Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category

Fabulous list of blogs to read

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Interested in entrepreneurship, startups, social medias, online gaming and stuff like that? Jussi Laakkonen (CEO of Everyplay) has published a great list of blogs he's following. The list is not only long and comprehensive but also well sorted under different categories and almost every blog is briefly described too. Check ...

One did it – and other stuff

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

This is the startup I began managing at the start of this year: One did it. The current version of the One did it service is far from what's to come but you can already calculate the size of your ecological backpack which is kind of the core of the ...

Taneli’s new blog

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Taneli Tikka, Finnish serial entrepreneur whom I've had the privilege to know since 2002, has just started his own blog. I bet it's one of the most interesting new blogs in the Finnish entrepreneur/startup scene in a while. You should definitely check it out at Tane.li!

Guardian acquires paidContent.org

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Interesting news: Guardian Media Group has acquired Rafat Ali's ContentNext, the holding company behind the PaidContent.org. According to Silicon Alley Insider the price is "at north of $30 million".

Sula Pinta podcast

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Juhani Lassila, Communications Director of Sulake, and myself were interviewed today by Sula Pinta, podcast reporting about "new dimensions of media". Sula Pinta is available only in Finnish, but if that's not a problem for you, today's episode is available here. The discussion goes mostly around the virtual merchandise business ...

Blog recommendations

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I was happy to hear that Reinout has started his own blog. Interesting stuff for example about casual gaming. Check it out! Another blog tip: Payment Guy (I know the real name of the person behind this blog, but as it's not available on the blog I think I'll leave it ...

The Facebook effect on other social sites

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Antti has written an excellent summary about an issue we've talked a few times together lately. I definitely agree.

Microblogging on Jaiku reduces my old school blogging

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

In the past weeks I've realised an interesting fact in my blogging mode: I'm nowadays blogging less (especially on my Finnish blog which is the more active blog of mine) because of Jaiku. Jaiku is an excellent place for microblogging. Instead of writing a regular blog entry I nowadays quite ...

Jaiku explosion

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Looks like Jaiku is getting huge attention among bloggers and Twitter users today. If I've understood right the whole avalanche started from this blog entry made by Leo Laporte. Good example of how rapidly blog phenomenons can affect on popularity of web services. Congratulations, Jyri & other Jaiku fellows! I've been using ...

Nice speech

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Oops, I forgot to link to this ealier but let's do it now. Antti has found a cool speech - and says some nice words about Apaja too. :)