So here it is — the killer application for 2008: sched.org. Twitterati will love that scheduling / planning application since it has everything a cool and slim application should have. It is easy to use, totally variable
March 11, 2008
UGC Day at Schloss Hohenkammer
Guess who invited to today’s User Generated Content day at the picturesque Schloss Hohenkammer near Munich? It was KPMG — yes this KPMG. They even sent a corporate bus with about ten employees who apparently were happy
February 21, 2008
YiGG cooperates with politik.de
It is a very good match: YiGG will coöperate with politik.de, the biggest political platform in Germany. Users of both sites will experience numerous benefits surfing either the user generated news site YiGG.de consuming daily long-tail news
February 11, 2008
New geotargeting feature mapNews on YiGG
Today we launched the new geotargeting feature mapNews on YiGG. Every news can be enriched with its location code, a city or even a combination of a city and a streetname, like ‘München, Lindwurmstrasse’. On the detail view of every
February 4, 2008
Web 2.0 at its finest: User Generated Diploma Thesis on YiGG
YiGG user @kartmann uses YiGG to create a User Generated Diploma Thesis. He asks the community to vote on six different proposals or to suggest another one. Cool.
In Economic Downturn: Look forward
There’s a lot of gloomsaying these days — not only in the banking scene or at Wall Street. The internet, web 2.0 and all new start-up business model seem — again — to be on a knife-edge. VCs
January 27, 2008
YiGG with new Eventblogging feature
Today we launched our new Eventblogging feature. We invite Bloggers to blog live from fascinating events. All blog posts will be aggregated in a special group Eventblogging and will be featured on YiGG homepage.
Joi Ito’s Digital Garage invests in Twitter
Twitter goes Japan. That is the message of today’s announcement of Joi Ito and his Digital Garage VC. Joi invests an undisclosed sum in Twitter to help the microblogging platform to grow in Japan. That should
January 17, 2008
User Generated History
Today in a German weekly: The author scoffs at Web 2.0, Internet start-ups in general and these User Generated History sites like miomi, memoloop, xakasha or einestages in particular. In Germany internet entrepreneur bashing is en vogue
January 15, 2008
Media Business Models on the Web
Chris Anderson started a list of Business Models on the Web and Fred Wilson added his thoughts what Dave McClure also did. So far there are 28 different models: — CPM ads (“cost per thousand views”; banner
January 14, 2008
Italian-style Starbucks
One very offline business idea came into my mind: You all know Starbucks. Starbucks entered a overcrowded market (you got your coffee nearly everywhere) with a commodity product (coffee). The result: they are extremely successful and are running 13.000+
January 7, 2008