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Confessions of an Outcast Entrepreneur

January 4, 2010

Tomorrow I go back to work again after the holidays. Or, well, technically I guess it is today since I can’t sleep and it’s early Monday already. I’m really excited about getting back on the horse though. There is much to do this year. A lot of things have changed in my work life since [...]

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The Amazing Decade of Communications Technology From 1999-2009

December 26, 2009

It’s hard to believe it has only been ten years when you look back at it. With only a few days to go before the decade ends, I’m sitting here in my apartment trying to digest it all. Outside, the snow is melting away as the storm hugging my balcony makes my Weber barbeque rattle [...]

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Is Spotify the Darth Vader of Music?

September 8, 2009

As Spotify launched their iPhone app, the crowd cheered. The talented SEO-expert (and comedian) Simon Sundén publishes the follwing graph of Spotify Premium sales that went viral amongst us nerds. Half us us thought is was true, and who knows, it may be. But even if this graphic joke isn’t true, it illustrates something quiet [...]

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What the World Will Look Like in 25 Years

September 1, 2009

When I went to ad-school I felt that the school was in many respects molding people into replicas of what ad-people were supposed to be. Now I feel that this is perhaps about to change. The other day I got interview questions from Hyper Island regarding digital trends, and today I got another question from [...]

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The Most Dangerous Politician in The United States?

June 22, 2009

One of the most dangerous politicians in the United States – that’s what CNET calls Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden. What they are talking about is Biden’s relentless attacks on internet liberty, and the threat that he thereby poses to the evolution of technology. Now that the dust has settled and we have sobered up [...]

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Crispin Porter + Bogusky Launches in Europe. In Gothenburg to Be Precise.

June 11, 2009

When I went to ad school, CP+B was considered the coolest kid in town. Only, they weren’t in our town. They were in Miami and Colorado. Today, it was announced that CP+B has bought the Swedish agency Daddy which will be rebranded as CP+B Europe and become the hub for European operations. This means that [...]

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Record Labels are Violating the Rights of Artists

May 7, 2009

At the Esomar WM3 Conference the other day, I got a question about copyright: “But what about the rights of the artists? Do they not have the right to make money off of their work?” My answer was that the business model needs to change in a way so that digitally replicable products are considered [...]

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It’s a War Between Conservatives And Innovators

April 18, 2009

I encourage everyone to cut out and frame today’s editorial in DN. It’s one of the strangest editorials I have read in a newspaper of a democratic country, and it will probably be worth money some day. Since it was an editorial, I actually considered cancelling my subscription. But then I read this article, which [...]

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Henrik Pontén To Become The New National Joke?

April 17, 2009

Henrik Pontén of Antipiratbyrån (The Anti Pirate Agency) is quoted saying the following in SvD: “Naturally this [the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial] is a success for all rights owners and creatives…” This quote makes me think of the one where Ines Uusman said (in 1996) that “the Internet is a fad that will [...]

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