Caleido AG is offering an interesting internship concerning their Kangoo project. Wolltest du schon immer die chaotische Atmosphäre eines Start-ups hautnah miterleben und an einem innovativen Projekt arbeiten? Wir suchen gute Praktikanten, die uns bei der Entwicklung unseres verteilten Datenspeichers Kangoo helfen wollen. Die möglichen Einsatzbereiche sind divers und reichen von der Programmierung der P2P…
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Podcast with Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier
Dominik and Will did another entrepreneurship-podcast. This one with the finance-expert of the Swiss startup scene, Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier, a guy with an unpronouncable name who calls himself “VUI” from time to time because of that :-). Download the MP3 Learnings: #1: Getting funded is labor-intensive and can take quite some time (6–12 months) #2: CTI Invest…
Swisscom Mobile tests kyte
According to heute, Swisscom Mobile (Swiss market leader) is testing kyte.tv as a “YouTube for your cell phone”-solution. Nice deal. Congrats to kyte.tv! Invitation code to kyte.tv If you want to test kyte.tv, use “scm2kyte” as the invitation code. And say thanks to Swisscom Mobile to put this invitation code on their website :-). PDF
I am a Fonero now
I’ve just installed my La Fonera FON WiFi router. The installation was surprisingly simple: #1: Connect FON-router with power #2: Connect FON-router with ADSL router #3: Register the FON-router at wifi.fon.com #4: Configurate your FON-router at fon.com (set maximum bandwith you want to share [minimum is 512Kb], change name of WiFi-signal, change the WPA-password etc.)…
Exsila goes Music!
There is something new at Exsila: The following navigation bar: The music category went online in these hours and contains already 176 items: As I said earlier: The swiss media trading market is going to be VERY interesting in the next couple of months. Trust me ;-). PDF
Major discussion about sponsored postings
There is a major discussion about sponsored postings going on in the German blogosphere. Everything started here. The fire continued to go here and there. You find more postings on Technorati. Will the fire continue or has everything been said? PDF
“The web is underhyped” (David Weinberger)
http://www.elektrischer-reporter.de/flvplayer.swf?file=http://elektrische-bewegtbilder.de/elrep/19/El_Rep_19.flv “I continue to think that the web is underhyped (…) there is now a second round of enthusiasm in the internet as a business opportunity (…) there always will be bubbles and opportunies that come and go (…) but the basics of it is a human social dynamic and that’s (…) stady” I like…
Panel with Web Community Founders
An interesting panel with young web community founders moderated by Guy Kawasaki: Panel participants: Sean Suhl of Suicide Girls Akash Garg of hi5 Drew Curtis of Fark Markus Frind of PlentyofFish Max Levchin of Slide James Hong of HotorNot Learnings: #1: Do what you’re passionate about and have fun! #2: Never surrender! But don’t forget…
New: Startup Job Board
You know what, the previous posting and Robert’s interview with edgeio inspired me to create a quick and dirty Swiss Startup Job Board. There is a widget that you can integrate in your blog/website (see my sidebar). Or please at least put a link to the job board. I’ve already reserved some domains (startupjobs.ch/.de/.at/.eu) if the…
New Opportunity for Swiss Software Engineer
Are you a software engineer and thinking about getting involved in a new Web 2.0 venture? Then please consider this offer of Adrian Locher: Gesucht werden: Softwareentwickler für ein Web 2.0 Venture Technisches Knowhow das vorhanden sein muss: OO, Frameworks, PHP/mySQL, C++/C# Thema: Tag-basiertes Bewertungs- und Rankingsystem für eine Handelsplattform, welche ein neuartiges Matching von…