Seems like a new wave of domain-extortion spam is arriving at european shores. Usually this is weeded out, but somehow these seem to get through. The scheme seems to rely on

Confirming the email address once you reply to one of the mails
Selling domain grabbing ‘insurance’ so this ‘won’t happen again in the future’

This is another good reminder not to have you email client to download content automatically. The mail contains hidden flash-content that will be downloaded if you allow your email-client to do so. This is noticed back in China …

Finding my ‘CRM’ was something like an odyssey. After a few exchanges in a few forums and with Norada support it dawned on me, that is rather the rule than the exception.
This is my short story of how this came about. May there be interesting tidbits for others facing comparable problems.
It all started off with CabChap developing faster than anticipated. telfish being an B2B business, didn’t generate many leads, we were able to handle them with the standard Mac address book.
CabChap on the other hand, is pure B2C play. …

I am thrilled to anounce the launch of our newest service called CabChap.com.
It serves a simple purpose: Make on-demand transport accessible and efficient. This means for you: Get a Cab anytime and everywhere, just by pressing a button on your mobile. Or, from the perspective of a cabby: Get more fares with less cost directly without any monopolistic circuit in between.
It will be a long way until we will build a decent reach and driver base. The first step happened today, the next step will be the release of the iPhone …

On my personal blog (www.tomschlenkhoff.com) I will post loosely about my experiences developing CabChap. Topics like Where does the idea come from, Branding on the cheap, Customer development, Product Development for Dummies etc. will be covered.
I am looking forward seeing you there, if you are into start-ups!

Make things more beautiful and easy around here is our main drive. We basically smell inefficiencies and have a bad habit of getting to work on multiple such challenges at once. If you want to see and feel what I mean by that check this out:

telfish – which answers the simple question “Which is the best mobile phone plan for me / my company?”. Stunned by the complete lack of a solution in that space Mathias and I started working on a solution in 2006. By now we have www.telfish.com …