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"Yet another example of cool Kiwi technology! Now if I can just get you guys to front up at W2W2010...;-)" - Timo Reitnauer

"Wolfram Alpha has been my pick for most promising application for some time. Sense-making and better categorising of information are the next big problems to be resolved for web users. Intelligent search and improved expression of live data are surely fundamental responses to these questions. Wolfram solves one of these problems, but not the other. No doubt we will see some elegant responses to these challenges in the near future." - Timo Reitnauer

"Thanks for sharing Richard. It was a great thrill to have you at the event. especially for our emerging New Zealand tech entrepreneurs who are themselves working on taking their own businesses global. Our entrepreneur demo videos are posted along with Richard's excellent talk: http://www.viddler.com/explore... Paul Spence W2W Event Project Manager" - Timo Reitnauer

"Thanks for sharing Richard. It was a great thrill to have you at the event. especially for our emerging New Zealand tech entrepreneurs who are themselves working on taking their own businesses global. Our entrepreneur demo videos are posted along with Richard's excellent talk: http://www.viddler.com/explore... Paul Spence W2W Event Project Manager" - Timo Reitnauer

"I’d love to use my Google Profile with a custom domain name. Could be part of Google Apps or simply work like setting up Blogger on your domain." - Timo Reitnauer

"Well, this is the first step. They have only announced to apply for this internationalized country code top-level domain today. The actual domain registration will probably start mid next year." - Timo Reitnauer

"You could also add the Austrian ccTLD .AT to the list." - Timo Reitnauer

"“Don’t get to caught in the quest for the holy .com extension.” There’s a huge variety of country code top-level domains that can be used for your product. For example, the most popular and brandable country extensions at iWantMyName are: - .IO (British Indian Ocean Territory) - .FM (Federal States of Micronesia) - .AM (Armenia) - .ME (Montenegro) - .IM (Isle of Man) - .AT (Austria) - .IN (India) - .MU (Mauritius) They’re all based on stable registries and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t go with one of them. Just be creative and have fun when chosing a name… :)" - Timo Reitnauer

"I'm based in a much smaller and more tightly networked city, so yes I do think carefully about what I share. In my world there are likely only two degrees of separation between me and the next person I'm closing a deal with or meeting at a social function. Besides, it's not necessary to share every tiny detail of my stream of consciousness online. That would spoil the intrigue of meeting in real life. @GeniusNet @ideegeo @iwmn" - Timo Reitnauer

"Inspiring story and proof that small islands in the Pacific can successfully cultivate a high tech entrepreneurial ecology for the betterment of their economy." - Timo Reitnauer

"Boris, Did you know that you can also register upside down domain names? sıɹoq.com is still available… ;) Check it out: http://iwantmyname.com/domain-... -Timo" - Timo Reitnauer

"Die Schließung von cli.gs ist ein weiterer Grund, einen URL Shortener auf seiner eigenen Domain zu betreiben. Denn nur dann “gehören” einem die Kurzlinks und man hat volle Kontrolle über den Namensraum." - Timo Reitnauer

"That’s the advice we give our customers at iWantMyName as well. Get a generic domain such as .COM / .NET / .ORG / .INFO for targeting the international market and a country code domain for local audiences. For personal blogs there are also the .NAME & .ME domain extensions. However, you can use country code extensions for the international market too without having disadvantages regarding search engine traffic. Google’s Webmaster Tools offer the possibility to specify the target market for your domain so a .TV / .FM or .IO domain can still have a high ranking." - Timo Reitnauer

"You should also think of getting your own domain. In addition to themes, all mentioned services offer the possibility to use custom domains. Not satisfied with Tumblr or Blogger anymore? Just keep your web address and import all posts into Posterous for example. There's an easy way to configure custom domains for all these services with iWantMyName, you should check it out: http://iwantmy.name/a :)" - Timo Reitnauer

"If a real time, people-centric view of the Web is the next step, it raises some interesting questions. How do we (humans) process all of that information and how do we define and secure our personal space online? At iWantMyName we think that digital identity and the domain remain the anchors around which new services emerge. But most traditional registrars have failed to satisfactorily address the coming wave by innovating for their customers. In my opinion we are on the cusp of a paradigmatic change in how we manage information. RWW has been doing some great work tracking developments in AR. In terms of real time web, I'm sure this will continue to be a fascinating area for growth." - Timo Reitnauer

"Most of our customers use Tumblr, followed by Blogger & Posterous for their personal domain names. Personally, I prefer Posterous which powers my personal blog and Storytlr for my lifestream." - Timo Reitnauer

"Sounds good and you’re absolutely right. Domain registration and management is just a pain. We were frustrated as well and started our http://iwantmyname.com domain management service. It’s about time that the established registrars get some competition… so good luck with your project!" - Timo Reitnauer

