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Apple iPad – Introduction video

Oscar — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:15:35 +0000

Thanks to Alex.

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Last minutes with Oden

Oscar — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:23:48 +0000

Beautiful documentary.

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

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Burt’s presentation from DEMO

Oscar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:44:24 +0000

Last week, Burt appeared in front of the crowd at DEMO (“The Launchpad for Emerging Technology”) to pitch/launch their latest invention Rich. Rich is the world’s first campaign analytics tool, built with creative agencies in mind. Rich helps to answer critical questions (or what should be considered critical) such as “was the ad visible?”, “how long was it visible?”, and “did people notice it?”. In other words, Rich goes a few steps beyond CTR (click-through rate) and reach.

About Burt

We make software for the advertising industry. We founded Burt to give people a better understanding how the online media works, and enable more clever, entertaining and persuasive campaigns.

Video from Burt’s blog Be the Meme. Rich logo from Burtcorp.com.

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Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset

Oscar — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:52:07 +0000

You have to love and respect Hans Rosling, he’s enthusiasm and world hope in a Swedish doctor-package. This is his latest talk at the US State Department, making and emphasizing his point with Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.

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Socialnomics

Oscar — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:33:05 +0000

“Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.”

Personal top 10 stats from the video (all statistics and sources found at the official site):

By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers… 96% of them have joined a social network.
Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web.
Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years). Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months… iPhone applications hit 1 billion downloads in 9 months.
If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia.
% of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees… 80%.
The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females.
Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama.
There are over 200,000,000 Blogs. 54% = Number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily.
25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content.
More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook… daily.

Via Beta Alfa and Mashable. Full statistics from the video available over at Socialnomics.net.

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s “HOME” in numbers

Oscar — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:39:19 +0000

I just watched the beautiful “HOME” documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It has +1M views on YouTube after about a month. I’d warmly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. A bit “propagandic” in an Inconvenient Truth way, but hey – it’s only the truth this time around too. Some key takeaways:

20% of the world’s population consumes 80% of its resources
The world spends 12 times more on military expenditures than on aid to developing countries
5,000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water. 1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water
Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry
Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed or biofuels
40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage
Every year, 13 millions hectares of forest disappear
One mammal in 4, one bird in 8, one amphibian in 3 are threatened with extinction. Species are dying at a rhythm 1,000 times faster than the natural rate
Three quarters of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted or in dangerous decline
The average temperature of the last 15 years have been the highest ever recorded
The ice cap is 40% thinner than 40 years ago
There may be at least 200 million climate refugees by 2050

Scary.

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For decisions that matter, Bing & decide

Oscar — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:40:54 +0000

After being up a day or two, Microsoft launched their first Bing ad push a couple of hours ago.

“For decisions that matter, Bing & decide”

This slogan and video is part of the $100M that Microsoft reportedly are willing to spend on the Bing promotion, good or bad? I took this video from the Bing YouTube channel, is it comedy (or clever) that they’re utilizing a Google-property to reach critical mass among users?

I’m still torn about the name (to put it polite), the reasoning behind the name is of course that it’s easy to “verb up“, while evangelizing the phrase “Bing me” or “Bing it” as reported by Wired. Another comment about the name that Steve Ballmer has made is “We [Microsoft] just wanted something that “unambiguously says ’search.’” — yeah, about that Steve – I’m not so sure about that one. It’s going to be really interesting to see how it performs over the next few weeks though.

One thing is certain though, Oscar Karlsten the chess player, who started playing Chess for Boden’s Chess Club in 1928 is way more popular over at Bing than on Google. Dammit!

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Ozzy Osbourne help launch the Samsung Jack

Oscar — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:10:22 +0000

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Vardagsrumsturné med Peter och Frans!

Oscar — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:35:21 +0000

Det här var så coolt att det förtjänar all uppmärksamhet det bara kan få. I lördags var jag på fest hos Joel, han bor mycket märkligt (men fantastiskt) på en husbåt på Skeppsholmen. Det var en skitbra fest och Joel (+ syskon) hade dessutom fixat så att Peter & Frans kom förbi och spelade. De har under våren kört något de kallar för Vardagsrumsturnén. Ju mer jag funderar på det, desto bättre tycker jag att hela konceptet är. Det är så klockrent!

På deras site beskriver de turnén såhär:

Om du vill att vi ska komma och spela hos dig – skickar du ett mail till vardagsrumsturne@gmail.com. Om vi kommer överens om ett datum skickar du ut inbjudningar till dina vänner och bestämmer utöver det hur mycket utomstående publik du vill ta in. [..] Om du vill komma och titta på en konsert – mailar du ditt namn och mobilnummer till vardagsrumsturne@gmail.com och skriver att du vill komma på konserten till exempel “6 februari – Radhus i Vällingby”. Om det då finns platser kvar skickar vi i ett svarsmail: adress, starttid, mobilnummer, ev portkod samt lösenord.

