Björn Jeffery

I’m at SIME08 and will be blogging now and then. No attempts to live blog, but we’ll see how it goes during the day. Check out the backchannel here.

Just in case you forgot (we are going back to 2006, after all). Henrik wrote about it a year earlier than me even. John Koten, Mansueto ventures: “Social publishing,” or aggregation, is what pays, Koten says. And in recessionary times, that’s obviously more crucial. Koten: “Having regularly updated, fresh content is different than having people who are trying to break stories five or six times a day. And it’s still true.

I often wonder why so many traditional media companies have missed The Technical Divide, and why the internet changes everything. It’s a million dollar (in lost advertising revenue 😉 question. I think a part of the problem is not understanding the separation of content and distribution. They used to be tightly interlinked – news (content) through newspapers (distribution), tv-shows (content) and channels (distribution). From that perspective it would make sense to apply the same logic […]

This is not a political blog, but the video clip below is not politics either. It is a profound, and what appears to be sincere, tale of worry about the next few years in America if this coming election doesn’t go the way that it should. It touched me it the same way that this did. These are rough times. I visited ETRE08 and everyone there was noticeably moved about the current state of affairs […]

If you weren’t at Reboot this year, or even if you were – don’t miss this. I had the privilege of meeting JP in London a while back and I think his view on internet life is amazingly interesting and inspiring.

Will it work? I don’t know. But it’s definitely an interesting concept if nothing else. Tonchidot via Weconverse.

Without going into lengthy detail about it, there has been a lot of rumblings about laws and restrictions in Sweden lately. I can only add my thoughts on why issues of this kind are turning up more and more often. I think it’s simply a fact of people not understanding the internet. The internet has been an intricate part of many peoples lives for a long time. Now, we seem to have reached some sort […]

Competence: the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually Talent: a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity Most companies look for a competent work force. Thus, most companies don’t possess unusual abilities.

Okay, so we changed our minds. We’re not selling Good Old. I think it was a good exercise to think about it though, as it forced us to look at our company differently. I saw a company culture forming that I didn’t want to interrupt. Sales figures that were going better than ever. Interesting people wanting to work with us. All in all it felt as if we should continue riding this train as far […]

If you’re Swedish you might have read the news about Good Old merging with The Fan Club. This means I won’t be CEO any more and can fully focus on internet strategy and advisory work. Yay! And maybe more blogging too. I haven´t quite decided how, where or about what I’ll be blogging though. I’ll get back to you on that. – UPDATE HERE 🙂 Until then, I thought you might to see the presentation […]