Mikael Palmstedt

December has been quite cozy here in Berlin, here the street towards Brandenburger Tor.

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Just came home 2h ago from an SEO event in Stockholm that was organized through SEO forum and was hosted and sponsored by Simon at Onlineservices. Thanks for the wine

I was there a very short time (barely 2hours) but bumped into Björn, Dan, Hjalmar, and Samuel.

Was unfortunate that I could not be there longer but from what I saw the event was a huge success, congratz to the organizers.

The company I work with the most at the moment and that I have a small part of was sued yesterday (not in blogroll). First time a company I co-own is getting sued actually. Since its by a local competitor who basically just asked a büro to take as much money from us as possible it makes it even more interesting.

The company basically sucks, bad tech, silly low prices, etc etc … their only rev stream comes from google organic listings (no chance of them paying for traffic and making a profit) … its a very weak keyword, will be a pleasure spamming them away from google.

Honestly I don’t get why you hastle your competitors in such ways (no chance of them winning), it just pisses people off and they in turn will put work into destroying you regardless if they actually gain anything from it themselves or not.

Usually I have a great relationship with competitors and they have often turned into some of my best cooperation partners after time, but this tsss tsss

Bonnier Tidskrifter buys a majority share of Vetgirig.nu which is run by Conny Thimrén and Dan Erik Ollas. The site has 90 000 members and is by far the biggest quiz site in Sweden.

Conny and Dan Erik after much consideration accepted the offer to partner with Bonnier because of Bonniers strong ties to the advertising business plus the increased access to many more crosspromotional channels such as TV, Newspapers etc.

I am very happy that Conny and Dan Erik has found such a great partner to further strengthen the site and look forward to its development :). To me the deal for Bonnier Tidsrifter is a sure success since I known how hard workers Conny and Dan Erik are due to their comitment in PeoplePath. With an increased budget the site will surely kill :).

The official pressrelease in Swedish:

Bonnier Tidskrifter köper vetgirig.nu

Bonnier går in som majoritetsägare i vetgirig.nu - Sveriges största webbsajt för frågesport. Sajten har idag 90.000 medlemmar och 3,5 miljoner sidvisningar per vecka, och innehållet är i stort sett helt användargenererat.

- Vi är oerhört glada över att utöka vårt Korsordsområde med en stark aktör på nätet. Vetgirig.nu är en mötesplats som förenar underhållning och allmänbildning, och för den som är det minsta tävlingsbenäget lagd är sajten svår att motstå, säger Ulrika Saxon, VD Bonnier Tidskrifter, och fortsätter:

- I Bonnier Tidskrifters utgivning har kunskapsorientering länge varit ett av ledorden, och därför känns förvärvet av vetgirig.nu väl i linje med vårt breddade erbjudande på nätet.

Entreprenörerna Conny Thimrén och Dan Erik Ollas som utvecklat vetgirig.nu säger:

- Det här känns oerhört inspirerande. Vi har alltid fått positiv respons från våra medlemmar och Bonniers intresse stärker oss i vår övertygelse att vetgirig.nu är en växande succé. Suget efter frågesport och tävling är stort i Sverige. Tack vare detta samarbete, kan vi utveckla sajten ännu mer och nå en ännu bredare publik.

Bonnier Tidskrifter omsätter 1,5 miljarder kr och har en utgivning i Sverige som bl a omfattar ett femtiotal tidskrifter samt sajterna privataaffarer, se, veckorevyn.com, amelia,se, alltommat.se, teknikensvarld.se, va.se, KPwebben.se, samt alltombarn.se

Ah, two new nice (Siemens-Fujitsu) servers was standing in the office in Stockholm waiting for me, I thought. But Dan Erik had already shipped them off to FS-Data :(.

With this new serverconfig I will finally be able to install an adserver that doesn’t suck.

I think I should maybe take the opportunity to decorate the new room a bit more … :/.

Need a babysitter and live in Germany? Then check out the newly launched Betreut.de who in the last months has signed up more than 10 000 babysitters (source Betreut).

Betreut sits in the BASF building next to the Warschauer Strasse U-Bahn Station (and very close to the Simon-Dach strasse one of Berlins funnier bar streets). Betreut is run by Steffen who I meet a few years ago when we where both working in Leipzig during the summer.

A babysitter portal with some e-bay dynamics might be just such an easy thing that it actually works, next step after finding the babysitters will be to get families to actually use the service.