Roundup #35

Well, quite a lot happened in the last two months …

• Annoyed by YouTube Geoblocking? unblocker.yt
• Million Short is an alternative search engine filtering out the 1 million most popular websites
• Berlin co-working space co.up needs your donations for their new floor to host more amazing user groups.

• Asking people "So what's your life story" likely yields in awesomeness
• OK is a little man tipped sideways
• How to remember in which direction to turn the screwdriver: lefty loosy righty tighty

• Interesting essay on power, founders, being an in/outsider and burning the witch (after a talk by Peter Thiel)
• On Games and Art and at the example of Jonathan Blow (Braid)
• Boyd's Law of Iteration: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration
• Get more women to speak at conferences! We Are All Awesome tells you how

• Unhosted wants to separate data and application in web apps
• OwnCloud is your self-hosted iCloud/Exchange/Dropbox
• Design Patterns for Hackerspaces
• The pirates are standardizing releases. This is the latest for SD TV series.

• I talked at Future Music Camp at Popakademie Mannheim about Hackers. Slides here.
• I talked at Hack'n'Tell at HPI about Hackathons. Slides here
• I talked at Nerd Nite Berlin about Hackathons. Slides here

• I was at Random Hacks of Kindness. My small hack was putting all RHOKs on a map, test-driving meteor. Write-up Demo Code
• I was at Music Hack Day Barcelona and worked on an Open Goldberg Variations iPhone app while test-driving RubyMotion. And I even won an iPad from ThisIsMyJam for philantrophy. But then I fucked up by not putting anything online. I suck.
• I was at Startup Weekend Berlin. We made a poster, a canvas, stood on roofs

• Time Magazine has a nice video about this-years StartupBus.
• Driving around West Berlin by bike on the trail of the former wall is possible in one day.
• I read quite some books recently, find them on Readmill. </ul>
  • Coming up in Berlin: Campus Party EU (they heavily search for speakers!)
  • Coming up in Berlin: Deezer BeMyApp Hackathon
  • I will be at Burning Man this year camping with the Eridu Society.