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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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Augmented Intelligence And 3 Other Ways of Saving The World (And The Music Industry) From The Internet

February 23, 2009

A few days after the fact I read this article on Realtid.se. The contents of the article are nothing jaw dropping. The comments on the article however, reflect the fact that so much of this discussion is taking place well outside the realm of relevance. People are talking about whether or not artists should be [...]

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The Labels Are Playing a Dangerous Game With Spotify

January 29, 2009

Yesterday Spotify announced that they are removing songs from their database, and imposing country restrictions on others. Again, we see the record labels showing off their power. But it’s really a dangerous game to play. As I’ve said before, both in lectures and on this blog, the only way to properly fight piracy is to [...]

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Seesmic’s Got Me Hooked. I Think.

January 25, 2009

So, Seesmic has my attention. What du you think of this Twitter-ish video service. Either it’s an amazing way to build relationships or it’s TOO intimate and will meet the same fate as video-calls on 3G-phones. (At least here in Sweden, video-calls are just dead). But so far I’m intrigued. This seems really cool to [...]

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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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Is It Me, Or Is Spotify Not So Social After All?

December 25, 2008

Sitting in front of the fireplace on christmas day, I can’t help but wonder why I even think about work. But I do. I guess it’s a sign that I love my job. On the table beside me lies a copy of The Economist’s special christmas issue. In bold blue, the headline question “Why we [...]

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The Social Media Wars Continue. Will MySpace Rise To Power Once Again?

October 7, 2008

There has been a lot of talk about MySpace lately. Remember MySpace? (It’s that social media place which always looked like crap because you had too much say about it’s design and too few tools to do it well). Anyway, I read about it again in Fast Company, and I get the feeling that this [...]

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Resumé TV From What Felt Like The 80′s

June 6, 2008

Our Swedish advertising newspaper Resumé are running a documentary about the Swedish advertising world. In the first episode they visited first the Swedish Consumers Association (advertising skeptics) and then the Advertising Association of Sweden (pro advertising). They also visited some Swedish politicians. What was noteworthy was the prevailing view of advertising as something that people [...]

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Transformator and The Role Of Product Design In Brand Communication

May 22, 2008

Industry design consultants Transformator made it into Dagens Media yesterday with a statement that they’re better than the advertising agencies. I’m sure they ARE better. At product design, design of the user experience, the brand in it’s physical product appearance. But that is not what advertising agencies do. What Daniel Ewerman (CEO of Tranformator) is [...]

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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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The Death of Web Agencies

May 10, 2008

A creative at one of Sweden’s biggest agencies insists that web production is heading the same way as film production. That advertising agencies will get treatments from several different web production companies and get to choose which agency will get to produce. I’m not so sure. First of all, in the sort term, demand for [...]

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Heads Up Agencies, Here Comes Google TV Ads!

May 5, 2008

Google is in the Internet business, right? And if they are, you can imagine them talking down on television as a medium, right? But it’s just not Google’s way to do things. They never whine, bitch, or complain. Instead they attack. Google TV-ads is their latest product. It lets anyone with a valid credit card [...]

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Is The Brand of Green Going Stale?

April 28, 2008

There is not much left in the world that is not green, organic, and sustainable. If I want to be evil and don’t care for mother Earth, I’m really stuck with a pitiful selection of Earth-abusing stuff. When I was in New York the other week the apple was really greener then big. Everybody wants [...]

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WNOA: The World’s First Open Source Advertising Agency

April 22, 2008

What’s better than a free lunch? Well, sometimes, the lunch that you pay for is better. Here is why: Lionell Robbins’ definition of economics from 1935: “Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses” doesn’t accurately describe the field of economics as noted [...]

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Google – You’re My Closest Friend

April 9, 2008

I’m not sure why I bring this up so late, but I stumbled upon an old post from the Zeus Jones blog where Adrian wrote an intriguing comment. He suggested that Google should have a service where you get a detailed summary report from Google on what you’ve been up to during the past year [...]

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Agencies: Forget Web 3.0. At least for now.

March 25, 2008

I went for a walk yesterday in the spring sun of Södermalm with Carl Waldecrantz from Superstrikers. We discussed Web 3.0 and the dangers of that concept. Everyone wants to claim it. I’ve heard it several times now. F&B for one mentioned it for their new site which has been “coming soon” now for longer [...]

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Prison California

February 13, 2008

Zonk at http://www.slashdot.com came up with a pretty fitting metaphor for one of our favorite web services. Hotel California – “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”. Which web service? You guessed it – Facebook of course.

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Free is The New Black

February 4, 2008

So the next Battlefield computer game, Battlefield Heroes, is going to be free of charge. Dice have decided it will be funded by advertising instead. Interesting. Even more interesting is that there will be no advertising inside of the game, but rather on the site where you download the game. Hmmm… It seems to me [...]

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Planners: Get On The Number Two Suicide Bus Today

January 16, 2008

This morning on the bus to work I was in a great mood. Sure, my sleep was messed up from jetlag and I only got about 4 hours in, but still, things felt good somehow. And suddenly I started noticing things. I looked around and saw blank stares, gloomy faces and people half asleep. Grey [...]

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