christof's blog: April 2006

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Good Old Europe - Madrid, Stockholm, Dublin

My trip continues through good old Europe. Two new destinations: Stockholm and Dublin, are on the itinerary. Currently I spend a nice weekend in sunny yet chilly (windy!) Stockholm. A beautiful city.
Also promising for business, a tight schedule meeting prospects on Tuesday (Monday is holiday - 1st of May, how European!)

Saturday, April 29, 2006

The Million Dollar Coup!

This is a cool way to make a million dollars: www.milliondollarhomepage.com

These guys sell (sold) each pixel of this page for $1. At 1M pixels, they earned $1 Million in total.

Why would anybody buy pixels there? Well, we're part of this right now. By linking to their page, the page gets a high organic Google search ranking. By advertising, the page rank also "spills over" to the rank of the sponsor's URL, since it is a homepage link (which is more valuable than others).

So this is just another cool business model based on Google's search algorithm.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Hardware Commoditization

Shopping gadgets in Singapore - I liked the "Why pay for China designed products with USA designed prices" tag.

I purchased a tablet PC (HP TC4200) as my new laptop computer, celebrating the mobile life- and workstyle.

Will need some days to transfer all data and apps, but so far it looks really promising.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Keep moving

Seoul (South Korea; Picture), Sydney (Australia) and Singapore were the next stops on my trip to drum up business in Asia-Pacific. So far, a successful and enjoyable journey, with lots of new and old faces, sympathetic to our endeavors at db4objects.

Monday, April 10, 2006

Cherry Blossom in Japan

A great week in Japan, both for business and for some leisure. Cherry blossom was full underway and Juan and I spent some nice days in Tokyo, Kyoto, Hakone, and Nikko.
Now I'm in Seoul, Korea, and on my way onwards to Sydney.

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