Very disturbing video stream from 1500 meters below sea level (Gulf of Mexico)

It’s a strange feeling watching this. It’s disturbing…
Tons of oil float freely into the fresh water of the Gulf of Mexico and no one seems to be able to act. The web camera is so close and you can feel the pain of all the fish and birds out there. But you cannot do anything. [...]

Links to text-to-speech engines

Just found some cool links to (demo) text-to-speech engines, I’d like to share:
http://www.linguatec.net/onlineservices/voice_reader/
http://www.partekk.ch/rapid-elearning/Werkzeuge/SprachsyntheseTexttoSpeech/Acapela/acapelaSprachdemo/tabid/492/Default.aspx
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

first week @ scoyo

now - that was my first week at scoyo.de!

New job, new experiences, new ideas.
Well, this week was just 5 days long but felt like three weeks - quite a lot of new input, a mountain of tasks and so many new names and terms to learn. Overall my summary is: Great! Such an inspiring athmosphere, [...]

Teach yourself a Bee Gee

Funny video - you need to practice!!!

just an asorted list of links to statistics in the web

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
http://a-stat-a-day.com/
http://www.allaboutmarketresearch.com/academia.htm
http://www.google.com/trends
http://techcrunchies.com/
facebook germany: http://blog.monty.de/?p=526
mobile: http://blog.mjelly.com/2008/04/10-reasons-the.html

EM 2008 live - Fussball Video live streaming

I always forget these links, so I put them in here:
Streaming links from ARD and ZDF (http://sport.ard.de/euro2008/euro_live/livestreams/index.jsp)
And another overview from fussball-forum

facebook developer garage (hamburg)

I attended the facebook developer garage - a great opportunity to see the current status of different application developed for this social platform.
I had the chance to take part on a panel session with Steve Rubel (Director of Insights for Edelman Digital) and Liz Rice (Head of Technology Partnerships at Last.fm) on the social aspects [...]

mobile tv

just a few links which allow for TV boradcast via mobile.
I thought about it, when I following the 1.May demonstration against the Nazis in Hamburg today.
FSK used Twitter to keep everyone updated. The next step might be one of the following online services:
Qik
flixwagon
Bambuser
Kyte.tv
thanks to Scoblizer for these links!

Emily Scott coming to Hamburg

it’s always great to discover new, beautiful music. My latest diamond is Emily Scott from Edinburgh.
When visiting her Myspace site you will listen to one of the most beautiful tracks I heared for a very long time: “Longshore Drift”. Just a guitar and an amazing voice - and incredible harmony vocal arrangements. She released [...]

something spooky: what the net knows about you (yasni.de)

I was searching for a birthday date from a friend of mine and stumbled across this website:
www.yasni.de 

it’s quite frightening what you find, when you have been around for a while (like I have…)

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