Monthly Archives: April 2009

DeView: iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

Its been lying in my bookshelf for a long time now. But after finishing Stealing MySpace I wanted to continue reading about the successful companies borne in the IT era from the 70th, beginning small and becoming huge! Not that MySpace was borne in the 70th but how a small team can create something that [...]

Introducing DeView

And idea that spawned during the weekend. Today I will start with something I call DeView, which esentially is a Review by me. I will review all sorts of things, usually video games, music and books I consume. I simply give my view on the things I write about. And I will see how this [...]

Sum of all the mini-killer apps

One of the big thinks in technology and software business is Killer App. Usually for software or games it is that application or game that a reason why people invest in a bit of hardware. For example some consider Halo 3 or Gears of War  as typical killer apps for the Xbox 360 once they [...]

Video: evolution of advertising

Found this video yesterday. In just three and a half minutes it illustrate the changes the society have gone through when it come to advertising and how we react to it. In the past, advertising must have been much easier. A limited amount of brands, not to much competition. Today its another ballgame. The channels [...]

Apple countdown to One billion Apps

A few month ago Apple launched an SDK for developers to create Apps (applications) for the iPhone and iPod Touch. And it became an instant hit! Just go to Youtube and search for “iphone apps“, you get thousands of results on different newly developed Apps.  Basically it enables anyone to develop what ever application or game [...]

Flutter, twetts becomes even shorter, or do they?

The years 2008 and 2009 are the years everyone talk about Twitter. Before it was blogs and social media like Facebook, but now its all about micro-blogging. Everywhere I look on the internet there is news about Twitter, on how to utilise it best for business, connecting or marketing. Everyone seems to tweet, but is [...]

Drop in webtrafic due to Ipred

From the 1th of April 2009 a new anti-piracy law became active in Sweden call Ipred. This law enable record labels, book authors and publishers as well as movie companies to legally hunt people who pirate copyrighted material online. Its been a big debate here in Sweden regarding this law aswell as the FRA law [...]

Internet blew territory need

Today at work we discussed the news that the new music-streaming service Spotify start selling music. Which made us discussed how market territories have changes due to the internet. Still in the music, film and game industries the different countrys (territories) matters. Something I work with everyday when a the rights to distribute a game [...]