Hannes Preishuber

Weblogs goes down and especially weblogs.asp.net

it is a overall trend that the useage of weblogs goes down. The authors are posting less then a year before. Just look at the monthly statistics of some weblogs. In October 2003 was mostly the highest level.

But the redesign of this .Text based weblog was a realy bad thing for the sucess.

1) the ranking list of the Bloggers is away. So their is no motivation to have more blog entrys than somebody else

2) the amount of entrys on the start page is reduced. I used bevor this page to see what news have this day. I cant do this because i must look ever 2 hours to get the whole day.

3) The goals of Scott and Rob seems have been changed. Who is responsable to bring this Blog site forward?

how the market works

Our company is based in germany. I want to have mobil access to our comany from every place So i take a look at a offer from vodafone UMTS/GPRS based card for my notebook. This costs 110 Euro. This includes a card and 500 MB / per month.

http://www.vodafone.de/business/rechnungen_tarife/datentarife/59529.html

If i look out of my office over the 500m distance to the Austrian border i can get this for the less then the half. Same company (austrian sub)!

39,- Euro per month

http://www.a1.net/CDA/navigation/nav_frame/0,2756,38-2259-html-de,00.html

This is no advertising for vodafone in austria. It shows what the market can do. A company always try to get the max "value" from the customer.

The diffrence between microsoft and vodafone is that nobody will go to court and want the money back from vodafone germany because it is cheaper in austria. Not in europe, perhaps in the states.