• Now Is Gone » Socialmedia Case Studies – Home of social media marketing cases
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• Call2 – Jajah competitor. Not VoIP-based service.
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• Translatorsbase.com –
  Tags:translation outsourcing
• Ente – just in case
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• polymervision (wmv) – ultra-thin rollable displays in your pocket soon. Image your jacket with changing advertisments
  Tags:display technology
• Mobile advertising | The next big thing – “Marketers hail the mobile phone as advertising’s promised land”
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• Plugoo – Decent IM-widget that links to your instant messenger
• Q-layer – Solutions for storage providers –
• Thinglink – free database of “real” social things. Finnish project.
• Signaturverordnung (PDF) – elektron- Signatur in Österreich; Gesetzestext
• Total Validator: The all-in-one validator
• FlexiScale – Utility Computing On-Demand – Comparable to Amazons S3, EC2 – but European. Ok, British. Might be an excellent alternative for European startups. Now when do we get German providers.
• Ponyfish RSS Feed Builder – “Ponyfish is a FREE web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.”
• Feed43 : Convert any web page to news feed on the fly – This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.
• rsizr – intelligent image resizing – like that online image editor (flash based)
• österreichische Direktbanken – Interessanter Überblick if you care for your money

futurezone.ORF.at IT-Chronik: “Als Grund wurde die Tatsache genannt, dass alle BlackBerry-Daten über Server in den USA und in Großbritannien laufen.”

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I was an early beta user of Mindmeister today I received an offer to become premium member with a discount. I’m actually thinking about investing that money though I’m not sure it’s not more expansive than having all those desktop applications sitting around on my harddisk. It’s 38 Euro/year that’s something and no availability guaranteed – at least I couldn’t find anything on their website.

There is Freemind which is totally free and others like NovaMind for Mac cost 93 Euros but I think have paid 3 years ago and since then upgrades were free.

Hmmm – guess it’s a strategic decision.

As you all know there are some choices out there. In the finals were only two options: Google (aka Gmail) and [tag-tec]Zimbra[/tag-tec]. Although big admirers of Google’s apps we voted for Zimbra.

And here are the reasons: Although Gmail has the best interface available and a stunning functionality and performance the disadvantages (and some of the benefits of Zimbra in spite of its ugly interface) are:

- Googles servers are provided under US law
- my partners need to have the vision that a server needs to be physically available (in reach via public transport .
- it is impossible to mimick traditional inbox -behavior in [tag-ice]Gmail[/tag-ice] (you can do that with [tag-ice]Zimbra[/tag-ice])
- Google doesn’t allow it (at least not cheaply) to upload you GBs of received and sent email from the last 10 years
- Google doesn’t provide that easy integration with existing email and mobile clients (mainly due to lack of IMAP)
- by using a local Zimbra provider there is less (!) westward cash drain

To sum in up: we are in the midst of getting used to the new environment (some issues already – [tag-ice]RSS[/tag-ice] integration in Zimbra is rather bad). But altogether I think it makes perfectly sense to go the SaaS (=Software as a Service) – way.

Next on my roadmap is getting rid of the local file-server you can imagine what that entails.

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