Searching new opportunities

2008 was a very busy but also very successful year for me.

In January I sold my online gaming company Neodelight.com to 7Seas Technologies (press release).
I also did some consulting e.g. for www.fettspielen.de (more).
In August I completed my master's thesis titled: "Explanatory Models of Computer Gaming Consumption" an empirical survey focusing on the differentiation of casual and hardcore games (more).
• In December I wrote my final exams for my Master in Sociology, Political Science and Psychology and now am officially a "Diplom-Soziologe Univ", hooray!
  

With my company successfully sold and my diploma certificate in the pocket I now have my head cleared for new challenges.

So if you

• know of any interesting jobs (preferably near Munich)
• or are in need of a consultant with 8 years of experience in the social, online and casual games market (and an additional year shooting documentaries :-)
• or you need a researcher who does not only know the business side of computer games but has also researched them from a scientific angle,
  

then I am at your disposal.

If you want more information on what I did, can do and want to do in the future then check out my LinkedIn or Xing profiles or go back to the main page of my website at www.ulrichtausend.com.

As I am travelling North America until 14th of march reaching me though email might be easier than calling my cell (you find the contact info here).

Play FETT!

While working on my diploma thesis I am also doing some consulting. One of my clients www.fettspielen.de, a German online gaming website, went live April 2008. I was involved with the project since November 2007 while the strategic direction of the website was not yet decided.
I really like the graphical style of the website as well as how quickly you can browse through the different games. Using the site is very easy. For example every registered user automatically has a personal profile-site (check out mine). Please write me if you have any comments on the website. David An, the founder of Fettspielen, has many nice ideas for the future development of the site. And he got backing from Holtzbrinck, who also own StudiVZ the German Facebook. So Fettspielen is a name to remember.

Fett is German slang for cool, spielen means to play.