Until June 27th the startup duduku.de is auctioning itself at eBay - including domains, trademark, web 2.0 application, design and company.
Until now, dukudu.de is running the beta of their twitter-like friend information service. You can inform your different circles of friends via a Web- and SMS-based interface: What you are actually doing … or what is going on right now.
The project team did not manage to get the needed capital for a nationwide rollout and the team also separates for private reasons. It’s a great pity!
Some interesting facts for developers: dukudu.de was realized in PHP, based on the CakePHP-framework, and MySQL. They use inbound-SMS numbers from mobilant.de in Germany … at least in beta mode.

Sources: basicthinking.de, Auction: ebay.de

Update:
The German internet company allesklar.com AG bought dukudu for 36,309.24 Euro (without VAT). Not bad.

The market of iPhone applications is emerging since Steve Jobs iPhone developer kick off at the WWDC 2007. The essential decision of Apple to open up "only" the web browser Safari for third party developers is disappointing on the first view. But when you drill it down, there are many advantages and sure, some disadvantages, too:
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Yesterday, the WorldWideDeveloperConference (WWDC) started in San Francisco. Steve Jobs kicked off the event with his traditional keynote. After announcing Safari for Windows he came up with one last thing: How to write iPhone applications. And it’s easy: If your app runs in Safari, it will run on an iPhone, too. As a developer, you can access with your web 2.0 AJAX applications also iPhone functionalities like "making a phone call" or "sending an email". We’ll see what Apple will make accessible in detail.

Source: Apple press release, Steve Jobs keynote