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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Widgetbox - Get your own widgets in no time



I have started using Widgetbox widgets and their easy design of your own widgets features. This is a service I recommend for anybody with blogs and/or websites. As an example check out my twitter widget below or at http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/twitter-tlidforss. Don't forget to use your own tags or use your cloud tags for SEO purpose.





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Green hat people - A Killer event maker to get people participation


I recently attended as a part of the ongoing Excitera Mobile Cup series in Sweden an event hosted by the Green hat People company. Green hat People does event sevices for mobile phones. Niklas Tyllström, the founder presented the company and organized us into competing groups of users for the event game. You can custom make your own trivia game related to whatever event you are doing or sponsoring as a part of, e.g. a tradeshow. Since we were all in the same office building, there were no location based trivia questions. The game console application monitors all the participants, time, answers and can award users.
I like this service, I think this can be perfectly used for all kinds of events, promotions, games, awards, award points, polls and so on. Head over to the website http://www.greenhatpeople.com/ to read more about them.


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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Geek Meet - sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement), Bringing rich typography to the web

I attended the Geek Meet Feb. event at the bwin building in Stockholm. Thanks to Robert Nyman, Mark Wubben was the key speaker. Mark has done a lot of work with sIFR and typography for the web. His topics were;
  • sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement) - Bringing rich typography to the web
  • Home Made Ubicomp - Ubiquitous computing

Mark presented a quick history of what has happened since the early (1994) days of the web to the problems of today using flash a lot which does not work very well with search engines. Since Mark has uploaded the sIFR presentation to Slideshare, I am embedding his presentation. See below;

Bringing Typography to the Web with sIFR 3 at <head>

Mark also presented briefly the values of easy ubiquitos computing for everybody.

UPDATE: Here are the two urls for Mark's presentations:

http://www.slideshare.net/novemberborn/geek-meet-web-typography-and-sifr-3

http://www.slideshare.net/novemberborn/geek-meet-homemade-ubicomp

Many thanks to bwin (http://www.bwin.com) for sponsoring this event with good food and beverage. Got to check out Texas Hold'em poker.

Also if you are interested in Geek Meet, take a look at Robert's blog: http://www.robertnyman.com

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HTC Touch 2 with Windows Mobile 6.5 - A preview of better things to come


Windows Mobile 6.5 Running on HTC from Jesus Diaz on Vimeo.

HTC understood early that you have to do something with the standard Windows Mobile user interface. HTC created their TouchFlo UI that makes a nice frontend to Windows Mobile. Microsoft has improved a lot the basic UI with the new release 6.5.

HTC has thus improved their TouchFlo with the new HTC Touch 2. I like this phone and I think HTC is finally getting there. So, right now I think the competition is on between HTC, LG and Samsung for who makes the best Windows Mobile based mobile smartphone.

See the video for a demo of the new Touch with Windows Mobile 6.5.

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Getting it right the right way with the Garmin-Asus G60 smartphone



Garmin G60 Hands On from Jesus Diaz on Vimeo.

It is interesting to see that when a company is focusing on user-friendliness and use technology as an enabler, you usually end up with a pretty good product. I think the new Garmin-Asus G60 is one such example, following Palm Pre's philosophy.

Look at the demo video of the Garmin-Asus G60, the new Linux based smartphone focusing on using location as en enabler not as a feature you as an user have to think about. Location services as a feature is in this case just used to provide a richer experience with the applications most people use. I think the new cooperation between Asus and Garmin will become a successful company with mobile smart devices.

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Monday, February 02, 2009

Microblog vs. Blog, nanoblogg or macroblog, Where is blogging heading?


I have noticed being in Sweden which is a blog-heavy country that people have got infected with the idea of blogging in every size or shape or whereever you are. A couple of weeks ago, when Google announced their saving plans for the company by e.g. shutting down the Finnish acquisition of Jaiku the Finnish mobile microblogging company and transforming it into an open source based solution service. Then Morris Packer at Bonnier media started pushing for Swedish Jaiku users to start using the new Swedish microblogging service Bloggy created by Jonas Lejon and then microblogging really took off in Sweden not just on Bloggy but also on Twitter since most people on Bloggy also have noticed Twitter without using it that much.

