http://www.reneseifert.com Entrepreneur, Global Citizen, Flat World, Internet, Web 2.0, Innovation, Start-Up Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:43:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I like London, and my reglar litmus-test question is: Would I be able to live here? Yes, I could. It was my first time in London where I was able to get a glimpse of the city, besides just flying in, rushing to a meeting and flying out again. So ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/07/london_flair_of_a_fast_city.html Although I've come quit a bit around, I have never really seen London properly. I've been there twice during my time at Lycos in 2000/2001, but only two days out of which most of the time I had spent in meetings or in my hotel room. So I am even ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/07/weekend_in_london_ahead.html Although its already back more than three weks, just didn’t want to give this post a miss, got really busy after this fabulous short (too short) break. So with help from my ghost writer here goes… :-) Take-off from Bangalore Airport (Bengaluru) which earlier in the day had its inauguration ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/06/sawadee_krap_city_of_angels_-_city_of_smiles.html Yesterday evening in Munich I listened to a speech from the CEO of Boston Consulting Group Hans-Peter Bürkner about "globalization", an issue that has my natural affinity. Yet, the speech as such I found rather "moderately novel" as its main lines of thought were put forward by Thomas Friedman already ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/06/8w8_taking_globalization_and_the_internet_to_the_next_level.html All my 10 years of being a radio-presenter till 2003 slightly re-appeared yesterday night when I was guest at the radio show at SeoFM.com, a weekly online-format of Germany's leading Search-Engine-Optimizers (SEOs) Marcus Tandler (a.k.a. Mediadonis ) and his "partner in crime" Ralf Götz (a.k.a. Fridaynite). It's a one hour ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/06/guest_at_seofmcom_in_munich_seo-outsourcing_to_india.html Came along this very interesting observation from Delphi , an "innovative market researcher" from Germany who is looking today at society in 2017. The focus is Germany with a tangible bullet-point list on the various aspect of change, like my favourites The retreating state prompts an enhanced self-responsibility ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/05/10_years_ahead_vision_from_innovative_market_research.html Oh Dear. It feels like ages since my last post which is not that wrong, that it was almost one month ago. I don't remember that I have been so inactive for such a long period of time. But anyway, the argument "no time" is too simplistic to be pulled ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/05/life_is_beautiful.html Just arrived in San Francisco after that loooooooooong 12 hour flight from Munich in the loooooooooong Airbus A340-600, the strech-limo among commercial airplanes. Before heading to sleep to be as fit as possible - given the 9 hours time-shift - for the Web 2.0 Expo starting tomorrow, still wanted to ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/04/icebergs_web_20_expo_and_mental_freeze.html Something I really don’t want to miss out on reporting was my visit to Bangalore’s Vatsalya Orphanage last Saturday. Thanks to my neighbour Shashi who is like a sister to me, takes care of my house when I am travelling and likewise of me when I am at home in ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/04/visiting_vatsalya-orphanage_in_bangalore.html I remember when I heard this song for the first time in the back-seat of a car driving through Mumbai, it's humid heat, it dusty streets when hardly any traffic moves forward, I was taken in immediately. It came from a CD which I understood was from the same artist, ... http://www.reneseifert.com/2008/04/my_favourite_indian_song_bulla_ki_jaana_maen_kaun_.html