Marks asks himself why there´s no „candy-spam“:
For example, if you make more money selling candy than imaginary drugs, you’d expect in time to get more candy spam and fewer fake drug ads.Why don’t we have spam for hit music? Everyone likes music. Why don’t we have spam for cleaning products? Everyone has dirty dishes.
I personally don´t think that „spam“ itself could be better or worse (it´s a negotiation in itself) but it would be interesting to compare the conversion rates 😉
A nice read on inc.com about 25 fascinating entrpreneurs and why we love them:
. via business-opportunities
Apple in a surprising move will adopt Windows Media format for iTunes and iPod, becuase of Windows´more open and better abillities. The Macobserver reports. 😉
Now he´s dead: Harald Juhnke was a quite famous german actor, but had lifetime alcohol problems. We´ve often joked of his alcoholism, but all in all he was a real great actor, and I´m quite a bit sad that he died today. Cheers, Harald!
I just wanted to update my book links on the left side, went to the partnernet-section at Amazon, and was confused: where is the link-generator for simple books. At the moment they are just offering Amazon branded links. But I want a simple picture of the title and a link in the backend. Of course I could build it on my own, but… does anyone know what happened?
I have been looking around for such a system for quite a long time, and finally I found it: an Online Word Editor. many people are complaining of MS Word – it´s Function-Overkill kills user´s motivation and productivity. Now there´s FCKeditor, a web.based „Word“ editor with just all the functionallities you need (Basic formatting, saving, inserting pictures, etc.) This is opensource, and in BETA stade – so there´s a lot to do(especially templates and group-collaboration), but I`ll give it a try and will post a review in some weeks.
I had to smile: I was following the „small war“ of SAP and Oracle around RETEK the last months and had to smile yesterday, when SAP´s CEO Kagernmann announced, „we don´t need Retek, we´ve got our own solutions“. Oracle, SAP´s biggest opponent in Enterprise Software and world´s No2 behind SAP, had just bought Retek (a niche Software developer for a small business-market but with excellent customers) vor 11,25$ per share after SAP announced their offer of 11$ per share in the last week. One has to know, that SAP once offered just 8$ per share some weeks ago and Oracle reacted with some cents more. So, why did SAP make this big step: offering first just 8$ and then 11$ per share. This seems for me a just too big step. If they´ve offered 8,75$ or 9 $ ok, but 11$? One additionally has to know, that Oracle had a good 2004 in it´s core business (solid growth in databases) but enterprise software didn´t grow too much, so that their only positive announcement for the shareholders was the acquiring of peoplesoft. So, was it tactics of SAP to raise their offer for RETEK, knowing that Oracle would go just higher? Oracle had to pay 640 million $, though Retek might be just 500 mio. $ worth (with a tot. revenue of about 170 mio. $ in 2004). I think so. SAP is able to build it´s own software, and might not be dependend on Retek. The winner are the RETEKS SHAREHOLDERS.
Bjoern has a very funny movie about Advertiser´s work, and oh boy: it´s so damn true 😉
Jot is going out of BETA by end of march, and they´ve published their pricings. I loved to wok with Jot during the last month, though haveing problems with MAC browser incompabilities. Now I´ve to say I find their pricings quite ok. What you can do with JOT goes much further than one might know from usual WIKIS. They´ve got „off the box“ ready applications: you can install (blogs [though without RSS feeds yet], taskmanagers, databases, etc…) and additionally you can write your own apps (in a „Jot-scripting“). So Jot is not directly comparable with projectservers like Basecamp (monthly subscription for a „Basic Plan“ inlcudes 15 manageable projects for 24$) or CRM´s like salesforce (995$/year for 5 users, + salesforce developer training experts service), but is a bit of everything and highly configurable. So if you are looking for a good knowledge-management, project documentation and team collaboration tool for small – midrange businesses your choice should be a 5 or 10 users license from Jot, which is 275$ and 550$ per year, with unlimited access to all of Jot´s features. Ths seems to be a really fair price, though I hope that we (and especially Ewa) might get an endless „free BETA“ for designing Jot´s demo tours 😉