Tag: switzerland

Kaywa launches

It feels good to end our self-inflicted NDA. Kaywa Ltd. are the result of a collaboration of switzerland’s weblog pioneers to create the best Weblog tool anywhere, and bring (mo)blogging to the masses. Roger will unveil our tool at the first International Moblogging Conference in Tokyo, and will of course provide coverage with the help of his picturephone.
Meanwhile, we are getting ready with the public beta of our new product. We will waive fees for all participants in the public beta for 2003, so sign up today, and help us to make our product even better.

Kaywa are:

ps. yes we will eat our own dogfood shortly 🙂

Farm life

we spent saturday at a farm.

Swiss Airline fails

After they wasted my tax money to realize an ill-conceived plan to create a swiss airline that the market couldn’t bear anyway, they are now begging for more. how come airlines are still limited by national borders? that so doesn’t make sense.
open the skies, and merge swiss with the highest bidder.

blogs @ HSG

with some luck, we are going to apply the lessons from the weblogs at harvard initiative to university of st. gallen.
i can already hear the sighs of relief as lotus notes is replaced by humane alternatives. 😉
2003-06-14:

today we got from our most cooperative and helpful IT guys a pc to run our institute blogs on – in the very near future.

very nice. one hopes that this will lead to interesting exchanges.

snowshoeing fun

we had some fun recently.

Last minute rail tickets

and i thought innovation was dead in swiss government corporations. travel to geneva for 12 bucks, not bad at all.

missies

it will be tough for diana to win this one. as usual, less clothing gives you the edge in these kinds of competitions

they rule

they rule is a nice rendition of the people that run the us. michi proposed to do the same for switzerland, and i guess i would even know the right data providers. but whether they would sponsor such an endeavor, who knows 🙂

Hope for innovation

lounge radio is back, with a very cool mix of Electronica, Brazilectro, Downtempo, NuJazz und Ambient. Thomas zumbrunnen runs it out of baden, of all places. Maybe there is still hope left for switzerland 🙂

Switzerland is going down the toilet

prediction: within 5 years, switzerland will be in dire straits, and will resemble the japan of today. economic growth will screech to a halt, and may even hit a deflation. within 10 years, switzerland will have a significantly lower standard of living in relation to other countries.

there are several reasons for this:

a failure to attract low wage immigrants by closing the borders
a failure to provide funding for new companies
misguided gov spending that emphasizes obsolete industries (military, agriculture)
a reluctance to push painful reform through
a belief that “swiss quality” will always reign supreme while failing to innovate
failing to train the next generation of an excellent workforce