Creative, impressive and a bit geeky.
You can make music from almost everything. This guy made this song ONLY by using the Windows XP & 98 sounds. Don’t forget, everything is possible – the one thing you have to do is to think creative!
You can make music from almost everything. This guy made this song ONLY by using the Windows XP & 98 sounds. Don’t forget, everything is possible – the one thing you have to do is to think creative!
I’ve just read an really interesting article and will make an summary for you:
Originally Google had considered acquiring Facebook—a prospect that held no interest for Facebook’s executives—but an investment was another enticing option, aligning the Internet’s two most important companies. Facebook was more than a fast-growing social network. It was, potentially, an enormous source of personal data. Internet users behaved differently on Facebook than anywhere else online: They used their real names, connected with their real friends, linked to their real email addresses, and shared their real thoughts, tastes, and news. Google, on the other hand, knew relatively little about most of its users other than their search histories and some browsing activity.
Microsoft, Google’s sworn enemy, made an investment instead—$240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in the company, meaning that Redmond valued Facebook at an astonishing $15 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg has never thought of his company as a mere social network. He and his team are in the middle of a multiyear campaign to change how the Web is organized—with Facebook at the center. Here’s how they hope to pull it off.
1. Build critical mass.
In the eight months ending in April, Facebook has doubled in size to 200 million members, who contribute 4 billion pieces of info, 850 million photos, and 8 million videos every month. The result: a second Internet, one that includes users’ most personal data and resides entirely on Facebook’s servers.
2. Redefine search.
Facebook thinks its members will turn to their friends—rather than Google’s algorithms—to navigate the Web. It already drives an eyebrow-raising amount of traffic to outside sites, and that will only increase once Facebook Search allows users to easily explore one another’s feeds.
3. Colonize the Web.
Thanks to a pair of new initiatives—dubbed Facebook Connect and Open Stream—users don’t have to log in to Facebook to communicate with their friends. Now they can access their network from any of 10,000 partner sites or apps, contributing even more valuable data to Facebook’s servers every time they do it.
4. Sell targeted ads, everywhere.
Facebook hopes to one day sell advertising across all of its partner sites and apps, not just on its own site. The company will be able to draw on the immense volume of personal data it owns to create extremely targeted messages. The challenge: not freaking out its users in the process.
Today, global online brand advertising accounts for just $50 billion a year. Offline brand advertising, meanwhile, accounts for an estimated $500 billion…
I strongly recommend that you read the whole article if you find this summary interesting. Take care! (You find the whole article here)
We launched our new system and user interface 17 may 2008 (Norways national day). After exactly one year we drew a line and made some statistics. Some really interesting things came up. Over 15.000 CV’s were registered which not may sound so much compared with 2 million Facebook users. But if you put 15.000 CV’s compared with Swedens biggest CV-database (AMS – arbetsförmedlingen) who only has around 5000 CV’s you get the picture. In one year we’ve got more than three times the size of theirs database. That’s quite good isn’t it?
According to our statistics over 1500 people got a job in Norway thanks to our site during year 2008. The comparison was made between Swedish people who wants to work in Norway, not the total amount of CV’s in the database.
You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.” Hans is one of the best presenters in the world according to me and I will promise you that this presentation is worth watching.
The Swedish TV-channel SVT made a really good documentary film about how it change his life:
After Hans Rosling made this presentation he had to put away his academic career – now everyone wants to listen to what he has to say about internationl health. This was made possible threw the amazing site TED and YouTube.
My grandfather, Harry Nord, and my father Yngve Nord both met Hans while working in Mozambique in 1982-83 with charity. Both of them told me he was a special and very inspiring man.
This post is about procrastination. Unfortunately this post was published in a Swedish magazine. For you English readers I embedded a very good video that will give you a hintch what this post is about. See down below for the video.
(Published in the Swedish magazine Entreprenör, nr8)KLOCKAN ÄR 28 MINUTER över två denna lördagsmorgon. Det hör till ovanligheten att jag sitter själv och läser tidningar på lördagsmorgonen men denna morgon är annorlunda. Tidningen Entreprenör fick jag för flera dagar sedan men eftersom mitt företag har slukat tid fick tidningen tillsammans med Di weekend göra mig sällskap just denna kväll. Min förhoppning var att kunna läsa åtminstone en artikelom någon ung entreprenör somskulle ge mig lite inspiration. Det hittade jag inte, men det fanns mycket annat intressant att läsa om. Kombinationen av att jag inte hittade artikeln om den unga entreprenören, en mycket intressant artikel i Entreprenör och en krönika i DI weekend fick mig att starta min bärbara dator och börja skriva. Krönikan handlade om ordet prokrastinering, som jag numera har lagt till i min ordlista. Ett ord som ännu inte finns i Svenska Akademins ordlista men som finns på Wikipedia. Kort och gottinnebär det ett uppskjutande eller undvikande av en handling eller uppgift som kräver ett avslut, genom att man fokuserar på en annan handling eller uppgift .
ARTIKELN SOM JAG FASTNADE för i Entreprenör var på sida 64-65och handlade om relationer till pressen. Under tiden jag läste artikeln bestämde jag mig för att praktisera det som skrevs i den kommande veckan. I slutet på artikeln stod det ”Det är lättare än du tror”. Detta gav mig inspiration. För att nu summera varför denna insändare kom till var det alltså bristen på unga entreprenörer,det nya ordet prokrastinering, den inspirerande artikeln om pressrelationer och sist men inte minst mitt aktuella budskap till finanskrisen.
Här har ni något att skriva om:
Finanskrisen växer för varjedag och rekord många varslas. Räddningen finns i Norge. Där finns över 60 000 norska jobbannonser på Internet vilket generar chockerande mycket jobb. Lösningen för fackförbunden, arbetsförmedlingen,personalchefernaoch politikerna vore kanske att låna ut vår arbetskraft till Norge några år? Hur skulle detta rentpraktiskt gå till? Min idé är följande: Skapa en webbaserad tjänst där norska arbetsgivare kan hitta svensk personal. Låt den svenska personalen kostnadsfritt söka dessa 60 000 lediga jobb och kallasidan www.sverige-norge.se.Vad har jag nu åstadkommit meddenna insändare?
1. En del av lösningen på finanskrisen i Sverige.
2. Tagit kontakt med medierna eftersom det är lättare än man kan tro.
3. Inte bara klagat på att det inte finns några artiklar om unga entreprenörer utan även gett medierna en konkret lösning på problemet.
4. Spridit ordet prokrastinering, även om jag i detta fall inte tillämpat ordet.
5. Skrivit en glad och positiv insändare vilket kan behövas i dagsläget.
Håll hoppet uppe och sov gott! VIKTOR NORD, entreprenör och Vd för Sverige-Norge.se
Viktor, redaktionen har fått upp ögonen för dig! Vi börjar med att skicka Entreprenörs lyxigapenna som tack för en spännande insändare och lovar att ta upp dig och dina idéer på nästa redaktionsmöte. NICKLAS MATTSSON