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<3 UPS

Ordered some stuff from Bangkok, a UPS guy knocked on our door about 48 hours later. Hooray for globalization.

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Bytelove necklabels

Soon ….. :) The shop as such is not opened yet, this first version kind of suck as well so … after 4-5 iterations it will be perfect ;)

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Mindpark, Swedish superklein counterpart to the e-lab?

In September 2007 a new initiative called Mindpark was initiated by a group of Swedish newspapers. The aim being to create sort of a thinktank and a mediacompany able to act on its own as well as supporting its owners in understanding, implementing and administer projects which will take their old media companies into …

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Istheshit gets a com tld plus the discovery of a shady businessmodel

Recently Bytelove AB (who runs istheshit.net) aquired istheshit.com through snapback. Just after the auction started we got this interesting e-mail: Hello,

We acquired the domain istheshit.com recently. It is now available at
the price of EUR 2500.

If you are interested in it, please let us know before 6:00 pm,
Sunday, Feb 24, 2008 CET. After that, …

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New serverconfig for PP up

The new server config for PeoplePath is now up and running for; Djur, Dyr, Haustierstall, Lemmikki and Petz4fun. Seems the platform can be scaled without problems from the first results we recieved. We also launched a new design during the serverchange, the kids are already busy digging up some two million bugs with the …

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SIME innovation day 2008

Yesterday was SIME innovation day, around 200 people from around 100 startups, Telenor, Ericsson and Google among others.   Congratz to Result who hosted the event, the format was tabletalks which happens to be my favourite since I don’t have to feel guilty about not attending the presentations. It was just as chaotic as …

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What an interesting letter we got yesterday

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 …

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Bonnier Tidskrifter buys Vetgirig.nu

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 …

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Betreut babysitters

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 …

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When you know you are a web startup

Was chatting a bit with Conny about 2-3 weeks ago (partner at PeoplePath). – Hmm, September was pretty good – Ja we are even kind of making a good profit this month …. – Maybe we need to spend a bit more money – Hmmm So the result: Welcome Nigel! New developer at PeoplePaths …

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