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“The School Web is Not Primarily a Matter of Communication…”

September 3, 2009

Thanks to all for your interest in yesterday’s post about Forsman & Bodenfors, Svenska Kyrkan, and Google. It led to many interesting conversations both in the comments of the post, on Twitter in my email inbox, on Facebook, and over the phone. Wasn’t quite prepared for that kind of response. So, thanks! Today I want [...]

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Forsman & Bodenfors and Svenska Kyrkan Don’t Know Google

September 1, 2009

If they only knew what a great idea they really had! Forsman & Bodenfors just came up with a new site for Svenska Kyrkan (The Church of Sweden) where you can submit your prayer to the site. The prayer is then keyworded on the site so that you can find other prayers on the same [...]

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Google Voice, The Facephone, and Open Permissions Revisited

July 28, 2009

You may remember me writing about the Facephone a while back, and also about what I called open permissions. Well – the world just got a step closer to that scenario. But it’s not coming from Facebook, It’s coming from Google. In addition the groundbreaking technology of Google Wave, Google’s new service Google Voice is [...]

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Google Wave – First Impressions

July 28, 2009

Ok. So I’m now live with the Google Wave developers preview sandbox, and so far it feels very very cool, though somewhat confusing at first. My first impression is that it is not like anything I’m used to. It’s sort of like a mix of everything, threading discussions and topics all over the place. Somehow [...]

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Google Wave Invite!

July 28, 2009

An golden email appeared in my inbox yesterday. Subject: “An invitation to Google Wave Developer Sandbox”. I ran down to the local 7-Eleven to pick up some potato chips and Jolt Cola only to realize upon getting back that the link in the email led to a form, and that it’s going to take another [...]

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Never Ever Ever Piss Off Creative People!

July 21, 2009

If you break something, you fix it. If only United Airlines would have had this moral policy when they broke Dave Carroll’s Taylor guitar, they wouldn’t have suffered. But they did. Oh, they did. Because creative people aren’t like ordinary people. They don’t fight back with legal action that huge and rich organizations can defend [...]

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Google Amazing Wave Keeps Me Awake at Night

June 3, 2009

After digging through everything I have been able to get my hands on about Google Wave, I’m in awe. This to me changes the game completely. I am not even going to begin trying to explain what Wave is (others have done so already), but trust me, it’s extremely cool. And ambitious. I love it. [...]

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Cut, Copy, Steal. But never lie.

May 19, 2009

Recently I was involved in a campaign that we blatantly stole from another very successful campaign. At least that is what some people say. Me, I would call it a remix. We mashed up a very successful idea with a different set of ingredients, contexts and spices and relaunched it with very open references to [...]

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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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Navel-Gazing Sunday With DDB, Dagens Media & Tewonder

April 12, 2009

Most of my time reading is spent on blogs. I still love picking up a magazine every now and then, and when I do my favorites are Fast Company, Monocle, and Guns & Ammo (just kidding about the last one). I rarely read the print versions of our local Swedish marketing press, but today I [...]

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Checkmate. Spofity Opens Up API To Developers.

April 7, 2009

Finally it happened. Spotify released libspotify, thereby making it possible to develop third party applications to interact with the Spotify platform. I know we’ve all been talking about it since the start, and that it has been a long time ambition, but we were never quite sure if they would make the move or when. [...]

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Impressive Talk by Naoki Iko The Highlight of The Week

April 1, 2009

Microsoft delivered today. There were two excellent talks, the first one being by Nick Bailey of AKQA. It was a fairly traditional presentation of some very good work. Fiat’s Eco Drive, an in-car-USB-powered Nike+ for cars. Cool. Though I think that it would have been even cooler with an industry-wide call to action where Fiat [...]

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Why Would I Want Google Docs Offline?

March 5, 2009

Part of what I love with Google Docs, Calendars, Gmail, etc is that I can work independently from what machine I’m currently on. But I can also loose my laptop on the bus without worrying about 1) data loss and 2) compromising sensitive data. This makes me sleep well at night. It seems to me [...]

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The Day Google Crashed.

February 24, 2009

Google crashed on me today. Or at least Gmail did. This is not good. I rely on Google to take care of my stuff, and reliability is their killer app. No more backups, worries or hassles. It just works. So when it crashes, it’s bad. Not so much because of the actual harm done, but [...]

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Dear Spotify, Walter Loves Music Too, But Would Also Love To SHARE Music.

December 29, 2008

I’ve given some thought to Spotify over the past few days, and here are some of my thoughts. Perhaps I’m wrong and Spotify has gone social after all. But not in the spheres where I move and socialize. And I have tried to spark some collaboration and social behavior without success. These thoughts build upon [...]

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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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The Privacy of Evil – Part Two

November 25, 2008

This is the second part of my idea sketch on privacy and integrity. The first part can be found here. There is also an interesting comment on that post by Michael Dahlén where he talks about information symmetry, a theme that I’ll adress later in this post. In this second part I will show you [...]

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I Love You Johnny Lee. For Making Me Believe.

November 17, 2008

I thought for a while about where to post this post because it’s really as personal as it is professional, but eventually I decided to post it here instead of on my personal blog. It is a post about inspiration. I’m going to show you a film clip here that is not exactly new (or, [...]

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