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Ostpreußen

das heutige Klaipėda in Litauen

Nature One

ist das größte Festival elektronischer Musik Europas und findet gewöhnlich am ersten Augustwochenende auf der ehemaligen Raketenbasis Pydna bei Hasselbach nahe Kastellaun im Hunsrück statt

Leipnitz

gestorben am 21. November 2000 in München

Nessus

was started by Renaud Deraison in 1998 to provide to the Internet community a free remote security scanner

Lindsey Vonn

geboren am 18. Oktober 1984 in Saint Paul, Minnesota als Lindsey Kildow

Lindsey Vonn

1. is an elite member of the U.S. Ski Team's alpine skiing program
2. born October 18, 1984 in Saint Paul, Minnesota as Lindsey Kildow

Salzberg

1. bekannt für den leckeren Tafelspitz mit Kartoffelrösti und Creme-Spinat
2. Gratis WLAN von Freewave

Johannes Matthias Augustus Stroh

Parlamentarische Kontrolle (Abschnitt Quelle) Neben dem Bundestag

Dexter

1. US-amerikanische Krimi-/Drama-Fernsehserie mit Elementen des schwarzen Humors. Michael C. Hall spielt den Serienmörder Dexter Morgan, der beim Miami-Metro Police Department als Forensiker (speziell Blutspritzeranalyse) arbeitet
2. Dexter Morgan ist seit seiner Kindheit traumatisiert: Er hat keinerlei Emotionen und den unstillbaren Drang zu töten

Dexter

American television drama series based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode

Donovan Bailey

geboren am 16. Dezember 1967 im Manchester Parish, Jamaika

Dr. Atl

died August 15, 1964

Palm Pre

1. scheduled for release in the first half of 2009
2. is the new smartphone from Palm with a newly developed operating system called Palm WebOS
3. Palm stock jumped almost 35% after the Pre announcement
4. makes use of the Palm webOS - a Linux based operating system developed by Palm
5. Uses "Synergy" to pull contacts from Google, Facebook and other formats into single format
6. functions as camera phone, portable media player, and Internet client (with text messaging, email, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity)
7. is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Palm, Inc. with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard
8. Three megapixel camera with flash

Popoli

liegt an der Autobahn A25 von Pescara nach Rom und an der Staatsstraße 17. Um den Ort Popoli gibt es drei große Quellen, die Größte ist die Sorgenti del Pescara mit über ca. 7.000 Liter pro Sekunde, gefolgt von der Sorgente Giardino, die mit ihr

Skifliegen

Gregor Schlierenzauer hat das Skifliegen 2009 am Kulm mit einem neuen Schanzenrekord von 215.5m gewonnen

BBCode

Viele Textauszeichnungen funktionieren in BBCode analog zu HTML, beispielsweise [i]kursiv[/i] und [u]unterstrichen[/u]

Burton Snowboards

1. Carpenter first made snowboards by hand in his garage
2. Founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977
3. sell several sub-brands which focus on specific market niches
4. manufacturer of snowboards

Ira Allen

gestorben am 7. Januar 1814

Julius Meinl

Das Julius Meinl Markenzeichen ist der von Joseph Binder entworfene Meinl-Mohr, ein dunkelhäutiger Kinderkopf mit hohem rotem Fes auf gelbem Grund

Publizist

Zeitungswissenschaftler

Gloriana Pellissier

geboren am 12. August 1976 in Aosta

Antonov

1. Антонова, formerly the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukraine-based (since 1952) aircraft manufacturing and services company with particular expertise in the field of very large aircraft construction
2. founded in 1952

LRG

LRG clothing ist eine im Jahr 1999 gegründete US-amerikanische Modefirma, die ihren Sitz in Orange County, Kalifornien hat

Rationale Funktion

teste anonymes fakten posten

Francis Poulenc

gestorben am 30. Januar 1963

Judas Priest

britische Heavy-Metal-Band aus Birmingham, die seit den 1970er Jahren als eine der einflussreichsten Bands ihres Genres gilt

Gloggnitz

eine Stadt im südlichen Niederösterreich am Fuße des Semmerings, und trägt den Beinamen Gloggnitz, Stadt in den Bergen

Carhartt

1. 
   Carhartt Logo
2. Carhartt Inc. is a U.S.-based clothing company founded in 1889
3. 
   Carhartt Logo
4. family owned company, owned by the descendants of company founder Hamilton Carhartt, with its headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan
5. 
   Carhartt Logo

