Last week rumors started to surface regarding a new tablet about to be launched by Microsoft. The name was Courier and the rumor was a video containing a demonstration of the user interface. At first I thought it was more of an interface bonanza than an actual usable product.
But today I ran into yet another video, this time putting the Courier more into perspective of how it could be used for real. And let me tell you – I WANT THIS THING NOW!.
Isn’t it amazing. Microsoft has been all about Windows, Office and a whole lot of back end functions. Then suddenly they start putting the dollars behind innovation and new shit that makes you go wow. Slowly they’re turning their brand around. Apple better speed up their development of their rumored tablet or else we’ll turn to Microsoft! The war is on!
One last thing I want you all to note – we’re moving beyond OS and interfaces that are integrated over many platforms to instead having OS and interfaces that are optimized for every gadget. This will be the end of Windows Mobile as we know it.
ATweet from Gary Hayes caught my eye this morning. I followed a link and found this wonderful social media counter. Gary has built and coded this app based on data collected from a range of social media sites.
Sit tight and watch the thing start counting. After a couple of seconds you’ll grasp the power of social media. But also note the stats that tells you how many SMS’s that has been sent globally. People pay for that stuff!!!
Igår kväll intog jag soffan hos Björn Falkevik, Mattias Östmar och Joakim Nyström. Det var dags för andra episoden av Sweet Sunday Web Crunch eller Geek TV som en del kallade konceptet på Twitter. Geek TV var ett rätt beskrivande namn alla fall på gårdagens ‘TV’ program som sändes live på Bambuser.
Björn hade på ett förträffligt sätt riggat 3 stycken webbkameror som han styrde med vänsterhanden samtidigt som han deltog i programmet. Vi körde live-chat och bevakade Twitter (därav min något distraherade uppsyn ibland) allt eftersom programmet löpte på. Björn har skrivit mer om livesändningar över nätet på sin blogg.
Tack en gång till Björn, Mattias och Jonas som bjöd på en härlig söndagskväll!
Långt där borta bakom husen vaknar hon. Hon är vackrast av oss alla. Hennes andedräkt är varm och hon ger liv åt allt liv. Hon väljer att dela med sig istället för att ta. Det hade varit så enkelt för henne att förslava oss eller bara låta oss dö. Men hon låter oss vara fria…om vi vill.
Hon rör sig sakta där borta, naken. Jag vill titta. Men hon strålar så vackert att jag kan inte se på henne utan att bränna mina ögon. Nu stiger hon upp och jag känner henne nära på ett alldeles underbart sätt som får mig att tappa andan och falla – varje morgon, varje dag, varje år. Inga människor kan vakna [click to continue…]
This post is probably most stupid post one can write since CEO’s and board members seems to have decided to stay behind with the dinosaurs while the rest of us look for new ground where we can thrive and prosper. Basically on average they read three local newspapers of their own choice, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine and watch a couple of TV channels. They haven’t got a clue about blogs, feed readers and social networks. But I’ll give it a go anyway.
Dear CEO and board member. In most cases you’re probably +40 years old. You have a wife, two kids and live in a house that cost above average. Two cars in the garage and a [click to continue…]
I love when people have ideas that change something that’s stayed the same for centuries. This is exactly what Luca Bassani Antivari and Gabriele Pezzini, from Hermés, Pierre-Alexis Dumas from the cool yacht company Wally and Naval architect Mauro Sculli has done with the Why 58.
They’ve reshaped my idea what a yacht actually is and better yet – they’ve created something so much smarter than I’ve ever seen before. And by the way, what a partner ’ship’ – Wally and Hermés.
Imagine if a car brand would think out of the box like this. Of course we’ve seen concepts that bend the rules. But production cars – never. Play it safe, play it boring…
Now at last I can finally motivate why I should throw a couple of hundreds of millions on a boat…if I had any. Thanks Fubiz for making me drool.
This weekend I was one of the privileged ones attending the second TEDxStockholm with among others Hans Rosling speaking. TEDxStockholm is a place for people who believe in the power of ideas and inspiring talks to help shape the face of the future.
A great picture by Gitta Wilén from the first TEDxStockholm. Can you spot me?
Together with another 200 people(who like me created their own name tag) I spent the sunny Saturday inside a cellar and I’ll tell you – if I could have turned myself into a Bat I’d still be there hanging up side down, still inspired still amazed. Thank you Teo Härén and Henrik Ahlen for turning my Sunday into a joyride !
My TEDxStockholm name tag
Once home I spent the evening with some friends who had never heard about TED and once again I realized how few people in this country who actually know about the whole TED.com thing.
Nobody, absolutely nobody should spend their life on this wet bowling ball of ours that we call Mother Earth without having spent at least 10 hours of their life on TED.com.
TED is about sharing thoughts on innovation, ideas, research, knowledge and passion. And since I’m personally all about passion I’d like to share one my favorite speeches from TED before you go on and explore on your own. Here is Isabel Allende telling you tales about passion in the most passionate way one can imagine
So, even though this post feels like the most obvious post I’ve ever written I just have to make one thing sure – ALL OF YOU! GO TO TED.COM now if you haven’t been there before. Learn and become inspired.
A great site for finding inspiration is Fubiz. Their tagline ‘Daily Doze of Inspiration’ says it all. This morning when I was preparing for a speech on the ‘DNA of Creativity’ next week at an event arranged by Cap & Design, one of Swedens leading design magazine I stumbled on this wonderful video below from Microsoft.
I think the actual behavior in the video is many years ahead due to the fact that the grown up generation simply won’t learn how to use these interfaces. But it’s a real eye opener what lies ahead and I’m sure my kids won’t have a problem once they’re old enough.
Thomas Traxler has got his shit together. Powered by nothing but sunlight and some threads, Thomas Traxler’s “The idea of a tree project” shows us how objects can grow during the course of a day. His project more or less mimics the way a tree grows and changes shape due to weather conditions. Amazing.
And now to a very sensitive issue – monitoring. As some of you know my profession is leading brands into the future of communication. One of the more important parts of this is teaching them how to keep track of their own brands in the jungle of conversation. What are people saying about my brand, [...]
Jag drivs av att få människor att förstå att vi lever i ett nytt kommunikationslandskap som totalt förändrar företags sätt att göra reklam och kommunikation. Det här är min passion!
Som en del i min masterplan har jag skapat ett event i sammarbete med Wednesday Relations. Det är en heldag med fantastiska talare som alla har [...]
It’s Sunday evening and I’m spending some time browsing my feeds and maybe finding some last minute stuff for this coming week presentations. Pink Tentacle, one of my favorite blogs that always surprise me with something quirky introduce me to Mr Shohei Otomo – a Japanese manga artist. Shohei’s ballpoint drawings rock!
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