My World

Just upgraded to the new version of Wordpress.

That’s why the design is so dodgy, or it’s so normal I guess. But I don’t really know if I want to go back to the old one, was a bit to childish I would say.

It might even be time for me to make my own design? Hmm, will look into that soon. At the moment I’m working hard with starting my own business, and that is taking a lot more time than I thought it would. Been setting up email adresses today, tomorrow I’m heading of for a vaccation, and then it’s time for a website to be added to the emails.

Been reading my feeds today, and I’ve been lazy lately, so today I’m having a lot to go through. I don’t even know if that is a sane thing to say, I could just skip it, but lately I’ve been adding up to a really good set of feeds, with really interesting stuff, so I don’t want to miss anything.

Talked to some guys at jaiku about this, and we figured out what needs to be done to lessen the time spent.

This was what we agreed on to speed up the reading:

1. Read the header, is it something interresting? - If no proceed to next feed, else go to 2

2. Read sub-headers, is it something interresting? - If no proceed to next feed, else go to 3

3. Read the interresting sub-headers

Have been doing this now, and it has done wonders to the time I spend reading my daylis does of info from the blogosphere.

Hope this is to some help for you.

I’ve been really into VC (Venture Capital) of late. Looking into how it works, and how it works in todays web 2.0 era. No matter how much I read there seams to be a lot more to read, and a lot more to understand. For example I’m not that much of a economic person, and that is what’s making my head spin most of the time. Cash Flow, Burn Rate, Stocks, and there are a lot more. Separately they might not be that difficult to understand, but somewhere along these different “words” actually coexists and depends on each other. That is what I’m having a hard time to understand.

A lot of the VC stuff out there is also only looking towards how companies are supposed to make their way, but nothing about the people actually doing the work. So I got hold of this article by Guy Kawasaki, and it’s worth a read. It’s really interesting especially if you are not that much of a economist, like me

Anyway, I’ll update about this soon, and I’ve some exiting stuff to tell you about why I’m researching this right now.

I’ve been sleeping an avrage of 4 hours a night the laste couple of weeks, except for the weekends. It’s starting to take it’s toll on me. Fortuneately I’m going to France to meet up with at couple of friends for the weekend, so I have that to look forward to and obviously some sleep!

Lately I’ve been doing to jobs and trying to read up on the SEO area of the web, SEO is really interesting, and it’s still a quite new area, that is developing really fast. I’ll se what dent I can leave in it.

Anyway, just wanted to say something, now I’m going to finish off some of the stuff that I’ve got left to do for today, and then I’m going to hit the sack big time!

As a part of the work I’ve been doing recently at Twingly, we went to the reboot10 conference in Copenhagen.
This was the 10th consecutive reboot, and they basically focus only on web and philosophies around how to build an even better web. And since we are in the web2.0 era, basically all the talk was about that, and how it’s developing into a huge organism, and that everybody can have their own say.

We have recently had a huge debate in Sweden about a new law that is making it possible for the government to basically search through all our internet activity. As you can guess this should have raised quite a big rawr from the media, but it didn’t instead it was the bloggers that raised their voices. The impact has been imense, today the mailservers at the parliament were down due to being overrun by email oposing the law. Obviously the “big” media has cought up, but it was the blogger community that started it all.

Anyway, reboot. Since this was the first professional conference I’ve ever been too it was a really cool experience on it’s own. All this really well known people within the area that I’m really interested and hoping to be able to work within in the future. All this experience in just one house, I was impressed and there was a lot to learn. Just a small example was how all the people were on their computer all the time, talking and updating the world about what was happening. There was a lot of live bloggers, meaning that they were blogging live as the speaker was talking, others were using Twitter to convey their messages. Mainly it was a huge buzz of information exchange happening all the time

I’ve never seen something like it, and to tell you the truth, I’m totally drawn to it. I met a lot of like minded people, that want to change the world through communication in one way or another, for example this dude, that decided to go around the world for free, or almost anyway, read on on his site.

In general I’m really impressed, and am looking forward to see what this community of very impressive people have to learn me.

So now I’m in Copenhagen with the Twingly Summer of Code gang, we are headed for the Reboot conference tomorrow. At the moment I’m working on a presentation of us, and our experiences working with this project.

Anyway, we just got here at about nine thirty and went straight for the hotel, after about an hour searching we got to know that we needed to be there the latest six p.m. to be able to check in, hence the room was gone and we had nowhere to stay. But the nice receptionist gave a call to another hotel and we got a room, and even cheeper, so that was nice! I love good service!

Tomorrow it’s time for the conference, and it’s going to be my first, which I’m looking a lot forward too.

I’ll write you more tomorrow, now I need to keep working on the presentation.

Hey guys,

We just recieved a link from corren.se, the local news paper showing the article that they have written about us.

They came by yesterday to interview us and we got a whole page in the local pages of the paper, take a look, not that bad!

For you guys that read my blog from the start you know that I went out traveling for about nine month. This was probably the most developing month of my life. But what I have come to realize in the past couple of weeks since I started working at Twingly, is that during the month that I was gone I missed a boom of change on the net. Twitter became a big player, Facebook became huge (though that was hard not to notice since people actually changed facebook instead of email adresses).

I can without feeling that I’m exagerating that the month I was gone a missed a very big change in how people use the internet. I came back from web 1.0 to web 2.0 and all of us know what a difference that is.

However I’m really looking forward to head straight into the battle again and become one of the big players in the market. You’ll see!

Time for bed now, need to get up in three hours.

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Footnote, this blog might change a bit, but it’s going to stay personal, except that the information might be more focused on web related stuff instead of what beer I like, and how the party last weekend was. Or I might just keep telling you about that too.

Over and out

Sorry, but need to test this…

So I’ve been really getting into this web bizz lately, and learned that no respecteable site uses normal rss feeds, but that you need to use feedburner. So now this site should be using it, i’ll see what happens, and hopefully the few followers I’ve got will stay with me