Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'e-business'
E-Maksuamet paremaks!
Juunikuus toimus üks ootamatu, aga tore koosolek, kus Maksu- ja Tolliameti juhid kutsusid lõunasel ajal pirukaid pugima ja kohvi jooma mõned inimesed, kes palju internetiteenuseid kasutavad, ehitavad ja nende teemal aeg-ajalt ka avalikult sõna võtavad. Eesmärgiga saada tagasisidet Eesti E-Maksuametile ja mõtteid selle edasiarenduseks. Allpool on sellest mõttevahetusest tekkinud märkmed, mida omavoliliselt natukene loetavamaks toimetasin. Ehk tekitab see teilgi mingeid täiendavaid mõtteid, olgu siis suuri või väikeseid arendusi, tehnilisi või puhtalt organisatsioonilisi - pange palun kommentaaridesse kirja, avalik diskussioon on...
Migration Misery: Feedburner becomes Google
Google started this year with aggressively reviewing its product portfolio. A number of services were announced to be shut down recently. That's fine, times are tough. And even if they were not - I still admire the decisiveness of any large product company to occasionally merge similar things and kill the ones that haven't gained traction. I've had to make a few of those decisions myself and they are never easy. So when logging in to FeedBurner a week ago...
Making wine at Crushpad
On a recent trip to California got a chance to visit Crushpad. They are a high-end winery... where you are the winemaker. Some of my friends invested in them last year and one of them has been pushing a group of us to make a barrel of our own wine together. So we kicked off the process and it has moved along, for some reason without much enthusiasm from my part. Now after being there, including a half-day Crushcamp...
Seedcamp 2008 was fun
Spent a day at London Seedcamp Week's Product and Marketing Day again. Hit quite a jackpot on the mentoring group selection lottery and got to spend time with four out of the total seven winners of this year: Kyko - online multiplayer gaming by the creators of Babuki, with a neat angle of tapping into existing social/IM networks to build their userbase. Stupeflix - French startup generating time-synced video clips out of static images and music. Animoto competitor with...
Seedcamp 2008 - apply fast!
Just a quick reminder that this year's Seedcamp is getting close and the application deadline is already this Sunday, August the 10th. As a reminder: Seedcamp is where Europe's top young founders can come together in one place. From securing funding to developing the right network, young entrepreneurs in Europe face challenges in building globally competitive technology businesses. Through the provision of seed capital and a world class network of mentors, we want to provide a catalyst for Europe's next...
Rahulolev station.ee kasutaja
Olen nüüd vast kuu aega kasutanud news.station.ee ja blogs.station.ee teenuseid ja väga rahul. Miks? NEWS.station avalehe valik näidata enam kui neljas või kuues kanalis kajastatud lugu aitab kiiresti pildi ette saada hetkel "kuumadest" teemadest Konkreetse teema vaade võiks olla iga meediahuvilise sagedane tööriist, et näha kuidas praktiliselt sünnib uudis. Näiteks nagu selles juhuslikus näites, kus Postimees on kirjutanud uudise valmis juba siis kui Äripäev alles toore pressiteate veebi paneb. Ja Päevaleht on pea poolteist tundi maas. Station teeb suurepärast tööd...
Kuidas jõuda mugava E-Eestini? (ehk nimeseikluste lõpetuseks)
Möödunudnädalane postitus lapsele interneti vahendusel nime panemisest tekitas uskumatult palju tähelepanu ja vastukaja. Siinse tagasihoidliku blogi puhul on 500 unikaalset lugejat ühe sissekande kohta päris märkimisväärne tulemus. Kui aga püstitatud teema korjab üles peavoolu-meedia (nagu seekord EPL), siis lisandub lugejaid tuhandeid. Ehk siis veelkord näide sellest, kuidas meediapiirid hägustuvad. Tahaksin tänada ja tunnustada RISO pealikku Margus Püüat kes EPL loo kommentaarides võttis vaevaks ausalt ja otsekoheselt, oma pärisnime alt ja õige meiliaadressiga teemat kommenteerida. See tekitas veel mõtteid:...
Surnult sündinud laps?
Avastasin üllatusega, et vastsündinud lapsele interneti vahendusel nime panemine on mõnevõrra kõrgema barjääriga tegevus kui loodus sellesama lapse saamisel ette seab. Perekonnaseisuamet (nagu see maja seal Pärnu maanteel) on vist kohaliku tähtsusega asutus? Teen närvid kõvaks, et taas kord läbida tallinn.ee lootusetult haiget navigatsioonipuud. Sünni registreerimise lehel räägitakse paberist ja kohaleilmumisest, ei sobi. Täpsemat lugemist pakkuvalt Perekonnaseisuameti veebilehel on sisu sama meeleolukas nagu aadressikuju: http://www.tallinn.ee/g4253s505 [loe edasi...]...
