Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

After Torsten’s post I checked out Blogpulse again and really like it. Some great features in this baby and I added a link to my profile on the main blog page. This could be taking a lot of wind out of Technorati’s sails.

Hugh from gapingvoid has started to send around more bloggie goodness, a new wine to be exact. Great stuff to get the word on a new wine out in the world. I recently had a wonderful somelier evening and really loved some of the australian wine I tasted and am actually looking forward to trying out some african ones in my trip to africa next week. Congratulations to Hugh for getting the world out on the new one he is promoting.

I no longer have a girl friend. I now have a wife Feels very good actually and we had a great day so far, which was really just the legal part. Tomorrow we will have the church part of the deal with a lot more guests to celebrate with in the evening. Packing up a few things, trying to relax. But life feels very good at the moment
We actually were married by Mr. Stommel, who is something of a famous guy at the registry office in cologne. It was a real joy and we had lots of laughs, which made the entire ceremony unforgettable. He had to make a joke about me being born in Düsseldorf (there is a bit of a fun war between düsseldorf and cologne) to start with, of course topping it off with Avonia being born in the Iran (her father was there at the time). We came out of there feeling really good about all the marriage, later learning that he is married the fourth time and at the christening of his children he dresses them up for cologne karneval so they become good cologne citizen The guy is really fun and we thank him for a great ceremony. Oh, of course we’re still feeling great about the marriage. It’s a fun feeling.

We then had a quick drink outside which Ingmar prepared (thank you!) and later lunch with all (only family and best men/women/…) the people that attended. With all that finished, Avonia and me are now relaxing a bit and preparing for the church tomorrow, but more on that later. For now, I am looking at my new ring again and need to give Avonia a few more kisses.

That’s the question Jeremy asks and I agree with him that it’s potentially peaking in the not too distant future. This would be a good thing though. When on-line shopping (to take his example) was all the rage, it was still in its infancy. After the hype died down it started to really get going without the problem of hype behind it.

I think Blogging still needs a few months to really get out of the lime light but the hype will die down in 2006, which is when it will be a standard term such as eMail and will become part of our life. More and more real people are starting to ask me about blogging. That’s pretty peaking I feel. But people are starting to get it, beyond the hype, just the general idea of talking publicly. So 2006 the hype will die down, and by 2009 blogging will be really big.

Want to invest in a non public company? Dirk has 40 shares of Falk eSolutions AG to sell. His post about it in german is here. €100 and I’d take one, just to have it, but I presume that’s a little low