Musings

Obviously, Josh Petersen got in contact with the CopyCats of aimido. They responded and Harald Schropfer, one of the missing advisors made an appearance on Josh’s 43things list. The home page of Aimido now sports a “inspired by…” blurb which lists 43things and goes on like this: 43things.com, blogger.com, friendster.com, Google Suggest, linkedin.com, meetup.com, orkut.com, parship.com, ryze.com, technorati.com, tickle.com, tribe.net, Richard Horne`s "101 Things to Do Before You Die", and many more... Thank You! What irks me about this, and about the email they sent to Josh, is the complete and utter refusal to own up to what they have done: Not only stealing an idea but the actual look and feel, the way things interact and so on. ...

Well, well, well. There is this company called 43things.com that provides a neat web service. And suddenly there’s a german company called aimido that does the same thing. Josh Petersen of 43things blogged about it. Who are David Kuczek and Berit Ernst? Why are they seemingly stealing the idea, the layout and the functionality of another companies business? What happened to having your own ideas? Do their partners, Andreas Arntzen, Lars Langusch, Harald Schropfer and Oliver Weyergraf know that their business is looking like it was lifted 1:1 from someone else? (who, by the way also have a german presence) Do they care? Or is it totally intentional? ...

Today my companies new blog: not.invisible.ch goes live. This blog will focus on the what our company is doing. A “behind the scenes” look if you will. We have heard the jokes about our companies name. While we consider ourselves successful if what we have done becomes “invisible”, the process, the thought, the work we are doing is not. The not.invisible.ch blog’s task in life is to make that process visible. I hope to gently persuade my partner and our employees to blog too - we’ll see how that goes. ...

Blogging will be light during the next couple of days. We have taken the keys to our new house last tuesday and I have been busy honing my manual skills by laying down more than 60 square meters of floor in the newly refurbished roof of the house. My hands ache. My knees ache. I know why I work in IT and not on the construction sites of the world. ...

The European Internet Project (EIP) that was founded after reboot7 tries to bring together european people working on or for the internet project. It is trying to counter balance the US domination that has been the way of the internet for the last decades. While I applaud the idea, I think there are larger things in the making. The talk that Ben Hammersley ( pdf ) gave at reboot has got me into thinking: ...

There is both a video and audio recording of the Q&A session as well as a transcript of the complete event available. Also Ross Mayfield has some more background information on the demo and the reboot7 event that we witnessed. [via crueltobekind] Technorati Tags: reboot7