GSUS

1. sold in 27 countries and a couple of hundred stores worldwide
2. dutch streetwear / fashion clothing company
3. founded in 1993

Chanel No. 5

1. Duft besteht aus insgesamt 80 Bestandteilen, verstärkt durch synthetische Aldehyde
2. 
   Chanel No. 5
3. durch Marilyn Monroes berühmte Aussage „zum Schlafen trage ich nur einige Tropfen Chanel № 5“ (1954) blieb der Erfolg dieses Duftes bis heute ungebrochen
4. „Ich lanciere diese Kollektion am fünften Tag des fünften Monats, die Fünf scheint mir Glück zu bringen.“

Coco Chanel

gestorben am 10. Januar 1971 in Paris

Coco Chanel

died January 10, 1971

Coco Chanel

geboren am 19. August 1883 in Saumur

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel

Family Guy

1. created in 1999 after the Larry shorts (its predecessor) caught the attention of the Fox Broadcasting Company during the 1999 Super Bowl commercial
2. cancelled once in 2000 and again in 2002, but strong DVD sales and the large viewership of reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim convinced Fox to resume the show in 2005
3. show centers on a semi-dysfunctional family that lives in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island

Audi quattro

hat einen permanenten Vierradantrieb mit mittlerer und hinterer Differenzialsperre

Brat

slang term for a group of young actors in the 1980s who made several movies together

Da Brat

1. rapper popular in the 1990s
2. American female rapper
3. born April 14,1974

Douglas DC-8

vierstrahliges Düsenpassagierflugzeug der Douglas Aircraft Company

Ferrari

1. 1947 vom ehemaligen Rennfahrer Enzo Ferrari als eigenständige Marke gegründet und gehört heute zum Fiat-Konzern
2. Stammsitz des Unternehmens ist Maranello in Italien

Frank Schätzing

geboren am 28. Mai 1957 in Köln

Lewis Hamilton

geboren am 7. Januar 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England

Bastiano de' Rossi

gestorben im 17. Jh. in Florenz

Bastien Geiger

geboren am 26. Februar 1985

Einwurf

Tätigkeit eine Gegenstand durch eine Öffnung bzw. in ein bestimmtes Ziel zu werfen

Einwurf

Diskussion: einen ungefragten Kommentar eines Dritten in einer Diskussion

Einwurf

Eine Öffnung, in die Etwas hineingeworfen werden kann

Patrick Head

co-founder and Engineering Director of the Williams Formula One team

Patrick Head

1. britischer Ingenieur und beim englischen Williams Formel 1-Team als leitender Ingenieur tätig
2. geboren am 5. Juni 1946 in Farnborough, Hampshire, England

Florian Pronold

1. deutscher Politiker (SPD) und seit 2002 Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
2. geboren am 28. Dezember 1972 in Passau

iFart

1. iFart developer makes $40,000 in 2 days
2. Digital Sound Machine and entertainment system bringing laughs and enjoyment to its users
3. built-in security system designed to surprise and discourage iPhone theft

Gesine Schwan

1. Hochschullehrerin und Kandidatin der SPD für das Amt der Bundespräsidentin im Jahr 2004 und 2009
2. geboren am 22. Mai 1943 in Berlin

Amsterdam

capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country

Dob

steht für Damenoberbekleidung

Sony

Sony has historically been notable for creating its own in-house standards for new recording and storage technologies instead of adopting those of other manufacturers and standards bodies

Agenda 2010

verweist auf Europa

Coco Chanel

1. Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, besser bekannt als Coco Chanel, laut Geburtsurkunde eigentlich Gabrielle Bonheur Chasnel (der Tippfehler wurde nie korrigiert) war eine französische Modeschöpferin
2. Coco Chanel brachte über ihre Kindheit und Jugend immer wieder beschönigte Versionen in Umlauf

Grey's Anatomy

The series revolves around Dr. Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, who began the show as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital

Amsterdam

1. Hauptstadt der Niederlande und hat 747.290 Einwohner (Stand 1. Januar 2008), als Agglomeration Groot-Amsterdam ca. 1,5 Mio. (2007)
2. Im Großraum Amsterdam (nördlicher Teil des Verdichtungsraumes Randstad) leben ca. 2,5 Mio Menschen

