It was only a matter of time… Bear in mind that Universal first threatened both YouTube and MySpace, only to short before the Google aquisition of YouTube sign a deal with YouTube. The pattern continues. Read more on the entry at TechCrunch: Universal Music Sues MySpace
Categories: Social communities
Huge. Seminar with Bill Gates. A very impressive person with a lot of humour. His answer on Google was one of the best I have heard. Few have impressed me as much as he did. On Web 2.0 och and more importantly the Bubble 2.0: It is not like it is the biggest tragedy ever [...]
Categories: personal
I am listening to Bill Gates on his visions. Incredible to listen to one of the most powerful persons alive mentioning that the future of the world relies on taking care of huge issues such as global health, education and energy. He is one of the few i have heard being very firm in explaining [...]
Categories: Social communities,Social venture,Technology
Apparently that is the future according to many and not very suprising Google thinks so too. Here is an article by Eric Auchard at Reuters, with an interview with Googles CEO Eric Schmidt – INTERVIEW – Google CEO sees free mobile phones, funded by ads. Amazingly this exist in a new startup, Blyk, with an [...]
Categories: Social communities
I just read TechCrunch to get some updates on what’s going on around the valley and found this this pretty amazing post Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist. I actually laughed… They have to be kidding. Regardless if this is part of a legal strategy, it really make no sense coming from an [...]
Categories: Internet
I yesterday submitted a position paper to the W3c Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries even though the discussion is valid for the whole mobile web discussion. The main conclusion is that we should of policy and technology constraints discuss whether a mobile web really exist: When these issues – both on the [...]
Categories: cell phone,Internet,Press,Technology
It cannot have passed anyone that the Grameen Bank got awarded the Nobel Peace Prize some time ago, and the scientific community thinks about the social entrepreneurship more seriously than ever before. Yet many both inside the social entrepreneur community as well as outside tend not to see what social entrepreneurship is and more importantly [...]
Categories: Social communities,Social venture,Technology
Some good reading