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Got my computer back online today after a 2-month offline time (although I was online daily with my work computer). The power and the motherboard got busted and it took me actually 2 months to get it fixed. Now that I’m looking at all the stuff I went through daily, RSS feeds, links, all that other crap - no wonder I didn’t have any social life…there’s a lot of that in my browser.

I agree with what Evan has to say about being away for a while. I’m definitely quite fond of completing these tasks now that I have the chance to start off fresh:

• Unsubscribe from as many things as possible.
• Clean up old junk (mental and physical).
• Read more books.

I will do a major restructuring of my 150 or so RSS-feeds, throw all my toolbar bookmarks to del.icio.us and start of fresh (although I think I’ll keep the best of the bunch). Taking a step back and actually seeing the forest again from the trees is quite enlightening at some points.

Oh, and a small piece of advertisement regarding my last point on the list - do join our Jaiku business book club at #bookclub.

As I’m spending my evening in the office and trying to make deadlines, I found an interesting blog post. James Hong of HotOrNot, enlightened me to an entry on Facebook blog that will most certainly increase Facebook’s reach manyfold.

“Now, when you’re writing messages, you can send the message to people on Facebook, and to people not on Facebook. ”

Damn, of course! Why didn’t I think of this?

It’s the little things that you tinker with in every day life that will slowly change behaviour with online apps. Large changes are difficult to make, small are a lot more easier. Furthermore, creating virality in your service is perhaps one of the biggest challenges most web applications and sites currently face (unless it’s built into it, like in the case of LinkedIn). These sort of things nudge users a step closer to adoption and loyalty towards your service.

MyFootballClub is a British initiative to purchase a football club in a collaborative manner with money raised from the community members. May sound impossible, but currently they have gathered close to £1.4 million.

The logic is quite simple, you become a member for £35 and with that you purchase a “share” of the new club. All members are equal and can vote on players, transfers and so on. At the moment they are discussing with 4 possible clubs for a 51% takeover.

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Techcrunch has a nice article on a Facebook iPhone website which seems work nicely. Check it out over here.

I’m back home in Helsinki after my trips to Norway and Spain. I am currently enjoying my last day of holidays so don’t expect me to be online normally just yet. Also, please don’t get angry at late e-mail responses, I’ve got some 500 work e-mails to go through and some 150 personal e-mails clogged in my inboxes.

I’ll be adding some photos online during today, hold on…

Update: Didn’t manage to upload my photos from Spain yet, but have a look at the photos from my trip to Norway over here.