Hip-Hop

-Musik ɦip ̟ɦɑp hat ihre Wurzeln in der schwarzen Funk- und Soul-Musik

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger wurde inhaftiert weil sie die erste Abtreibungs-Klinik einführte

Berentzen

1. Aktien sind zur Hälfte Stammaktien und zur Hälfte stimmrechtslose Vorzugsaktien
2. mittelständisches Unternehmen mit Hauptsitz in Haselünne, Deutschland
3. börsennotiertes mittelständisches Unternehmen mit dem Schwerpunkt auf der Herstellung und Vertrieb von Spirituosen und alkoholfreien Getränken

Sennheiser

private German company that makes microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business applications

London

capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom

Vienna

by far the largest city in Austria as well as its cultural, economic, and political center

Aphex Twin

1. Richard D. James gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Electronica-Szene
2. Aphex Twin wurde vor allem durch die ungewöhnlichen und teilweise verstörenden Musikvideos zu „Windowlicker“ und „Come To Daddy“ bekannt, die in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Regisseur Chris Cunningham entstanden

David Bowie

1. David Bowie was born in Brixton, London
2. Bowie is also known for his baritone vocal range

Fotografie

1. bezeichnet ein technisches Verfahren, bei dem mit Hilfe von optischen Verfahren ein Lichtbild auf ein lichtempfindliches Medium projiziert und dort direkt dauerhaft gespeichert (analoges Verfahren) oder in elektronische D
2. das dauerhafte Lichtbild (Diapositiv, Filmbild oder Papierbild; umgangssprachlich kurz Bild oder Foto genannt), das durch fotografische Verfahren hergestellt wird; dabei kann es sich entweder um ein Positiv oder ein Negativ auf Film, etc. handeln

Groupe Danone

is a French food-products company based in Paris

Robert Kalina

Grafiker aus Österreich, der den 1000 Schilling Schein und die EURO Banknoten entwarf

Newsmagazine

weekly magazine featuring articles or segments on current events

Apple

1. hieß früher Apple Computer Inc
2. Apple Inc. ist ein Unternehmen mit Hauptsitz in Cupertino, Kalifornien (Vereinigte Staaten), das Computer und Unterhaltungselektronik sowie Betriebssysteme und Anwendungssoftware herstellt

Nigeria

country located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north

Wifitising

a form of advertising over wifi networks

Taxi

hired vehicle with a driver conveying passengers between locations

Backup

copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

Kaffee

1. bohnen werden aus Steinfrüchten verschiedener Pflanzenarten aus der Familie der Rubiaceae gewonnen
2. schwarzes, koffeinhaltiges Heißgetränk, das aus gerösteten (Röstkaffee) und gemahlenen Kaffeebohnen hergestellt wird

Beck's

1. 1873
2. German beer brand of the brewery Beck & Co in the north German city of Bremen

Promiscuity

sexual behaviour of a man or woman who either casually or regularly has sex with several partners

Orbit

Umlaufbahn, auf der sich ein Objekt periodisch um ein anderes Objekt bewegt

iPhone

1. von Apple entwickeltes Smartphone, das über den Bildschirm mit einem oder mehreren Fingern (Multi-Touch) gesteuert wird
2. US-Magazin Time wählte das iPhone zur „Erfindung des Jahres 2007“
3. Verkaufsstart in den USA war am 29. Juni 2007

UMTS

1. Abkürzung für Universal Mobile Telecommuncations System
2. Mobilfunkstandard der dritten Generation (3G), mit dem deutlich höhere Datenübertragungsraten als mit dem GSM-Standard möglich sind

Logitech

1. MX 1000 war 2004 die weltweit erste Lasermaus auf dem Markt
2. Unternehmen wurde 1981 gegründet
3. unter anderem produziert Logitech Computer Mäuse, Lautsprecher, Headsets, Webcams und anderes Computer- und Konsolen-Zubehör
4. international tätiger Schweizer Computerzubehör-Hersteller

Transformers

1. Regie von Michael Bay
2. Weltweit spielte der Film an den Kinokassen über 700 Millionen US-Dollar ein
3. US-amerikanischer Spielfilm aus dem Jahr 2007, der auf den gleichnamigen Spielzeugreihen von Hasbro basiert

