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New Exciting Speaking Opportunity on the Adriatic Coast

May 25, 2009

The other day I accepted the invitation to speak at SEMPL 12 in Slovenia in November 2009. A very exciting opportunity to be sure! 500-600 people are expected to attend, and the setting in Portorož on the Adriatic coast puts most other conferences to shame. I will let you know more about this talk as [...]

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Tricycle Backflip

May 12, 2009

This is just too cool to be true!

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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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Your Business Card is Crap

April 13, 2009

The Honesty business cards are printed with Helvetica on uncoated paper. Slightly larger type to improve clarity. Simple as can be. It’s precisely the type of business card that this guy would HATE. Thanks to Frenne for sharing.

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Awesome Creations & Maker Shed

April 13, 2009

I think this is amazing. In fact, the entire Maker Shed connection is awesome. Check it out:

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Christian Lander of Stuff White People Like Was Good But Canned

April 2, 2009

Yesterday we saw Christian Lander, writer of the the super successful blog and book Stuff White People Like,  talk at Rival. And yes, it was really very interesting. In fact, it’s an extraordinary story of “overnight”-success. However, for those of us who do our homework beforehand, it was a bit of a disappointment. Why? Well, [...]

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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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Communication Isn’t Everything.
There Are Also Oysters.

March 27, 2009

Communications strategy isn’t everything. There are also oysters. And scallops – raw in a shell, with a pinch of salt, pepper, a dash of olive oil and some lemon. We call them “Scallops Franck”, and we love them. So, why am I writing about this in a marketing blog? Well – besides the fact that [...]

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I Never Want To Be Anything But An Amateur.

March 15, 2009

I‘m sitting here reading a blog post by Ted Valentin where he reminds me of a quote from Chris Andersson’s The Long Tail: “… In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the combination of the electric guitar, the arrival of cheap multitrack recorders, and the fine example set by Sex Pistols gave licence to a [...]

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Principles of Relativity

March 1, 2009

I watch this every now and then as a reality check. Relevant for my work, relevant for my everyday life. Also relevant in a host of situations not related to money at all. Watch it.

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Help! Social Media Is Dying!

January 31, 2009

Soon, the term “social media” will be so overused that it really has no positioning value. This will certainly affect us since we are claiming just that position on the market. I guess we’re already there. Every agency out there is running around shouting social media at anything resembling a client. So far I’ve seen [...]

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Charlene Li’s Predictions. Right or Wrong?

January 26, 2009

Charlene Li, one of the authors of the excellent book Groundswell presented this set of slides the other day. I find them to be fairly well in sync with what I see happening. What do you think? The Future Of Social Networks View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: future advertising)

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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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Virals, Obama and Street Fighting

January 21, 2009

Lesson number one. Never release a “viral” close to the inauguration speech, if it’s not a spoof of it. Pretty much everything spreading fast right now is Obama in one form or another. That said, I think that one of the fastest growing non-Obama-virals right now is quite interesting conceptually. They’ve actually created a rudimentary [...]

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The Future of Video Editing

January 11, 2009

Being an old tech guy, I find this incredibly cool: Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

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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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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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Got Balls?

November 23, 2008

I can’t explain why I like this, but I do. It’s just… big.

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Predictions And Afterthoughts

November 12, 2008

Times change, and it’s always easy to be smart when looking back. But when you’re back there, things are rarely that obvious. We can laugh at Bill Gates for saying that 640k of RAM is all anyone will ever need (or did he?), but predicting the future is a whole different ball game. An excellent [...]

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A Weekend of Touring The World in Search of Social Media Insight

November 10, 2008

Good morning. This has been a very interesting weekend of lectures, conferences, and talks that I have attented all over the world. Saturday was concentrated around the San Fransisco Bay area while sunday was more evenly spread out between New York, London, Tokyo, Sao Paolo and a few other places. This morning, my body went [...]

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