Real change starts at the margins and from outsiders, while incumbents cling to relics and rituals long after they have stopped making sense.
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Ringtones, ringtones, ringtones. Since Steve Jobs announced the ringtones for the iPhone some days ago lots of people have been talking about ringtones and how immoral the iTunes approach to ringtones is. And it is ridiculous. However it is not illegal, but then again neither is going around iTunes using the various …
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The imperial units such as pounds, inches and feet have been receiving a fair about of criticisms and ridicule in the blogosphere recently (of course I can’t find the posts I’ve stumbled upon recently). Around learned people and in international crowds this is bound to happen fairly often. Of course the battle has been …
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Frederik Andersen of Goodmorning Technology in Denmark gave a great talk last night at Innovation Center Denmark in Palo Alto on the speed of innovation. His design firm is working on all kinds of interesting projects using a method which I found very reminiscent to what we do as agile web application developers. …
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The other day I went to a lunch with the Silicon Vikings who are an association of Scandinavian’s and interested parties who meet up once a month to network and talk about specific issues. If you are Scandinavian and in the Bay area you should go, it is definitely and interesting crowd of Scandinavian’s who now call …
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At the last Copenhagen.rb meetup in November we discussed how to get Rails in to our enterprise customers. I am thinking more and more that lets use it with the one or two visionary enterprise customers that exist. But let’s not kill ourselves trying to get it in to the enterprise. Subversive uses are great, but we …
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For those of you who haven’t yet heard of FON, they are a very cool Spanish WIFI startup, who aim to make their Wifi network ubiquitous throughout the world. So how have they taken up the challenge of the worlds telecoms companies? Well they’ve created what they call a social router. This is basically a Wifi Access …
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Sorry to bore you with more VC related writing. Shel Israel has a chat with Jeff Clavier about Web 2.0 disrupting VC’s . It is a pretty interesting read even if you haven’t got any plans of going the VC route. Jeff’s views on what will happen with the current Web 2.0 start-ups is interesting: A small number of …
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I don’t know if I should laugh or cry, but it is just typical really of why there are so few large successfull web based services in Europe. The project, called Quaero, found itself in the spotlight following remarks last week by French President Jacques Chirac in a speech laying out his agenda for France in 2006. “We …
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Just read this cool article Pioneer of the Flat Tax about Mart Laar the first prime minister of an independent Estonia. It reads almost like the story of a typical hard headed young entrepreneur who doesn’t yet know all the reasons why something can’t be done. Imagine a place with no tax accountants, where the annual …
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I have to admit like many people I was dumbfounded when I heard about EBay’s purchase of Skype. Having read EBay’s Skype Presentation I think it does make a lot of sense. There is definitely a lot of shared areas that might not be entirely obvious to some of us who are snow blind in they payment area. In particularly …