Now other services are also taking off, such as "What can you say with one word?" such as the new Nanoblogging site http://nanoblogg.se/tlidforss which works to emulate Bloggy's success but for even shorter blogs. This new service has recently picked up more than 400 users in a couple of days. Recently, people have stared mciroblogging about that they ned 2000 characters at least to say something meaningful raising the question about the need for a macroblog service? I like all the comments and think that this goes all way back to the starting of websites that ended up being too difficult to manage and maintain, then the first blogs came around and much later mobile phone updates and need for short updates. And now finally back to the beginning again.

Hmm, technology is amazing, we seem to go in circles sometimes...maybe it is time to learn from history and check out of internet for a while.
For all twitter and bloggers, also be aware of #blmon on Twitter and http://www.bloggersmonday.com/

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Outsourcing and 2009 - Some interesting thoughts, Neev It with Neev Nordica

Neev Nordica Explore Benefits Safe Outsourcing
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Neev Nordica, a Neev Technologies company is an outsourced product development company providing flexible methods for development and partnership. Rich internet applications, Java, Flex, AWS, Web 2.0, mobile applications, web portals and SNS software.

I read an interesting report from http://www.equaterra.com regarding the expected development for outsourcing and in particular ICT areas (software and communications).
India will still be the lead due to their competence, language, culture and experience regardless of pricing.

I think that management at companies getting into outsourcing really need to think wider than just money or cost. It is a choice where you can make strategic advantages to outbeat the competition in particular during a recession we have now in the world.

Here's a presentation about the creative new Neev Nordica available in the nordic region of the EU area.

Please contact us for further discussions and information about what we can do to your bottom line and competitiveness now in 2009.

PS. A quick update; was told the following about this presentation; "Your slideshow has been featured on the SlideShare homepage by our editorial team.
Cheers,
- the SlideShare team"

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Twitter for the nobodies - Vizedu has done it again

I really like the Vizedu presentations. They are always straight to the point. This time they have four new ones posted, here is a good one about how to use Twitter.




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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Kilobyte confusion - Which one do you like?

Since I cannot get the embedded object to work in my browser, here's the url; http://www.smartoons.net/comic.php?c=269 and a snapshot:


I like the cartoons from http://www.smartoons.net

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Google GrandCentral 2.0 - The new way of using your phones soon available


I read with interest the blog update from http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/ about soon to be released the GrandCentral 2.0 service. I liked GrandCentral's services long before Google acquired them. I also hope that once out of beta this service will become available outside USA. I think Google search on voice mail, web widgets and 1 click calling straight from the browser on your mobile phone together with 4G mobile VoIP will finally dramtically change what you consider a "phone" to be.

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Sunday, January 25, 2009

How to be trendy - Obamaize yourself



This is a new service jumping in on the Obama marketing trend. Check out http://obamiconme.com, simple but powerful, just upload an image, play with the tool, contrast, color balance and bingo, you have created your "Obamaized" image ready to be used as an avatar or an a coffee mug.

See results before and after the tool.


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Thursday, January 22, 2009

TwitterGroups - Join or create your own groups for twittering people


I just joined a group #consultants on http://twittergroups.com a very handy new group site service for people who use twitter as a microblog service. TwitterGroups is using Opensocial features to connect so if you use Google's Friendconnect you can join and share your profile right away. Friendfeed room is also there for you. I recommend people who use Twitter, check out the groups available or create your own at TwitterGroups.

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MrTweet - Your personal Twitter assistant




This is a service that I like a lot. Simple concept, just follow MrTweet on Twitter and you will get your personal report back (url). Whenever you want to check people of interest to follow or followers that you are not following, browse through the results. You will also get statistics about each user such as reciprocity, number of updates, links, conversation and of course usual twitter info.



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Twingly update - search for microblogs


In case you have not noticed, Twingly has updated their blogsearch to also include microblog search. Works very well. Try it!

