Björn Jeffery

While we’re on the subject of funny stuff. 1,9 million+ views on YouTube. This guy is a genius.

Translation: Wasp sighted in Boden Kerstin Wiklund at Spanngränd in Boden was visited by a wasp on her terrace Saturday the 13th of April. This might be the funniest piece of news I have ever read. It took them four days to write it too!

Probably the most expected acquisition so far happened today, Allers has bought BlogSoft. No figures announced yet unfortunately. Allers are starting to get an increasing web presence this way, recently buying the portal Spray.se as well. It’s interesting to watch what different strategies the Swedish media groups are applying in order to to catch up with the new internet. Short summary: * Schibsted, with several in-house developed services, is the most successful when it comes […]

Morning presentation at MiM, originally uploaded by goodold. Don’t ask what I’m doing with my leg.

From the latest newspaper community-no-we’re-not-a-community-thing: Du har 20 MB utrymme till dina bilder, vilket motsvarar ungefär 200 bilder eller mer. Behöver du mer plats? Skicka ett betal-SMS (50 kr plus eventuell operatörsavgift) så får du ytterligare 20 MB. If you don’t understand Swedish, it says that you have to pay 50 SEK (?$7,3) to get 20 mb of storage for pictures. 50 SEK for 20 mb? Come on, this is 2007. It’s outrageous. tags technorati […]

I got the opportunity to meet Anssi Vanjoki at Nokia the other day. We discussed the mobile internet development, among other things. Many interesting ideas came up, I hope to be able to get back to that subject. But for now – as it’s Easter and all – I thought I’d leave you with an interesting nugget of information that I hadn’t heard before. Using white in web design may be good for many reasons, […]

The young magazine prodigy Ebba von Sydow is leaving the print magazine to work with their website full time instead. Everyone seems to think that this means she got fired. Clearly print-people are setting the agenda here. It’s great that she’ll be working with the web, as it is a far superior medium for the target group. Getting fired for me, in 2007, would be being sent back to work for a print magazine. tags […]

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 […]