Hello Martin

Just been digging through 1 meter of snow since the car got stuck on the road…. i am so cold!!!! ended up driving on the bicycle road since that was drivable on.

Ashes and Snow
The most amazing animal pictures i’ve ever seen, i didn’t believe it at first, but none of them are Computer generated in any way or manipulated. There is a TED video too, but the pictures will do it all justice.

Story

Simply love when india, china or any other developing country adds services unavailable in the wester world.

Haven’t seen this pop-up in english yet, and i have to say i am amazed that the chinese did it first, but MSNNext lets you find friends through friends msn contacts, very impressed.

New and improved as they say in ad slogans…

Zecco.com

Have been relaunched, i think it looks and functions a lot better, i know the boys have loads of new and exciting features coming up. congrats on the new site though

Apperently the Oil companies doesn’t seem to like the report that came out today.
10,000$ for anyone who can make it look bad

Any takers?
(The Insider reference)

Yeah, i click on the article for the girl…but i couldn’t help noticing the man to the left, that can’t be a “standard” sized gun, but i guess the picture puts a funny meaning to “guns” - lottery winner’s widow arrested in his death


(Foto Source: AP)

Someone at New York Times web division is going to get yelled at!
This is how Nytimes.com looked on my screen for a while
(Confirmed it existed on other computers worldwide too.)
(EDIT: just came back again)
(EDIT 2: 2 hours later still problems appearing)
(Click on picture below to see full size)

According to IDC

Top Gear aired today on BBC 2, after having had a extra break due to Richard Hammonds crash, i thought it would be quite interesting to see how quickly the show would pop up on the internet, since it’s supposed to be viewed by 350 million people i thought it wouldn’t take to long.

I have now had a overview of every single upload to both YouTube and Dailymotion since the show aired (3:30 hours ago) and it still haven’t appeared, however i thought id see if it had appeared on the bittorrent networks, and lo behold, the entire show was already up and available to download.

To summarize: Bittorrent might possibly be the technorati (for news/blogs) when it comes to getting online shows or this was just a coincidence, but still interesting.

Story here

Knew quite a few on the list, had never heard of some…

This rocks, Damai which i am part of, won the
TripAdvisor Award for: Best Hidden Gem - Asia 2006
Uber congrats to Nils and his crew down there who does an absolutely amazing job. It’s really a fantastic boutique hotel with amazing food and scenery.

Listening to some music and some French “rap” song which i have no idea what it’s about (Some sounds towards the end gives me slight idea though)
And it REALLY makes me missing summer!
(Song name: Stereo Total - L’amour a trois)

(Rent a fantastic house in France at Provencerental.dk)

I today just realized (again) the tremendous respect i have for entrepreneurs who builds something first and then go out looking for funding. Not saying other ways are wrong (there is no right/wrong, it’s all up for debate - And sometimes it’s not possible or doesn’t make sense… as i said totally depends on a lot of factors). But it just reminds me of the first venture i built, and i have really started to miss that lately, maybe because finding DOERS is really really hard. If you know anybody that fits the above, my door is always 110% open, even if the idea might not be the optimal, we have a saying at LundKenner:

Bad people can’t even succeed with a good idea, but good people can succeed with a bad one.

I hope someone will keep a very close watch on this Brazilian initiative.
Nytimes: Brazil Gambles on Monitoring of Amazon Loggers

Yahoo’s parking space seem to be rather overcrowded, funny the times i have visited their offices it’s been quite a few spaces.

It’s funny because having a small solar pavement markers (like the one’s who are placed alongside roads etc) that would sense if parking spaces are free could easily solve the “time” problem of finding a parking space, and the cost of having to deal with “illegal” parking would go down tremendously i would have though. Maybe my next business that

“I’m not known for my patience. Patience is a polite quality and often appropriate, but it rarely gets things done. Impatience, however, is the hunger for results and intolerance for excuses and delays. Impatience got me over countless mountain passes”

- Lance Armstrong on CNN: Saving your life

Nytimes did a quick review - And it confirms what i was afraid off.

“Typing is difficult. The letter keys are just pictures on the glass screen, so of course there’s no tactile feedback.”

I have a Nokia 9300i, it’s to bit and screen isn’t good enough, but the typing rocks! there are times i type on it even though i know it will cost me more, just because it’s so much quicker. (anyways enough of meeeee toooo’s post)

So Apple has released their iPhone - I am not as interested about the phone
(no 3g means useless for data transfer (Edge is ok, not used in europe though),
as much as how the deal between Apple and Cingular was structured. From my novice perspective i would have said this was the best option for apple… Take a look at monthly growth numbers last 12 months, and once phone was launched the % increase over normal growth they would do a revenue split on (Can’t be pure revenue split on iPhone alone since Cingular receives massive free PR/Branding) . Anyways i am sure we will know very soon how the deal is structured… until then i guess it’s all pure guessing (and yes i have worked in the affiliate industry ).

On a separate note, i wonder if they leased iPhone.com since it’s still owned by previous owners from the looks of it.

(I know nothing about running a public company, nor much about how the mobile operators work… Ps. Steve you want to buy iWall.com from me? )

Time Magazine have a great article too

“Jobs’s zealousness about product development— and enforcing his
personal vision—remains as relentless as ever. He keeps Apple’s
management structure unusually flat for a 20,000-person company, so he
can see what’s happening at ground level. There is just one committee
in the whole of Apple, to establish prices. I can’t think of a
comparable company that does no—zero—market research with its
customers. Ironically, Jobs’s personal style could not be more at odds
with the brand he has created. If the motto for Apple’s consumers is
“think different,” the motto for Apple employees is “think like Steve.”

Just finished reading EBay Pressured to Move on Skype - And i have to say i think they got this one VERY wrong in my humble opinion, why?
Skype is in Voip what, Ebay is in Online Auctions, what Windows is for OS etc…
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