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These are my links for June 18th through July 3rd:

• Control PowerPoint With Your Phone | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10 - pretty useful
• How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt) - nice ideas for getting quick results
• SocialLearn - definetly a good direction
• LG Secret viral ad aims for sexy, ends up squarely at creepy - Engadget - funny but also a little creepy

These are my links for May 27th through June 16th:

• TheFunded Goes From Criticizing VCs to Helping Members Court Them - Interesting point on introducing VCs - like the idea of pooled capital (i.e. risk diversiviation)
• Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012 -
• Questions and comments about Firefox 3, IE 8, the future of Web browsers, cloud computing, and how it all comes together - SuperSite Blog -

These are my links for April 22nd through May 17th:

• Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler - Sounds nice and simple
• Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? - I think tagging is underestimated
• Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups. - seems like hosted services could get some trust finally

These are my links for April 10th through April 19th:

• Web 2.0 in Germany: Copy/Paste Innovation or more? - Mostly right, but i think Xing/OpenBC is older than LinkedIn
• German Startup Community Makes Us Proud Once Again: Freundefeed - are germans really so uncreative?
• Biosprit - Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit? -
• Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service - consumers really could use this

These are my links for March 3rd through March 17th:

• Global Or Die: Is There A Future For Local Startups? - would be interesting to evaluate that for asia
• Video “DLD08 - Day 3 - Green transportation” von DLD | sevenload - sounds not bad
• ROFL.TO : Daily Funny Video Clips! - That’s how you get rid of a jackass

Today I called my 师伯 于斌 (gongfu uncle yu bin) to speak with him about when to visit him in 青岛 (Qingdao). So, this Thursday night we (Hanno and me) are goona take the night train to 青岛 where 于斌 and his student are gonna pick us up at the train station. My 师伯 was really happy to hear from me and me, I’m also really looking forward to meeting and training with him again. Hanno’s only gonna stay for the weekend, but I’m maybe staying a little longer to enjoy some more of the 山东螳螂拳 (Shandong Tanglang Quan).

Also I contacted Ma Wei Ling Laoshi today and will meet him tonight together with Hanno for some 马家螳螂拳 (Ma Family Tanglang Quan). I hope my 4 摘要 (Zhai Yao) are still correct and ok This is also a good opportunity for Hanno to get to know some other style of 螳螂拳 and be able to train some of it while in 北京 (Beijing).

Yesterday I met up with my gongfu brother Rene, who also used to train with Ma Laoshi and Mike Martello. He’s living in Beijing now and as the Massage Junkie that he is, he invited me to a nice Oil Massage, which was suprisingly light and unpainful. Afterwards we had some 韩式烤肉 (Korean BBQ). We’ll most probably meet up soon with him and Zhang Xin Bin Laoshi for some talks and 通背 (Tongbei) training. So it seems like I’ll be having some pretty gongfu filled time coming…

So I’m back in Beijing for more than a week now. Not much has changed - only some new buildings and the lack of restaurants I used to go. The weather is really nice and the air I got used to quite fast.

I’m staying with german friends (Hanno and Marcel) who live close to 五道口 (Wudaokou), which is my old neighborhood, so I can easily find my way around. They’re pretty cool folks so I’m most probably staying with them longer than planed. We get along quite well - training and partying together.

The first day already started quite nice. I arrived at 11 am and after getting some food and fixing my mobile, we already had Taiji training. Afterwards we invited my teacher to 火锅 (Hotpot) and had some beers. Then we went to meet some people at Lush and had more beer and some absinth And as it wasn’t too far we moved over to Propaganda for some dance action. Even this club hasn’t changed much, stll HipHop music and full of Koreans… ^^ and it was still fun, so that we were home at about 7 am. Read the rest of this entry »

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