In the latest issue of the career magazine “Junge Karriere” I found some interesting statistics about the tourism industry in Germany. The “Top-Tourists” are travelers from the Netherlands. 9.0 millions have been staying in Germany in the year 2007. If you look at the total population of the Netherlands, which is 16.5 million, this means [ Read More ]
Archive for Juli, 2008
Two weeks ago, we were at a talk from the Google API Evangelist (quite an impressive job title) at the FZI (Research Center for Information Technology). By the way, this is the institute where Marco is writing his diploma thesis at the moment. You can find the slides Patrick Chanezon (the Evangelist) presented in his [ Read More ]
We updated the about us page with short information to each team member. The gloveler.com development center announces meanwhile the finalization of the first full site mock-up. Thus, we have accomplished the first step of the development, designing a static website which works as a model for the next step – the database and process [ Read More ]
Today after waiting about 5 months I received my Draisler. You don’t know what a Draisler is? I think you’re not the only one. It is the name of a bike, not a normal bike, it’s the official Karlsruhe Studi Bike. And I have won it. But let me explain it. Last year I moved [ Read More ]
Well, no, we have not been acquired by Expedia. Yet the city of Karlsruhe seems to be a good place to found a successful Internet travel start-up. Back in 1999 Tilman Reissfelder, a student from the University of Karlsruhe, founded a website called VirtualTourist. Another analogy to our situation is, that he was also supported [ Read More ]
