Our world is getting smaller faster than many of us can imagine. Technologies are merging, reshaping, mashing and rehashing on a daily basis. Five years ago, wifi, IP telephony and streaming video were just starting out. Right now? They’ve all come together on your mobile handset.
Trond is a serial entrepreneur who has his roots in investor relations. Now running Super Local Media, Trond has fresh visions on where the mobile internet industry is heading.
Henrik’s entrepreneurial experience spans 25 years and 7 ventures, and aims to radically change the landscape of business telephony by providing a free, global phone system to companies worldwide with Sonetel.
Hubbub 07 will be held on 24 Nov, Saturday, 1300hrs - 1700hrs (Swedish time - 2000hrs - 2400hrs, Singapore time) at KTH’s Nymble on Drottning Kristinas väg 19.
If you can’t be there physically, you can always take part in the backchannels, available both on Jaiku, and Onelinr. And for the Facebook fans, yes, there’s a Facebook event page for Hubbub 07 too.
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Hubbub 07 is brought to you by nuStart, a student entrepreneurship organisation supported by the NUS Overseas College in Stockholm. nuStart also previously organised the Hej! 2007 conference in Stockholm in April this year.
Now this is truly inspiring. What would you say, then, if it was the last chance you had to say it?
I think this Prof tried to convey a lot of life lessons that most of us seem to miss. Especially for parents. If your child wants to draw on the wall, paint his room, let him do it. Geniuses weren’t ever made by burying themselves in books =)
Google has acquired Feedburner apparently, for $100 million.
alarm:clock has an interesting writeup on the deal and why it will benefit both the companies.
According to them, the real benefit of the deal is in Feedburner’s analytics. Furthermore, Feedburner’s links with publishers and podcasters open up RSS and podcasting as two more advertising channels for Google, especially since Feedburners does feeds for sites like IDG and Reuters. (All that, and the observation that the purchase price of $100 million “is a rounding error for Google”)
(Just heading over to FeedBurner to check them out now.. =)
Their FAQ page doesn’t say much about the acquisition.. just the usual about how the terms of the deal are confidential and stuff like that. On whether Feedburner will remain autonomous, the only comment was that the FeedBurner site “will remain operational as we continue to integrate their technologies with Google’s tools”. Now that sounds like it was written from a Google point of view and for a while it looks like the FeedBurner crew have already been assimilated into the Googleplex.
[Update: I notice the "Monetize" tab on the FeedBurner control panel speaks about the FeedBurner Ad Network. Anyone know if that was a standard feature or a product of the acquisition?]
Saw this pretty (pun kinda intended) new tech from Microsoft in my reader this morning called it’s Microsoft Surface
Apparently, the guys at Redmond have developed a multi touch-based coffee table for home computing needs. Check out the demo videos on the Surface website or the one produced by Popular Mechanics.
iPhone on steroids? Fond fantasies of Minority Report anyone? What is pretty cool about the Popular Mechanics video though, is how they demonstrate transferring photos from one wireless device to another simply by placing them on the table. And notice how the recently taken photo is displayed once the guy put the camera on the table? (Note to self: Must not take naughty pics before visiting people with Surface coffee tables)
Judging by the way Microsoft has been pushing out all sorts of new tech lately (Popfly, Silverlight, this new Surface and the not-so-new Xbox) it really does seem like they’re trying to diversify their business into the web and appliance industries. Quite a big change from the OS-land that they’ve been living comfortably in all these years. Guess their deal with Novell didn’t turn out so well.
(Speaking of Silverlight, it’s also interesting to note how the splash screen on the Surface page is done in Shockwave/Flash. Not that we can blame them. Guess you can’t do anything without sufficient marketshare eh?)
Here we go.. in the final hours before Hej! 2007
Looks set to be one heck of an event.. with an excellent speaker list and attendee list that reads almost like the Who’s Who of the Web 2.0 entrepreneur community in Stockholm.
We’ve got the backchannels by Jaiku and Onelinr, set, ready and integrated, standing by to be the playground where views are thrown, caught and overruled during Hej!. We’ve got the funky wicked cool Jaycut who’ll be capturing little clips of the audience and conference in motion. We’ve got the flickr group, pictures at the ready.. and we’ve got front page of Metroteknik.
