Posts tagged “business”
Creditcards go virtual
…well sort of. Joi has received his Visa with the World of Warcraft graphics. Philip Torrene of Make blogged about this a year ago. It’s a smart move from Visa as these guys are subscribers and pay monthly to World of Warcraft. Furthemore, it’s not just a small geeky bunch of players – they’re 8,5 [...]
Last.fm on sale for $450M?
There are rumours running around that Viacom is expected to buy Last.fm for 450 million USD. Mashable reports on a DealBreaker.com rumour that Viacom is chucking in an offer for the “YouTube” of music. Looks interesting – especially as this will be one of the first large web2.0 music capitalisations. Furthermore, there might be something [...]
Jaiku badge improvement
One thing I’d really like to see from Jaiku is a last.fm type badge that you could easily paste into your blog to show the last 5 Jaiku posts. This is something that I think would explode the usage of Jaiku among bloggers. The current badge isn’t really that useful anymore as it only shows [...]
Finnish music sales going downhill
Jani Jalonen, the CEO of Elements Music, writes on his blog about the recent data he heard from the Finnish IFPI. They haven’t been officially released yet, but they ought to be out soon. According to Jani, they are pretty miserable. Music sales came down about 27% in last month compared to figure one year [...]
Guardian’s interview with Rob Small
Guardian has a nice article on an interview with Rob Small, the CEO of Miniclip. Miniclip has 34 million users and has been profitable for the last five years. Rob enlightens readers with his ideas and views on the casual gaming industry. Looks interesting, especially when we’re sort of competing from the same users. However, [...]
Linkkivinkki tiistaille
Janne Waltonen ja Matti Djateu bloggaavat San Franciscon Web 2.0 Exposta Omasana.fi-palvelussa. Kannattaa lukea ja seurata mit?§ ison l?§t?§k??n tuolla puolen turinoidaan “kakspistenollasta”. (Just sharing some links with my Finnish readers – 2 marketing dudes are blogging about the Web 2.0 Expo in SF) As an additional tip: MindMeister – a social mindmapping tool. Looks [...]
Inka’s interview on IT-viikko
Asmo blogged about our new CEO’s interview on IT-Viikko. The story is posted here (in Finnish).
Exploring SecondLife
During the last few nights I’ve been exploring Second Life a bit more. It was quite fascinating going back and explore it in more detail and smoothly than before (graphics wise). It still requires quite a bit of machine power and is still very nudgy with an Intel Dual core processor and a proper graphics [...]
Mass collaboration beats Vegas odds
PicksPal set up a website where friends can gamble with virtual money (for free) to show off how good they are at gambling and beating the odds. As such there’s nothing new to this idea of offering a free gambling site to have some fun. However, there’s great wisdom to be tapped on with people [...]
$100 Million valuation for Geni.com
Just read something amazing (if that’s a good thing or not) on Techcrunch: $100 Million Valuation For Geni. Geni.com is a website to gather your family data and build a family tree out of it. Looks interesting and it’s very easy to use – two important factors in creating a viral product (not forgetting the [...]
Don’t give a presentation – put on a show
I read a good blog entry a while back on Presentation Zen and it was yet again proved right as I watched people giving presentations at Mobile Monday this evening on Mobile Gambling. When people are ask you to give a presentation, don’t do it – put on a show. There were interesting companies this [...]
New blog
I’ve decided to start a new blog to compose and gather my thoughts on web communities. The approach is multifold and thus it’s more of an open sketch book for my thoughts and ideas on empowering the masses and capitalising on web communities (this pretty much derives from my job). This does not mean that [...]
Customer service gone shockingly right
Sometimes customer service just works. Read this entry on Nintendo Wii customer service in the US.
The most complete version
This morning as I was at the gym trying to kick the last bits of flu left in me I saw a clip on the TV promoting Windows Vista. There was a package on the screen showing the Vista Ultimate as the “Most complete version of Windows”. Whoa whoa, you saying it’s not complete yet?! [...]
I think I have a new RSS-reader
Today at work I manager to grab a few minutes for some good ol’ web surfin’ and RSS reading. Techcrunch had hit me with an e-mail earlier wondering how big Google Reader is after their new UI and small tweaks. I took a look at Google Reader a long time ago, but it was still [...]
Blog buzz
I had 4 new blog posts in Bloglines – 3 of them mentioned Apple and their new iPhone. Looks pretty cool. Just a few days ago I was watching this and wondering why companies don’t seriously put effort into the user interface of a device. Seems like Apple has taken the first serious step towards [...]
Aapeli second known internet brand in Finland
Asmo already blogged about this, but since I want a little ego boost this morning – I’ll do it as well :) Our Finnish Playray site, Aapeli.com, is the second most known internet brand in Finland among the youth – only Google is more known. Taloustutkimus produced the survey and here’s the top ten this [...]
“RIAA” sues AllofMP3.com
A set of companies belonging to the RIAA sue the Russian AllofMP3.com for a whopping 1.65 trillion USD. That’s a lot of money. BBC, for example has the story, but let me compare this number to some other figures: The Russian GDP is appr. $1.576 trillion (src) According to RIAA, music industry losses are $4.2 [...]
Of effectiveness
I seldom get annoyed of things, but uneffectiveness really pisses me off in so many ways. I mean if you do something, do it well. Today’s irritator was an article from HS. Research has shown that Finns don’t check their loans with their bank once the interest rates have come down. 58% of people hadn’t [...]
Exercise keeps you going
Jorma Ollila, non-executive chairman of Shell’s board of directors and chairman of Nokia’s board of directors, exercises 4 times a week. He has a simple, but effective personal exercise plan that he goes through 4 times a week. This includes 60-70 pushups, 150-350 abs as well as multiple other movements. Nokia’s executive board members exercise [...]
iLike to compete with last.fm
I spotted a new social music networking site – iLike.com through TechCrunch. Looks interesting at first, but just how easy is it to be a second comer in this market? I mean last.fm recommends music based on your taste of listening, just as iLike does. However there’s a small problem here. It’s a lot easier [...]
Response times
Working in an IT/entertainment company, I’ve come to handle or at least hear lots of IT jargon each day. Yesterday as I was walking home by the circus that’s in town I realised that my personal response times to lots of things have gotten longer. This pretty much means that I’ve constantly had a few [...]
We are not evil
All those interested in revolutionary music business should head down to Korjaamo, located in T????l??, Helsinki – to listen to John Buckman, the CEO of Magnatune. He’s giving a talk in another Aula event at 7pm on Monday the 23rd of October. Read more here. Magnatune is an online record label. Its catalogue can be [...]
Couldn’t have said it better myself
There’s an excellent speech written by the CEO of Ooga Labs, a small (but extremely successful) start-up located in California, for graduates of a ’06 class: Don’t make my mistake! So you’re going to take a cube job with slow Microsoft, bureaucratic Oracle, or with some boring financial company? Why don’t you just shoot yourself [...]
BF 2142 in-game-advertising
Slashdot writes about Battlefield 2142 in-game-advertising and how this is portrayed among users as spyware. This leaflet also explains what EA is after. I understand the frustration the consumers are going through. I believe the business model is the biggest problem here. When consumers pay for something they are taught that they don’t have to [...]