Einträge von Mike Schnoor

Mark Jen’s Resume on Google

Being introduced to your new job at Google on January 17th, 2005 and being fired just nearly two weeks later on January 28th, 2005 brought Google’s policies concerning bloggers to the medial focus. Publishing corporate information on his personal blog and utilizing this blog to openly criticize the company – Mark Jen commented on Google’s […]

Your Personal MSN Search

How to fight out a small battle with Microsoft? All you need is basically an invitation from MSN to participate in a promotion event for your own company. MSN offered to provide a personal search assistant accompanied by a laptop, mobile internet card and extra battery packages in order to advertise for its new search […]

Yahoo’s Slurp-Bot: Official Tips

The search-engine company Yahoo released some useful tips and tricks on how to limit the sometimes aggressive behavior of their spider robot „Slurp“. In the previous months, this particular robot became one of the most annoying and invading robots of my Blogspirit account. I already used the suggested method of including the „crawl delay“ option […]

Unlawful DVD Ripping

The idea to shoplift a DVD is hardly the usual among lawful citizens in any country. But instead of shoplifting, many people consider it is as legal as it seems to download the same movie for free on the internet. In the end it is nothing else but the same. Since I’m going to write […]

Two things I forgot to mention…

… are meant to be summarized by this article in wholeness. Let’s see what I can make of it. Bloglines Well yes, rumors hold a significant piece of truth. The search-engine company Ask Jeeves made a deal to take over Bloglines. I honestly don’t understand why half of the blogs I’ve been reading were onto […]

Over and Out

How amazing – the first set of tests for this week is over. With yesterday’s Medienmanagement and today’s Spanish Language test, I may find some time to prepare for James Lovejoy’s Intercultural Communication and Managers and the Law courses. I’m already worried since the information overload for both of these courses is very high in […]

Attraktivität durch Wissen

Der internationale Wettbewerb der Hochschulen um die klugen Köpfe hat in den letzten Jahren immer weiter zugenommen. Vor allem die englischsprachigen Länder wie die USA, Großbritannien und Australien, und zunehmend auch europäische Länder wie Frankreich und Skandinavien umwerben Studierende und Graduierte mit speziellen Studien- und Forschungsangeboten. Diesen Angeboten müssen die deutschen Hochschulen verstärkt entgegenwirken, um […]

Showdown for Medienmanagement

In the last days I’ve been suffering intensive headaches combined with some digestion problems and un-concentrated behavior. I believe this is only a vanguard for the final tests of which the first one in Medienmanagement start in about 1 hour. Probably… Probably not having spent enough time for MM. Probably not having learned everything correct […]

Saturday Night Life

I exist, and within this sphere of reality, I have made my choice to spend some time with my beautiful girlfriend. She’s caressing my stomache now and tries to kiss me. Within the whole preparation and learning for the final tests, we found some time to elevate our bodies with a burst of engine power […]

Google goes Local

After GPS, GPRS, UMTS and whichever other network services have proven to be able to find your nearest gasstation or hotel and transmit this data to your mobile phone, Google introduced their own „Google Local“ search tool to browse the web for local informations. And being the Sichelputzer who I am, I immediately wondered where […]