meisterwerke" - 1000 masterpieces. Every episode was about 10 minutes long and about a certain masterpiece in one of the big museums across … Continue reading →

There are lots of text, voice and video chat applications on Facebook and some of them like TinyChat are doing pretty well as it seems. And then there is still the rumor of a deep Skype integration on the social network. … Continue reading →

News from a veteran amongst the language learning communities: Palabea that had first launched its service in 2007 in public beta just received an investment of 1 million + Euro from the Investitionsbank Berlin Brandenburg (IBB) which turns the language … Continue reading →

A few of years ago, it seemed like mobile applications, the expected "next big thing" at the time, would just never take off.  Everyone was excited, people were creating apps and expecting huge adoption, telco companies were projecting an explosion … Continue reading →

I had the great pleasure of talking with Yoni Cheifetz, Managing Director Isreal at Lightspeed Venture Partners for this KWestions episode. Due to the discussion around the recent modifications in Google’s algorithm and their almost immediate effect on some businesses … Continue reading →

Readability Just Became Instapaper’s Publisher Payment Layer Google Censors Its Own Education Investment in BitTorrent 8 Educational iPhone Apps for Small Business Owners Everloop Brings New Social Network for Tweens to 56,000 Schools Meet The Father Of The Second Largest Search … Continue reading →

This is a product demo by Matt Messinger, director of learning at StudyBlue during our EDUKWEST interview. As the tagline of the Wisconsin based startup says, StudyBlue wants to mobilize the notes students take during class and therefore become something … Continue reading →

As there is always more happening than I can cover in single blog posts, I will try to write a short roundup on interesting stories and events that did not make it into an own blog post but that are … Continue reading →