Monday, May 22, 2006

Non-American fans of: Desperate Housewives, Alias, Lost or Commander in Chief, read on.

If you are one of the 3 million people who have watched DH, Alias, Lost or CiC online the last two weeks, your lucky (and live in the us). If you’re still with me, you have tried to access the content on www.abc.com but have failed because ABC only allows viewers from within the United States to watch. No need to worry, in five minutes you can too.

The solution is simple.

1) Open your browser
2) Go to your favorite search engine, and type “proxy”
3) Select on of the search results which serves up a free proxy list
4) Select a proxy from the us
5) Go to extra, internet options
6) Connections, LAN
7) Select use proxy server
8) Done
9) Go to watch abc
10) Watch

The big idea…..

We have always been a huge fans of going out. Restaurants, cafes, bars, you name it, if was fun we wanted to be there. Somewhere in 2005 it dawned that there’s one big problem with discovering new places, YOU DON’T KNOW THEM.

Sure there are some ways around, ask your friends, or scout the internet. Both hardly give satisfying results. Why? Simply because those people operate on a different mental model of what is fun compared to yours.

With friend you know well you can adjust this shortcoming by applying some translating, aka “Jim likes snails and cheap French fries = don’t go where he says its great.” On the net you have no reference to the results you get, so basically the results are close to worthless. Enter our idea.

Souki connects places and people based on mutual reviews. Our hypothesis is that the more a person matches your reviews the better he/she predicts what you like.

Friday, May 19, 2006

THANK YOU FOR COMING

Hi there,

Chances are that you came here via one of the many web 2.0 list that are circulating around the web. We are currently redeveloping our site. In the meantime we will give you sneak previews and some background on what we are trying to do.