Martin Metzmacher

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Giving good advice to people and living your advice is not the same. Today was a good example of how not to work efficiently. My day started with some on the spot and focused email work. This lasted for about an hour, up until my Inbox was down to zero.

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Often times it is not the start of an relationship that gives away the true nature of it, but the end of it. Most people will be nice if they want something from you. How they act and communicate when the relationship has become “worthless” to them is what really defines them.

Actually I do not believe that a relationship can ever become “worthless”. But hey – I am a freak and I have a strange way of doing business, because I care more about people than about money. So I get f***** off doing business with companies that later turn out to be real jerks. I didn’t expect Dimdim to end this way – sadly they did. They lost all my trust and respect with just one mail. Just one little mail is what it takes to turn from underdog to jerk.

Read on to find out how they totally put me off and how my thank you note to dear customers will look like after being acquired by Google

Learning what it means to be online all the time

I have had my iPhone for a while now. One thing I discovered is that it has some kind of profound influence when I am online all the time. For example, the meebo apps allow me to manage everything: my ICQ, MSN, facebook account. Thus I get a lot of notifications in my iPhone.

Lesson learned

Everyone saw that I am always online. They message me and I don’t reply because I thought it will show when I’m not there. I also thought that after some time, the status will revert to offline. However, that was actually not the case. I did communicate to other people, but I frustrated some people whom I was unable to reply to.

I have learned my lesson. I will only put the add-on if I’ m really available on the iPhone. That was a good learning experience for me, because that taught me that it’s probably not a good idea to be online all the time in a synchronous media. People expect you to react.

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I recently got an iPhone. I’m very, very happy to have an iPhone, and I am already seeing how this is changing the way I consume information.

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