Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

Ever since I started to read his blog I got intrigued by Loic’s thought processes, hightened when I met him some time back. He is not the most inventive guy, I mean Joi introduced him to blogging, but when it comes to innovation, connecting ideas and their potential effects, especially in the business world, he stands tall. He is also an amazing communicator, a true entrepreneur. Now he added another post in his series about founding a company and I have to say that it’s a must read for all those that think business is about not making mistakes (read here for my view on that one) and for those feeling that blogging is just a fad (see here for my article on wireless blogging from 2002).

So for all those doubters: Loic Le Meur Blog: Start a business - 7: Entrepreneurs do make mistakes, learn from them and react. PR and blogs and how your Company should deal with them.

Yesterday I tried out Skype for real finally and I actually put some money on my SkypeOut account, allowing me to call landline phones. The quality is really very good. I do like it. Mobile phones is not something you want to be calling really but landline is very cool. I mean 1.4 cents per minute to call the USA is nice. These people will rule the world, at least partly, if they take it up the right way now. And calling Skype users is even free from PC to PC, of course. Contact me if you want my username. You can also get it if you link in via OpenBC.

Ok, Google has announced their price (thanks for the link Heiko). It’s simply funny, nothing more to say there really. I got a valuation close to $38 Billion some time back in my own calculation, but it was based on the most positive scenario. Somebody wants to make some serious money there. Oh the downfall will be fun. At that valuation Google is valued at about the same amount as Yahoo! and only 10 Billion USD below eBay and both of these have a real business model, especially eBay! I still want to see the Google business model because AdWords can’t be it.

Joi made me aware of ChangeThis, which is starting something that I do really like. The thing is that blogs just publish short bursts of thoughts but do not provide detailed analysis. If you post detailed analysis it is often not even fully read because it doesn’t fit the short bursts mentality. Now with ChangeThis, the founders are providing a platform for serious thought that builds on the Creative Commons idea in that I can republish the document. It’s like getting great authors without a platform and a platform without authors together. NY Times without the backend. It’s be interesting, but I feel like there is still more to be done with leveraging RSS and Blogs. We need a way to interconnect all the different blogs and voices to make a bigger picture automatically via the many voices that we can find. Maybe autosummaries like possible on any text document on the Mac, coupled with Technorati and subject searches, might enable that.

Anyone who wants to be among the first to get in on the RSS bandwagon, might be too late now. WSJ and NYTimes now have RSS feeds. We are starting to jump the next trip people!