The last two days I was one of a few people who had the great pleasure to enjoy the very informative conference about the Semantic Web (aka. Web 2.0/3.0, aka. the Giant Global Graph) in Vienna, Austria: the “Web of Data Practicioners Days”.

Many different point of views, development status of different semantic applications and best of all - available implementations around the topic Semantic Web were presented. The mix of information from introductory details for beginners like myself to insights for pros and senior programmers was perfect.
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Here you get a short glimpse at the desk at my home “office”.

Haven’t seen too many other work environments outside offices yet but I guess most of the tables are enough if they consist in a small notebook and some paper chaos. More is really not needed anymore.

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Today we relaunched our company page. At the moment in German language only but English and Japanese are going to follow soon. The static system is gone and all new powerful features of our framework are now available for happy frontend hacking. From now on the page will be much more up-to-date than previously due to the new backend core system. Also the work samples will be updated more lively in the future.
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Not long ago all the media was talking about SecondLife and the landrush. The hype was huge and everywhere. Almost no chance to escape it. My two active weeks at SecondLife surely were fun. Everybody was talking about the pioneers who managed to make their fortune in SecondLife and transferring their Linden Dollars to real life. Who would not like that idea? Getting wealthy by playing your favorite game. I still can remember us talking about opening an office in SecondLife and getting rich ourselves too. Some days later I already found out being in SecondLife is quite time consuming. Quickly the plans for our empire were dropped.
I still joined the party from time to time but soon even memory faded away. Today I stumbled across the SecondLife website and seems as if they are celebrating their fifth birthday soon. The blog looks like they desperately try to get word out. Anybody still addicted to SecondLife? Still hanging out in virtual space?