What a story. At the O’Reilly Emerging Tech Conference in 2004, a startup called Flickr introduced a funny little social networking app that let you upload digital photos and share it with your buddies. By July 2004, they had achieved a critical mass of features, and Flickr was becoming the hottest thing on the net.…

Carly Fiorina quits. Looking back Carly has not „revitalized the company“. She missed nearly every goal. „Directors typically don’t leave mid-term, unless they have a change in other responsibilities. Replacing them before a shareholder meeting is even more unusual“ A friend of mine worked for HP several years – till Carly came in. His comment…

Bin gestern ge-m-e-x-t worden. So viel Traffic war noch nie. Nettes Ergebnis für so ein kleines Hobby namens Blog. Danke fürs Vorbeischauen.

Ed Brill listens to Bill Gates at the Office Developer Conference: We’ve driven Exchange penetration up substantially over these last couple of years, talking about from 55% to 75% market share on Exchange. Last years Gartners study says Exchange has 44% and Lotus Notes 46%. Well, maybe Bill Gates has his own way of counting…

Das Thema gmail scheint gegessen zu sein. Offenbar nähert sich jetzt die Beta-Phase des wirklich netten Google Mail Dienstes ihrem Ende, denn ich habe inklusive diverser Familienaccounts 200 (in Worten Zweihundert!!) gmail Einladungen zu vergeben. Da die letzten auch nur schleppend weggingen, folgt hier die müde Aufforderung: Wer eine haben will, melden.

Den Johnny erreicht ein Gerücht, wonach E-Plus zur CeBIT die Einführung einer netzinternen Flatrate für Sprachdienste einführen wird. Im Klartext: Für eine feste monatliche Summe innerhalb von E-Plus telefonieren, soviel man möchte. Gilt natürlich, wer hätte das gedacht, nicht für Datenübertragungen. Aber auch das wird kommen. Vernünftig. Tja, also dann Flat innerhalb e-plus für mich,…

A middle aged man bought a brand new convertible Porsche. He took off down the road, pushed it up to 160 and was enjoying the wind blowing through his thinning hair. „This is great,“ he thought and accelerated to an even higher speed. But when he eventually looked in his rear-view mirror there was a…

As mentioned yesterday Skype started the voice mail service for selected customers. Thanks to Mitch I received an voucher, so we can test it here.