I have just run across and old interview in Computing Japan Magazine from 1994 with Kai Krause (Kai’s Power Tools, you remeber?!!). I had the pleasure of meeting him at the Byteburg near Cologne / Germany at an iTV Event.
In the middle/last part of the Interview he talks about how he sees the Internet. Amazing that you could use this part in an interview as of today and nobody may be realizing this…

The information highway to me is a very important issue. I don’t want to bore you, but I want to make just one point. People mistake it to be just a bunch of zippy phone lines, a high speed network of some kind. But that’s not what it is. It is nothi ng less than the future of the entire species! And it’s not dawning on people yet. I’m going to be a little bit of the evangelist on this front, get much more involved. I’ve found that there are so many people talking about it who lust do not know what th ey are talking about. They’ve never been online, they don’t know what it’s all about.

What I mean by the line “future of the species” is — my definition of the information highway has nothing to do with how it’s implemented, whether it’s fiber-optic or this, or satellites or that. In one line: it’s anybody on the planet having access to the sum total of all human knowledge. Our children, 15 years from now, will be able to use whatever implementation of that, and in any frame of reference. Any image, film, book — anything that ever comes up, that mankind has produced, they should hav e that at their fingertips. To be able to see any picture, read any book, and to cross-correlate them — It will have incredible implications.

I will be at the Future of Media Summit 2006 and write a review about it here. If you will be there, too, let’s arrange for a meet up!

More when I have it!

Zimodiroll might be my new web 2.0 Internet startup! At least this is what the website of Andrew Woolridge told me. Oh by the way my company product is: rss-based auctions via instant messaging. Nice!

For the business plan i might use the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™. Send me you best company names and business plan ideas.

What is a podcast? Something funny I happened to find on YOUtube:

More and more companies are using corporate blogs as part of their (marketing) communication.
But a blog should be a way to open up to your customers. Another example is the new corporate blog of Dell like Micropersuation writes:

Dell Starts Corporate Blog, But Fails to Address Critical Issues
More importantly, Dell really failed to get the blog going the way that they could have. This was a golden opportunity for the company. They could use the blog to engage the community in a genuine conversation on the critical issues that have dogged them for years now as well as the good things they are doing.

Is your company using or planning to use a corporate blog? What are your experiences with corporate blogs?

The Wall Street Journal via Reuters is citing sources that AOL plans to make their services free for all Internet users to gain higher marketing revenues. They are losing subscribers on a fast pace and hope to get users back on their platform with this offering.

an Un-Conference is coming to Berlin / Germany on 30 Sept 2006! If you are living in Germany or can make it to Berlin: GO REGISTER! Bring you own presentation and discuss what you feel is worth getting mentioned.
Know of other events taking place in Germany? Send me your input.

… by Christmas 2006 reports Reuters:

Microsoft will start selling a wireless digital music and video player to compete with Apple’s iPod by Christmas, sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.

The big difference is that it will be wireless enabled. Let’s see what Apple is coming up with to respond to this effort from Microsoft