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October 12, 2009

Haven’t been writing much lately. Things changed pretty rapidly at the agency, and suddenly my writing habits had to give way to meetings and pitch-work. It might also be a poor excuse for a bad case of writers block. I’m not sure. From a work day where I was the only full time employee at [...]

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Google’s New Move to Kill Facebook

April 22, 2009

Like Picasso, I paint in periods. While he had his periods like blue and pink, I have periods like the recent one on copyright policy, certain internet technologies, and psychology. If you are a long time reader of this blog, you might remember my Open Social and my Friend Connect periods. These are very exciting [...]

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The Bar Brawl of The Swedish Twittersphere

February 6, 2009

It all started when the fashion brand Acne started following Fredrik Wass of Bisonblog fame on Twitter. Fredrik felt spammed and wrote a heated post on his blog. Jesper Åström responded at his Online PR-blog. In essence he made very good points i think, but his angle was all crooked. Instead of heading into a [...]

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Poor Bloggy. Friend Connect and Facebook Connect

December 14, 2008

Ok. Sorry for not posting anything for a while. It’s been the most hectic work week in a very long time. Last thursday I actually started work at 6 in the morning and charged forward for 30 hours straight until noon the next day when we delivered our pitch. How’s that for overtime! I promise [...]

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Friend Connect! These Are Exciting Times!

December 3, 2008

My new whitelisting at Google Friend Connect is going to keep me up all night. So far I’m very excited about this, as I can see entirely new openings for social networking arise. I’ll get back to you soon with updates and reviews. This looks cool!

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Google Friend Connect and The Walter Naeslund VIP!

December 3, 2008

I just recieved my whitelisting for Google Friend Connect, and will now start testing on this and my other blog. We’ll call the membership Walter Naeslund VIP, and you can join below on the right. Members get special give-aways, invitations and other goodies. For instance I have a few Spotify-invites to give away as we [...]

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Facebook on The Defensive

May 18, 2008

Seems like the Facebook vs. Google-battle is heating up. Facebook just suspended participation in Google’s Friend Connect program giving the following explanation: “We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our [...]

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Google Friend Connect launched. Analysis coming soon.

May 13, 2008

Google finally released Friend Connect, and are bringing things closer to “Internet as a platform”. I haven’t had time to really dive into it, but I promise to do so shortly and come back with my analysis. It feels like the war is on for real between Google, Facebook and MySpace now, and this could [...]

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