Flavio about Business 2.0

You know you’re wasting to much time surfing facebook, reading articles on digg and looking at your stats? Want to use your time more efficiently?

Well looks like Tony Wright, founder of Jobby (sold to jobster.com), has come up with a great software to do measure your activities, at least those that you with your computer. The software has the promising name Rescuetime.

It’s a hybrid web app with a small software for your windows or mac (no linux version yet) that tracks your active window every 5 seconds. The data is then uploaded every 30 minutes to the rescuetime webserver (both time settings can be changed according to your needs). Online you are then able to see which websites and which software you’ve been using for how long. On top of that, you can tag the websites / programs with your personalized tags, i.e. communication for your email, IM, and social networks. This allows you to see very quickly where you spend the most of your time, and again can help you set goals to reach certain work / waste ratios.

The GUI of the software is already great and I can already see Rescuetime become one of my new time wasters, due to it’s addictive character.

On top of that, they announced exciting new features yet to come:

• The ability to set time management goals (daily or weekly) and receive notification when you meet (or fail to meet) your goals (coming soon!)
• Tools to see how you compare to other people in your industry (coming soon!)
  
• RescueTime Pro. This will be our premium offering, designed for businesses and teams that want to enhance their productivity with RescueTime.
  1. Create private groups that are as big or as small as you want… A company could have a group for all employees as well as groups by department.
  2. Compare how you spend your time with other people on your team.
  3. View the aggregate data of the group over time (is your team getting overrun with meetings? Buried in email? Now you’ll have proof!)
• An API for facebook integration, netvibes modules etc.

Rescuetime is still in private beta, but invites are being sent out every day, so I suggest you sign up for the invite list if you are interested in testing Rescuetime.

Overall, I can say that Rescuetime is a very cool software with great potential. I am recommending it to my business partners and friends and I’ll definitely be using it myself: I can already see it making me more productive since a report about my activities is being sent to my hyperproductive friend, who will not hesitate to scold me when necessary.

As you might have seen in cash daily of today or certainly in the german-speaking blogosphere, the Swiss blog marketing company Trigami successfully closed a business angel round, with well known Investors as Peter Schüpbach and Nicolas Berg  . Other Investors include Olaf Jacobi, serial entrepreneur, Peter Niederhauser and Dominik Tarolli.

Trigami’s official press release can be found here.

Big congratulation to you, Remo and Alain! This is a major step for the young company, who is already making substantial revenue. They are one of the few Web 2.0 companies out there whose business model is not advertising. With smart money in their hands, it should now be possible to accelerate growth quickly and sign some major deals in the near future.

The investors they have been able to attract is a clear signal in favor of this business model.

I wish trigami, with their hardworking founders, all the best!

Here’s a video taking a look inside facebook. Note that people say as much as they do at google.

I’d like to tell you about the fact that START St. Gallen together with my good friend Andreas Brenner, is hosting the event ” Web 2.0 = Money 2.0? Gründerperspektiven im Mitmachweb” starting at 18.00 to 20.00.

As speakers we would like to announce the following personalities:

* Ehssan Dariani, Founder StudiVZ
* Patrick Frei, Founder Venture Valuation
* Felix Haas, Founder Amiando
* Barnaby Skinner, Journalist at SonntagsZeitung

The participants are first going to present their perspective for 15 minutes. A discussion with the audience will follow the speeches.

Data:
Location: Universität St. Gallen, Room A120
Time: Monday, 25th Juny 2007, 18.00-20.00

Start Global St. Gallen and I would love to welcome you in St. Gallen to discuss about Web 2.0 and it’s future.

Join our event on facebook!