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Some quick thoughts on the Windows Live Session I attended in London last Thursday. I haven’t been keeping up that much with Live since the announcement, but found the presentation by Phil Holden, director Windows Live, informative and interesting. (Hey, I need to get some beta invites to the Live services. Mail me!)
First, the web […]

Burnham’s Beat: The Walled Garden “Hit List”. The threat from search engines to web services with “walled garden” data can be analysed by looking at 1) Content Availability, 2) Index Affinity and 3) Process Simplicity, according to Bill Burnham. Really, really good post. Appropriate framework to use when trying to understand why traditional media […]

MSNBC: “Overall, sales of console and portable hardware, software and accessories reached $10.5bn, 6 per cent higher than the $9.9bn generated in 2004 and beating the record of $10.3bn achieved in 2002.”
Games are probably the form of entertainment most suitable for the connected and interactive world we are living in. It is especially notable to […]

Feld Thoughts: “Fundamentally, whenever you are thinking about supply and demand on the Internet, you have a math problem to solve. Effectively creating the drivers for both supply and demand – at the right price – and then figuring out how to turn it into money is hard – eBay, PayPal, and Google AdSense […]

December 1st I began working for Paperdoll Heaven as Business Development Manager. In case you wanted to know. Still has to finish my thesis, which I will do in the spring.

In an interview in today’s issue of Swedish business weekly Affärsvärlden Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennström shed some light on the company’s revenue. Skype has 51 million registered users and more than 2 million customers. Registered users are growing 130,000 per day. Nothing new, really.
More interesting was the information about Skype’s monthly revenue […]

Today I have been blogging about the ‘net, e-commerce and online media almost daily for three years. I take a retrospective look at the last couple of years in my Swedish blog (turned out to become a nice timeline).