A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

The good news first, I finished my studies of Business Information Technology at the University of Mannheim in June 2009 after an interesting stay abroad at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, Ireland. The bad news, at least for this blog, I completely focused on working on Tagcrumbs, a Internet and mobile startup I co-founded during my studies. From time to time there will be some articles here but better follow our startup blog or our Facebook fan page.

The best news, we just released our exciting location-aware iPhone application. Tagcrumbs is now mobile, the way it has to be:

With Tagcrumbs you can remember and share your discoveries with your friends and the world. It’s about those locations that you enjoy visiting, where you spend some time, experience something special and that you would readily recommend to others. This can be a beach or diving spot you discovered during a holiday, a museum or park that you visited or the café on the corner with the best espresso.

Join the Tagcrumbs community and let me know what you think of it and how we can improve it. Feedback appreciated! Thanks!

And here is Ben explaining what’s behind Tagcrumbs, on top of the house where I live in Berlin.

Metcalfe’s law describes such effects by stipulating that the aggregate value of networks increases with approximately the square number of adopters. This results in first-mover advantages and lock-in effects, due to high switching costs once a network technology dominates the market.

[via The geospatial web – blending physical and virtual spaces]

Not embeddable, but check out the ‘Small Team, Big Impact: The People Behind Photos’ video. More Facebook promo videos on their Facebook Fan Page.

Why do I blog this? Interesting to see the dimension of the problems they have to face, storing billions of photos is not easy and cheap… It’s all about scalability.