Monat: Oktober 2006

Now this is grate news: as Joe Kraus just announces on the Google blog, his company Jotspot has just been acquired by google. Congrats to the whole team, especially to the very nice guy Jim: we (especially Ewa) designed their guided tour just before their first launch back in 2004! It looks as if Jotspot…

They did it: ormigo, the company of my dear friends oli and henning, launched their network today. It´s great to see how consequently and professionaly they did their job, finding investors, building a marveless team and always kept smiling even during dark times. I wish you the very best, you´ll really rock the house (and…

Now Jogmap is really kind of cool: you can edit a google map API with waypoints from your jogging – runs, and keep track of your times, etc. they automatically generate statistics, too. Have a look at my run from today in Cologne, 8,2 km took me about 40 min. This one I like to…

Yesterday the new Vodafone Live! portal in germany launched, and it was a quite short term project. Background is that Vodafone is launching its new DSL services here in germany and therefore wanted to offer an entertainment portal to their customers. The portal is mainly focused on Music: services from the global partner Sony were…

Ok, when you are in the business you know, that user generated content has it´s problems: how can you be able to ensure no misuse of your service, how can you gain a certain quality. T-Community has just changed it´s terms of service now scoring your adress I wonder how much security this might bring:…

I´ve never been to Mallorca before, and have to say: I liked it. Mallorca is a kind of „Volkswagen“ within holiday-destinations: it´s high quality, worth it´s money and quite „german“ – but sometimes a bit „boring“ with too many people driving the same car visiting the same places. We had wonderful weather – no back…