Dear friends at Amazee
November 27, 2008
As you can see from the pictures below I’m having a really great time here in San Francisco. The hotel on the Alcatraz island you sent me to is wonderful, I even have a bed!
In the picture you can see my room as well as the hotel’s private beach. The concierge told me that it’s really save to swim there and that all these typical shark fins belong to a special kind of goldfish living in these waters. Phew! I already thought it was dangerous to swim there. Haha, goldfish, cute!
Looking forward to seeing you soon again!
Luci
The order is rapidly fading
November 27, 2008
Just about to finish a book? Let me recommend your next offline reading: Causewired by Tom Watson. A great documentation of the nascent online movement that is using the internet as a force for social change. In Tom Watson’s words the goal of the book is: „ …to convince you that rapid advances in media and technology, in the ways people communicate, are changing how people support causes and how we respond to that underlying human impulse to help others, improve our communities, and change the world.“ or in Greg’s words "A must read for tomorrows online leaders! Ah, yes and never judge a book by it’s cover…". This way to Amazon, this way to the causewired blog.
Web Monday is a roller coaster
November 25, 2008
Yesterday we met for the 4th Web Monday at doodle‘s office to embark on a roller coaster ride through collanos‘ and tilllate‘s startup anecdotes. It was a great, informative evening with a fine catering (thanks doodlers!), lots of Q&A and it somehow seemed that there was a good load of empathy with the sours and sweets and the ups and downs of the two presentators Silvan Mühlemann (Tilllate) and Franco dal Molin (Collanos). And this is how it looked…
knock, knock…
Tilllate‘s Silvan Muehlemann giving his preso
Franco Dal Molin from Collanos presenting his emotion-o-meter, the new Web Monday classic ;)
Amazee’s Mathias, Oli and Uli, the people from the lake constance tribe
Flo and Kaspar
Carola and Dania, Wuala’s and Amazee’s Finance and Operations brains – probably exchanging some corporate secrets. In the background Amazee’s Kai and Malte.
Beteo’s Ruben and Reto from Doodle – everything under control
Ruben and Fabian from Supertext – everything out of control :)
Rinaldo from Supertext and doodle‘s Paul
Matthias from Gbanga and Wuala‘s Luzius
and last but not least our specia guests Siegfried and Roy
Alright — it’s time for a little voting and nomination reminder — and we do it chronologically today.
deutsche-startups.de is looking for their 2008 start-up of the year:
- there are three spots left and Amazee wants to catch one of them. Just leave a comment in this blog post and nominate Amazee for 2008 start-up of the year! The nomination will be closed Wednesday, November 26th at 5pm CET.
Vote for Amazee @ the Open Web Awards:
- you helped us through the nomination round – and here we are in the first voting round. Voting is open until Sunday, November 30th at 11:59pm PST.
And it’s so easy — one vote per day per email address.
The Crunchies 2008 nomination is open:
- the 2008 Crunchies is the second annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Nominations will close Wednesday, December 10th at midnight PST.
You are just one click away — use the Widget below. And Amazee will make the world a better place!
Hockey Boys
November 24, 2008
It’s already 5 days since Sun’s Patrick Liechti took us out for a game of ice hockey between Switzerland’s ZSC lions and Swedens Linköpings HC. High time to say thank you – Patrick for the tickets, Peter for the introduction into the most basic hockey rules (ice hockey = 3×20 minutes) and Luzius for reminding me to buy that train ticket!
Patrick Liechti from Sun Startup
Peter Helfenstein from Collanos and Luzius Meisser from Wuala
Yes, we are in! Now vote for Amazee!
November 20, 2008
Mashable is proud to announce that voting has begun in the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements.
We are in the final voting round for the Open Web Awards, thanks a lot to everybody who gave their nomination for Amazee.
Now we need your votes! So please give your vote to Amazee with the help of the badge below. You will get an email where you have to confirm your vote, so make sure you do both steps.
Thank you very much!
How about some voluntary work, Germany?
November 19, 2008
German news site Spiegel Online just released an article about German’s and their voluntary work. There has been a massive study by the research company Prognos, which conducted 44,000 interviews and went through the data of 439 administrative districts all over Germany. The results are: younger people are active more often than the elderly, people in the country do more voluntary work than those in the city. This might be related to stronger family values and the persisting influence of the church. The vast majority of those who do voluntary work are active in sports clubs, the fire department, youth related work or churches.
We are not sure if everything has been taken into account, for example online voluntary work like that on Amazee. But it is quite impressive to see the numbers. The labor value of voluntary work in Germany sums up to 35 billion Euro a month, which is about 44.194.500.000 US$. An important factor in this trend is also the retreat of the state out of the social sector.
All in all, 34% of the population are working voluntarily, their workforce clocking in at an average 16,2 hours per month. We say: Keep it up! To read the whole article (which is in German), click here.
If Google PageRank could sing…
November 19, 2008
Greg always wanted me to post something to celebrate Amazee.com’s Google PageRank of 6… so here we go:
Maybe PageRank starts singing for your Amazee projects in the future as well!
via [Google Blogoscoped]