TKP

1. Tausenderkontaktpreis ist eine Kennzahl aus der Mediaplanung
2. Tausenderkontaktpreis gibt an, welcher Betrag eingesetzt werden muss, um 1000 Personen einer Zielgruppe per Sichtkontakt zu erreichen

Byte

1. Standard-Maßeinheit für Datengrößen in Computern
2. Ein Byte entsteht durch die Zusammenfassung von 8 Bits

Festplatte

1. auch HDD genannt
2. Laufwerk, das Daten magnetisch auf mehreren, im Gehäuse untergebrachten, Scheiben speichert und auf diese beliebigen Zugriff bietet
3. Magnetisches Speichermedium mit hohen Kapazitäten und recht geringen Zugriffszeiten

Mainboard

1. Zentrale Platine, auf der die Komponenten eines PCs miteinander verbunden werden
2. im englischen Sprachgebrauch oft auch Motherboard genannt

München

1. Landeshauptstadt von Bayern
2. drittgrößte Stadt Deutschlands sowie die zwölftgrößte der Europäischen Union
3. Mit 4.313 Einwohnern je km² hat München die höchste Bevölkerungsdichte aller deutschen Großstädte
4. 1,3 Millionen Einwohner

RAM

1. wird auch als Arbeitsspeicher oder Hauptspeicher bezeichnet
2. im Gegensatz zur Festplatte ist RAM ein nicht-permanenter Speicher, das heißt, die Daten werden im RAM nur so lange gespeichert, bis die Stromzufuhr unterbrochen wird
3. Abkürzung für Random Access Memory

Apple

1. Am 1. April 1976 von Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak und Ronald Wayne gegründet
2. Unternehmen, das Computer und Unterhaltungselektronik sowie Anwendungssoftware herstellt
3. iPod ist einer der erfolgreichsten Portable-Media-Player der Welt
4. 1970 gehörte Apple zu den ersten Herstellern von Personal Computern

Transformers

1. Action-Figuren, die seit 1984 hergestellt werden
2. Spielzeugroboter, die sich mit wenigen Handgriffen zu Autos, Flugzeugen, Kampfstationen etc. umwandeln lassen
3. Es gab auch eine Zeichentrickserie, um den Verkauf der Action-Figuren zu fördern

Berlin

1. mit 3,4 Millionen Einwohnern die bevölkerungsreichste und flächengrößte Stadt Deutschlands
2. bedeutendes Zentrum der Politik, Medien, Kultur und Wissenschaft in Europa
3. Hauptstadt und Regierungssitz Deutschlands

Uganda

1. von Winston Churchill als „Perle Afrikas“ bezeichnet
2. 28,9 Mio Einwohner
3. ist von Seen, dem Weißen Nil (hier: Viktoria-Nil und Albert-Nil), Urwäldern und Savannen geprägt
4. Staat in Ostafrika

Eminem

1. Der Name Eminem entstand aus der phonetischen Schreibung seiner Initialen „M & M“
2. wird auch Slim Shady genannt
3. US-amerikanischer Rapper und Produzent, Grammy- und Oscar-Preisträger

Prozessor

Recheneinheit eines Computers, die über Software andere Bestandteile steuert

Lidl

1. deutsche Discount-Kette und Teil der Schwarz-Unternehmensgruppe mit Sitz in Neckarsulm
2. 33 Lagergesellschaften, die ca. 2.700 Filialen betreuen, ca. 80.000 Mitarbeiter weltweit
3. Anfänge des Unternehmens reichen bis ins Jahr 1930 zurück
4. Sortiment ist mit 2000 Produkten für einen Discounter untypisch breit aufgestellt, Aldi führt nur 700 Artikel
5. Rechtsform einer Kommanditgesellschaft (KG)

Microsoft

1. multinationaler Softwarehersteller mit 79.000 Mitarbeitern und einem Umsatz von 51 Mrd US-$
2. 1990 wurden das grafische Betriebssystem Microsoft Windows und die Bürosoftware Microsofts, Microsoft Office, Marktführer
3. 1975 von Bill Gates und Paul Allen gegründet
4. Marktführer bei Betriebssystemen und Office-Anwendungen
5. „Microsoft“ steht für Microcomputer-Software

Beck’s

1. gehört seit 2002 zur belgischen Interbrew-Gruppe
2. wird international neben Deutschland nur in insgesamt vier weiteren Ländern weltweit hergestellt
3. Unter dem Namen Beck’s stellt die Brauerei Beck & Co. verschiedene Biere und mehrere Biermischgetränke für den deutschen und internationalen Markt her

