Posts tagged “finland”
Lots of things
Haven’t had the time to blog last week, which was yet again pretty hectic. Over the weekend I exchanged e-mails with a certain Indian person wanting to publish our article in a book in India. The article was previously published in Journal of Interactive Advertising. It’s interesting to see how your work gets spread around [...]
A deleted blog post
I wrote quite a lengthy post on this and that but somehow managed to hit Ctrl-W and alas…gone! So here’s my 2c on the links I was suppose to post: -Free Wifi routers through FON – act fast and order yours before 24.12. -Herkkusia.com – a new finnish link aggregator, perhaps the classiest with an [...]
The last mile
Few days ago I visited a shoe store with a friend of mine as she was picking up her shoes from repair. As my friend tried a few different shoes on while waiting, she was wondering to me how the shoes would look on her with a skirt. (Beats me! Don’t girls always look good [...]
California Dreamin’
It was a good way to start the day by listening to Mamas and Papas’ California Dreaming. It was raining cats and dogs yesterday in Helsinki, when pretty much elsewhere in Finland it was snowing. A friend just confirmed from Lappeenranta, that it has snowed about 30cm over the night and a slightly less in [...]
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 [...]
Time to chill
Long week of work behind -> time to chill. I find myself in Lappeenranta in the student campus at Arttu’s place. It feels so nostalgic coming here… lots of good memories. Damn :) Almost feels surreal. Anyhow – I’ll quit now and enjoy the weekend. Cheerio!
Positioning and Mike Markkula
I was reading Jack Trout’s Differentiate or Die after a late supper, when I noticed the a short citation to Mike Markkula. Markkula is a definite Finnish surname and thus I jumped to my Mac to Google more info for it. I found the following; In 1977, Markkula brought his business expertise along with USD$250,000 [...]
Book 2.0 in Finnish
An old school colleague from HSE Mikkeli is writing a Book 2.0 in Finnish with Niko, a one man venture as he puts it. Sami Salmenkivi and Niko Nyman are writing a book in Finnish about all the web 2.0 effects that have so much been hyped about in English that Finnish (only) speakers have [...]
Monopoly and crabs
I haven’t had the time to blog for ages, apologies for that. But last weekend was a blast meeting different very interesting people. On Friday, I went to play monopoly with future economists with a few friends and new friends to be at KY. There was a lot of hassling and dealing going on – [...]
Matt Biddulph
I went to see Matt talk at an Aula event tonight with a friend. Matt has been working for example for BBC as a software engineer putting all their “back catalogue” (as they say in the media business) online into a searchable archive that is interlinked with lots of hyperlinks. He’s talk was about Open [...]
Poor Seamus – Sydney 5 Miles
Last week I got an album, Poor Seamus – Sydney 5 Miles, that will be on sale in Finland on the 13th of September (don’t worry, it was 100% legal :) ). I have listened to the CD and then had to go through it again. I’m pretty sure these guys will break it big [...]
Technically illiterate…me?
Back in uni when I started to talk about internet stuff to my fellow students they considered me a nutcase being interested in all this stuff so much. Today, when I sat down with our site and flash gurus … well, let’s just say there weren’t that many spots I could open my mouth and [...]
M??Blogging
That being blogging from our m??kki (summer cottage) in Punkaharju. The local telephone monopoly finally managed to create a wireless connection available to most summer cottages in the beautiful Punkaharju area. I won’t go into how much I praise wireless technologies and being connected to the internet when you want to (that doesn’t mean you [...]
Rock Stars and Pop Stars
While Metallica are performing in Tallinn – I’m hosting Katri Ylander‘s visit on Aapeli, our Playray site in Finland. Katri Ylander is the first runner up in the Finnish Idols’ competition held last year. Artists have taken up many different forms of marketing activities lately. Earlier this year we had Ilkka J?§?§skel?§inen, the winner of [...]
Fastest growing sector of the creative economy
…that is how today’s Ministry of Trade and Commerce -report describes the Finnish Game Industry. The press release titled, “Game Industry Has Makings of Future Export success”, further proves the view on the industry. I’m pretty new to the industry, I’ve been working at Apaja for only 3,5 months. However, I’ve been following the industry [...]
Blog proposal
Janne is proposing to Outi, through his blog! Will we see the answer in Outi’s blog or Janne’s? Update: And she said YES! :) Congrats you two! …doesn’t get much geekier than this :)
Thank you Nordea, and goodbye
Today I used my new credit card for the first time. I’ve had a credit card for ages, but today I used my new bank’s credit card. I recently went around asking a few banks for a small loan for my new motorcycle. I was hoping my present bank, Nordea at that time, could come [...]
Thunder in Finnish media
Finnish media is going through a big rumble. Mr Lordi, the lead singer of the Finnish Eurovision phenomenon has politely asked numerous times the media not to publish their photos as it’s their job they will trash in the process. Now Seiska, the trash-magazine has published Tomi Putaansuu’s photo on the front cover revealing his [...]
900km and a Eurovision victory
Wow – Finland went and won the Eurovision song contest! Foreigners probably can’t understand the how enormous this is for Finland. We have been in the last places for so many decades and now come and win the whole contest. There’s going to be a massive party this friday in Helsinki to celebrate the victory [...]
Vote for Lordi at Eurovision
Here’s the song Lordi will perform at this year’s Eurovision in Athens. If you’re able to vote in this competition, please vote for Lordi. I’d love to see the faces of people who have publicly cried out not to let Lordi participate in the competition because they will give Finland bad publicity. The truth is, [...]
Fulfilling a dream
I finally managed to fulfill one of my longest dreams over the weekend; getting back to motorcycling. I bought a 600cc Triumph TT. It’s pretty new, a year 2000 model and runs a 110hp close to 13,000 rpm – pretty nice :) I used to ride a Yamaha DT when I was younger, but I [...]
Long weekends
It seems like spring time is full of long weekends, easter before and now Wappu. They aren’t actually that bad as I managed to sleep pretty well last night, about 10 hours! Can’t remember the last time when I slept over 9 hours. Anyhow, it’s time for some sports today – I’m going to get [...]
Evo photos online
I took a few photos from my weekend hike at Evo. They can be found in my Flickr account here. Apologies for the bad exposure control – managed to shoot in wrong sensitivity all along, bugger.
Youth Marketing
Tommi Pelkonen of Satama Interactive has written a white paper on youth marketing that I found through their corporate blog; Satama Voice. Looks very interesting, have to dig into it further this weekend. Yet another example how blogs can distribute excellent information and market the company and it’s services at the same time. ps. My [...]