Our new iPad-Productivity App itempus is first

We just hit the App Store with our new new iPad-Productivity App itempus 36 hours ago and we are already the number one shown in the iPad-Productivity category.

Currently the itempus is availble in the German App store, but we are working on the versions for the other countries. Please register for the info-letter on http://www.itempus.com to get the information, when the international versions will be released.

Web 2.0 Summit - Startup pitches

Have a look at these great elevator pitches from the facebooks of tomorrow:



A lot of smarties. You should also check out the related youtube videos of the web 2.0 Summit.
Here is the link to the conference:
http://www.web2summit.com/web2010

By the way, I found the video on the Blog of Y Combinator, a great incubator in Silicon Valley.
You can find the blog at:
http://ycombinator.posterous.com/

24h of social media - nice web2.0 facts

Here is a nice video on what happens in 24h of social media usage:

A Day in the Life of Social Media from DBA Worldwide on Vimeo.

Please let me know, if you have more of these videos.

Google TV

Have a look at http://www.google.de/tv/
A quite interesting concept, presented by Google. I am really interested in opinions on how this compares to apple-tv.

Here is a video from google to demonstrate the concept:


Please let me know your thoughts.

Office 2011 incl. Outlook for Mac to come in October 2010

For all of you, who (like me) love their Mac, but still work with Outlook in Parallels, here comes the solution:
Microsoft will bring Outlook to the Mac in October :-)

Here is a nice little video, with a short overview of the main new features:



I also like the new templates for Excel and I hope that the Pivot Tables will be working as well on the Mac as on Windows PCs.

New jekel & partner videos

As most of you might already know, my company jekel & partner (www.jekelpartner.de) is active in 3 areas:

• Apple iPad for productivity (www.iPad4productivity.com)
• Post Merger Integration (www.unternehmensintegration.de)
• Executive Coaching (www.iCoach24.com)

And here are the brand new videos:







So if anybody of you or your friends have any demand in one of these areas, just give me a call (+49-4821/949 86 86) or send me an e-mail (t.jekel@jekelpartner.de).

Roambi - great tool for dashboards on the iPad & iPhone

Have a look at:
http://www.roambi.com/

This is a really cool visualisation tool for management dashboards.
It connects to several back-end systems, inclusing SAP and salesforce.
In the free version, you can use it to bring Excel-Reports on your iPad.

Here you can find more details:
http://timoelliott.com/blog/2010/04/roambi-–-beautiful-mobile-bi-for-the-ipad.html

FastCompany Blog

I just found a smart blog on leadership and technology issues:

Have a look at these two interesting posts:
The first one on leadership:  http://www.fastcompany.com/1684491/ten-things-your-employees-wish-you-knew-about-them
The second one about the new facebook location based services:  http://www.fastcompany.com/1686108/how-to-stake-your-claim-on-facebook-places

There is much more interesting stuff on this webpage - so check it out!

Evernote business model

Have a look at this great presentation of the CEO of evernote, Phil Libin:



A lot of things to learn from him. Here are the best points (taken from the TechCrunch Blog):

• Sometimes people say “The best product doesn’t always win”, and are implying that you should focus on other areas, like marketing. In the Internet age, a good product can get the rest of that stuff (marketing, etc.) for free. So focus on that. And then charge for it.
• A year ago Evernote was making most of its money from licensing its technology, but it focused on its premium plans ($5/month or $45/year) because that was more scalable. Now, premium subscriptions bring in around $300-400k a month, and licensing represents around $45k.
• Evernote has 3.1 million cumulative users, and adds around 10k a day. Around 68k paying customers.
• Users have grown more valuable over time. New users convert to premium at a rate of .5%.  But of the users that signed up two years ago and are still active, 20% have become paid customers.
• This trend is important — most users quit quickly. But the ones that stay become much more likely to pay over time.
• Evernote’s cost per user is around 9 cents per active user per month. It makes around 25 cents per user per month. The site reached break even a year and a half ago.
• Entrepreneurs should aim to be making money on each new active user as soon as possible. Otherwise scaling just means you’re losing money faster, rather than earning it

And even if you thing that the summary is enough, watch the video. Phil is really great.

