• National (Chinas firewall)
• Companies (e.g. Apple app store)
• Network operators favouring content from sponsoring providers

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This place has like 5-6 similar places selling chicken just 300 or so meters around it, all empty. But here there is a line out the door. Wonder how you get such an edge by just selling chicken over your competition.

The renovation of the café at Legiendamm getting along nicely, unfortunately because of the long winter this year I guess we can’t use it until the summer is over.

Webgility yesterday proved to be such a company with their middleware software for Quickbooks Magento integration. Long story short, I’ve changed my computer, upgraded from quickbooks 2009 to 2010 and migrated the Ecc database. Well something about the import was then not working because Quickbooks (who has about 2 billion variables that sometime change when they update their software) had implemented a new template that the Webgility people did not yet had time to take into account for their Ecc software.

After some working around with their support they assigned a developer to try to solve the issue who spent FIVE HOURS helping us out via remote desktop.

Everything is now working and I can say that Webgility is not just a company delivering a great software out of the box which is constantly improved but also take that extra step in helping out their customers when problems arise.

Thanks!

Ich muss sagen, dieses Trampolin-Projekt hat viel Spaß gemacht. Letztes Jahr haben wir unsere allerersten Trampolins hier in Deutschland verkauft und … nun, man kann sagen, ein Trampolin ist nicht dasselbe wie ein T-Shirt zu verkaufen. Es ist etwa 250 Kilo schwer und misst verpackt 80x30x180cm. Die Probleme, die man bei diesen Größenverhältnissen bewältigen muss – sowohl vom logistischen Standpunkt aus als auch aus der Perspektive des Kunden (stellen Sie sich nur einen trägen Fahrer vor, der das Ding nicht den ganzen Weg bis zum Garten fahren will) – sind ziemlich neu und interessant.

Nun ist da nur noch die Frage, wie man die Deutschen dazu bringt, ein Trampolin zu kaufen.

From the left; Knatten, Buttons, Dog tags

Fat Statement have yearly b2c sales of a bit over EUR100 000 and want to grow its international sales and especially being able to develop its software for external customers such as small to medium sized printers. Hence just before christmas FS issued new stocks and put in new shareholders; Bytelove, Dan, Nicolai (Bootstraplabs), and PeoplePath. I personally believe very much in the company and increased my share and some of the old shareholders also joined in.

I’m quite happy about the new setting since it feels like a fresh start with people involved that I like to work with. FS and Bytelove will start cooperating with the custom dog tag and button badges production so in the near future we will also send from Germany which will lower international shipping costs significantly. I will take a fairly active part in the administration of the company as well so FS will probably feel a bit closer to me.

Hopefully in 18 months we will have the coolest web2print system for printers out there and the world is busy wearing our stuff .

Det är roligt och smått fascinerande att höra berättelser från min sambo och hennes familj kring känslan av att få åka över till andra sidan, ta emot en liten summa pengar (tror alla östtyskar fick 50dmark oavsett ålder), åka över i varje familjs stolthet Trabanten och shoppa upp deras första västtyska pengar. En barbiedocka och ett tetrisspel inhandlades och baserat på att jag får storstryk i tetris av min sambo så var det ett välanvänt spel.

Lite skrivet i övrigt om igår:

http://lars-ericksblogg.blogspot.com/2009/11/murens-fall-en-symbol-for-folkets.html

http://carlbildt.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/minns-historiska-9-november-minns-allt/

It feels like a thing built on lies and promises, but it works, somehow it does.

Not a quote from a “great thinker” but picked up from popular fiction writer Conn Iggulden when he’s trying to capture the feeling of how nomad tribe leader Ghengis Khan looks upon gold and how it powered the arab empire and its cities. Gold at that time must really have been the most useless piece of metal you could imagine its value only represented in the labour it took to dig it up.

That’s kind of funny, I assume many of the cars was taken from businesses who will now have it even harder to make money and repay their loans. So now Swedbank is sitting with a bunch of cars which are less than easy to sell in the current market, not what I’d call a win win situation .

What a PR disaster