Patrick C. Price

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Letzten Samstag fand das Startup Camp 2010 in Basel statt. Auch das Startup Camp wird in Form eines Bar Camps abgehalten und ist dementsprechend eine Un-Konferenz, bei dem das Programm durch die Teilnehmer selbst vor Ort organisiert wird.

Nachdem ich in Dominiks Wunschliste genannt wurde, war für mich klar, dass ich dem BarCamp-Gedanken folgend, nicht nur teilnehmen, sondern auch etwas dazu beitragen wollte. Leider war ich am morgen verhindert und da dort die Slots für die Präsentationen vergeben werden, gab es für mich nur die Möglichkeit, dies mittels eines Tweets mitzuteilen, in der Annahme, dass diese wohl auf einer Twitterwall publiziert würden. Gesagt getan und so dauerte es nicht lange, bis mir Daniel Ebneter, einer der Mitorganisatoren, meinen Slot bestätigte.

Wie hält man eine Präsentation über ein Thema, bei dem die Wissensunterschiede der Teilnehmenden grösser nicht sein könnten. Zum einen Teilnehmer, die gerade mit einer Idee für ein neues Projekt herumspielen, zum anderen Unternehmer, die konkrete detaillierte Problemstellungen im SEO Bereich haben?  Ich entschied mich, meine Präsentation, die sonst 45 minuten dauert, in 25 durchzupeitschen, damit wir anschliessend wenigstens 20 min für konkrete Fragestellungen hatten. Die SEO-Präsentation ist übrigens auf der Idealizer Seite aufrufbar.

Fotos von: X-Foto auf Flickr

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.

Fun weekend. It was Streetparade in Zurich again!

Streetparade as developed from a techno-festival to one of the coolest summer events in Switzerland. With nearly 1 Mio. people attending, dressing up and reinventing theirselves for one day, it is a party of friendship, tolerance and openness. And a bunch of fun!

Zum diesjährigen 1. August Fest lud ich viele Freunde zu mir an den Strand ein. Ein glattes Fest, auch wenn der erste Teil des Nachmittags durch den Regen etwas getrübt wurde.

Ein Highlight war jedenfalls das Fondue, dass ich für die Deutschen Besucher aus Berlin zauberte. Hat schon was, in Zürich am Strand Fondue unter freiem Himmel zu essen!

Sollte man wieder machen

I recently participated in an online drawing of an SES Hamburg ticket over on my friend Joost de Valk’s SEO Blog.

I was very fortunate and won the free ticket, so I will be flying to Hamburg tomorrow. I am really happy to be meeting some of my friends there such as Mediadonis, Matt McGowan, and many many others.

Also, we happened to have a Ex-Scout24 Meetup by coincedence. But a bunch of fun as well! Interesting how many good people arised from Scout24, and how few are left there.

In this picuture, Niels, Ronjon, Ron, Marcus (yes I copied the picture off your blog ) and Pascal.

Just arrived in San Jose last night. Feels good to be back in California

I have picked up posting on my Swiss Video Blog as of the beginning of August. On netznews.tv I interview a bunch of interesting internet decision makers and try to transfer some of their insights to the viewer.

Also I have purchased a couple of new domains and am now up to 421 .

I will post about my newest project in a few days here, but want to apply some of the know how I’ll be gaining here first.

So what am I doing in San Jose? I am registered press for the Search-Engine Strategies Conference, will be attending the Google Dance 2007 as well as AOL Search Lunch and WebmasterWorlds SearchBash. Today, I will also be at BarCamp Block and have an interview with a few interesting people there. Stay tuned

Also, last night, when I arrived at my hotel room, the fire alarm went off and we all needed to evacuate. Afterwards the building was cleared again. So why did the alarm go off? Some idiot urinated on the hot sauna stones… I guess I won’t be using the sauna, while I’m here…

As in the past 3 years, I attended the Open Forum of the WEF this year again. My posts on the topics covered are in the “politics” category of my blog.

It was fun and as always, a very entertaining weekend. Novalis, a student friend of mine, and I had a Suite at the Hotel Europe right on the Promenade in Davos.

Usually you get to meet cool people at their piano bar. Two years ago, when we were there, Arthur Andersen had an invitation only cigars & jazz event we snook in to… This year it was open to the public, by the time we got there.

I was great fun mingling among people like former Swiss ambassador to Germany, Thomas Borer, who was accompanied by Victor Vexelberg, one of the Russian oligarchs, who is now increasingly based in Switzerland.

Also standing next to Google’s Eric Schmidt, while entering the Davos Casino, and seeing him sent away, as he wasn’t carrying his passport with him, was kinda fun. Imagine a casino sending away one of the worlds most influential persons, because he could not present proper ID…

A great chat with a guy from the US Homeland Security Department, while having Fondue at a local Chalet was another unforgetable chat and allowed a new view on the current events in the middle east.

If you ever have time in January to attend, you should definitely plan a nice week of skiing vacation in Davos and while doing so, visit the WEF, you’ll really enjoy it!

Last week, I was at PubCon in Las Vegas, learning about Google AdSense, Duplicate Content issues and a lot about SEO in general
(You can read some of my keynote blog posts in my business blog).Additionally I got to meet a bunch of cool people.

Whoever knows me, knows that I am rather good at bullshitting myself into as well as out of things. Well, at PubCon, there was a special party, hosted by YAHOO! (use their services if you can).

Luckily enough and thanks to some SEO friends, I got an invitation and attended the party. It was in Hugh Hefner’s Las Vegas suite, at the Palms Hotel what a location, wow.Now of course I would love to give you all the juicy details, but I’m afraid you know the rules: ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’

Thank’s again YAHOO!

Molotoff (a fraternity friend of mine) had gone through the trouble of organizing tickets and accommodation for the Seven concert at the Grand Casino Lucerne. @Molotoff: meine Blume sine sine NhB.

Not really my style of music, but it was quite fun being there.

After the concert, we went and played BlackJack at the Casino Lucerne. Easy way to blow CHF 200.- with nearly no fun components included…

But, what the heck. It was great spending some time and having a few beers with my friends.

Am Samstag war ich mit Pippo und DunD am Cross-Golf Turnier in Basel.

Die Überbauung Erlenmatt lud zu einem Cross-Golf Turnier auf dem Baugelände ein. Organisiert wurde das Ganze durch Urbangolf. Pippo “T” und Andy “DunD” von Trashgolf sorgten für meine Einladung und einen unvergesslichen Event.

Gespielt wurde ein 6-Loch Turnier, bei dem nebst Autoreifen, Mülltonnen auch WC Schüsseln als Ziele galten, dies es zu treffen brauchte. Echt coole Erfahrung.

20min und BAZ berichteten darüber.

Thanks again Dudes!