Red Bull

1. Taurin-haltiger Energy-Drink
2. GmbH ist ein österreichischer Getränkehersteller

Polen

1. 528 km lange Ostseeküste
2. größte Stadt ist Warschau
3. Mitgliedstaat der Europäischen Union seit dem 1. Mai 2004
4. Staat in Mitteleuropa
5. Klima ist gemäßigt und wird nach Osten und Südosten immer kontinentaler

Tchibo

1. eines der größten deutschen, international tätigen Konsumgüter- und Einzelhandelsunternehmen
2. Die Marke Tchibo hat in Deutschland einen Bekanntheitsgrad von 99 %

Buenos Aires

1. 13 Millionen Einwohner
2. Hauptstadt und das kommerzielle und industrielle Zentrum Argentiniens
3. Name kommt von einer Schutzheiligen der Seefahrer, Santa Maria del Buen Ayre

Buenos Aires

1. capital and largest city of Argentina
2. Strongly influenced by European culture, Buenos Aires is sometimes referred to as the "Paris of South America"
3. third largest conurbation in Latin America
4. 13,000,000 inhabitants

EVDO

1. Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data only
2. telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access

Chemical Brothers

1. typeface used to write the typical "The Chemical Brothers" logo is derived from Sho, designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer in 1992
2. founded by Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons (occasionally referred to as Chemical Tom and Chemical Ed)
3. one of the few truly arena-sized electronic acts
4. from Manchester, England
5. pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre
6. 
   Chemical Brothers
7. UK-based Grammy Award winning electronic music duo

Sudoku

1. mind game
2. name derives from the Japanese phrase "Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru," meaning "the numbers must be single"
3. objective is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes contains the digits from 1 to 9, only one time each
4. 
   Sudoku
5. logic-based number placement puzzle
6. means "single digits"

Accumulation

purchase of a large number of shares over a longer period of time to avoid pushing the price up

Brand

1. has functional and emotional elements which create a relationship between customers and the product or service
2. name, sign or design to identify products or services from a company in order to differentiate them from those of competitors

Caterina Fake

1. American
2. best known as the co-founder of Flickr
3. won BusinessWeek's Best Leaders Award in 2005
4. 
   Caterina Fake
5. "Fake" is the real name. It was anglicized from the German, "Feick" in the 1500s
6. American businesswoman and entrepreneur
7. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Corporate Design

1. official graphical design of the logo and name of a company
2. includes letterheads, envelopes, forms, folders, brochures, etc

Frequently Asked Questions

Matthew Hopkins wrote The Discovery of Witches in 1647 in FAQ format

Garbsen

1. nearby Hannover
2. 

GIF

1. 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format
2. original version of the GIF format was called 87a
3. limited to 256 colors
4. introduced by CompuServe in 1987
5. Most people pronounce GIF with a hard "G"
6. Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
7. uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space

JPEG

1. compression algorithm is not as well suited for line drawings as PNG and GIF
2. approved in 1994 as ISO 10918-1
3. commonly used method of compression for photographic images
4. compression method is usually lossy compression
5. stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group
6. most used for storing and transmitting photographs

MB

1. Megabyte
2. equal to either 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes, depending on context
3. unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity

Philanthropist

someone who donates his/her time to charitable causes

PNG

1. computer image format that employs lossless data compression
2. acronym PNG is optionally recursive, unofficially standing for “PNG's Not GIF”
3. created to improve upon and replace the GIF format
4. stands for Portable Network Graphics
5. pronounced "ping"

Roger Federer

1. tennis professional
2. regarded as the best tennis player of his generation
3. Born on August 8, 1981
4. Born in Binningen, Basel-Land Switzerland
5. named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
6. co-established the Roger Federer Foundation in December 2003
7. Swiss
8. ranked World No. 1 since February 2, 2004
9. 
   Roger Federer

Salt

first registers of salt use were produced around 4000 B.C. in Egypt

Soft Launch

launching a website in stages and without mass media coverage

Twitter

launched July 13, 2006

Warren Buffett

1. committed to give away $30 billion to charity with 83% going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2. Born on August 30, 1930
3. 
   Warren Buffett
4. investor, businessperson and philanthropist
5. known as "the oracle of Omaha"
6. Buffett's donation is said to be the largest in U.S. history
7. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
8. net worth of around US$52 billion (2007)
9. one of the wealthiest people in the world
10. Master's degree in economics in 1951 at Columbia University
11. American
12. value investing approach