"Sehr schöner Überblick über selbsgehostete URL-Shortener. Wer einen solchen Dienst nicht selbst aufsetzen möchte oder kann, dem seien noch folgende gehosteten Dienste empfohlen: http://iwantmyname.com/blog/20 [iwantmyname.com] Speziell awe.sm und budurl.com haben sehr ausführliche Statistiken. Für den Hausgebrauch reicht ein selbsgehosteter Dienst jedoch sicherlich aus. Noch ein Wort zu kurzen Domains. Unter anderem bieten folgende Domainendungen die Registrierung von zweistelligen Domains an: .TC, .VG, .MS, .GD, .HT, .MU, .TL, .GS & .CX" - Timo Reitnauer

"I think what I enjoyed most about this article was the enthusiastic responses from the many cool companies out there doing great things with the SaaS model. As Dharmesh has outlined, SaaS has its challenges. Because we have entered a mature market with our service offering; the approach we have taken @iwmn is to diversify our revenue stream. Not only do we offer the world's most innovative domain registrar service, but we also make the underlying technology available to other registrars. http://iwantmyname.com" - Timo Reitnauer

"I think what I enjoyed most about this article was the enthusiastic responses from the many cool companies out there doing great things with the SaaS model. As Dharmesh has outlined, SaaS has its challenges. Because we have entered a mature market with our service offering; the approach we have taken @iwmn is to diversify our revenue stream. Not only do we offer the world's most... more... - Timo Reitnauer

"I know, the address is obvious but you may want to add a link to their website. Or maybe I'm just blind :)" - Timo Reitnauer

"A propos 100 älteste Domains… Die älteste symbolics.com ist gerade verkauft worden: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... Damals war das aber eher kein Grabbing, sondern wohl eher “echte” Businessabsicht." - Timo Reitnauer

"I also wonder if people will still use domain names in 25 years… Thoughts?" - Timo Reitnauer

"Ich konnte gestern einer Präsentation von Guy Kawasaki’s Kollege Bill Reichert beiwohnen. Diese hatte den Titel “The New Rules For Entrepreneurs and Investors”. Hier in der Kurzform: 1. Create value 2. Build a team 3. Develop a mantra 4. Get going 5. Learn to bootstrap 6. Go global day one 7. Be a fast adaptor 8. Make sure everyone sells 9. Be realistic about pace of adoption 10. People trump technology Bootstrappen war eine der neuen Regeln (und das empfohlen von einem VC ;)). Wir gehen den gleichen Weg mit http://iwantmyname.com und so hart es am Anfang war, hat es sich doch gelohnt. Die vollständige Präsentation gibt es unter: http://www.up.org.nz/assets..." - Timo Reitnauer

"+1 for the Hype Machine App. I love it!" - Timo Reitnauer

"It's great to see the energy that SeedCamp is bringing to the start-up scene in Europe. Down-under in New Zealand we have some great new tech companies bubbling up, but we are a long way from the centre of gravity in terms of global consumer and capital markets. Hence we are not only developing our own entrepreneurial ecosystem, but we are looking to engage with others. Reshma's point about reiteration is an important one and creating a strong and supportive mentorship culture enables new entrepreneurs to learn more quickly without burning through precious resources." - Timo Reitnauer

"Having control over your short links is indeed the most important reason to run an own URL shortener. There are also some hosted URL shortening services around. We just published an overview on our blog: http://iwantmyname.com/blog..." - Timo Reitnauer

"iWantMyName (but of course I would say that!) I think Seesmic is way underrated and has lots of hidden potential and agree that Wolfram Alpha is hugely exciting." - Timo Reitnauer

"Interesting thoughts and I think you're spot on. It's exactly the vision of our domain management service iWantMyName. Earlier this year we've launched “Domains For Apps” that lets you easily configure domains for popular web apps and services such as Google Apps, Zoho Business, Tumblr, Posterous, Squarespace, Moonfruit and many others. We also wrote about the issue with URL shorteners in a blog article earlier this week and list as well hosted services as self-hosted options to run an URL shortener on your own domain: http://iwantmyname.com/blog......" - Timo Reitnauer

"I couldn’t agree more. Sometimes I find myself lost in the interwebs reading and researching but only because of this I’m able to react on things immediately. Example: a couple of hours after tr.im announced their shutdown I had a blog article ready which got re-tweeted quite a bit and resulted in two days of massive traffic on our website: http://iwantmyname.com/blog... I was only able to do react that quick because I knew most of these services and basically just had to write everything down." - Timo Reitnauer

"Good overview of Open Source shorteners. There are also some hosted URL shortening services: http://iwantmyname.com/blog..." - Timo Reitnauer

"It's not only a perfect storm for distributed systems but also for owning your namespace. We had the discussion two months ago with Facebook's username landrush already. Now Friendfeed gets bought by Facebook. Will you have the same username with both services? And what about the broken links from tr.im? Or maybe you'd like to switch back from Facebook to Myspace? It would be much better to have: - domain.com/profile for your social network profile - domain.com/discuss for a Friendfeed-like service - domain.com/activity to display your lifestream - domain.com/microblog for microblogging - domain.com/a56e for your own URL shortener Distributed systems are the right thing but a domain-centric identity is equally important." - Timo Reitnauer