December 2007
And here’s Forbes’ Web Celeb list for 2007: http://tinyurl.com/22w2rc
How can a head of state with black belt in karate be a person of the year, or the week for that matter?
@frjohnsen: VladiPhone?
Free tools to create PDF documents →
From Amy and the wonderful folks at tech productivity blog Codswallop: PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat. Excerpt:
Adobe Acrobat is expensive, but that doesn’t mean you have to live a
life without portable documents. What many people don’t realize is that
PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard,
which means the specifications behind the format...
Free tools to create PDF documents →
From Amy and the wonderful folks at tech productivity blog Codswallop: PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat. Excerpt:
Adobe Acrobat is expensive, but that doesn???t mean you have to live a
life without portable documents. What many people don???t realize is that
PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard,
which means the specifications behind the...
Er mashups fremtiden? →
Vel tilbake fra Las Vegas er vi (om enn noe sent) klare til å spre vår lærdom fra Web Builder 2.0. Det er hevet over enhver tvil at våre amerikanske venner har stor tro på at Mashups og Ajax er teknologi som har kommet for å bli.
Hva er en Mashup?
Veldig enkelt forklart er en mashup en tjeneste (webapplikasjon) som henter data fra flere enn én kilde. Typisk vil en mashup også gjøre noe...
It’s cold in Oslo this morning… Below 10 F and creeping towards 0. Brrrr.
TwitterFeed - Promote Your Blog Posts to Twitter... →
Quick blog promotion tip - Twitterfeed.com is a service that will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog.
I’ve started doing it on my Twitter account and have seen quite a few visitors come across from it so far.
Thanks to cat-laine (blog) for the tip.
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In Search of … Future Tech →
The Jetsons promised we would all be using flying cars by now. While that business tech is on the verge of finally being realized, it isn’t overshadowing a lot of other cool ideas that are on the drawing boards. When it comes to scouting trends in future technology, there is a nice new resource available to help the search.
Future Scanner scans the web for future-focused content—expert...
Google Becomes More Social →
Back in September when Techcrunch initially reported about Google’s OpenSocial project, Google’s intention was clear: “Google seems to be planning to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services.” Over the course of the weekend, Google release two relatively significant upgrades to their services: social reader shared items and Google profiles. The two services are extremely...
Celebrating my 33rd birthday today with a party. Looking forward to an exciting evening…
The Netherlands goes open-source in 2008: http://tinyurl.com/26wsho
The Netherlands goes open-source in 2008 →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
April 2008. That’s the date when the notoriously progressive Dutch government goes open source. The plan was approved unanimously yesterday in a meeting of two parliamentary commissions. The policy dictates that government organizations at the national level must be ready to save documents in the Open Document Format (ODF) by April, and the state and local level by...
A Chapter of ‘Jackass’ as Web Test →
Paramount Pictures is lurching onto the Web with its “Jackass” franchise, with what it says will be the first studio-backed feature film to have its premiere online.
Opera vs. IE: Round One, Fight! →
I’m getting this feeling of deja vu… haven’t we been through all this before? Today Opera filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union against Microsoft. According to Opera, the makers of an alternative web browser, Microsoft is using its dominant position to unfairly influence the web browser market by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows and by “not following...
Yeah, finally “is” is gone from Facebook…
You’ve heard the hype about Web 3.0. Er, the... →
You’ve heard the hype about Web 3.0. Er, the “Semantic Web.”
Well, here’s the first look at it with Radar Networks’ Twine, which is like a bookmarking/collecting tool on steroids.
If you only have 10 minutes, here’s a short, edited version of the interview/demo.
In the hour-long version (also embedded on this blog post) CEO Nova Spivak gives the first in-depth public demo of the...
Hvordan bygge merkevare på nett? →
Jeg har stilt spørsmålet: “Hva forbinder du med internettmarkedsføring?” i store og små forsamlinger på følgende steder: BI Oslo, Annonsørforeningen, Siviløkonomforeningen og i diverse Confex kurs. Svaret på alle stedene er stort sett det samme: “bannerannonsering“. Hvorfor er det slik?
Mange forbinder bannerannonsering med merkevarebygging. Det er kanskje ikke så rart, siden Startsiden, VG,...
Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: for dad →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
If your dad’s anything like ours, he probably doesn’t need as much help with his gadgets as you think. But he still needs someone to buy him the damn things, and that’s where you and your strapping young wallet come into play. Maybe you’ve got some ideas in mind already for the latest additions to his power tool collection, but we’ve got...
The world’s largest aircraft Airbus 380 is being tested in Oslo to see if it handles extreme freezing fog. Wow, it is huge!
@JBarkan passed away last week. He was a member of GCI’s DIgital Media Team and we will miss him! Please read http://tinyurl.com/3avpjl
I wonder if the rumours around the Dell mobile is true? If it is, I hope they look to the XPS design when making it…
Where to Watch NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL Online →
On our network blog last100, Daniel Langendorf writes:
“The Internet is not just a place to get the latest scores and follow your favorite team in the standings. The Web has evolved so well that it has displaced traditional media as the first-stop source for all your major-sports needs.
Except for local coverage, there’s no need to watch TV sportscasts anymore. Pardon the sports pun, but...
