FlorianDargel

Private Equity Secondaries

Useful paper on Secondary Funds in Private Equity and their competitive landscape - thank you Google. Considering the billions of $$ under management chasing secondary opportunities, not a lot of public information is available, but there is all you need to get started.

DotComTod 2.0

The German clone of f**kedcompany.com relaunched itself today as  boocompany.com aka DCT 2.0 as they smell a new bubble. Who knows, perhaps their stringers puke behind the piano at the dld06 reception right now, harhar.

Bloglines Hell

ate my subscriptions. AAARGH! My carefully gathered OPML file has vanished and only a trace of the former 400+ fat feeds file remains. I hope they roll it back pronto, it's a major loss of productivity for me.

It hasn't occurred to me to back up the online services I use - I thought the whole point was that they do it for you. Plus until recently the majority wouldn't let you, pre cluetrain so to speak.  On the whole I like webservices, and as I'm moving to a new laptop just now I was thinking what a pain it is to try and move all your personal data - how much easier if it was all webservices. Think again.

PS: there used to be a software to move data between PCs, does the lazyweb know what that was?

Update: Customer Service reacted quickly, and the subs are back again. However the point stands - can you really trust ASP-style services with crucial data?

Milliondollartags

Alex "Mr. Milliondollarhomepage" Tews is at it again, this time he found a way to make people pay for tags instead of pixels. And, by coming up with a way to get people to pay for shared tags, he has effectively unlimited tag space to mine and sell, as opposed to a limited pixel-screen. Pretty ingenious if you ask me. Techcrunch has more.

Link: 1000tags.com [via Scott Rafer]

EVCJ Awards - plenty of German VC Exits

German VCs are thin on the ground for VC Firm of the Year awards, but they provide three out of the four entries in the exit stakes:

Venture realisation of the year - technology

Tipp24 by:
* Earlybird

Skype by:
* Draper Fisher Jurvetson
* Bessemer Venture Partners
* Index Ventures
* Mangrove Partners

Q-Cells by:
* Apax
* Ströher Finanzholding
* Good Energies Investments

Interhyp by:
* 3i
* Earlybird

Can the Skype exit be bested? Hmmm. Congrats to everyone involved anyhow!

Ring your podcast

Provide your regular podcast with a phonenumber and listen to it from any phone: PhoneCaster.de.

Too bad it doesn't work over my SIP phone (may just be my setup though). Cool feature - if you hang up at any point, it is meant to continue at the same point when you ring up again. No business model in sight yet, but I understand for now it's just a cool sideproduct from a bigger project. I'd like to see skype and voip integration, so I can sneak some time when I'm waiting for stuff etc.

Testing performancing

HOW TO: Using Performancing for Firefox | Performancing.com

Looks pretty slick so far. I've been looking for a brwoser blogging extension, and flock dosn't work well enough yet, so I'm happy to duct tape this to my browser deck for now.