March 2008
Dear Future Wife
From all the nicknames possible for your future husband (that would be me) please never - I repeat - never choose ‘Moppel’. (heard on an actual engagement party last Friday)
Panic At The Disco - When The Day Met The Night...
Hobnox Facebook Apps
Joa, one of our great flash developers spent the last two days working on the first release of four Hobnox applications for Facebook. From now on, you’re able to watch our three channels right within Facebook including the full channel navigation. Here’s the list of channels with direct link to the apps: Sly-Fi Str33t 99stories Also, we’ve decided to make the Hobnox Auditool...
Band Of The Week: Little Jackie
On a more general note: Tumblr really is a great way to discover new music, artists and interesting news. This weeks ‘Band Of The Week’ is stolen from Fred (also here): Little Jackie. Here’s what Rolling Stone wrote about the band: “We also heard one track by the lovely and amazing Imani Coppola side-project Little Jackie that was the best song the Black Eyed Peas never...
Matador Records Free Sampler
Matador Records is giving away a free sampler with a bunch of unreleased and yet to be realeased songs. Here’s the playlist: Download Intended Play Sampler 2008 (zip file) 1. Jay Reatard Always Wanting More (from 7″ #3, due out June 17) 2. Times New Viking DROP-OUT (from Rip It Off, released January 22) 3. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Cold Son (from Real Emotional Trash, released...
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My First Muxtape
It took me about two hours to make it. Server seemed busy. No suprise since Muxtape has been over Tumblr/My Dashboard all day. Great thing to see this taking off in no time (last time I checked, there were about 180 reblogs from jstn’s post on Tumblr). Here’s an update from Justin: 4000 songs, 2000 users, 7...
Great version, thanks for sharing Fred....
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The Hamburger Phone
You’ve seen it in Juno. I particulary like that they cut to the chase and mention two of its key features: Receiving a call Making a call By the way, its $15.99
N*E*R*D - ‘Everyone Nose’...
New Charlatans Record "You Cross My Path" For Free →
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We Are Scientists - ‘After Hours’ ...
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Task, Not Time: Profile Of A Gen Y Job
Here’s a transcript of one of the Harvard Business Review (printed edition, Feb 2008) “Breakthrough Ideas for 2008” by Tamara J. Erickson entitled “Task, Not Time: Profile of a Gen Y Job”: Think task, not time: Articulate the results you expect - and tie accountability to getting the job done. Make physical attendance in the office, including at meetings, optional....
“In general, the thing that is most, sort of, rational and best for your own...”
– Study: Nice Guys Don’t Finish Last There still is hope.
iTunes Top Ten
Here’s my top ten list of most played songs in my iTunes library. The numbers are the amount of times I played each song up until now. 1. Bell X1 - Trampoline - 88 2. The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) - 81 3. Stars - My Favourite Book - 74 4. Stars - The Night Starts Here - 68 5. We Are Scientists - After Hours - 66 6. Editors - Smokers Outside Of Hospital Doors - 58 7. Editors - An End...
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WatchNew show format on Sly-Fi called iNterview. Really like the concept. This time with Chris from We Are Scientists from NYC. Uwe’s hosting with a little help from Noccino. What do you think? Also check out their fun-to-watch video to their current single ‘After Hours’ here. In this video, Chris reminds me of Jakob Lodwick. Link to iNterview via
Today’s anthem: Jamie Lidell - Figured Me...
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Hobnox Loves Twitter
So do I. That’s why we decided to twitter Hobnox and its channels. Follow us, we’d love to keep you informed with smoking news right off our desks: Hobnox 99stories Sly-Fi Str33t Thanks.
Things I'd Like To Do This Year
Trips: Have-beens: New York City, San Fransisco, Barcelona, Stockholm Have-not-beens: Stockholm, Iceland, San Fransisco Purchases: A nice framed picture/painting for my wall Canon EOS 450D Edit: How could I forget I was in Stockholm in 2000? Maybe because it was so freaking cold. Apparently it is nice there in June. Thanks for the tip Julia. Edit2: Weird: I’ve never...
Must-Reads For Entrepreneurs
I selected a couple of books I read during different stages of starting the company and that I strongly recommend to everyone who wants to start his or her own business. I wish I’d have read some of those earlier to prevent me/us from making mistakes but on the other hand the good thing coming out of this was to learn from them. And I can’t believe how much I’ve been able to...
Editors - MunichPeople are fragile things, you...
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WatchMoblogic.tv’s latest episode from SXSW: Lindsay in Austin, TX asking around what a news show should be like.
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The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) iTunes tells me...
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Drop.io: Nice Little App
Just saw and tested it over at Thomas’: Drop.io. Pretty cool: create a widget that lets you upload files directly into it. Generate a direct link, set a password, define duration. No need to register. Just get started. Turning P2P into W2W. Drop me some music or pics. Thanks drop.io: simple private sharing
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Hobnox Channel Round-Up: One-Two, ImprovEverywhere...
Here are the three latest episodes of our channels, hope you like it.
I do. Here’s why:
Juno is out in Germany, our - again - lovely host Stephanie met Jason Reitman to talk about the flick. I really enjoyed Juno. I think the writing is brilliant and Ellen Page is such a blast. Unfortunately Rainn Wilson (he’s my “The Office US” favorite) only has a one-timer but...
Me And Any Coffee Place
Me: A coffee please
She/He: Latte? Cappucino?
Me: No, just a coffee please
She/He: A regular coffee?
Me: YES. Coffee. Black. Plain and simple.
Thank you Starbucks for making ordering a coffee such a hassle these days.
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Hobnox Review On KillerStartups.com →
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AOL Acquires Bebo For $850 Million →
My thoughts: Wow.
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Really nice audio coverage from Deutsche Welle...
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Cologne Fashionista Blog LesMads.de
Just had a really nice conversation with Julia from Cologne based fashion-blog LesMads.de (german). I have to admit that I am not too much of a fashion addict (at least that’s what some of my friends would say) but last week my Technorati search feed pinged a new post about Hobnox. Headed over to see the Festival mentioned in the same post along with Heidi Klum’s Germany’s Next...
Digitalism New Year's Eve Mix - Fuck Yeah →
Awesome. Also check out their live-set at last year’s Melt Festival: via