Andrew Dubber has an excellent blog post on the state of EMI, the record label, and on the departure of their latest top executive Douglas Merrill. Douglas Merrill used to be the CIO of Google, then the Head of Digital for EMI. Andrew has gotten his hands on the internal letter of EMI through the [...]
I stayed up late planning my European motorcycle trip last night. I found some amazing curvy roads in the Alps, Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland to be specific. However, this brought up a question in my mind – something that the current GPSs can’t yet do – how do you find inexpensive accommodation in areas [...]
I finished a day’s work outside with a 5km skiing trip with my sister and mother. A calm 45 minute trip around Pöllänsaari, where our summer cottage is located. Being the geek that I am – I used Nokia Sports Tracker to track the route and later uploaded it to Google Maps with a photo [...]
We’ve organised ArcticEvenings, small relatively big gatherings of entrepreneurs and the scene alike, with the ArcticStartup posse. We organised our fifth event on Tuesday and they’ve become very successful here in Finland. We’ve also organised one in Tallinn that drew about 150 people to listen to the presentations. Next we’re organising one in Stockholm. Things [...]
Excellent episode with the president of the Stanford University, John Hennessy and the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams. Lots of discussion on innovation and technology. Strongly recommended, even though it is rather long (56 minutes).