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Goodbye English – Hallo deutsch

Although I prefer writing in English, discussions at the Freigeist Startup Conference in Cologne today have shown me that it will be better to write this blog in German. So I will give German a test spin. I will continue to post most of my web findings on my posterous in English though.

This was a tough decision. However, I believe it is worth a try. The main reasons being:

  • Germans still prefer to read blogs in German and as I’d like to contribute to a German “lean” movement I should write for that audience
  • From time to time I want to post video interviews with various entrepreneurs and web people from Germany, these interviews will be mainly in German

I expect that for May and June I will be testing how it feels to write in German, then I will make a decision. What do you think, should I write this blog in German or English?

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I received an advance copy of “Delivering Happiness” the new book of Zappos’ Tony Hsieh

Yesterday I received an advance copy of Tony Hsieh’s book “Delivering Happiness”. (Note: I already published a post about Tony Hsieh and corporate policies.) UPS brought it in an express envelope to my doorstep. I have never bought anything at Zappos but although the package was a bit damaged it felt a little bit like the “Zappos” experience. Why? Because they sent a nice letter and two(!) copies of the book. Surprise!

Well, I am very exited that I was approved as a reviewer of the book. It will officially launch on June 7th. I will read it sometime in May and will publish my review here on this blog.

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Integration of the Facebook Like Button in WordPress

I just integrated the new Facebook Like button on LeanEntrepreneur. You can find it at the bottom of each post.

If you take the code snippet from Facebook’s generator you will get a code for an individual page. If you like a universal WordPress implementation you can use this code (which I found here):

<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID)); ?>&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:px”></iframe>

Hope you guys like it (and use it of course).

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