A4

1. compact executive car produced by the German automaker Audi since 1994
2. successor of the Audi 80

Abraham Lincoln

1. I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization
2. Born on February 12, 1809
3. sixteenth President of the United States
4. April 15, 1865
5. American
6. introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery
7. Died on April 15, 1865

cohesive

means well-integrated, unified

Factolex

structured knowledge

iPhone

1. designed and marketed by Apple Inc
2. announced at the Macworld convention on January 9, 2007
3. User input is accomplished via a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons
4. multimedia and Internet-enabled mobile phone

Mark Twain

1. American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer
2. Born on November 30, 1835
3. Born in Florida, Missouri, USA
4. author
5. wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. April 21, 1910
7. Redding, Connecticut
8. real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens
9. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover
10. Died on April 21, 1910
11. American

PDA

1. term "personal data assistant" first used in 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley
2. personal digital assistant
3. also known as pocket computers or palmtop computers
4. popular business PDA is BlackBerry

Snowman

Factolex Snowman

Marshall Kirkpatrick

1. American
2. Born in 1976
3. Lead Author at Read/WriteWeb
4. During 2006 he was Lead Blogger at TechCrunch

Miami

1. 
2. international financial and cultural center
3. Florida
4. major city in southeastern Florida
5. incorporated as a city on July 28, 1896
6. one of the largest, most influential ports in the United States, the Port of Miami
7. 404,048 inhabitants
8. largest city within the South Florida metropolitan area
9. USA
10. metro area grew from just over one thousand residents to nearly five and a half million residents in just 110 years (1896-2006)

Nice

1. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
2. major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera
3. France
4. 347,100 inhabitants
5. 
6. city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille and Genoa
7. settlements in the Nice area approximately 2,000 years ago

Robert Scoble

1. Born in New Jersey, USA
2. joined Podtech.net in 2006
3. We live in a time when most people don't trust big companies
4. American
5. Vice President of Media Development, PodTech.Network Inc
6. Born on January 18, 1965
7. co-author of "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers"
8. best known for his popular blog Scobleizer
9. joined Microsoft in May 2003
10. American blogger, technical evangelist, and author

Shel Israel

1. Blogging is the center of my Global Neighbourhood and it has changed my life
2. consultant, blogger and author
3. was involved in the introduction of products like SoundBlaster, PowerPoint, Filemaker, Napster
4. Born in 1944
5. co-author (with Robert Scoble) of "Naked Conversations, How blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers"
6. has a bachelor’s degree in journalism
7. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
8. has been consulting technology startups since 1982

Snowman

1. snowmen are considered a symbol of Christmas
2. 
   Snow Man
3. creating a snowman dates back to at least the Middle Ages
4. man-like sculpture made of snow
5. Jack Frost (1998 film) a movie with Michael Keaton in which he wakes up as a snowman after a car accident

Fact

1. is something that is the case, something that actually exists
2. findings derived through a process of evaluation
3. something that can be verified according to an established standard of evaluation
4. synonymous with truth or reality
5. derives from the Latin Factum

Syndication

1. Large scale web syndication of content started in 2001
2. two main web syndication formats are RSS and Atom
3. many different types of content are syndicated on the Internet: newspapers, commercial web sites and blogs
4. web feeds make a portion of a website available to other sites or subscribers

Tag

1. Many people associate "tagging" with the idea of the semantic web, however some believe that tagging may not be having a positive effect on the overall drive towards the semantic web
2. a word to describe an object like a piece of information, bookmark, etc
3. chosen informally and personally by item author/creator
4. keyword or term associated with a piece of information (pic, video, blog entry, etc.)
5. "tagging" has become associated with the Web 2.0 buzz
6. can be made in singular or in plural
7. enables keyword-based classification and search of information

Term

a word or compound word used in a specific context

Terminology

1. compiling the terminology, on paper or in databases
2. analysing the concepts and concept structures used in a field or domain of activity
3. Ad hoc terminology: deals with a single term or a limited number of terms
4. Systematic terminology, which deals with all the terms in a specific subject field or domain of activity
5. identifying the terms assigned to the concepts
6. study of terms and their use

