Archive for the 'Business' Category

Urbanseeder

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

This is from Maya Lotan (Israel). I met her at Reboot 8.0 in Copenhagen. She needs a good webdeveloper for her Urbanseeder project:

Urbanseeder is a flirting obsession. It’s a playful ‘dating/social’ service, nothing like the stuff that you know. Right now it’s a simple defined web project accessible via web and mobile phone, looking [...]

Elevator Pitches

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Go and see the elevator pitches from the next web conference in amsterdam. There are short and interesting introductions to a lot of web business models and startup ideas.

Buy a company

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

If you don’t know what to do with this company, read ‘The Cocka Hola Company’ by Matias Faldbakken.

Mobile Developers

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Plazes is looking for C++/Qt developers starting January 2006 in Berlin.
So there are already some screenshots of a symbian client. Hey, I’ll also get a nokia 6680 these days :). Looks like they’ll start working on a Qt-Embedded client. Here is a list of supported devices.
I would like to see a GTK GUI. [...]

Open or closed

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Currently I’m reading my friends degree dissertation about ‘Strategic management in IT: Balance between open and closed’. Obviously he is interested in my opinion, cause I always support or let’s say spread the word about anything open and I’m convinced by using open standards, the bazaar model, collaboration/syndication and so forth. So I’m really looking [...]

Burda Media

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

According to this article the german print company Burda is planning to use social software to have closer relationships with their readers. The article also mentions a statement of Andre Remke (Analyst of HypoVereinsbank) that the main competitors of Tomorrow Focus AG are Yahoo and Google. WTF? I never visited this site before, but the [...]

Webmontag

Monday, November 7th, 2005

I’m attending webmontag in Cologne tomorrow. It’s inspired by adhoc conventions like barcamp, tagcamp and wiki wednesday. Thanks to Tim Bonneman for the idea and the wiki. Stefan will talk about plazes and lots of interesting people are coming.
Webmontag
Hallmackenreuther, Br

Attention and Focus

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

AttentionTrust.org is a non-profit organization and serves a firefox extension to keep track of your browsing history. It is based on Steve Gillmors idea of attention.xml (technorati developer wiki). As I can see the social component is still missing, it is only your attention and not the attention brought to you by your social [...]

Yahoo acquires Upcoming.org

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Another Einkaufstour…
It’s all about Andy Smith from flock. He wrote both a python wrapper for flickr and upcoming.org and later yahoo acquired those companies. Read his blog entry. What’s about a plazes wrapper?

eBay Cluetrain

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Read eBay’s reasons for buying skype. It’s a cluetrain, baby. [via]
If you like to enable your website with similar functionality have a look at RAGI: “Ruby Asterisk Gateway Interface (RAGI) is a useful open-source framework for bridging the Ruby on Rails web application server environment and Asterisk, the open-source PBX.”