I have spoken to a lot of people here in the valley who claimed that didn’t need scaling solutions early on. I have consistently said that it is important to think about scale from the beginning, not count on that it get solved down the line. Twitter is a nice concept but it is ultimately [...]
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I am watching the NHL game between Anaheim Ducks and Detroit Red Wings. Rob Niedermayer together with Chris Pronger just hit Tomas Holmstrom together with their arms smashing his head against the board. Very low, very intentionally and very much disgraceful… (Robs brother Scott Niedermayer in the same manner crosschecked Peter “Foppa” Forsberg in the [...]
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Today Linda Skugge decided to quit blogging. She got tired of all the negative and offensive comments. I decided to write a reflection on trolls.
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… always get tougher when it is getting tough is the saying. I have thought about this recently and also saw “Remember the Titans” tonight. There are many great quotes in the film which I really think encapsulate leadership, team work and how to deal with “uphills”. The first one is very football oriented – [...]
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… should definitely read the New York Times’s article from today. A friend sent me an article about a puck crazy town in the northern parts of Sweden. I have only been there once, when I was driving back with my oldest brother eating burgers, but just being there for such a short while I [...]
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Yet another example of problems with the current formulation of Web 2.0. Many sites have underestimated the community aspects and the loose publishing form. I do think something more intelligent is needed as a backend solution that currently to counteract the problems with the loose behavior yet providing the user with the best possible content. [...]
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Yesterday I had a dinner with a BBC correspondent Imtiaz Ali in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A wonderful person with some very intriguing stories on the area. Just before he left he share a truly insightful comment: We should focus on the similarities between people, not the differences.
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This week has been an unusually intense ride. Yesterday was the first day it really slowed down for me to reflect on it. I have been booked between 8AM-11PM everyday even though the meetings have been amazing all the way through. Thursday’s visit of the US ambassadors in Sweden, Norway and Denmark was very intriguing [...]
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So cool. I just got back from the Sharks game in San Jose where Foppa visited with his Nashville in”The Sharks Tank” (or HP Pavillion which is the actual name). It wasn’t one of his greatest games, but he played as he usually does, nothing fancy but always clean, gets the puck through all the [...]
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Some good reading