Neustrelitz

1. city centre is characterised by Baroque architecture
2. first mentioned in 1278
3. town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Apple

1. public
2. 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, USA

Audi

1. is the latin variation of "Horch" meaning listen, which is the former company name
2. Pronunciation: The correct German and Latin form rhymes with "howdy". (pronounced /ˈaʊdiː/)
3. Germany-based car manufacturer

Ericsson

1. public
2. Swedish-based provider of telecommunication and data communication systems
3. Founded in 1876
4. founded by Lars Magnus Ericsson
5. Torshamnsgatan 23, Kista, Stockholm, Sweden 164 83
6. part of the so-called "Wireless Valley"

France

1. French people often refer to France as L'Hexagone (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory
2. Language is French

Heineken

1. brewed in the Heineken brewery in Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands
2. made of purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast
3. Dutch pale lager made by Heineken International
4. brewed by 40 breweries in 39 countries around the world
5. Founded in 1868

Vienna

Crest of Vienna

Zac Efron

1. known to young audiences after his roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical
2. arguably the biggest teen star in America right now

Kanye West

American

Parasitism

1. one version of symbiosis ("living together")
2. a symbiotic relationship that benefits the parasite but harms the parasite's partner

JavaScript

1. trademark of Sun Microsystems
2. originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape
3. designed to have a similar look to Java, but be easier for non-programmers to work with
4. scripting language used for client-side web development
5. unrelated to the Java programming language
6. implementation of the ECMAScript standard

Long Tail

1. products that are in low demand volume can collectively make up a market share exceeding the few current bestsellers
2. first coined by Chris Anderson
3. 
   Graph of the Long Tail

Seed Capital

1. is not a large amount of money. usually $10,000 or less
2. used to pay for preliminary operations like market research and product development
3. founders themselves give seed capital using savings, mortgage money or funds borrowed from family and friends

Transformers

1. Produced by Steven Spielberg
2. their war, our world
3. Directed by Michael Bay
4. based on the Transformers franchise

United States Of America

1. Currency is US-Dollar (USD)
2. 302,788,000 inhabitants
3. Capital is Washington D.C

Web 2.0

1. second generation of web-based communities and hosted services
2. social element where users generate and distribute content, often with freedom to share and re-use
3. facilitate collaboration and sharing data between users
4. Data as the driving force
5. The web as a platform
6. is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform

David Sifry

founding member of Technorati blog search engine

Om Malik

1. senior writer for Red Herring
2. executive editor for the technology blog GigaOM
3. senior writer for Forbes
4. Born on September 29, 1966
5. founder of Giga Omni Media, Inc
6. Indian-American
7. Born in New Delhi, India

Distributed Computing

1. specific form of parallel computing
2. principle that large problems can almost always be divided into smaller ones

A4

1. most widely used paper size in Europe
2. international standard paper size 210x297 mm

Adium

1. GNU General Public License
2. originally created by college student Adam Iser
3. free instant messaging client
4. first version released in September 2001
5. supports multiple protocols

Coffee

1. prepared from roasted seeds (called beans) from the coffee plant
2. cultivated in Latin America, Asia, and Africa
3. first consumed in the 9th century
4. initially used for spiritual reasons
5. negative health effects due to caffeine
6. discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia

Michael Arrington

1. American
2. makes $ 240,000 per month with advertising alone
3. Born on March 13, 1970
4. graduated from Stanford Law School in 1995
5. serial entrepreneur and maintainer of the TechCrunch blog
6. one of the 25 Forbes Web Celebrities

Mountain Dew

1. produced by PepsiCo
2. citrus soft drink
3. euphemism for moonshine
4. caffeinated, sweet, citrus-flavored soft drink
5. marketed to 12-30 year olds

Prison Break

1. premiered August 29, 2005 on Fox
2. created by Paul Scheuring
3. man sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and his brother's plan to help him escape
4. American serial drama television series

SEO

1. Search Engine Optimisation
2. considers how search algorithms work and what people search for
3. improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines
4. involves site's coding, presentation and structure
5. search engines like Google recognize websites trying to spam their index
6. the higher a website "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site

Sony Corporation

1. Masaru Ibuka, joined by his colleague Akio Morita in 1946
2. electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group
3. founded in 1945 with a small radio repair shop
4. revenue of $70.303 billion (as of 2007)

