Monat: September 2005

The last weeks rumours become reality. Skype is worth 2.6 billion US Dollar – at least for eBay. Still I miss a strategy behind this deal – and shareholder miss that too. The markets were less convinced by the rumours and traders sent eBay shares down sharply late last week. Some analysts suggested eBay could…

Welch passender Nickname des Höchstbietenden.

I am really fascinated about this geotagging thing. Google Earth and Google Maps is a great tool. I started using several new services like Geobloggers, Plazes or gVisit. I tagged some of my photos, everybody can see where I am and where the visitors of this site come from. But is this everything we can…

Tassen_Talk – MyVideo Kleiner Vorgeschmack auf die Vorweihnachtszeit. Wie kommt es nur, dass ich dabei an meine Kinder denken muß? (danke Sascha) [ad name=“ad-1″]

eBay bought Paypal in July 2002, and it seems eBay continues its shopping tour. I can pay my articles purchased at eBay via PayPal – this acquisition made sens. But do I realy want to call the seller or buyer via Skype? I can see no real business value for eBay worth 2 US Billion…

Zu unseren beiden iPod Minis würde der doch wunderbar passen – quasi eine kleine Familie. Aber das iTunes Mobile von Motorola? Nein, kein Mobiltelefon mehr von Motorola, auch nicht mit iTunes.

Just tried to register for Lotusphere. Early Bird fee is 1.395,00 US Dollar, which equals right now 1.112,27 Euro. Submitting the credit card information links to a new page, where you have to confirm the purchase showing an amount of 1.395 Euro. Not Euro US Dollar like in the picture I took later from the…

Düsseldorf, September 14th/15th – Munich, September 18th/19th – Andratx, Mallorca, September 22nd to 25th – Frankfurt/Wiesbaden, September 27th/28th. So you will see a lot of activities on my Plazes map. But finally the best destination for this year so far: Firenze, November 4th to 6th. If you have any suggestions for cool places worth visiting,…

Some Microsoft Outlook users still send out attachment renamed to „winmail.dat“. The file allows Outlook users to send Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) information along with the email so that it retains the look and feel of the document with formatting, fonts, and colors when its received by another Microsoft Outlook user. Unfortunately, the file…