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Entries from June 29th, 2009

My summer project – top 100 albums

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Music

It’s summer and very hot in Oslo and therefor (besides moving…) I need to have a summer project. And it will kind of the impossible one, which and who are the best 100 albums in history, with the limit to pop and rock’n roll.
I’ll guess it will change from day to day – but so [...]

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A surprise at U.S. Open

June 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sports

I have commented it other places like Twitter, but it was kind of amazing to see that Lucas Glover played so well in the end, I thought that Ricky Barnes would hold on to it, the the pressure must have been too much, so he kinda’ collapsed at the U.S. Open….
And, I really liked that [...]

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How to make a creative CV

June 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Marketing

This hearse times demands creative and good marketing, isn’t that so? And it might come down to how to market yourself. Here are a list over 30 very creative ideas where humbleness and how-to-read-them isn’t the focus….
I wouldn’t know if this is the best way of presenting yourself searching for a job within the financial [...]

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Is social multitasking the future on the net?

June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing

At a presentation I held today my idea is that social multitasking is the future on the net! Why?
In short: the explosion of applications, widgets and services on the net needs someone to ‘hub’ it! Services like Eventbox, Flock and SecondBrain is aggregation tools, and the need of someone to facilitate it will just increase. [...]

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Viral marketing is growing!

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing

According to Jupiter Research, two thirds of the European advertisers will use viral marketing during 2009.
The low cost of doing this makes in more and more popular, especially amongst smaller advertisers.
You’re opinion?

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A comment on the EU elections

June 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Politics

Not surprisingly, there were little about the EU elections in the Norwegian media. Mostly, the discussion was about two things, right-wing extremists joining the European parliament and the Swedish Piratpartiet taking place.
The most interesting I think is the total collapse for the social democratic side, I was kinda’ expecting the opposite, looking in the capitalistic [...]

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Porn goes into mainstream ads

June 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Marketing

It’s interesting to see that a major company in the US, Anheuser Busch, brand Bud Lite, is using porn as a mean to market it’s products. Is this a trend coming towards us?
If you looks in the newspapers and on TV the answer must be yes.
It seems to mark some kind of cultural tipping point, [...]

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7 reasons why the business world hates social media

June 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Marketing

Sometimes, or I should say, way to often, I don’t have the time to read all newsletters coming in to my mailbox.
Late last night I read a couple of them (still have a couple of hundreds unread…) – and this one is well worth reading – written by Yann Gourvennec.
Here is the start of the [...]

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The use of social media in politics fails – in Sweden

June 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Marketing, Politics

The same discussion as we have in Norway about the use of social media in politics is still under heat, this time in Sweden, for the upcoming EU-election. But, and I don’t know if this the world famous ‘jantelov’ (a Scandinavian expression) – both consultants and researchers agrees what has gone wrong .
The message is [...]

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