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Huber Burda Media Digital Lifestyle Day

Net — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:52:48 +0000

I have been invited to attend DLD06 – Digital Lifestyle Day organized by Hubert Burda Media and Yossi Vardi in Munich, January 23-24. If you are attending or in Munich at this time and would like to meet up to discuss Maxthon or just hang out, please let me know. Maxthon can now provide companies and organizations with a customized branded browser with special services integrated into it such as RSS feeds, Podcast, pre-installed channels, plug-ins and much more. We are also soon releasing Maxthon 2.0, a major upgrad that also comes with a built in blog editor and many other goodies.

DivX At CES

Net — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:36:10 +0000

More CES stuff: Today I was invited to DivX for a private demonstration of their latest technology. Maxthon‘s VC – WI Harper is actually the biggest shareholder in DivX and have mentioned them to me many times, so it was great to finally get to meet with them. Just when I was entering their private showroom I ran into Mena Trott (founder) and Andrew Anker (VP) from Six Apart…seems like they are shopping for a good video codex for Typepad and Movable type ( I told you that Video Blogging is going to be big 2006) If so, its an excellent choice. DivX is conquering the world with its fantastic video codex and we got a good demonstration of what you can do and it looks great. I will transfer my videos to DivX now since it demands only have of the storage compared to other formats.

Alot of funny things happen here, the other day I was having breakfast at my hotel, when suddenly AOL’s Ed Fish asks if he can sit down with me. Ed was responsible for AIM and ICQ when I was at ICQ and is now responsible for a number of things at AOL among other things AOL Music. We had a great chat about old times and some new interesting stuff that AOL music is working on. Ed is a great guy always full of passion for what he is doing.

Maxthon At CES

Net — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:09:24 +0000

It has been a packed/Crazy day at CES in Vegas. We announced a partnership with U3 enabling users to run Maxthon and have all their settings with them wherever they go. Maxthon will be pre-installed on U3 Keys. Check out U3 here. A lot of people came by to say hello today. Scoble dropped by as did Chris Pirillo and interviewed on for his cool podcast The Chris Pirillo Show. Steve Bass of PC World, Margaret Cobb (IE Product Manager), James Bilefield (VP Skype), Safa Rachstchy and Nathaniel Schindler (Piper Jaffray) and many many others. CES is really big, and I haven’t got a chance yet to really take a look on what’s going on yet. Will hopefully have a chance on Sunday when things calm down a bit. Later on in the evening we also had time to chill out with Vista people at the Vista Community Lounge. Windows Vista really looks cool (but reminds me of Tiger OS in some aspects). Had a great chat there with Kris Barton too (Windows Live Portals) about www.live.com their plans and visions for Live.

The Art of the Start

Net — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:25:33 +0000

I recently finished reading Guy Kawasaki’s “The Art of the Start“, a book full of good advices for any entrepreneur. I especially liked the chapter called “The Art of Being a Mensch”. Too seldom I encounter any references to being a good fellow human being in business literature, so this one is definitely a rare exception and a must read for anybody. For at the end of the day, we are just human beings, father, husbands, monther, children with all the strengths and weakness that implies. We must never forget that.

To my pleasant surprise I discovered today that Guy just started to blog as well and have written a very good post called the 10/20/30 rule of Power Point – Maximum 10 slides, 20 minutes long and 30 points (font). I really like that although I would like to go even further and throw away that Power Point altogether. In my view, a good presentation is a genuine conversation between the presenter and his fellow audience.

I have personally stopped doing Power Point presentation unless when I must and the audience have requested it. I much more prefer just to sit down and tell the story. If you have a good story to tell (some called it a pitch) you can always back it up with a few illustrations if and when needed. Most of the time it is not needed. People much rather like to sit, listen and have a causal conversation. This might of course not fit every one but it works great for me. If you have to make a visual presentation supply a few screenshots or even better do it using Mind Manager from Mind Jet. Mind Manager is a fantastic mind-mapping software with a lot of cool features and easy to use. The audience likes it too.

“That which come from the heart – penetrates the heart” – Talmud

Blake Ross Predictions For the New Year

Net — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:38:42 +0000

Blake Ross has cynical list of ten predictions for the new year. The best ones are:

Another blog search engine will release a list of top 100 bloggers. Every blogger on the list will blog the news in the form of: “Wow, I’m honored to have made it onto the top 100 list” with a link back to the list maintainer’s blog. The list maintainer will in return blog: “I’m honored to see that the list has been covered by such a high-profile blogger” with a link back to the winner’s blog. The link incest will continue for weeks until it has propelled the list maintainer himself into the top 100, at which point the list will be declared a sham and the blogosphere will erupt in outrage.

AOL, after months of extensive market research on the effects of the walled garden model on the distribution and consumption of interactive media, will rotate its logo by another 90 degrees. Chairman Dick Parsons will boast that the new logo “reflects the new direction of our company,” but founder Steve Case will make an impassioned plea in the New York Times to break up the logo into a circle and three triangles.

900,000 more websites will add RSS feeds. Bloggers will cover all of them. One of the sites will be the blog of an obscure profession, such as shoe cobbling. This will be groundbreaking news, because now shoe cobblees will be able to participate in a Conversation with their shoe cobbler. Thirty-seven VC firms will invest in the cobbler.

I especially like the term “link incest”. Link incest is the back-bone of the blogging economy…It seems like more and more people starts to realize that Web 2.0 really is like in the story The Emperors Cloths, where a child suddenly shout out: “But the Emperor is Naked…”

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