Godt skrevet fra Gawker, og isteden for at jeg skriver noe tilsvarende mener jeg dette er viktig å tenke på – derfor klipper jeg bare en del rett ut fra artikkelen:
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In the days after Steve Jobs’ death, friends and colleagues have, in customary fashion, been sharing their fondest memories of the Apple co-founder. He’s been hailed as “a genius” and “the greatest CEO of his generation” by pundits and tech journalists. But a great man’s reputation can withstand a full accounting. And, truth be told, Jobs could be terrible to people, and his impact on the world was not uniformly positive.

The internet allowed people around the world to express themselves more freely and more easily. With the App Store, Apple reversed that progress. The iPhone and iPad constitute the most popular platform for handheld computerizing in America, key venues for media and software. But to put anything on the devices, you need Apple’s permission. And the company wields its power aggressively.

In the name of protecting children from the evils of erotica — “freedom from porn” — and adults from one another, Jobs has banned from being installed on his devices gay art, gay travel guides, political cartoons, sexy pictures, Congressional candidate pamphlets, political caricature, Vogue fashion spreads, systems invented by the opposition, and other things considered morally suspect.

Apple’s devices have connected us to a world of information. But they don’t permit a full expression of ideas. Indeed, the people Apple supposedly serves — “the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers” — have been particularly put out by Jobs’ lockdown. That America’s most admired company has followed such an un-American path, and imposed centralized restrictions typical of the companies it once mocked, is deeply disturbing.

But then Jobs never seemed comfortable with the idea of fully empowered workers or a truly free press. Inside Apple, there is a culture of fear and control around communication; Apple’s “Worldwide Loyalty Team” specializes in hunting down leakers, confiscating mobile phones and searching computers.

Apple applies coercive tactics to the press, as well. Its first response to stories it doesn’t like is typically manipulation and badgering, for example, threatening to withhold access to events and executives. Next, it might leak a contradictory story.

But Apple doesn’t stop there. It has a fearsome legal team that is not above annihilating smaller prey. In 2005, for example, the company sued 19-year-old blogger Nick Ciarelli for correctly reporting, prior to launch, the existence of the Mac Mini. The company did not back down until Ciarelli agreed to close his blog ThinkSecret forever. Last year, after our sister blog Gizmodo ran a video of a prototype iPhone 4, Apple complained to law enforcement, who promptly raided an editor’s home.

And just last month, in the creepiest example of Apple’s fascist tendencies, two of Apple’s private security agents searched the home of a San Francisco man and threatened him and his family with immigration trouble as part of an scramble for a missing iPhone prototype. The man said the security agents were accompanied by plainclothes police and did not identify themselves as private citizens, lending the impression they were law enforcement officers.

Steve Jobs created many beautiful objects. He made digital devices more elegant and easier to use. He made a lot of money for Apple Inc. after people wrote it off for dead. He will undoubtedly serve as a role model for generations of entrepreneurs and business leaders. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on how honestly his life is appraised.

Da er den endelig på plass, min iPhone app. Hvorfor? Jeg tenkte se om dette kan være enda en kommunikasjonskanal for å vise hvilken politikk som jeg og MDG står for og hva jeg tenker jobbe for hvis vi får tilstrekkelig antall stemmer i kommunevalget Bærum og til Akershus fylkesting.

Skal på ingen som helst måte si at den er spesiellt avansert, men en enkel listing på hva jeg skriver, når jeg er ute på stand i en kalender, at du kan kommentere og komme med ideer på hva som er viktig for deg.

Har du noen ideer på hva du ønsker at jeg og MDG skal ta opp, vær så snill og ta kontakt meg – det er dine tanker som jeg vil ha med, hvis jeg og MDG får muligheten til å representere deg!

Areca AS har gjennomført undersøkelsen Kommunale Kanaler 2010, om norske kommuners bruk av sosiale medier og andre digitale kanaler.
Rapporten gir en grundig beskrivelse av hva kommunene gjør i digitale kanaler, hvorfor de gjør det og hvilken nytte de har av det.

Pressemeldingen fra Areca ser slik ut:
Areca AS har laget rapporten Kommunale Kanaler, om norske kommuners bruk av sosiale medier og andre digitale kanaler. Rapporten bygger på en spørreundersøkelse og kartlegging av 389 av landets 430 kommuner.

Rapporten viser blant annet at:
55% av landets kommuner bruker digitale kanaler. Den mest brukte kanalen er Facebook (32%), fulgt av Twitter (18%), video (17%), chat (12%) og blogg (11%).

