Big news coming today

Heute wird es ein paar größere Neuigkeiten geben, einen kleinen Teaser dazu gibt’s schon mal hier, während ihr wartet!

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Dealticket – good deals!

Seit 1. März ist Dealticket online, eine Plattform für Gruppenangebote von lokalen Restaurants, Wellness-Einrichtungen, Services, Konzerten und vielem mehr.

Das besondere an Dealticket: jedes teilnehmende Unternehmen bekommt einen kurzen Film, ein Service, den sich die meisten so nicht leisten könnten. Und im März wird €1,- pro verkauften Deal an die Berliner Tafel gespendet.

Heute läuft das Angebot für das White Trash Food, für das ich mal wieder die gepflegte E-Gitarre ausgepackt habe!

Also, wenn ihr Lust auf ein Steak oder ein Tattoo habt, das Angebot im Moment ist nicht zu schlagen!

On looking back

I read this in an article about journalism but it applies just as well to music, film and any other media whose business model is severly threatened by the internet:

The only way to find the future is to experiment, and negativity is not productive. If you don’t have the answer yourself, you are free to take your pessimism, hush it, and go sit with the folks in the corner sobbing over their VHS tapes and broken records. To entrepreneurs, I say: More power to you!

Digg and me won’t be friends

I tried to use Digg again today because frankly, with the information overload that is happening in my life (Twitter feed, Google Reader, Facebook Feed etc) what I really need is a way of weeding out the less important storys.

I was hoping that Digg would (and in my opinion could!) be that tool: the good stories get pushed to the top by group wisdom.

So far so good. But what is happening is, that I’m realizing that group wisdom doesn’t really exist: I don’t want to be reading about a Russian billionaires new photo repellent laser installed on his yacht. And this was in the technology section mind you. Or about the fact that Obama called Kanye a jackass. That is stupid news that is wasting everyones time and takes away from moving society as a whole forward.

So, dear Diggers: let’s pick ourselves up and make Digg the useful resource that it could be:
– ignore the BS
– ignore the press releases from media companies
– focus on journalists and bloggers who do their homework

Thank you!

Investment advice

With all the charts the economists and the investment advisors put out, I have to say that according to my research Bananas look like a good place to invest: Banana consumption