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Technology Review (Germany) talks about the Web 2.0 summit and upcoming tech companies

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

source:

http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/97731/1/0

Mentioned in this article are:

Microsoft – advertisment 

Google – widgets

(Yahoo – with karaoke site bix )

facebook with open APIs, ok we all know

myspace, yes that is nothing new,

AWS, ok we know this too,

but

TWINE is a cool new thing

http://www.twine.com/

and WUALA

http://wua.la/en/home.html

and

http://www.stickam.com/

 also

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite

or the videos site Veoh where the quality is much better than on youtube

http://www.veoh.com/

or to keep your videos

http://keepvid.com/

also a lot of web 2.0 summit videos you could find here:

http://web2summit.blip.tv/

All companies mentioned are related to the article. I sadly was not at the conference.

Posted in SF, gadgets, google, microsoft, myspace, social networks, stickham, technology review, twine, veoh, video, web 2.0, web2.0, web2.0 summit, wikis, wuala, yahoo | 1 Comment »

After Tim O'reilly talked on network effects..here are some good articles on this topic

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

good book from Shapiro and Varian

Information Rules. A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

http://www.amazon.de/Information-Rules-Strategic-Network-Economy/dp/087584863X

Scientific article from Shapiro and Varian

http://www.inforules.com/models/m-net.pdf.pdf

Nice overview

http://oz.stern.nyu.edu/io/network.html

Book from shy Oz: The Economics of Network Industries

http://www.ozshy.com/

16 pages pdf on that

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/00952/sample/9780521800952ws.pdf

Carl Shapiro :
COMPETITION POLICY IN THE INFORMATION ECONOMY

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/comppolicy.pdf

Posted in amazon, economics, effects, google, hal, hub, internet, network, o'reilly, shapiro, standards, tim, varian, web 2.0 | No Comments »

ARS Technica on Windows 7

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

1 Hour video about the next version of windows codnamed “7″

Blog entry

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071021-core-of-windows-7-taking-shape-meet-the-minwin-kernel.html

Video

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/video/UIUC-ACM-RP07-Traut.wmv

Posted in microsoft, multi core, virtualization, windows, windows 7 | No Comments »

Taxes on internet trade and virtual worlds

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Download my thesis as pdf:

http://de.geocities.com/michaelaltendorf80/Diplomarbeit_MA.pdf

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Internet Taxation and Virtual Worlds

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

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Taxation of Virtual Worlds debate continue part II

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Dan Miller from Joint Economic Committee talked on Metanomics on Monday about taxing virtual worlds.

reuters stated that there were some hints, that JEC ist not introducing new taxes but IRS could see Virtual trades at some kind of barter exchange

for further details watch the conversation at slcn.tv

or read it at metaversed

http://metaversed.com/

or Reuters

http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/10/08/congress-to-second-life-no-new-taxes/

For Germany the solution could be nearly the same. Some propositions from my thesis match with the US regulations. The key point to tax virtual trades and income is, that the trades and income could be valued in real money. If there is no point to measure how much income is genereated there would be no taxation.

In Germany private barter clubs often not allow any compatibility with the Euro, so nobody could measure how much one barter hour is worth. And without calculation is no taxation. That is some kind of gray area. Only if professional companies are allowed to trade in barter clubs there would be a possibility to measure you income in real market value. So a lot of private barter clubs not allow companies to join barter clubs and the private barter clubs more seems to be the help you neighbour thing and could not be taxed.

But also in Germany the debate will continue with further growth of virtual world due to the thing that barter clubs are one of the best comparisons.

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Posted in 3d, SL, barter, club, dan miller, exchange, germany, income, irs, jec, law, linden dollar, metanomics, miller, second life, tauschring, tax, taxation, us, virtual world, web 2.0 | No Comments »

SAP buys Business Objects No 1 Business Intelligence company

Sunday, October 7th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

Read it in the news:

SAP to buy Business Objects BusinessWeek
SAP to Acquire Business Objects in Friendly Takeover; Combined … CNNMoney.com
SAP buys Business Objects for €4.8bn Financial Times

Posted in Business intelligence, bi, business objects, sap | No Comments »

Tim O'Reilly talks about Sap Web 2.0 and Network effects

Friday, October 5th, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

read this good article at:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/sap_web_20.html

Watch also the TechED Videos from this week!

Posted in harmony, o'reilly, sap, teched, tim, web 2.0.sap web 2.0, web2.0 | No Comments »

Julian Dibbell spoke at Metaversed yesterday

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 by Michael Altendorf

As you can see on the image: The audience is growing with every event.

Second Life event @ metaversed

You can also watch the meetings at http://slcn.tv/

Posted in 3d, SL, event, julian dibbell, metanomics, metaversed, second life | No Comments »

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