January 2008
50 posts
This is so far ahead of the Swedish “pizza industry” that I get sad over the state of this country. Just read the following:
Pizza Tracker will allow customers to know when their order is being prepared, when it’s out of the oven, and when it’s out the door and on its way. It even includes the first name of the person delivering the order…Pizza Tracker is linked directly to the computers inside...
First time I’m wearing a watch in three years. Feels strange, completely unbalanced.
Who needs a personal narcissistic website anyway →
New website, new ego
Honest thought of the day:
Most companies are badly managed with poor ambitions and no desire to produce quality or create a greater value beyond their next sale.
That is why Umair is so dead on when he’s constantly looking for companies that can create true value on markets. Not shifting value from one market to another but instead trying to create something better.
In all it’s flaws I think...
Love this article and all that it stands for.
“ad agencies are fundamentally broken and ripe for innovation”
Amen
reklam, byrådöd, trötthet
Not any news, but wired has a nice and explanatory graphic of what just happened with this blog post when I clicked on the “publish” button.
The image isn’t really motivating me to blog, just one of those explanation of something you just want to feel. As for example the feeling of wanting to write about something. Unfortunately that feeling hasn’t been there very often yet in 2008.
wired,...
this story still blows my mind: woman finds 7 foot... →
— dihard Exactly these kind of stories have scared me for years. This is not helping.
“When you defend the status quo when the quo has lost its status, you’re in...”
– Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer in Davos on how to price mobile and web content.
“I work for an enterprise level integration company that is looking to attack the...”
– Signal vs. noise LOL
“WWGD - What Would Google Do?”
– By some dude at the DLD conference in Berlin on what you should always ask yourself when figuring out what to do on the web. So the answer is search? AdSense? Free? Hmmm
How did I end up in this photo? →
Sweet! Old media out, new media in →
Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions →
“I love recessions, it’s when I have been building my business….When...”
– Morten Lund at DLD in Munich (via)
Strange weekend, but nice. I’m feeling somewhat cautious that the strange weekend will turn into a strange week.
Macworld - MacBook Air took all the headlines but as you all know it’s all about the AppleTV and movie rentals. AppleTV is beginning to look like a true disruptor, especially since they’re beginning to promote podcasts as well. Thousands of independent video publishers just got a new distribution channel, with potentially making the same impact on video and TV as YouTube did for web and video.
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Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz writes an interesting blog post about the acquisition of MySQL this week (read this reflection for a pessimistic, but perhaps valid, view on the deal). The deal itself is the final evidence that Open Source is a valid business model, but the blog post is interesting since it’s, to my knowledge, the first time a billion dollar acquisition is provided with such a detailed...
“In a ham-and-egg breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution but the pig is...”
– Keith McFarland (via ehnbom) Being comitted is something I’m really quite bad at, lots of room for improvement there.
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“How can someone who’s so socially awkward make a social networking site?”
– Amy on Zuck’s 60 Minutes segment - David Karp
Did someone leak a keynote? →
Sounds like some reasonable news and doesn’t seem to far of what could be accurate. And I kid you not, Steve will hurt someone if this is true :)
Last week Steve Rubel brought up the issue of the Lazysphere, which refferre’s to that a lot of bloggers just watch Techmeme and the press releases to find things to blog about.
Blogs have previously been the underground of news, where you would find the discussion that traditional media normally didn’t dare to carry.
Professional blogs really changed that eh? Since these blogs have to produce...
I’ve been playing around with Hulu, the video site that is the result of a joint venture between NBC and News Corp, for a month now or so and thought it was time to give some thoughts on it.
I like it. I like it very much.
Compared to Joost, which is a terrible user experience where you have trouble finding the (very limited) content that’s there, it’s a revolution.
I would rather describe...
Facebook has moved to Nippori because, from a broader perspective, Nippori is boring. But it’s still an important station (Nippori is a hub for Narita, Tokyo’s international airport).
As always this time of year, it’s time for a new Trenmap from Information Architects. They provide an interesting preview and their behind the scenes thoughts.
trendmap3, trender, ia, facebook
What is not to love about this presentation? →
“When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street...”
– Never really sounded like a good idea
iA provides me with some good arguments why I shouldn’t sell my Google shares.
The four central aspects of a religion are 1) the power to shape one’s daily rituals, 2) the influence to become a reference for truth, 3) the ability to mirror human nature, and 4) the aspiration for absolutism.
1) Google has become a part of most Internet users’ daily online ritual. They are occupying increasing...
“2008 will be all about getting ready for 2009”
– http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/2008-embracing-the-real-web/
WatchUncomfortable
Last night I started a post about the data of social networks and their value. Fortunately I didn’t post it, fortunately because this piece of news changed everything.
Scott Karp wrote an interesting post on data a couple of days ago.
Before social networking applications, this data included the story of our personal relationships — sites like Friendster, MySpace, and Facebook provided a way to...
Going to ATL and SXSW
Just bought my flight tickets to Atlanta, where I plan to annoy Mr and Mrs Nery for two weeks. Will also go to SXSW in Austin, good times!
“I am not a pessimist. I am simply disappointed by the huge disparity between...”
– Charles Forman Who isn’t?
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto →
John Moore of Getty Images got some of the last images of Bhutto before her death. The images and his story behind it makes it all very interesting.
Sir Ian Mckellen's Offical Site →
Obviously made by Sir Ian Mckellen himself. Complete with animated gifs. — ben
“High-end users will pay for high-end experiences”
– Lucas Gonze at openmediaweb.org
send.a.message →
Pay someone to write on the Palestine Wall..