4. May, 18-20h: Great DPA presentation on social Media from Anette Brandt on Offener Kanal Westküste

For all of you who are interested in social media and who understand German:
Turn on the "Offener Kanal Westküste" Station tomorrow (4. 5.2010, 18-20h)

You can listen to it either locally on air or via internet. By the way, the "ok" is a great station for smarties. they have a lot of high quality content. You can find their program at:
http://www.okwestkueste.de/wk/hoeren/programm/2010/kw18_10.php#Dienstag

Anette Brandt from news aktuell, a subsidiary of DPA, gave a great guest lecture at West Coast University, the university which has the smartest and sexiest marketing and controlling prof alive - my wife :-)


Anette Brandt gave a great overview of the current social media landscape and she presented top current studies. In addtion, her presentation was very vivid. So all of you who do get the chance, listen to her on the "ok" tomorrow.

For all of you who miss(ed) her, I have uploaded her charts on my slideshare at:

http://www.slideshare.net/tjekel/vortrag-anette-brandt-socialmedia13-4-1

And you can find more from Anette Brandt and her team on:

www.newsaktuell.de
www.presseportal.de

So keep on sharing ideas. As knowledge is the only resource that increases with usage :-) 

Google Home View

I was laughing like hell, when I found this on the great Blog from Andreas Voigtländer at :
http://voigtlaender.posterous.com/
Now I know how pixeling works :-)

6 ways to filter information on the web

I just found a great blog post on how to filter information on the web on one of my favourite blogs on social media.

You can find it at:
http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/08/30/6-ways-filter-information/

iPhoneBlog.de

This is a great iPhone-Blog and it is one that the professionals are reading:

http://www.iphoneblog.de/

Thank you Daniel Magin for the info and the great iPhone & iPad conference today.

Tablets will replace e-book readers

For all of you who still think that the current e-book-readers are cool, have a look at this preview:



Apple is one of the players in the market who are currently working on these next generation media players.
So I am desperately waiting for these new toys for the boys and enjoy my Sony e-book-reader in the meantime.

For those iPhonies of you who cannot wait any longer: there is a kindle client for iPhone available at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=ms_sbrspot_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000301301&pf_rd_p=498990411&pf_rd_s=center-22&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0015T963C&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0TRFBVTHG79ME9E3W06N

So keep on pimping your brain :-)

The new apple netbook is there

Have a look at this cool new apple netbook. If you are a gadget freak like me, this is THE gadget:



Have a great weekend and keep :-)

The google story

Have a look at this cool presentation of the google story:



I am sure, there will be more to come ...

Great video on the social media revolution

If you still think, that social media is only a toy for the boys, have a look at this video;



It gives a very good impression about how the communication habits have already changed - today!
Thank you very much Alex for sharing this great link on twitter. Another great example for sharing knowledge via social media.

By the way, when you browser cuts off the right part of the video (like mine), just double click on the video and it will open the full view in youtube. In youtube, you even have a button below the videos, to watch them in full screen mode.

Nice introduction video to twitter

If you still have no idea what twitter is, have a look at this video:



There are some more introduction videos from this user on youtube, which are quite nice, like the one on RSS.

What am I using twitter for?
-getting nice little bits and pieces of information from interesting people,
-putting down interesting little things that come accross my way between my blog posts (like when I am watching TV, reading a book or listening to a podacst),
-using direct messages to chat with some of my personal contacts,
-letting my twitter followers know, when I have posted a new post on my blog (automatically by the service of http://www.zone.de/), and
-asking questions to my twitter followers (and I am getting great and instant responses - I think this is even the best benefit of twitter)

So start twittering today. My twitter user is jekel and you can also see my latest twitter tweets on the right side of my blog. You can also use the link below the tweets to follow me on twitter directly from my blog.

Cloud computing

Have a look at this great video on cloud computing:



This was really a sales guy who pulled this together - Very focussed on customer benefits - Great!

What is networking?

This is a great short video on what networking is all about and if you want to connect to me, you can find me on:

German networking profile on Xing:
https://www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Jekel

International networking profile on LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=9429447&trk=tab_pro

Photos on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/thorsten.jekel