iPad and connecting to "The One"

A lot of discussion about the iPad going on since the launch the 27th. Some are positive. Many are sceptical. Personally I think some of the thoughts Ive been harnessing for a few years apply perfectly to the iPad. Therefor I consider myself in the cautiosly positive category.

After all. The future in multimedia management isnt about storagedevices for the consumer as it has been in the past few decades. The future lies in devices that provide an efficient window to "The Big One", "the Device of Devices", "The Brain of Brains" aka Internet. Im convinced that the old fashion hard drive technology is at the brink of becoming obsolete. Hard drive space and hard drive processing soon wont account for anything. It will all be about the surfing experience, the experience of connecting to the global neural information network. Which device will provide the slimmest, fastest, most intuitive access? That is the question. And that is what iPad cautiosly tries to answer.

Is the iPad impressive? Not really. Is it an clumsy iPhone without calling capabilities? Yes. But I believe many underestimate the revolution that is to come. The touch technology so far experienced in the iPhone no doubt enhances the surf experience very much. And its only a first small baby step. The idea of the computer will soon become as old as the hard drive memory that created their greatness in the first place and Apple understand that.

But please mr Apple...

Buy Irex or some other Tablet Book tech firm and make the iPad into a double screen device. On the backside, put the Tablet reading screen for enhancment of the book and newspaper reading experience and in front put the ordinary LCD for otimal multimedia fun. Then im all good.

Steve Jobs on Keynote 27 jan 2010

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Green Entrepreneurship - The New Black

Im starting to think about if it wouldnt be smart to specialize on sustainable economy and green entrepreneurship. As the environmental problems pile up and the global awareness is booming this really will be a exponential growth business soon and I think we are just in the beginning of the exponential curve.

Double Pressure on Oil Price
Probably the main driving force in the few years to come will be the extreme oilprice. Probably caused by a double pressure of demand and supply. On the demand side the thirst for oil due to booming third world economies, mainly China and India with soon to be 3 billion people. And on the supplyside the problem of having reached peak oil. The concept means that after having reached peak oil every liter consumed gets more expensive as the resource becomes more scarce and more expensive to extract. Apparently about 50% of the leading proffesionals within the industry while asked informally at a conference recently believed peak oil has been reached.

Green Capital
Anyway, with this double pressure on demand and supply driving and keeping the oilprice at high levels will make new energysaving and producing technologies more profitable by increasing the profitmargins possible. And where there is profitable business there will be capital. Hence the specialization in green entrepreneurship might be extra interesting.

GE Goes Green
A friend of mine, Stefan Ogeus, working at GE Healtcare, told me an interesting story on the subject some year ago. The CEO of GE, the worlds largest corporation, two times the size of the nearest competitor, spoke to the Swedish employees at a conference on the subject of green. He said that at first he thought the concept of global warming was only an american democratic left wing propaganda scam. So, he sent some of his scientists off to make some independent research on the subject. And when they came back, they stated with conviction that, "global warming is not a theory, its a fact!". Being a businessman of big business the CEO immediately recognized the future value of this underexploited business. Read more in this Forbes article.

Shortly on the subject of peak oil and growing demand



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The Story of Stuff
Nicely drawn little story about the linear consumtion process, happieness and externalized cost (garbage). Seems like there is a lot to be done = lots of green money to make.

IHIP and the 7P - an old services marketing paradigm

Having forgotten and scanning the web for the meaning of the second I in the IHIP concept, i stumbled upon a PowerPoint by the Stockholm University professor Evert Gummeson. Basically explaining why the IHIP and 7P concepts, while seemingly right in some aspects, feel more constructed than real. Instead he introduces an transfer of ownership or rental perspective which is much more clarifying.

I think its the same professor that, before I gave up Stockholm Uni and started SSE, introduced me in my favorite model of value, his model. And as he expressed it in the lecture "a qualitative model that could be applied to basically anything, say your relationship for example". Try it...

Value = (Percieved Benefit (Emotional + Physical))/(Percieved Cost (Energy, Time, Psychic effort, Money, Alternative Benefit))

Short reflection over Chavez socialist propaganda at the climate meeting in Copenhagen

I think the whole discussion on socialism vs capitalism is archaic. Its a fictionary propaganda product of past centuries. The mental clinging to the old ideologies also communicate something about the mental inability to grasp the new concepts and new problems of a new world. Its not constructive nor interesting, its dinasours driving their children into extinction.

You find the speech here: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=12781&post=80458&uid=212448202491

Citybanan busringer kl 14.19

"Hej, det här är citybanan och det här är ett förinspelat meddelande. Vi ringer dig för att ge dig möjlighet att få en förvarning före varje sprängning. Vill du veta mer tryck 1#"

Ruby for dummies

Äntligen har jag kommit igång med att lära mig programmera för internet. Det var på tiden!

Jag har fått lyxen att få en privat lärare, ingen mindre än min gode vän Martin Eriksson som har fetkoll på bland annat internet och programmering. Hans idé är att skippa de onödigt basala och omständliga programmeringsspråken som html och istället gå rakt på de riktigt effektiva grejerna, så vi kör Ruby. I Ruby kan man tydligen på några få ord göra något som kunde ta typ 20 rader i Html. Igår körde vi en kickoff session á 5h med basics som språkets uppbyggnad, databashantering mm.

Sjukt kul! Och fascinerande att något som ser så tråkigt ut kan vara så spännande. Ser fram mot nästa lektion på lördag.

DJ Mehdi - Signatune (Spiller Remix)

Grym remix som jag hittade på Hypemachine. Kan inte lägga upp mp3:or tydligen så lyssna på ilictronix blog. Eller ladda ned:
http://ilictronix.com/staff/niteshade/tracks/DJMehdi-Signatune%28SpillerRemix%29.mp3