Our soulmate Spirofrog is participating in an online start-up competition of the Financial Times Deutschland. Spirofrog is an online marketplace for traineeships.

Vote for Spirofrog!

Take a look at Kiva. It’s a real social website: you loan money to entrepreneurs from the first third world. We like this website not only because it is a social entrepreneurship, but also because it is focusing totally on C2C business . It’s the long tail of loans.

Have a good time!

You love old cars – youngtimers or oldtimers? Then you will love this site: carsablanca.de. It’s

• a social network
• a directory of individual cars
• a directory of experts
• a marketplace for cars
• a wikipedia-style encyclopedia of car-related topics
• a magazin with news and article about cars and their owners
• an event-organizer for – yeah, you’re right – car owners
• a video and photo-community
• and more!

I like this site, because it is for fans, people who love certain things and spend a lot of time and money, no matter if it is rational or not.

You may call this “commodity fetishism“, but don’t think this is bad or abnormal. Since the beginning of human kind, people paid special attention to special things like beautiful shells for example and they paid for it (at first in exchange for other goods, later with money) – they paid more than the real value.

Oldtimers and youngtimers are unique. They have a life story and so an identity. This gives them an high emotional value for their owners. They associate their history or history in general with the object. Oldtimers and youngtimers are limited. There is no chance that the supply matches the demand and so they are subjects of speculation.

This reminds me of … virtual goods … the same old story …

Have a good time!

Check this out: first1.de! I love this website, because it is live, it is interactive and it is fullscreen!

First1 is an live entertainment platform on the Internet and one of its products is called “Wie weit wirst Du gehen?”. Once a day at a certain time you participate in a live online quiz show together with hundreds or thousands of other users. You get the same questions at the same time and you have the chance to win real money. However, if you are wrong, you loose money, so the question is “Wie weit wirst Du gehen?” (in English: “How far will you go?”).

So, good luck and have a good time!