Hello Martin

Investor Relations News

I’ve been complaining about the lack of M&A Activity in europe, lack of specialized M&A companies specializing in media/internet (like Montgomery & Co in the US) - But i have to say Axel Springer certainly seem to be on the hunt here, and they are starting to build up quite a wide portfolio of internet companies. I guess you can almost say there is similarities between Axel Springer and IAC as a holding company for a wide variation of companies (even though Axel Springer has long content background with newspapers).

Anyways i think it’s great that there is some M&A activity in europe and i hope they continue to buy companies, since it’s a great driver for more entrepreneurs to setup companies (not saying you should start a company with a exit in mind!).

So Usatoday (frontpage) and Wall street journal (Frontpage Personal journal) on thursday and then Good Morning America today, i guess we have had a good week

Video:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3310633

Accompanying article: ABC: Find summer flight deals

Anybody who has ever met me and ventured in to the subject of cars will know i am a complete car nut, so i have watched an endless amount of video clips of car tests and reviews. Lately i have taken a bit further interest in these videos than just the cars in the video. Any video search on youtube for any sports car will generate a wide selection of videos which in most cases will keep you glued to the screen for quite a while.
So when i had dinner with a friend the other week who is an engineer at heart and we discussed the subject of car reviews in the media and i explained to him that throughout my viewings i have come to the conclusion that Jeremy Clarkson stands out above everything else he crinched since he believes that he doesn’t always know how to make the most out of the cars, and sometimes just talk plain gibberish.
Anyways i know this post is a bit off, but with HD Cameras coming in at 1000$ or so high quality video will become much more of a commodity but in the end it will always come down to the presenter in the end too (unless it’s a silent production). And as more and more content moves to video format it becomes more clear and clear how unique of a talent there is to presenting something, And once you start moving content from the “written” to the “spoken” you are taking a chance in the sense that it’s no longer “content is king” but there is more factors that gets added weather your content will be successful or not.
Who knows if Jeremy is just this way naturally or he does an “act”  - But if he ever wants to leave BBC he can shoot me an email
Oh yeah since i know it’s mostly web people reading here… Top Gear is supposedly viewed by around 350 million people, does your website get that many visitors?

During my research in to this subject a bit further i also read about windingroad.com - Which i had visited many times but had no idea it was a digital magazine only, i think it’s a very interesting project, i think they have missed A LOT of things that they could/can do and it will be interesting to see where they head to next, and i can only applaud them for taking the risk.

Been playing around with spotify for a while now, really like it, i know there is other services like it out there that’s been available for a long time, but this is the first music service i hooked up too, they don’t have all the songs, but it feels like they have a broader availability of regional music compared to something like itunes where they do “regional” selling.

And the streaming is lightning fast. Anyways i think it can be a great service for those who haven’t tried other platforms before and go straight to spotify since interface is very easy to use too.

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Hey if you know anybody who’s really good at doing Online Ad Sales, please drop me a line, need to be US based, but doesn’t matter where.
email is: firstname@thisdomain.com

Just noticed what must be one of the most watched websites in terms of webdesign, now have a new look, not sure if it’s temporary or will stay that way…

KRAMER: Jerry, don’t you see? This world here, this is George’s
sanctuary. If Susan comes into contact with this world, his world’s
collide. You know what happens then?

Have been getting a lot of facebook invitations lately.
I find Facebook quite interesting and think it’s more professional than MySpace. But i have some troubles signing up to Facebook mostly because for really the first time friends and acquaintances have asked me to sign up as have business contacts, and i am really having trouble mixing them i’ve found, for business i use LinkedIn quite a lot and like how the service works. However for friends the only social network i use for them is simply my cellphone, up until the beginning of this year i only had friends numbers on my cellphone to avoid the world’s colliding but i had to sync it because in the end i just couldn’t do business the way i was supposed to without business contacts on my phone. Maybe just i have this problem, not sure if it’s because normally my business world is just so far apart from my friends world???
Am i crazy or is this a good boundary to have?