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Bloggparti.se - Check what political party you belong to according to your blog


Bloggparti.se is a service from a Swedish startup idea created for the 24 hour business startup camp going on right now. Mattias Johansson who came up with the idea did not get to apply for the bootcamp in time but I tested his new service and I have to say I like it. By using uClassify to classify the words used, Mattias used 100 different bloggers from each of the political parties to analyze what words they use as a based for the service.

I tested the service and noticed I ended up (not quite sure how?) with a 50-50 mix almost for the conservative and christian party affiliations.

Anyway, I like the idea, you can apply that during election campaigns to check what your favorite bloggers write.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Typealyzer - What type am I writing a blog?



Try out Typealyzer, a funny way of getting your brain analyzed based on your style writing your blogposts. This is a new blog analysis service, just type in your url and get to read and see the result. I got for my blog the following results:

I am a Guardian and

"The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they have made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of doing things.
The Guardians are often happy working in highly structured work environments where everyone knows the rules of the job. They respect authority and are loyal team players."

I like the result since I have so far barely written anything about emotional and very personal things, so the logic behind this service seems to work very well.


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Friday, January 09, 2009

Palm Pre - Palm is still alive and kicking out smart mobile phones


Just announced and presented at the CES show in Las Vegas, Palm is presenting their new smart mobile phone, Palm Pre. The phone has a 3.1 inch multi touch display, 8GB, 3 MP camera, WiFi, GPS and will be made available for Sprint's EVDO 3G network. The phone does not use a screen keyboard, there is a slide out qwerty style keyboard.

Nice hardware, it will be interesting to see though, the perception and pickup on the application side. With Apple's appstore and Google's marketplace for apps and of course the windows mobile application developers I have some doubts about the market penetration for Palm devices. I should not count them out though, Palm has always been a groundbreaker, I still remember using the first wireless Palm Pilot in 1999 over the 8 kb/s Bell South Mobitex packet data network....

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Thursday, January 08, 2009

OQO model2plus - Nice convergence of mobile phone and mobile internet device


I just read reviews about OQO's latest model 2 plus from CES and I have to say, this kind of mobile internet device has I think finally become useful and convenient. The new model features touchscreen OLED diplay, something you have only so far been able to get on mobile phones. The OLED type diplays are superior when you are outdoors. Try looking on the display of an old Motorola Razr phone vs. one with OLED screen, big difference, you can hardly see the screen on the old one when outdoors.

About the OQO, I met with Bob Rosin at CES2005 and I liked the device already back then but thought for $2000 with slow performance and 20GB harddrive, nah not ready for consumer market. Now though with built in WiFi (r) , Qualcomm's GoMobi (r) 3G wireless chipset that works for both EVDO and HSPA networks, 60GB SSD memory, Intel (r) Atom (tm) 1.86 GHz, 2GB RAM you get a true mobile internet device that you can bring along anywhere.

I think with new innovative UIs, cheaper and more powerful computing hardware, we will see a trend where computing devices are going to take over more and more over traditional mobile phones.

PS. Just noticed this blogpost as a draft I never published for some reason??
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Thursday, January 01, 2009

Getting lost in the cloud - Explore this appealing vizedu cloud computing presentation




I came across http://www.vizedu.com a Telezent, http://www.telezent.com internet property for educational presentations. I really like their style, you get a lot of information out of a dozen slides without having to read a lot of text... In this specific presentation about cloud computing, I think in particular the case with NYT and Amazon webservices as a project shows a new way to go for big projects in need of a computing power solution at an affordable pricetag.

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Kicking off 2009, the new Year with FriendConnect for tlidforss


Happy New Year to all of you in the blogosphere, we survived 2008. I think 2009 will be a good year since it cannot get worse than last year. I am starting this one by playing with Google Friendconnect on the blog. Friendconnect is (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect/home/intro) is the Opensocial based services Google has started using together with Google profile that allows you to see what blogs, sites and social networking services you are using. See the widget in the right sidebar further down the page. Please feel free to join so I don't have to look at only myself everytime I work on the blog.

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