No, I don´t know anything about such a deal, but it would make perfect sense: while Yahoo Go is for simple syncing all your adressbook and standrad stuff, Avvenu is to „sync“ an get access to any file from your home pc. So a combination of both services, maybe built on a robust J2ME client, would be a great start for the melting of the different internet worlds „desktop“ and „mobile“.
and please stop complaining 😉
What have we learned from the internet-bubble? A lot! For example that if you are buying things in an online store you want them to be delivered asap. The internet-industry needed the crash in order to get back to serious business.
Now, what has happened since those days is, that you have „backchannels“ for better service, that you hava a voice with blogs, and that internet companies in general try to deliver better and better service every day. So far so good – but what about the „old“ industries. Are they getting better? What are they doing in order to improve service? I sometimes think: nothing. An example: I´ve just founded another company and wanted to open up a new bank account. Because this is a company account there was no bank I could find in germany to do this stuff online – it´s always just for private accounts. So, I went to Dresdner Bank. Dresdner Bank´s claim is „Die Beraterbank“ which is something like „Your good bank-consultant“. It took the man in front of the desk about an hour to fill in all the forms needed to open up an account. Unfortunately I forgot to take my passport with me – I only had my driving license, and several other documents with my photo on it – so my bank-consultant knew I was „Ingmar“. Ok, but he needed my passport. No, problem – „I´ll send it by fax afterwards“. I did so, but my passport was out of date since 11/05. „No I can´t open your account – your passport is out of date – please send my a new one!“.
Dear Dresdner Bank!
How can it be, that I´m spending about one and a half hour in your rooms, showing you several documents that I am who I am, sending you my passport which is out of date since ONE MONTH – and I can´t get an account? Why do I need your damn consultant? Every internet-bank with NO FEES, INSTANT DELIVERY could have told me the same: <check date>OUT OF DATE </check date>“sorry, your passport is out of date“ – where is your advantage when a „human being“, a bank-consultant, is not able to decide whether I may open an account at your bank?
From this I learn that your bank will go bankrupt in the next two years – so will all the old industry which has not learned yet, that paying human beings for doing computable stuff is just bullshit! A micorprocessor, which can decide the same, costs once about 70 EUR, a form asking a database of all passport numbers is max 1000 EUR – ONCE.
via twoday
835.300 $ (!!!) since 26th August `05 – this world is CRAZY!
Just found some Screenshots on Felix´s Flickr Stream – looks like a mobile Version of Plazes? have you already heard of it? This certainly would make sense – Plazes „classic“ reads the mac-adress of your your router to determine in which place you are – will plazes „mobile“ get the cell-adress?
Ever wanted to switch to Linux? Just follow these simple ten rules – they will ensure, that you´ll sometime forget what a virus or a trojan was… 🙂 (via doc´s new site arameya.com)
www.dnsstuff.com – even ask if your listed on some Spam-Lists. Useful!
Since about one week we are experiencing a wave of new spam – it´s „undeliverable-spam“ – send under the name of our domain. It´s always a message back from some unkown recipient, that our mail was undeliverable. The mails are sent by some temporarily dial-up smtp servers. So, anyone got a hint what to do? I´m a little bit afraid this spam – wave will kick us on some blabklists.
UPDATE: made a report to the local police – don´t expect much to happen, but want to be sure to have done every imaginable step.
