Month: September 2007

Facebook launches FBFund

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Now this is normally not a blog that covers too much news, but this was to interesting to pass on. At Techcrunch 40, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, announced that they will be starting a fund to support Facebook developers. The sum of money will range from $25 000-$250 000 and the only condition so far is that it is spent on developing their company within Facebook. IMHO, this is a brilliant idea. When […]

And it only took 70 years

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70 years with television and suddenly the TV channels gets how people watch it. Using several channels, not just the one that they happen to own. It started this summer with Schibsted´s acquisition of TV.nu, a fairly basic site that lists what television programmes are on. Following this, both TV4 and Kanal5 decided to take on a new approach to what a television site could, and should, contain. Information about television – no matter what […]

Framtidens e-handel @ Webbdagarna Malmö

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I held a presentation about the future of e-commerce at Webbdagarna Malmö today. It’s in Swedish and it builds strange with Slideshare, but you’ll get the picture. Also, Fredrik and I set up a backchannel in Jaiku that you can find here. Here you go: tags technorati : e-commerce presentation webbdagarna internetworld tags bloggar.se: e-handel, presentation, webbdagarna, internetworld

When to build and when to join

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While I was gone three similar, but interesting, pieces of news turned up Bloglines. DN, Aftonbladet and Sydsvenskan are planning communities with the Josh XCAP platform. It’s slightly strange that they all chose the same system, but fair enough – that’s not the interesting part. What is, is the choice to start building their own communities at a time like this. The logic follows along the lines of the classic protectionism that is often shown […]

Good Old in SF

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Oh yeah, I completely forgot to tell you! Not all of you read our office blog of course – shame on me. I’m working from San Francisco this week, revamping my presentations for the autumn. If you’re around and want to meet up – let me know. And if nothing else maybe we’ll meet here, here (eh, $1695? I think not) or even here?