Posts tagged as "technology"

Posted by Markus on 16th December 2009

Balancion: After a month

Balancion is a Finnish start-up that has been hyped quite a bit, and true, they come with good pedigree. I got invited to the service a while back and now have had time to use it for a month or so. The premise is simple, they will provide users a service that will kick Mint.com [...]

Posted by Markus on 2nd May 2009

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eBooking it up

Nearly a month ago I wrote a post titled eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone about turning my last fortress of old technology books into the electronic. I did have to finish a thousand page book first, taking quite a while since I pretty much only have time to read on my twenty minute commute. After [...]

Posted by Markus on 24th April 2009

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How to make your video viral!

How to turn lead into gold! Here’s how Advertising Age starts their article: How to Make Your Online Video Go Viral Here’s the Magic Formula to Get Your Push Embraced, and Avoid Being Stalled at the Gate The emphasis on the topic is mine, but it tells an amazing story. Does one of the leading [...]

Posted by Markus on 15th April 2009

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The most important question?

Although Lag Wagon sings that the kids are all wrong, they do sometimes have something brilliant in their simplicity. With kids, I naturally mean very young ones, nearly babies. They have an endless curiosity and usually will continue their question barrage of whys after you’ve just finished answering the initial question. Of course, after a [...]

Posted by Markus on 15th April 2009

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The Death Wheeze of Newspapers

Staying on the topic of printed media, TechCrunch posted an article titled That Whining Sound You Hear Is The Death Wheeze Of Newspapers. It is a very interesting look on the current clashing of the offline and the online. It talks on the items on how the web is “stealing” content from the newspapers and [...]

Posted by Markus on 10th April 2009

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5th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the fifth and last part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting on Monday, and ending today, on Friday. If you missed the first part “Time [...]

Posted by Markus on 8th April 2009

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What happens to old gadgets?

I’m currently writing this post sitting on a big sofa, writing this on my Mac, which I think is my 8th Mac laptop in a row. My wife is sitting next to me, typing something on her Mac and in front of me is my trusty HTPC Mac Mini (with Boxee) and so many other [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009

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1st of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the first part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. As I mentioned in my [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009

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eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone

Today I made a leap towards a future I’ve been supporting for a long time, but something I have been reluctant to start enjoying – electronic books. For a long time, I’ve been on a personal mission to reduce my use of paper by embracing everything digital – be it all my writing, mind mapping, [...]

Posted by Markus on 2nd April 2009

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Infographics as art

As computers and technologies have become more available, info-graphics went from being subway maps, charts and other two-dimensional objects more towards art. We now have cheaper and more powerful computers and open sourced, free software that removes the limits of technology to a level. As was seen earlier in my post titled “The Crisis of [...]