ArcticStartup’s Innovation Journalism prize
26/03/2010
ArcticStartup won an innovation journalism prize yesterday in the award ceremony organised by the Finnish Society for Innovation Journalism. Good week!
Jorma Ollila at Innovaatiokide 2010
25/03/2010
ArcticStartup mentioned quite a bit and Ollila supported the startup life to the max. Well done ArcticStartup – very proud!
Playing around with Microsoft Surface
24/03/2010
Having a meeting with Microsoft and while waiting, played around a bit with the Surface installation. Pretty cool stuff!
Kauppalehti photo shoot
22/03/2010
Me and the other ArcticStartup guys in a photo shoot for Kauppalehti. Good fun as always. The beautiful day made it all the better!
Dogs invented foursquare and Gowalla ages ago
9/03/2010This occured to me today as I was walking our dog. Gowalla and foursquare are essentially built on the habit of dogs. Now this may seem a little far, but those with dogs understand this immediately. When you walk your dog, the dog goes sniffing around (as unattractive as it may sound) for other dogs’ urine. This is their way of marking their territory or if you may, “checking in”.
The only difference is that they do it out of nature and not for the badges/pins. Nevertheless, I think in all its lack of academic studies to back it up, is a great discovery :)
The question remains though, are there many other behavioral acts that us humans could build web services on? I’m sure there are, we just haven’t discovered them yet.
By the way, you can find me in Gowalla.