Social Media

  • * More than once I had a lively argument on social media about “science”. Science-proponents are often very opinionated individuals. In some cases they were rather dogmatic. Especially those who are not scientists themselves fight others to convince them their…

  • Yahoo Answers dominated the Q&A space around 2010 when the Quora hype started and I originally wrote this article. Quora was barely visible at the start. In 2017 Quora finally overtook Yahoo Answers according to Google Trends: Many people ask…

  • L​ead or Follow?

    One of the most important factors of success is not being satisfied with merely following. When you are just following orders following trends following people instead of being yourself and doing what’s best for you you won’t succeed. It’s not…

  • in 2007 I boldly predicted that social browsing services like StumbleUpon are the next big thing! Not only that! I extrapolated that they will kill the popular social news site Digg and SEO 1.0! Did they? No. I was wrong.…

  • You certainly know urban legends already. Stories, misconceptions and myths that sound enticing and thus get spread through gossip all over the place. Urban legends mostly proliferate where people use to meet for small talk, thus “urban”. The Internet is…