Av kommunene som bruker Facebook er det 54% som bare sender ut informasjon, mens 41% har en dialog og svarer på henvendelser fra innbyggerne. 5% av kommunene har liten eller ingen aktivitet på sin Facbookside.
Tilsvarende tall for Twitter er 58% (enveis), 26% (toveis) og 16% (ingen aktivitet)

Hver annen kommunene sier at deres mål med sosiale medier er å få en bedre dialog med innbyggerne. Halvparten av disse har aldri besvart en eneste henvendelse på Facebook eller Twitter.

I 75% av kommunene er det uenighet/usikkerhet om hvem som har det overordnede ansvaret for digitale kanaler. Et eksempel på dette er en kommune hvor ordføreren mener at informasjonssjefen har ansvaret, IKT-sjefen mener at rådmannen har ansvaret og informasjonssjefen mener at IKT-sjefen har ansvaret.

Det er tre grunner som går igjen blant de kommunene som er negative eller usikre på å ta i bruk digitale kanaler:
• Usikkerhet rundt ressursbruk
• Usikkerhet rundt lovmessige krav til saksbehandling
• Usikkerhet rundt håndtering av personangrep, sjikane og andre useriøse henvendelser

Rapporten kan du laste ned her:

Så enkelt er det faktisk! I gårsdagens Kommunikatøren, som kom som bilag i Finansavisen, sa jeg noen ord om dette. Hva mener du? Er jeg på villspor, eller har det noe for seg?
Du kan jo også se hva jeg har sagt om samme tema på Bedrift 2.0 serien, første episode omhandler jo akkurat det, innhold.

Times fly – just a couple of tweets the last couple of days which might be of interest.

Magi, ikke sant? Adobe har nylig lansert sin nye Creative Suite 5, og en av de funksjonene som det har vært diskusjon & hype om, det er Content Aware Fill – hvordan med to tastetrykk fjerner det som du ikke vil skal være med.
Her er en god introduksjon fra de fantastiske gutta i svenske Morderskeppet som viser hvordan det fungerer.

Etter mye tvil har jeg også har konvertert til iPhone tenkte jeg gjøre en meget uformell spørreundersøkelse, hvilke apps er det folk faktisk bruker. Jeg har pr idag fire sider som jeg bruker, laster opp apps og fjerner, men de to første sidene blir de som jeg bruker særdeles mest.

Her er mine to første sider med litt kommentarer:

Første siden er vel ganske så selvfølgelig synes jeg, alt i god sosial medieånd, at Shazam ligger der skyldes datteren som hører veldig mye musikk på radion og hun vil jo vite hva det er. Tweetie 2 er den beste Twitter-klienten mener jeg

På side 2 har vi noen litt mer spesielle ting: MLB at Bat er en helt fantastisk app hvis man er interessert i baseball og her mener jeg at både NRK og TV2 kan hente litt ideer hvordan man syr dette sammen. SnapDat funker helt strålende for utveksling av informasjon som visittkort osv. PS Mobile er Photoshop Light, ordner bildene du tar på 1-2-3. PGA Golf er til for de som liker å følge med på hva som skjer på golffronten, finnes f.ø en flott app for helgens Masters i Augusta. Matprat og Matglede er to norske gode apps for oppskrifter. SVTPlay er svensk television som har gjort en super app, her finnes det fantastisk mye morsomt å se på! Og til sist, MLB WS 2009 mener jeg er den beste sportspillet, baseball. Men skal vel innrømme at RockBand kommer faretruende sterkt,,,,

Så, spørmålet gjenstår, hva bruker du??

This is a brilliant post from Salon, and Andrew Leonard! I’m posting it – read it, it gives some good ideas and do read the comments – there are some very intriguing words been said.

It’s fun to trash the search-monster’s Buzz, but there’s a method to its social networking smart-phone madness

Is this what world domination looks like? On Wednesday, Google announced it was building an ultrafast, one-gigabit-per-second broadband network designed to showcase “innovative” Internet applications. On Tuesday, Google launched Google Buzz, integrating social networking functions into Gmail. Last month, Google debuted its Nexus One smart phone.
So in little more than a month, Google has invaded the turf of the biggest telecommunication companies (Verizon, AT&T, etc.), directly challenged the reigning social networking giant (Facebook), and taken aim at the most fetishized gadget of the 21st century — the iPhone (Apple).

