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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Magnifier has been launched this week. I'm happy & proud to be one of the founders of this Helsinki based startup accelator and seed fund. Our aim is to fill the gap in the local market for high potential ventures that are at too early stage for other investors or ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Besides starting as a CEO in a new company in January, I've also joined / going to join some other companies as an advisor or a board member. The first two of these companies are Kokumi Oy, company behind Eat.fi, the #1 restaurant review service in Finland, and Oy Grey ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
I already wrote about this in Jaiku and in my Finnish blog but here goes a quick summary over here as well.
My plans for the future are now clear as I signed some papers today. The decision wasn't too easy since there were many very interesting alternatives. I'm going to ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
After seven years in Apaja - the company I co-founded in 2001 - I've now decided to move forward, though I'll naturally still be involved in the company on the background and as a co-owner.
The decision to take this step has been maturing for a long time already. The past ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Our gaming community's Avatar Generator has been growing a lot since its early days. One can get pretty well detailed & personalized gaming avatar in our service nowadays. Here's my current Playray dude from the Finnish Playray service (Aapeli). Zoom in for details.
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On our sites the default view on avatar ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
We have just started an interesting co-operation together with Sulake and its social networking service IRC-Galleria. Part of Aapeli's online gaming catalogue is now accessible straight from IRC-Galleria as well. The players from IRC-Galleria and from Aapeli end up in the same gaming space, with IRC-Galleria based users marked with ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
We are opening our Playray service next in Turkey. More detailed info about that (and also about our recent management changes) is available over here.
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
This is pretty cool. Two gurus at our office (Pasi Laaksonen and Janne Puonti) created a mosaic picture out of thousands of Playray avatar portraits. Check out the full version here (2520 x 4020).
The picture includes only face portraits of the avatars - the full-scale Playray avatars are Flash based, ...
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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 ...
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