Huruvida mat och dryck serveras är individuellt för varje spelning.
Värden är arrangör och har alltid rätt.

Såhär beskrev de Vardagsrumsturnén innan de började spela i lördags (spelningen på båten var mer som ett “efterfestgig” på Vardagsrumsturnén):

Peter & Frans Vardagsrumsturné – Berättar om turnén from Christian Gardö on Vimeo.

Jag har snott videon från Christian, han filmade även en del låtar i HD som du hittar på hans blogg. Det är inte bara ett bra koncept de kör, de är bra också!

Det finns så mycket med deras idé som är bra, så mycket de gör rätt, och så mycket jag som åskådare tyckte var häftigt. Jag är förvisso ingen ‘roskildehjälte‘, jag kan garanterat räkna antalet konserter, antalet band jag sett live, antalet festivaler jag varit på – på mina tio fingrar. Det här var bara så galet bra ändå. Jag tycker inte bara att det är bra för att det blir så personligt, och inte heller bara för att Peter och Frans är sköna killar. Jag tycker “Om du vill komma och titta på en konsert”-fenomenet är ett så jäkla skönt tillägg också. Ombord på båten hade vi t.ex. besök av två damer (tjejer?) som bodde på Tyresö, de kom helt enkelt för att återuppleva Peter och Frans samt dricka ett glas vin. Det var fantastiskt!

Jag skulle varmt rekommendera Peter och Frans till dig som ska köra en fest i gott sällskap och vill höra lite skön musik!

Var du på Norna i lördags? Gå med i Facebookgruppen! De finns givetvis även på MySpace (Peter och Frans).

Det verkar inte vara så många som upplevt det vi gjorde. Tack JJJ!

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The Hunt for Gollum

Oscar — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:38:41 +0000

This is quite odd and I feel ashamed that I’ve missed it. Apparently, “the Hunt for Gollum”, the ‘inspired by Lord of the Rings’ independent movie by fans has been released. I thought it wasn’t happening until later this year, but this $3,000 budget production is already available over at thehuntforgollum.com.

I have to say that I’m rather impressed, both by the timing of making it free and only available online – but also from the quality, rating it only off the trailer so far. It seems like someone did their PR and viral lesson.

About
The Hunt For Gollum is an unofficial not for profit short film by a group of enthusiast filmmakers. As a Lord of the Rings Fan Film, we are not affiliated with the Tolkien Estate or New Line Cinema and are producing this project as an entirely non commercial film. As with other fan films we are making this purely for the enjoyment of the material and the experience of making a high quality low budget film.

Free Distribution
As a non-profit production, the entire film will be released online for FREE download only on the internet on www.hunt4gollum.com

Kudos!

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Kacie Kinzer’s Tweenbots in New York

Oscar — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:37:22 +0000

I found this through MW on Facebook and it is absolutely adorable. Tisch School of Arts student Kacie Kinzer conducted a ’social (art) experiment’ with “Tweenbots” to see if habitants of New York would pause in their busy lives to help out a robot.

The smiling 10-inch tall Tweenbots were made out of a cardboard body, and equipped only with a flag stating its intended destination. They can only move in one direction (forward), which made them reliable on the kindness of passing strangers to guide them. This means that the passing people would have to stop, read the flag, and then set the robot free to continue its journey in the right direction to reach their goal.

The mission was to get from the Northeast to the Southwest Corner of Washington Square Park. It took the Tweenbot 42 minutes, the number of people who intervened was 29 (!) Hidden cameras were then set out to capture the random acts of kindness.

What happened is actually quite astonishing in today’s fast paced environment, I would love to see this experiment being carried out in multiple big cities to see how people in different cultures react. What would happen if the Tweenbot was set free on Sergel’s Torg in Stockholm? I’m pretty convinced that the risk of this robot not making it is far greater in Stockholm than New York — something that makes me sad.

I’m especially fond of this encounter:

“One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

Facebook reaches 200 Million active users

Oscar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:56:08 +0000

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Kleerup – With Every Heartbeat, Acoustic

Oscar — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:15:37 +0000

Genius. He’s come a long way since hanging outside of “cafét”.

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YouTube for Television

Oscar — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:04:03 +0000

This is pretty cool. YouTube launches YouTube for Television in beta.

Currently in beta, the TV Website offers a dynamic, lean-back, 10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share YouTube videos on any TV screen with just a few quick clicks of your remote control.

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Got to love this guy

Oscar — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:26:45 +0000

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