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Marcel Ekkel › Comments
Hearing from someone about Google's internal "Idea stock market" tool where employees bet on which ideas will flourish, anyone have details?
Nick Boucart, Sean McBride, Roberto Bonini and 4 other people liked this
I've heard of it being more like "voting" for a feature and getting ideas promoted or murdered based on feedback; not sure if it's a true "betting" system. I think it's more a feedback system
- Susan Beebe
Tried to push a similar idea internally to not only "invest" shares in an idea, but to track performance and pay out a bonus on results to ferret out great product people...love these mechanisms! Best Buy seemed to have something similar to encourage participation from Geek squad developers too!
- Alan Edgett
Don't know, but Pligg is a great open source app for that. Biznik just implemented one for the whole community @ http://ideas.biznik.com
- Leif Hansen
Prediction markets are good news, @dtapscott wrote extensively about them in Wikinomics http://is.gd/8vDC
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Details here on the internal stock market: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005...
- Alex Haar
looks like a variation of open space technology facilitation technique
- Marcel Ekkel
if interested in predictive markets, u should talk to ceo of newsfutures, let me know if you want an introduction
- Pascal Bouvier
from twhirl
@marcelekkel if they wanted to fix their PR; they should have lowered Vista's pricing at the same time.
:)
- Marcel Ekkel
ING-bank survived another day. only the shareholders are very upset
but share price has rocketed
- Marcel Ekkel
Yeah, I'm now being blamed for not buying any, but it could also have dropped like a stone
- Fons Tuinstra
Looking at a weblog and forum for letters of credit; should have known something like that existed.http://www.letterofcreditforum.com/content...
Fons, letters of credit have been and are still used in international trade as a form of risk management. Banks do a lot to find any difference in the LC/s and supporting documentation so negotiations on payments can start and they can improve their profits.
- Marcel Ekkel
Marcel, was getting some signals that as part of the financial crisis LC's were harder to get. Part of my China Crisis Watch. This forum seems to confirm that.
- Fons Tuinstra
Hi Fons, yup kinds of makes sense as banks are trying to limit their exposure. (Sorry, havent read ur full crisiswatch postings yet)
- Marcel Ekkel
united airlines: we now charge $15 per checked bag to cover cost of putting it on a different flight and delivering it to you late at night.
Heather Solos, Raoul Pop, Bren -- Still Believes and Alex Scoble liked this
Uhhh who was the one that messed up? Or are they working on a new revenue stream here.
- Marcel Ekkel
Arrived in Sheshan, looking forward to a couple of hours of running. Exit Twitter!
Have fun! Tomorrow sections 5,6,7, of MacleHose's Oxfam trailwalker trail
- Marcel Ekkel
ok i give up. going to sleep. bag better be at front desk tomorrow. gonna make up an excuse to call this guy i have a crush on. heh. night.
if your stuff is missing you can ask them to provide over nite kit and allowance to buy emergency stuff....
- Marcel Ekkel
@amsterdamant Ken niet zoveel gaming bedrijven in HK. Overheid geeft een HK digital entertainment directory uit, die zou je moeten hebben.
@amsterdamant zoek maar op bedrijven die in CYBERPORT en HK Science Park zitten. er zijn ook wel wat associations.
- Marcel Ekkel
@marcelekkel be happy to. maybe i'll bug @paulwalsh and coordinate a HK visit same time as him since he's there a lot. have you met him?
not consciously :)
- Marcel Ekkel
@marcelekkel trying to stop by a few days after the @china20 tour or definitely january's trip for sure.
excellent! If it coincides with "a 1st wed of the month" would you like to participate in webwednesday.hk?
- Marcel Ekkel
speaking of franchises. fatburger franchise up for grabs internationally. hk and dubai open this month. for hk, 2nd one in causeway bay soon
Hmm there is one in Wanchai advertised, but i haven't seen it open yet.
- Marcel Ekkel
finally! Krispy Kreme coming to China. 35 locations over 4 yrs via franchise rights to Lotte. *happy fat dance* :D http://www.marketwatch.com/news...
A nationalized sugar rush.. 1bn people on the donuts.. interesting
- Marcel Ekkel
@marcelekkel ironically, my own.
Good to see you appreciate your own work haha
- Marcel Ekkel
some days i think i'd make a pretty good writer for one of those 20 episode korean soap opears.
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Ha, which one are you watching then?
- Marcel Ekkel
In Tokyo on the train to Shinagawa. Just realize my iPhone does not work here, should have brought my old Nokia E61
yeah i thought about that... coz its not a 3G! Pfff old fashioned :)
- Marcel Ekkel
I'm in Los Angeles- San Fernando Valley. Job hunting. Appealing to the power of networking. :) Do you know anyone hiring office assistant?
I am hiring one in San Francisco. Good luck in your search!
- Robert Scoble
I am hiring an office assistant in Hong Kong
- Marcel Ekkel
Calling all followers! I wanna know what timezone you're in: I've got a geeky itch to make a graph out of it. Please respond with your time zone in the format of + or - from GMT.
edythe, Glenn Batuyong, dkb and 3 other people liked this
+10
- Johnny Worthington
-5 or is it -4 with daylight savings? I get confused.
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
+2, Istanbul
- Erhan Erdogan
-7
- Helen Sventitsky
from fftogo
Michael: -4. I'm -4 here, too.
- Mark Trapp
-5.00 (EST)
- Czar
-5 EDT
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
+5:30 IST (Indian Standard Time)
- Rahul Das
-6 until November 2, then -7
- Jeremy Kunz
-4 at the moment. -5 in the fall.
