FlorianDargel

in the long run - downloads

An interesting brows if you're interested in long range business developments and planning: in the long run - downloads

eBay changes to terms

eBay is changing its terms on the German site (Details).

Interesting Tidbits: obviously planning to offer a "haggling" function for the fixed price offers, and are also preparing to offer medication...

Infineon Ventures discontinued

Another corporate VC bites the dust - Infineon Ventures will be discontinued. It was announced at the company's annual bash in Munich tonight - by the CFO. Full points for facing the music, but embarassing nevertheless. Would the last corporate VC please turn off the lights;-)?

Intriguing Reading

Blogging is a cumulative craft, and longer absences are punished by "link-guilt" ie feeling bad about not managing to catch up on all the interesting stuff you've missed. So here's a best of-

The Long Tail about how the 80/20 rule dosen't apply everywhere. hmmm.

Web 2.0 not the official website but a good overview with bootleg style mp3 etc.

Vortex Conference: This points to a video of Gordon Moore / the Chasm Group, famous for their Gorilla Marketing approach, making sense of changes in the enterprise software stack. PPT available here.

There's lots more around Web2.0 and Vortex. Unfortunately I've never seen a conference in Europe, nevermind Germany, that is so relevant and thoughtful...

500k Skype Users in Germany?

Is suggested by some rough and ready extrapolation from the numbers in EuroTelcoblog.

Has anybody got better numbers?