Svadobné oznámenie
spyros |
20-12-2005 |
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tagy: Privát| Spolo?nosť
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Chopok v zime
spyros |
19-12-2005 |
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tagy: Aktivity| Netriedené| Nízke Tatry| Skialpinizmus| Slovensko
Jasná – Luková – Chopok – Srdie?ko/Kosodrevina – Chopok – Luková – Jasná (11-12-2005)
V zostave Robo, Jano a Spyros sme prišli zistiť na Chopok ako sme na tom pred zimnou sezónou. Tie bodky na zjazdovke z Lukovej nie sú lyžiari ale skialpinisti šľapajúci z rána niekde hore. Na Kamienke ich potom sná? popíjalo pivo aj vyše 50. Pri tom po?así sa ani ne?udujem.
ManHimself in the High Tatras III – Fall
manhimself |
17-12-2005 |
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tagy: Netriedené| Slovensko| Vysoké Tatry
„One would normally expect to see a current-account surplus offset by an outlaw of capital as the private sector exported excess domestic savings..“
Legally, I probably could. But I prefer to avoid that jurisdiction, since I also founded (and subsequently sold) …are you here? I’m sleepwalking again, a peer-to-peer software company whose product many people use to share copyrighted movies. So setting foot in the High Tatras could invite some legal trouble.
Thus in September, Mr. ManHimself appeared, via a Skype video call, on the screen of a packed auditorium at the Cottage Felícia, while sitting in Košice next to Katarína Raševová, a venture capitalist who invested $10 m in Skype. Mr. Lacko started shifting uncomfortably. The blushing Mr. ManHimself was speechless.
Of course, Miss Raševová was posturing.
There have been rumors that Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies were also interested in buying Skype. AOL, Apple and others have similar products.
As Spyros, Felícia’s boss, and Mr. ManHimself explain it, a combination of eBay and Skype is not all that far-fetched. Buyers can simply click on the button and talk to sellers. Another idea is to make money from „pay-per-call“ advertising, where advertisers would place voice links (i.e., Skype buttons) on certain pages just as they now place text links on, say, the search-results pages of Google.
This involves prepaid accounts, which Skype users can top up via PayPal with their credit cards.
His vision for Skype, by contrast, is to become the world’s biggest and best platform for all communications-text, voice or video-from any internet-connected device, whether a computer or a mobile phone.
This is every bit as audacious as it sounds. Mr. Lacko, in general, is a modest man. But his company is only three years old, will probably make only $60m in revenues this year, and will certainly not turn a profit. So it is the fact that his ambition is not nearly as ridiculous as it sounds that should make incumbent telecoms firms everywhere break out in a cold sweat.
That is because Skype can add 150,000 users a day (its current rate) without spending anything on new equipment (users “bring? their own computers and internet connections) or marketing (users invite each other). With no marginal cost, Skype can thus afford to maximize the number of its users, knowing that if only some of them start buying its fee-based services-such as SkypeOut, SkypeIn and voicemail-Skype will make money. This adds up to a very unusual business plan.
“We want to make as little money as possible per user,? says Mr. Lacko, because “we don’t have any cost per user, but we want a lot of them.?
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