Possibility of Innovation In a (not The) Valley
Thomas L. Friedman wrote in the Herald Tribune a few years ago a column that acknowledged, and probably injected a lot of self confidence to innovators outside of the usual suspect American hightech hubs. Written from an angle of criticism towards the American high school system, I found his text much more useful read upside down - thinking about how the more remote areas previously known for their cheap labour and mass quantity low tech production are winning share on...
Paberil ajakirjade tellimisodüsseia
Pikkade pühade ajal kodus vegeteerides ja putkast ostetud erinevaid ajakirju vahelduseks paberil lapates tekkis tunne, et mõned neist võiksid regulaarselt kodus käia. Neli kodu- ja kolm välismaist. Tundus, et tahaksin need kõik korraga ära tellida ja kõige eest maksta otsekorraldusega -- ma ei tea ju ette, kas tegelikult tüdinen juba kolme kuu pärast täiendavast vanapaberist või jääb ka 12-kuusest fikseeritud perioodist väheks ja pean mingil hetkel pikendustega mässama. Mul ei olnud hetkekski kahtlust, et selle asja saab tänapäeval kiiresti internetis...
Correction: Estonian entry to Seedcamp
Happy to say that I was just a bit hasty with my posting a few days ago. Apparently the blogged country list was not exhaustive - just learned that RealEyes has sent in an application. Good luck with making it to the Top 20....
Lonely Estonian at Seedcamp
As the Seedcamp key dates are rolling by and the September week in London is getting closer for the lucky 20, Saul has been posting some intermediary updates. My little personal sad news is that among the 260 applications sent in there was no a single one from Estonia. Hope it was not because the spreading the word effort was modest (thanks, guys, for helping on that!) rather because every startup (idea) around here already has enough competence, experience and...
Invitation: spend a week in London to get your startup kickstarted
Saul & the team have softlaunched Seedcamp and the applications for the first event in London in September is now open. Why? Europe has so far under-delivered in terms of globally successful technology startups. From securing funding to developing the right network, young entrepreneurs in Europe face challenges in building globally competitive technology businesses. Through the provision of seed capital and a world class network of mentors, we want to provide a catalyst for Europe's next generation of entrepreneurs....
There is hope for European startups
Saul published his slides from the NextWeb conference. We had a good lunch with him a few months ago on the philosophical topic of supporting the seeding European ventures (and OpenCoffee as one of the tools for that). I would have loved to hear him on stage of course, but still the deck provides some pointers for further thought or at least some reassurance against the skeptics out there thinking that there is no chance for tech success outside the...
Jaapani Post versus Eesti Post
Tellisin ühest väga lahedast Jaapani võrgupoest nimega TokyoFlash mõned esemed. Nädalavahetusel, nii et pood vabandas ette ja taha (tuues ära isegi hetke pooleöise kellaja Jaapani ajavööndis!), et kahjuks nad jõuavad mu kauba postitamiseni alles nende aja järgi esmaspäeva hommikul. Nagu lubasid, nii tegid, saatsid veel e-maili, kustkohast Yubini (ehk siis Jaapani Posti) leheküljel täpselt paki liikumist jälgida saab: Nagu näha, kestis paki Okinawa-Tallinn reis kolm ja pool päeva. Pole paha. Tallinn-Viimsi seevastu on täis tiksunud kuus päeva ja lõppu pole...
Web 2.0 Applications I Use
We were discussing various well-established and hot-out-of-the press web 2.0 (pardon the overused buzzword) applications and social networking sites each other actually use and like with a colleague. I came to think that there are more of them than I thought before listing them out. In no particular order:...
SkypePrime meets Hite Prime
A dinner to celebrate the SkypePrime launch 2 weeks ago (better late than never!) led to a surprise discovery of a Korean beer named correctly just for the occasion. Hite Prime. (I'm cheating with the picture here - it is from MJ's phone, because it is far more artistic in composition than the ones I made.) Skype Prime is the way to share advice, knowledge or services over Skype to anywhere in the world... and make money in the...
Skype'i töötajate blogid Eesti "oluliseimad"
Koduleht.eu genereeritav Eesti blogide pingerida näeb päris üllatav välja. Mis täpselt on "eesti blogi" kriteeriumiks, jääb topi puhul küll pisut lahtiseks. Blogi "olulisuse" kriteeriumiks on seekord aga võetud PageRank, ehk siis indeks skaalal 0..10, mis arvutatakse vastavalt sellele, kui palju mingile lehele viidatakse ja kui palju omakorda viidatakse neile lehtedele, kust viited tulevad. Sergei & Larry teadustöö Stanfordist, mis on Google otsingumootori aluseks relevantsete tulemuste leidmisel. See selleks....
Business to Business to Consumer
Seth has written a great piece on the differences between what is "very good service" organizations provide to consumers versus to other businesses. I'd like to add another twist to this....
My new job: first launch
For about two weeks now I've been acting in a new role in Skype as General Manager for eCommerce (while still holding the role of GM for Skype in Estonia). As with any change in positions it always takes quite an effort to get up and running, but I already see light in the end of that tunnel. Fortunately there is a great team of individuals and a pipeline with highly potent projects in place....
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