Category Archives: New Media

Hot topic: WikiLeak

The hottest topic right now is WikiLeaks and the consequences of their recent publication of thousand of highly classified US diplomat documents. And according to the founder of WikiLeaks, its only the beginning. The next batch of document releases will be about big bank corporations, and it will apparently hurt. Well, its already started to [...]

Beatles on iTunes. Content vs distribution

Today Apple had a little announcement, they will start selling Beatles songs on iTunes. Its among the few Apple announcement that only focusing on adding new content, instead of new features or technology. And it raises the question on content versus distribution. The ultimate is to have the best content on the best distribution channel(s). [...]

Twitter business model-s

Twitter is really one of the fastest growing phenomenon on the web in recent year, along with Facebook. Becoming a communication standard within basically a year, its on almost every webpage. It have expanded with x millions accounts today. Couldn’t find any numbers but I can only guess. And making expressions like “I just Tweeted [...]

Facebook and Twitter on Xbox

Now finally Facebook and Twitter on Xbox 360 have gone live. Downloaded them today and just briefly tried them out, and I don’t feel that blown away. How I understood it you have to enter the both services separately, and you can’t do anything else when you use them. Thats okey I guess, but it [...]

DeView: Free: The Future of a Radical Price

On my way to Germany last week I finished reading Chris Andersons book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The expectation from the Long Tail have been sky high, and though not as good, or revolutionary as the Long Tail, its still a must read. Some part very rather slow to get through while [...]

Increase of Free, but not for games?

Today I just started reading the new Chris Anderson book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Expectations after the Long Tail is sky-high, but I have read more before reading this new book and have some good understanding of the concept. I’m looking forward to be somewhat convinced of this new changing model or [...]

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 [...]

Twitter – Simple, open and easy finds unexpected growth

Its been a while since i took the time and watch some inspirational TED presentations. And last time I viewed the latest presentations one found my interest. Simply one word, Twitter spoke to me. Twitter, a relative young service that created the expression Micro-blogging. Looking at the popularity of text messaging on cellphones and combined [...]

We are all mini-information aggregators

The flow of information is bigger as ever before. Through the wires of internet endless amount of information is traveling from each corner of the world. Our channels to access, consume and gather have increased. And even many minichannels within the big one, once again the web, have rised lately for us to connect and [...]