Yeah I know, I shouldn’t be posting this, but I will just be doing this for myself as for everybody else here. I’ll just put interesting bits from different articles to be sure I have somewhere to go back to for more info. So here it goes for the Google IPO. I will update this during the day.
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Some stuff about Google’s IPO
Best Practice from Germany
Loic le Meur is asking for some suggestions for the Planetary Session on building a Europe for Business at the WEF. He actually has some examples for some countries but I am missing something for Germany. What is the best practice we could carry on into Europe. Were is out success? I think there are many, and the biggest successes are normally the smaller ones, but what is there to talk about. Again, a real problem seems to be, at least to me, that we aren’t likely to brag a lot. We should. We just don’t. Give your comments on the WEF Blog Post.
goujou.com needs a new office
I thought I’d just forward this one from Ingmar Bornholz, who’s company needs a new home in Cologne:
Friends, our company gojou.com needs a new home in Cologne, Germany. We are looking for an extraordinary office of about 80-100 qm, with lots of daylight. If you know someone, who knows something, please give him a hint. Contact via: Ingmar Bornholz, mobitel: 491702880441, ingmar. bornholz @ goldfish -bowl.de. Thanks 
Source: Welcome to Fred`s Log: Our company needs a new home in cologne…
Chart Success without the Label
“Instead of gigging round toilets for ten years trying to get a record deal, gig around toilets for ten years and ask people for their email addresses. If what you’re doing strikes a chord, you’ll be financially better off while remaining pure and free to do what you want.” – Steven Hogarth, Marillion
That’s from Marillion: appetite for resurrection | The Register, an article giving a little bit of background to the recent success of Marillion, which they achieved all on their own, without a record company, meaning that they also get the money… all on their own. No money for the record company here. Thank you. Go on please.
I caught this via Thijs post Inevitable…, where he also links to a Courtney Love speech from the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference in 2000, which blew my mind back then and does so again this time. A must read to grasp the music industry.
And yes, I agree with Thijs that whoever can get a good business going to help musicians will be hated by the music industry and be really successful. Lots of stuff to still happen there.
Popup Blocker Blocker
Online ad management firm Falk eSolutions AG has bowed technology that detects pop-up blockers and automatically converts pop-up and pop-under inventory into alternate rich media formats, mostly floating ads, on the fly. Source: Falk Offers Pop-up Blocker Workaround
Of course the fallout from Popups hasn’t even fully started yet, but Nico already talked about the Powerlayer here back in the beginning of 2004. I believed him then, and now he is proven 
Who developed the iPod?
Well there you go. This post on Wired Blogs has some info on Tony Fadell, supposedly the father of the iPod. Seems like he had some kind of career path.
The WEF Blog
One of the best things about blogs is that they tend to open things up. This had become aparent when you suddenly saw people blogging about their sessions at Davos. Loic le Meur is trying to extend the trend (he even blogged videos from the blogging session at Davos) and has set up The World Economic Forum Blog. First of all, thanks Loic. Thanks for opening this world up for us. The thing is really that what is being discussed there is very very very important for the world we live in and while we might not have a direct say, we should know about it. The people sitting there are, at least to the most part, very intelligent and especially experienced human beings and don’t just blabber out thoughts without thinking about it… a contradiction in itself in a sense.
So I really suggest to get the World Economic Forum Blog RSS Feed and follow what is said on there. I can’t say it enough. If you don’t have anything to read RSS feeds yet, I suggest to bookmark The World Economic Forum Blog for the next few days while they have some discussions at the European Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum in Warsaw, Poland.
And here is some more info about the start of the blog and who are the two main bloggers currently filling the site. Have a good read.
Bank Incompetence
Citibank, supposedly the biggest bank in the world, can’t order the Carlson Equity Asian Small Cap Fund for me. What is that? I am just a little bit pissed off here. What good is a bank if I can’t order a simple fund? Now I need to look at other similar ones and/or just buying it somewhere else. Sure, I get the full account for free, including trading for EUR 9,99 but what good is that if I can’t order something.
Update: Cortal Consors will allow me to have a savings plan on the fund as it is included in their list of available funds for the savings plan.
Locate your kids at Legoland
Now if that isn’t cool!? Legoland has build one of the largest Wifi tracking Networks based on this post on Slashdot. Based on their
eMail Management
With switching eMail Servers, I also attacked Zoe again and now all my outgoing mails on the laptop, at least there, are filtered through Zoe. Now I have all my eMails in Zoe which is just plain wonderful. Of course sending on the desktop will not filter through so it is not perfect yet. Having Zoe directly on the Laptop is nice though, meaning that a local server isn’t the best option, even though I am thinking about it. But SurgeMail from Netwinsite plus Zoe would actually make a nice thing for a corporate system. All I need on top of that is somewhere to have Contacts easily managable, which LDAP seems to be good at. Next on the list is learning more about LDAP then.
