Great conference so far

It's been a long and fun day at the Web 2.0 summit, but it is by no means over yet. The session and interview with Mark Zuckerberg was (not surprisingly) the most interesting yet.

During lunch I also had time to pick up an iPhone for my friend Johan. As with all Apple products, we are taking well care of it ;)

Off to the Web 2.0 Summit

I am off to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, filled with excitement about the coming few days. I and my colleague Yavor will meet some old friends, find some new, see a lot of new faces, and also quite a few well-known ones. It is always a blast coming to a place where such a great bunch of talent are crammed together for a few days, creating and discussing ideas and business.

I've also been really lousy at writing anything here for a long time. Last week I went to India (Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore) with my wife Maja and helped her out a bit in her work towards the BoP market. It has been a long time since I learnt so much in such a short period of time. Even though I cannot make comments right now about any of the fantastic and remarkable start-ups we met (which I hope to be able to do soon), I'll stay at saying that Hand in Hand is doing a really wonderful and important job. We had the opportunity to visit both their Chennai headquarters as well as a solid waste management mini-plant in the rural areas around Kancheepuram and one out of soon-to-be 1000(!) citizen centers in Tamil Nadu.

Pixbox in Swedish media

Ekonominyheterna [Swedish] has written about Pixbox and our new investors.

This is from one out of a thousand reviews praising the iPhone, in Time Magazine:

The user interface is crammed with smart little touches — every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and orchestrated, with such overwhelming attention to detail that when the history of digital interface design is written, whoever managed this project at Apple will be hailed as a Michelangelo, and the iPhone his or her Sistine Chapel (Steve Jobs can be Pope in this scenario)

I sincerely don't know what to do. I'm going to San Francisco on Monday. I don't know how I'm possibly going to keep myself from NOT buying the iPhone, even though I won't be able to use it as "my Phone", and then only paying ridiculously expensive roaming charges if I'm taking incoming calls since I'm in Europe 90% of the time.

But: love is blind ;)

Racing in Beford

Yesterday I might very well have been to the most fun "corporate event" ever - a racing day in Bedford at the PalmerSport track. The day was a team event to celebrate a project I helped OC&C with last year. Many thanks to David and all his colleagues for making this day possible!

PS. It actually IS me on the picture. Pretty nice, huh :) A boy's dream coming true...

Mobile album on Pixbox

My mobile image album on Pixbox:

Mobilalbum

Second life tombstone

I pass the tombstone of Second Life-character Landard Swot (Swedish) every morning on my way to work. Kind of cool :)