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Archive for September, 2008

Jillette vs Borg. Lookalike?

It hit me the other week when I saw a “documentary” about our Swedish Finance minister Anders Borg, how he resembles the American Bullshit hunter and Magician Penn Jillette. What do you think? Anders Borg really have stood out amongst the Swedish politicians, especially within the Finance area, with ponytail and ear-piercing. The documentary portrayed [...]

Wario on Wii shakes up Youtube

When it comes to marketing and reach out with your message, its almost always good to stand out. When a media or channel becomes the norm or mainstream for every company to use regularly peoples take for granted that’s how companies will try to speak to us. For example, Youtube have become a great tool [...]

Mixing busniess model for the future of Games

People in the game industry often debate and argue over which new business model(s) will be the most successful one. A tricky question with, according to me, not a one single answer. Here’s a short overview of the different models, some bigger than others:

Free to play - Games that are free, you don’t pay anything. [...]

Mario Paint, still going strong since 1992

I remember the good old days (1992), when Super Nintendo was the greatest gaming console, and still is according to me. One of my friends had very… different game at that time, Mario Paint. With the game you got a computer mouse, specially made for the SNES and this game. Mario Paint was a [...]

Daylight Robbery documentary

Last night a British documentary played on Swedish television and I missed it. Praise the internet!
The documentary is original showed on BBC and research were a hell lot of money when that were supposed restore and rebuild Iraq, but ended up in … American private and corporate pockets. A perfect timing. I’m about to finish [...]

Last week at Kelkoo

I’m now into my last week at Kelkoo. Most of the time I will spend to end and hand over all my work tasks to my replacement. I will miss my workmates, but its allways exciting with changes. Looking forward to start working at the new place.

“Winners” and “Losers”

At the moment the financial world is in a bit of Shock. Much thanks to the problems to US banks, Wall Street and the American housing market. We see how it affect all parts of the world, much here in Sweden too. I’ve never been much interested in the financial market or the economical world, but [...]

Virtual beer - a smash hit!

No doubt, the iPhone have taken the world by storm. Many newspapers and site use headlines like “iPhone-killler” when they report of new phones from other manufactures. Overall its a device with many functions and possibilities for new software. To really secure the future of the iPhone Apple just had to release a SDK for [...]

Christianity vs Spore

Now, religion is a very tricky subject, due to the fact that some people take it way to seriously. They often view themselves to highly and right in every question. Christianity as the biggest religion in the west is a great example of this. Way to often I hear about Christians (Also include people of [...]

Corporate Whistle Blowing - Youtube style

I would take a eternity to count all the great stuff internet have contributed to and eased peoples lives. Both personally and business wise. Whistle blowing have always been associated with big risks, for all parts. The companies doesn’t want their personnel to leak things that could harm the company and create bad PR. The [...]

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