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January 2, 2008
January 2, 2008
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i am mareen fischinger, a photographer in düsseldorf, germany.
this blog shows some of my personal life. i mobile-post behind the scene photos and ideas, too – in no specific order.
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Little L!
At the first of three shooting days, Location 1.
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Tattoo
I have a tattoo. It’s on my back, near my right shoulder blade. I got it several years ago during a very crazy night with my friends. While three of them were getting their belly buttons pierced, I wanted to join them in doing something edgy and momentous and thought (erroneously, as it turns out) that a tattoo would be less painful. I dimly remember looking at a poster of Chinese characters and choosing two that seemed meaningful. The first one was “to seek” and the second was “heaven.” (My friend Claudia tells me that I have no way of knowing this, and probably the two characters are “midlife” and “crisis” and the guy who gave me the tattoo is still laughing about it).
A few weeks later, I was driving Jake and his friends Luke and Nick someplace. It was hot, so I was wearing a tank top. From the back seat, Luke said, “Wow. I didn’t know you had a tattoo, Mrs. Hurwitz.”
“Yeah,” I said, feeling pretty cool.
“Is that Chinese writing?” Nick asked.
“Uh huh.”
“What does it say?” asked Luke.
“To seek heaven,” I said.
After a brief silence, Nick spoke. “Who’s Kevin?”
Lars & Jochri
Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ
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by Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch
“Facebook is pursuing social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in the Californian Supreme Court against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebook’s ‘look, feel, features and services’.
StudiVZ claims to have 10 million active members, and is the largest social network in the German-speaking world, covering Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. The network is actually comprised of three different sites; each one a separate social network aimed at different segments of the market. StudiVZ.net is the classic site for college-aged students, SchuelerVZ.net is for high school students and MeinVZ.net is for older adults (these three networks were very hard to decipher in German when I attempted to sign up).
Facebook does seem to have a claim here, as the German site looks like nothing more than Facebook in red and translated in German. Everything from the first public page, the sign-up page and the profile pages look eerily similar to the US-based social network. StudiVZ was acquired earlier this year by the German media group Georg von Holtzbrinck, with an acquisition price in the €100M range. They always say to sue where the money is, and Facebook has certainly found a pile of it by targeting Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.” (link to the article)
Finally!
I was wondering why the hell this didn’t happen earlier. Just copying an existing service (not even just the concept) does not make you the inventor of it in Germany.