- James (@willia4)
-5.00 (EST)
- JA Castillo
I'm in Berlin Germany. I have no idea what GMT zone that is.
- Robert Scoble
-5 GMT (Eastern US time)
- Nine
gmt+2
- Nicole Simon
UTC/GMT +10 hours down in syd australia
- Jay
est time us
- orionstarr
GMT+10 (Sydney, Australia).
- Andrew Trinh
-5 GMT
- William Spaetzel
-6 GMT
- Adam Turetzky
-6 Here in Dallas, I think.
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
GMT -8
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
+1 but only because we're on BST (British Summer Time) at the moment.
- Graeme Shaw
-5 on a usual day, but currently -4 because of DST. How will you graph this one? :P
- Long Nguyen
-5
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
GMT
- Joe Dawson
Central. Not doing math this morning.
- Josh Haley
+8
- Aether
+0530
- Yuvi
-5EST
- Imabug
+2
- Boubacar Balde
from twhirl
+0 GMT
- dkb
from Alert Thingy
Usually -8 but -7 with daylight savings. (PDT)
- AJ Kohn
+8
- Justin Long
+5
- Raza
from Alert Thingy
-5 GMT
- Bartek Ciszkowski
I can never remember, but same as you
- David Knight
+1 or +2 depending on daylight savings
- Olivier
+5
- Jason Theodor
+2
- Migger
GMT -5, aka US Central Daylight Time
- Pat Rice
GMT -4 (EDT)
- Ian May
MDT
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
GMT+1
- Tibor Holoda
EST
- Denise
UTC -8
- Glenn Batuyong
Standard time zone: UTC/GMT -5 hours Daylight saving time: +1 hour Current time zone offset: UTC/GMT -4 hours Time zone abbreviation: EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- Carmen
Awesome, I'm at 48 comments on this! Anyone else care to contribute?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
GMT +8 :)
- Chris Chua
-5
- Ryan Keiser
from twhirl
GMT -8
- Tony Jones
from twhirl
+8, Hong Kong
- Marcel Ekkel
-6 GMT. Central Time represent, woot woot! Okay, i'm done.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
-5 Eastern(whateveritisnow)Time
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Im frum teh futar.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
-6 GMT like MC Haggis up there. :)
- Yolanda
-5 EST (Toronto)
- Chris Luckhardt
-6 GMT, CST in the USA
- Barbara K. Iverson
from twhirl
-5 EDT
- Mitchell Tsai
San Jose, CA PDT = UTC -7 = GMT -7
- Jeff P. Henderson
-10 GMT, HST
- Tyler Gillies
+10
- Gordon Smith
British Summer Time here - GMT +1
- Slappy Line
+1 GMT Copenhagen
- Lars Rune Jensen
-4 right now -5 in a little while.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
-8
- edythe
GMT +9:30 (Adelaide, Australia)
- Mo Kargas
-5
- Russellreno
GMT +4 hours,Moscow time
- Igor Poltavskiy
-5 EDT
- RAPatton
-5
- Mattb4rd
EDT/EST
- Morton Fox
Go DPRK! Wonder how many will try to defect?
haha i was thinking that...but looking at the average age......
- Marcel Ekkel
Hup Holland Hup! I am proud to be living in China, but I am still Dutch :)
cant believe i missed the dutch team!
- Marcel Ekkel
UAE guy was on a cell phone. Unbelievable!
he was full on in the picture! Probably discussing oilprices
- Marcel Ekkel
#080808 I wonder if the US team is going to be made up exclusively of investment bankers?
hahah they are all stressed now
- Marcel Ekkel
That Danish weightlifter looks makes holding hat flag look like holding up a popsicle stick.
on tv they zoomed in on the guy....looked scary!
- Marcel Ekkel
Beijing's air might be very poluted after this opening show
hi fons yeah, and people might need to wait for a taxi when they leave the stadium as well, and maybe it will rain, and maybe .......... and there might be a whole bunch of people that enjoyed the performance, inside and outside the stadium...
- Marcel Ekkel
Passed first security check, walking with 1000s of others to the stadium
any pics semi live uploaded to flickr? you can use shozu on your nokia!
- Marcel Ekkel
In a bus on the way the the Opening Ceremony of the XXIX Olympic Games!
hope you will have enough battery power... the opening lasts over3hrs :)
- Marcel Ekkel
Dear Hostgator Support, you just spent 15 minutes on chat with me trying to tell me I was wrong and imagining things. WTF?
if you want real "top support" host your stuff at gisol.com frustration guaranteed
- Marcel Ekkel
10 Reasons Why Mind Mapping Can Increase Productivity - http://www.gottabemobile.com/10+Reas...
Nicholas James, accesine, Tanath and 11 other people liked this
I'm a mindmanager junkie. Lately I've been experimenting with mindmeister, doing real-time collaborative mindmapping with clients --what a great way to grow ideas visually while talking on the phone!
- Leif Hansen
Hmm mindjets mindmanager has online functionality as well those days.. haven't played with it yet though
- Marcel Ekkel
Impossible to find taxi in Beijing. Took a bus without airco and now the metro to get from Ritz-Carlton to Houhai.
is that to balance out your D1st class ticket :)
- Marcel Ekkel
The safe in my room has a power outlet in it so I can recharge my laptop while it's in there. That's a smart innovation!
Yea, i had that in st regis in Singapore as well recently... good stuff!
- Marcel Ekkel
How To Work With Chinese Factories -- Without Getting Burned - AdAgeChina - Viewpoint - http://adage.com/china...
kind of in line with my view that one of the biggest challenges at hand is doing business in an ethical way.....
- Marcel Ekkel
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