Obviously I am not that a great blogger. No news for several months. Shame on me.

Basically I just dropped by to post a new panorama: View from Behamberg to Kürnberg
Shot using new gear for taking panoramas. And I just love snowy tracks. Looks like white Christmas to me.

To sum 2009 up in a few words: the last year was great. Many personal achievements, business developing great and looking forward to an exciting 2010. Already tweaking the master plan and extracting some great goals for the next year. A year which I am quite sure will reveal some mayor milestones on our journey.

During the next weeks you are most likely to meet me somewhere between Salzburg and Vienna… maybe not at home so much. I wish you nice holidays, a happy new year and some challenging resolutions for 2010.

Today’s award for best use of Web2.0 technologies goes to Facebook user David F.

By automatic instant upload of a life photograph (most probably taken with an iPhone) to his Facebook account he managed to become internet-famous super quickly. Sadly for him not in the good sense of internet-famous. If you really want to see the nasty details you can find a screenshot of his Facebook wall here (NSFW). Be warned: the photo really is NSFW and might even be considered NSFL.

Farewell everyday life. For the next month we are visiting family in Japan again. Yes. You read it correctly: four complete weeks in Toyko. It has been a busy time since January 1st. Running a business as a one-man-show can make your life really busy. But in this case busy in the sense of a really good, very intense time. After figuring out how to spend my precious time I am looking forward to experience an exciting year. The last months were amazing and all the things which are queued to take off right after the trip are causing great vibes already.

I don’t want to spoil the surprise so be sure to check for updates in mid/end of may. In the meantime (while I am enjoying tasty asian cuisine and colorful sunsets at Odaiba beach after relaxing in traditional Japanese Onsen for hours) you are invited to take a look at a recent “just for fun” project: topsellerblog.de. The German platform for brand clothing gives you a high quality listing of brand clothes available online directly at the selling companies. Third party services like Google friend connect allow you to easily share your thoughts on the products.

About two weeks after getting rid of most of my online community accounts I just read a great summary of another person feeling the same. The article really sums up things nicely in words I never would have been able to put so well together.

From a webdeveloper’s point of view I am truly amazed by the great facebook framework. Seeing the great success of the platform does not make me feel anything than admiration. But from a social point of view I am really concerned about the ongoing abstraction of internet communities from the real world. It just makes me sad that I did not wake up earlier. At the moment I am just happy to have stopped this social nightmare.

The dilemma I am in right now is that my profession is webdeveloper. I am earning money by producing online systems. To not follow the mainstream is quite risky for a one-man-show company and might create a bad reputation at business partners who do believe in all buzzes. I hope those people too will one day find out that not everyone is happy with information overflow and real social isoliation created by online worlds.

My current quest is to find a way back to reality for online services. I want to use online technology to enhance my social experience in real-life… not to replace it. Today I was attending a NFC (near field communication) conference and was amazed by the possibilities this technology has to offer. That could really be a way to connect both worlds in a manner that will make me benefit from the online connectivity in a more satisfying way. Of course the internet still is holding a lot of useful ressources and services for me too. At the moment there is just the feeling that I want to spend more time with real people around than in online channels.

No matter if it will be NFC or any other kind of new technology… I am just curious about the future of the technological part of our lives.