Jon Barkan (1968-2007) →
Jon Barkan, one of my digital media team mates at GCI, passed away last Thursday at the tender age of 39. His funeral is today in Atlanta. Since a lot of people have been coming to my blog after searching for “Jon Barkan” on Google I decided share some stories.
Jon called me a few times a week to “check in.” Our conversations started, almost religiously, with “how is the wife and kid…” His wife...
All the celebrities in the world gather in Norway this week for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies - Just saw Steve Jobs at Grand Cafe in Oslo
Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter →
Twitter is one of the top referrers of traffic to my blog, over 2000 referrers from twitter to my blog in the last 30 days…there’s something happening there.
I’ve also noticed and increase of new users over the past 30 days, feel free to add me as a friend, I will add you back.
Twitter is becoming a major communication tool for me lately. There are more intimate conversations being held on this...
The Evolution of Personal Publishing →
Fred Wilson recently wrote a post on his blog in which he argues that the rapid adoption of Twitter and Tumblr were not accidents. Fred sees these microblogging platforms as a direct evolution of blogging and social networks. Recently, I’ve been mulling over similar thoughts.
Clearly, the success of these sites was not accidental; because they took off in a crowded market, these were things...
Too much to do at work - so little Twitter time… Will come back with a vengeance
Marketing: It's Evolution Not Revolution →
It’s easy for us, as marketers, to hyperventilate about how Social Media represents a “revolution.” It’s not revolutionary, though; we need to apply some Big Picture perspective.
Last night I watched the “Walking with Cavemen” special on Discovery. (You reach a certain age, the Discovery Channel looks better and better.) It was a well-produced and fascinating look at the evolution of Man.
One...
LinkedIn Gets a Makeover →
LinkedIn has finally updated their design and interface and have added a brand new developer platform that enables developers to spread the utility of LinkedIn across the web. On my site AllFacebook.com, I previously suggested that Facebook’s grouping features would be the downfall of LinkedIn. That still could be the case given that I have personally added most of my business colleagues as...
Four days without my computer after a virus attack - now everything is cleaned and my hard disc has 95 % space left…
Big Companies Form Private Blog Council →
Tomorrow morning AccuQuote, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, Dell, Gemstar-TV Guide, General Motors, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Wells Fargo will announce the formations of “The Blog Council.” These top global brands want to promote best practices in corporate blogging.
Issues the Council says it will address:
How do global brands manage...
New Replies Settings →
It’s interesting to watch as the Replies feature on Twitter evolves. This feature was not originally part of Twitter until people started doing it. Then we began linking the updates together and enough people started using it that requests for specific levels of control began rolling in. We received enough feedback from folks who enjoy using the @replies feature to create a new setting....
I would really like to see a MTV: Celebrity Deathmatch between Michael Dell and Steve Jobs - with Bill Gates as a ref…
Flickr gets «Photoshop» like features by adding http://www.picnik.com/ - Great features for the amateur…
And here’s the full length version of the Dell XPS One Commercial - http://tinyurl.com/275z7e - Beautiful!
It’s really cool the new commercial for Dell XPS One - http://tinyurl.com/ypqx8p
I really like this video (Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales) - http://tinyurl.com/364lro
10 cm of new snow in Oslo this morning - unfortunately it will be gone by the end of the day…
Nokia’s new portal is pretty cool - Check it out on http://www.ovi.com
Tiinker Smart Social News Site →
There are a number of social news sites like Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon and many others that all leverage social recommendations to power discovery. Tiinker is a social news startup based in Australia that recently launched into private beta that leverages both active and passive user inputs to determine what content should be displayed on the site.
Tiinker delivers content in a clean modular...
Video om PR i sosiale medier →
Dette er en fin innføringsvideo om sosiale medier, og hvordan man kan bruke markedsføring og PR i sosiale medier. Det som er spesielt interessant med denne videoen, er hvor enkelt han forklarer hvordan bedrifter kan bruke denne nye mediekanalen for å skape oppmerksomhet, øke trafikken på hjemmesider, og nå sine målgrupper og interessenter med kommunikasjonen.
Bubble 2.0: The Video →
blog, blog, blog it all
blog it if it’s big or small
…blog even if you’re wrong
won’t you blog about this song?
How could we not? A perfect link-bait video, and it is pretty funny too (Here Comes Another Bubble):
Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
Can’t see the video? Click here
2008 Will Be The Year of Business Networking →
In this post we will give you three reasons for that prediction, plus six specific predictions and one interesting dark horse. First, the three reasons why 2008 will be the year of Business Networking: 1. The US consumer economy will slow (maybe into Recession). Specifically this will weaken business models based on consumer advertising. Advertisers, entrepeneurs and investors will switch their...
I really like this search engine for PR & Communications blogs, podcasts, wikis and news - http://tinyurl.com/ymmdbr
Google Reader has added a feature that recommends feeds for me - none very good so far…
Mozilla with yet another Firefox version. Now it is the Firefox 2.0.0.11 that counts…
Dell announces new agency agreement with WPP valued at $4.5 billion in agency billings over three years - http://tinyurl.com/yuxbnk
A cool service: http://www.magmypic.com. Put yourself on the cover of a magazine
Off to the Monday morning meeting…