The past year has been one of the greatest years for TYPO3. 14 months ago, a lot of people thought TYPO3 would be dead more sooner than later, seeing Drupal, Joomla and others taking the fast lane and leaving TYPO3 with what was pretended to be “that German legacy system”. After the successful release of…
I read your article from this week with great interest. Your core message is that people praise new, supposedly environmentally friendly technologies to the skies and don’t look very closely at whether they are really environmentally friendly. And that any criticism of such concepts is blindly beaten to death. You compared Tesla to plastic bags…
When I had lunch with Michael à Porta a few months ago, he said the great sentence “It’s good to see how digital is increasingly penetrating the offline sector”. Michael and his team develop solutions for interactive shop windows and other touchpoint technology, among other things. We talked about how digital technology is slowly but…
The subliminal debate about decoupled content or form-free content is never-ending. What an effort we have all made in the CMS industry in recent years to teach customers to think in terms of structures rather than views. We have preached reusability, channel independence and versatility. This was a thoroughly noble endeavor. But has it reached…
When I was in Paris three weeks ago and still had some free time, I spontaneously visited Charles Nouboué from FITLE in his office. FITLE means nothing to you? But it should…
I didn’t actually want to write this article: I’ve been puzzling over it for the last few weeks and have come to the conclusion that there is already enough written about the media and newspapers in particular. But then a few things motivated me to do it.
Not a week goes by without me reading that digitalization is destroying jobs. What to do with all the people? Technology is making work obsolete and machines are taking over. That’s where things sometimes go haywire. Because the truth is that technology is not destroying human work at all. On the contrary. But it is…
When I attended the TYPO3 conference in 2006 as a newbie, I made the mistake of putting on a shirt as one of 5 out of around 600 participants. I quickly realized how this drew attention to me and as I moved from one hall to another, I heard two people say to each other:…
A few days ago, I described what I often encounter when dealing with customers: That studies, statistics and data are ignored with conviction and people are convinced that they know their customers and their behaviors best anyway. I have called it the “our user syndrome“. What I am also increasingly noticing, however, is that many…
Let’s get this out of the way right away: Yes, I’m probably not making any friends with this article. Even though Star Wars is very exciting and entertaining (“Where StarTrek gets excited about its technological gadgetry, Star Wars just parties“), I was socialized with StarTrek to a certain extent when it comes to technology and…