Tim O'Reilly

born in 1954

Tokyo

1. located in Japan
2. largest city in Japan
3. 12,790,000 inhabitants
4. 
5. largest domestic and international hub for rail, ground, and air transportation

WoW

massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Linksys

1. Victor and Janie Tsao
2. acquired by Cisco in 2003
3. division of Cisco Systems selling products for home and small office networks
4. most popular product is the WRT54G router
5. originally founded in 1988

Europe

main natural vegetation cover is mixed forest

Europe

world's second-smallest continent in terms of area

Europe

1. estimated population of 728 million
2. council of Europe flag was created in 1955
3. most prevalent religion is Christianity

Factolex

1. terms go straight to the point. no blah!
2. reduced to the facts
3. community powered fact lexicon

Gentoo

1. tools and utilities are built from source code
2. modular, portable, easy-to-maintain, flexible
3. initially created by Daniel Robbins
4. optimized for the user's machine
5. cool Linux derivat with best package system

HTTP

client initiates a request by establishing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to a particular port on a host

iPod

1. Steve Jobs: 1000 songs in your pocket
2. dominates the digital music player market
3. launched in October 2001
4. the name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter
5. iTunes software is used to transfer music to the device
6. Click Wheel

Theodore Roosevelt

1. most famous for his personality: energy, vast range of interests and achievements
2. Born on October 27, 1858
3. President
4. born into a wealthy family
5. American
6. youngest President in United States history at the age of 42
7. 26th President of the United States
8. Died on January 6, 1919

Tooltime

1. fictitious handyman show-within-a-show in Home Improvement
2. Does everybody know what time it is? TOOL TIME!
3. hosted by Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor (played by Tim Allen)
4. Al Borland (played by Richard Karn)

Vienna

1. about 1.7 million inhabitants
2. Founded around 500 BC
3. 
4. largest city in Austria
5. located in Austria
6. very east of Austria and is close to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

Xbox 360

1. supports audio playback with music player controls
2. conceived in early 2003
3. Backward compatibility through software emulation of the original Xbox
4. Xbox Live service allows players to compete online
5. supports videos in .wmv-format, high-definition .wmv, H.264, MPEG-4
6. officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005

Berlin

1. capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany
2. Germany

cm

1. unit of length in the metric system
2. 1 cm = 0.01 meters

Luciano Pavarotti

1. part of "The Three Tenors"
2. Italian tenor in opera music

San Francisco

1. USA
2. 744,041 (2006)
3. 

em

1. general unit for measuring lenghts, for example page margins and paddings
2. technique for writing scalable style sheets

Falco

1. austrian pop star whose records went to #1 throughout the world during the 80s
2. first hit was "Der Kommissar" in 1982
3. worldwide #1 hit was "Rock Me Amadeus" in 1986

Procrastination

1. comes from the Latin word procrastinatus: pro- (forward) and crastinus (of tomorrow)
2. anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision
3. type of avoidance behaviour characterised by postponing actions to a later time

Bluetooth

1. standard and communications protocol primarily designed for low power consumption
2. operates in the license-free ISM band at 2.4-2.4835 GHz
3. implemented in a variety of products such as phones, printers, modems, ...
4. named after a late tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth King of Denmark and Norway
5. way to connect and exchange information between devices
6. developed in 1994 by Jaap Haartsen

Gustav Mahler

1. best known as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors
2. Bohemian-Austrian
3. composed primarily symphonies and songs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

influential composer of the Classical era

Falco

1. Vienna, Austria
2. Musician
3. February 19, 1957
4. February 6, 1998

Gustav Mahler

1. Died on May 18, 1911
2. Born on July 7, 1860

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

1. J. K. Rowling
2. released globally in 93 countries
3. seventh and final book of Harry Potter novels

Johann Sebastian Bach

1. most productive period between 1708 - 1714
2. wrote many works for the harpsichord
3. best known during his lifetime as an organist

San Francisco

1. second most densely populated major city in the U.S
2. popular international tourist destination
3. fourth most populous city in California
4. located on the west coast of the U.S

Halo 3

1. Up to four people can participate in multiplayer match on a single Xbox 360 in Halo 3. Up to sixteen may participate in a single match over a LAN or Xbox Live
2. is a first-person shooter video game
3. utilizes a proprietary graphics engine, developed inhouse
4. released on September 25, 2007