Björn Jeffery

The Swedish business magazine Affärsvärlden has an interview with the CEOs for Swedens largest tv-channel, TV4, and our public service alternative, SVT. Unfortunately, or surprisingly perhaps, they seem to share the same outlook on the future. I’ve translated the two quotes below: From the interview with Jan Scherman, CEO of TV4: Jan Scherman himself builds traditional channels with traditional TV charts in the newspapers, the opposite of what IT gurus like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs […]

Curleys 7 statements about media Originally uploaded by goodold. Quick note from Citygate forum. The picture shows the seven local media strategies from Rob Curley, a man the occurs time and time again in these surroundings. [see the comments for explanation concerning the following:] Apparently his former employers aren’t as convinced by his brilliance as the rest of the world is. He was always out traveling, and it’s arguable that the only brand he was […]

Twitter is a great service. Simple to set up. Easy to use. It’s based on SMS messaging, which is dead simple. But it’s a printing press for bores who tell you they are eating lunch. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it’s one of the first SMS systems with an API which creative programmers can put to good use. Mike Butcher is on point with his observation above. An SMS API is […]

Back in Malmö after two days at Webbdagarna, with quite a few meetings on the side. Not quite as many as I had hoped as I became ill and had to take it easy. I’ll have to get well at the weekend. Webbdagarna didn’t teach me much as far as knowledge about the internet goes. Fully understandable, as it wasn’t aimed for people like me (and that’s why the Reboot comparison was a bit unfair […]

The difference between Webbdagarna and Reboot:

I just got invited to participate at the Innovation Journalism conference at Stanford University. As part of the Swedish delegation. Yay, thanks Thomas! I’m childishly happy about the whole affair. Reboot last year was one of last years best two days, and I’m hoping this might be equally inspiring. In a more media related way perhaps, which suits me just fine. This week I’ll be in Stockholm Wednesday and Thursday. If you want to meet […]

* Victor has written about his first OSM experiences over in our Good Old Office blog – good stuff! It’s working really well, I’ll add a link as soon as the first part is done. * Likemind tomorrow, both in Malmö, Stockholm and Copenhagen. * My keynote at Webbdagarna got cancelled as new sponsors entered the project. I understand that these conferences are commercial and need to cash in when they can, but it’s a […]

Don’t miss out on the latest issue of David Report that focuses on the future of luxury. I have written a column about my views on the matter, as their “private eye in Malmö”. Very fancy! tags technorati : davidreport luxury tags bloggar.se: david report, lyx

It seems like everyday is workshop day lately, and those that aren´t go towards preparing presentations. Not a lot of blogging either, but last week wasn’t very newsworthy anyway. Plans for this week at Good Old: * Victor, our intern, is helping us make the first OpenStreetMap of Malmö. I’ll keep you posted on the progress there. We’ve got a few cool ideas concerning mapping and our neighbourhood. * Likemind Malmö at Solde Kaffebar this […]

User-generated haven MySpace recently made the bold move to stop Widgets from running on user pages. Users were adding widgets to their gaudy pages to play songs, videos, the weather. A few weeks ago, MySpace decided to block all widgets that weren’t MySpace widgets – maybe as a step towards commercializing the content on the user generated pages. (PSFK) Feeding the MySpace beast obviously doesn’t apply any more. I can understand that MySpace don’t like […]