Even Microsoft, in its heyday, was never quite that ambitious. The multiple fronts on which Google is battling — and the huge prizes at stake — make the old Microsoft-Netscape browser wars look like a water fight waged with busted pistols. The scale at which Google hubris is operating is absurd: We will index all the world’s information, upload all the books, deploy the fastest network and design the coolest phone, while simultaneously managing your e-mail, pictures, blogs and anything else you’d care to upload to our online repositories.

There’s a natural urge to react negatively to so much expansionism, and it’s painfully visible if you dip into the Twitter-storm currently boiling over on the topic of “Google Buzz.” People who seem to have spent no more than 10 minutes exploring the service are wondering what’s the point, labeling it an “epic fail,” and, most popular, questioning why the world needs yet another social networking service.

It’s a valid point — especially since Google’s already toyed with at least two previous such networks (Orkut and Jaiku) . How many microblogging, status-update delivering, picture-and-video linking vehicles does one person need? With Facebook, a critical mass of my friends and family are already connected and happily sharing pictures and links and news — why would I want to try to rebuild that functionality elsewhere? What is so compelling about, as Greg Merritt, a guy whom I am suddenly getting Google Buzz updates from simply because we exchanged some bicycle related e-mails, observed, “a long-winded Twitter with awkward privacy management and tie-ins to everything that matters except for the 800-pound gorilla of Facebook.”

But there’s a pretty obvious answer to that, at least for people who already use Gmail. Adding functionality to a core platform in your life is much more attractive than setting up yet another entirely new service. Integration that works can be seductive — and Google is very, very good at making things work. I’ve been playing around with Google Buzz for half a day, and it is the easiest thing in the world to keep tabs on while checking my e-mail. Suddenly I find myself strongly considering making more use of Google Reader and Google’s Picasa photo app just because of how simple the integration is.

Gmail, Google Maps and, of course, the Google search engine are already second nature to millions of people. We should be paying less attention to how Buzz matches up to Facebook and Twitter in isolation, and much more to how Buzz might leverage all the other pieces of Google that we already use.

At The Big Money, Chris Thompson has a very smart piece arguing that Google’s real play here is for the mobile device world. Once you combine your social network with Google Maps and the GPS locator in your smart phone you open a whole new world of irresistible connectivity. A friend of mine recently demonstrated the app FourSquare on his iPhone while shopping at the local grocery store. I was mildly interested to see that there were three other FourSquare users in the Berkeley Bowl at the same time as us. I would have been considerably more interested to learn if friends or acquaintances of mine were nearby, or around the corner — something that would be extremely easy if my Facebook network or Gmail contacts were mapped to my mobile whereabouts.

More important, Google is hoping that its ability to figure out what is “relevant” will translate into something more than just a few useful search results.

Chris Thompson:
If you’re looking for a good nearby restaurant, Google Buzz will let you scan all the public posts about establishments in your area. You can even navigate this visually, placing yourself on Google Maps and scanning a universe of public comments about anything posted in your immediate vicinity.

This is not only useful; it’s a stab at changing the paradigm of social media. With Google Buzz for Mobile, Google is attempting to make where you are and where you’re going the most important criteria for ranking status updates and posts.

In other words, Google Buzz will try to show you what’s most useful to you, using your network, depending on where you are and what you are doing.

At PoynterOnline Will Sullivan points to the obvious corollary: The potential for targeted advertising is immense. The more Google knows about what you like and where you are the easier it will be for ads to pop up on your phone that are genuinely useful. (Or genuinely annoying.)

Google’s rivals are desperately pooh-poohing Google Buzz as nothing new. But they’re just putting on a brave face. In the future, we’re all going to be using smart phones as our primary interface to the networked world. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google — everyone knows that. Whoever makes that phone most useful to us as we negotiate our way through our lives will be well on its way to becoming the most powerful corporation on the planet. World domination, indeed.

During Sofaprat at Emil & Samuel december 17th, NRKBeta was a runaway winner!
This competition, held by Sermo Consulting,created some discussions within the Norwegian hard-core social media sphere.
From left to right are Thomas Tangen, Sermo, Thomas Moen ColtPR, Eirik Solheim NRKBeta, (hidden Arnt Eriksen Sermo) and Øyvind Solstad from NRKBeta.

From Viral Blog:
Facebook has been a revelation this year and will achieve much more the next coming year(s). Many people created their own profile but so have brands.

The Big Money helped out in creating ranking of the brands that are currently making the best use of Facebook. Various metrics—including fan numbers, page growth, frequency of updates, creativity as determined by a panel of judges, and fan engagement—were factored into each page’s score and ultimate rank on the list.