Patrick C. Price

Today we are announcing the launch of our local Swiss Social Media News Website: www.BlogNews.ch

BlogNews is a regular Social Media News Website such als Digg, Yigg, or WebNews. Users can submit News-Stories from the Web and vote on them to make them popular. Once a Website reaches the popularity level, it automatically surfaces to the front-page where it profits from additional traffic and direct Links to it’s original source.

Give it a try! Or give me Feedback, am glad to hear from you! -> BlogNews

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.

If you have been following my blog (not much to follow ) you will know, that I have founded a company called: Idealizer Ltd. which is an eLab for Online Media in Switzerland.

As one of our 4 main areas of business, we have launched AdSpace, an online marketing consultancy. My team and I share some of our Search Engine Optimization know-how with companies or affiliated companies.

Other than most SEO companies, my business development background has led us to develop an Online Optimization model, rather than just search engine optimization. What we have found is, that often a person or company will have a great idea, hire a developer and launch a service. But due to the lack of online knowledge, such projects often just slumber, rather than actually take off.

We have decided, that that is a good stage for us to enter and offer our services. We started calling it: pre-angel-invest phase. What we can do, is help turn a good idea with bad online excellence into  a good idea with a nice online track record.

Therefore our services cover OnSite-Optimization, OffSite-Optimization, Ad-Tuning, SiteTuning as well as optical Redesign.

One of our recent customers is an online contact lens shop (Kontaktlinsen ist the German word for contact lenses) called Linsen4you.ch.

We redid the entire shop and design part and have reduced the order process from approx. 7 to approx. 4 steps. So in case you need any contact lenses, give our friends a try and have a look at what we did.

A cool new service in order to find an appropriate ADSL provider in Switzerland is offered by adsl.vergleiche.ch.

The service is part of Switzerlands Comparison Portal: www.vergleiche.

It allows you to compare Sunrise Free Internet, Orange ADSL, Cablecom Hispeed Internet, VTX and many other broadband internet providers in Switzerland.

So it’s been a couple of days, since my Team and I had launched our Swiss Blog directory. (Press release: www.idealizer.ch)

We got quite some media review and a lot of new traffic. Actually the press release and coverage has led to a flood of new blog registrations, which of course we highly welcome, as our Blog Directory is completely free to any Swiss related blog.

In order to keep up with the media coverage, I figuered, I would post all articles I am aware of over here in chronological order, as noticed by us:

- KleinReport: Hilfe bei der Suche nach Weblogs
- NetzWoche: Neues Blogverzeichnis soll Finden von Blogs erleichtern
- Radio Toxic: Schweizer Blog Verzeichnis – Radio Interview Radio: Toxic.fm
- PCTipp: Schweizer Blog-Überblick
- InfoWeek: Neu: Schweizer Blog-Verzeichnis
- Bluewin.ch Schweizer Blog-Überblick
- ITnewsbyte: Schweizer Blogs einfach und übersichtlich finden
- SwissStartups.com: Geburt von Blogverzeichnis.ch

- Heute: Eine Chance für “Blogverzeichnis”?

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Last december, my uncle from the finish side of the family, Kalervo Kaipio was visiting in Switzerland. We unfortunately only met for a short time at the airport in Zurich, just prior of him flying back to finland.

Nonetheless we spent about an hour updating ourselves about what we do in life. And took the following picture.

In early January, Kalervo died of a hear attack in Helsinki.

I’m glad I seized the opportunity to meet with him and it reconfirms me, that when given the opportunity and gut-feeling, that you can meet someone, one should not postpone it for a matter of lazyness or inconvenience, for it might be, that the opportunity does not re-arise.