Archive for May, 2006

Notes

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Janne has written a nice article 'Enterprise bloggers categorized'. My blog goes in Category II. This one's fantastic: Bessemer Venture Partners have an anti-portfolio list on their pages. Things are moving great at work. I'm really exited at the moment. More about this later.

Playray Spain

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Hola! Yesterday we opened our Playray service in Spain. It is still on the test phase and the promotion hasn't started yet but there's already some traffic on the site.

Lordi war

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

There's a storm in the Finnish media/web scene today. Finnish magazine '7 Päivää' published a photo of Mr. Lordi without his mask (despite his wishes). Janne and Antti tell you more about the subject.

Hammering in the office

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

There's some hammering & sawing going on in our office space as we're getting a brand new meeting room. You can have a look at all my company related moblog pictures in Flickr with Apaja tag (photo descriptions are only in Finnish, sorry).

Media / web media

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Poynter Online reports some pretty interesting stuff: Norwegian tabloid paper Verdens Gang (VG) is cutting back on the staff - between 70 and 90 people will have to go. This is expected to save $16.5 million USD. Daily circulation is down from 350,000 to 300,000, which is still good in a ...

Classic

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

In one hour: Champions League final at the Stade de France. It is easy to bet there's a great match coming. Actually Barcelona and Arsenal are the teams I nowadays like the most - after my biggest favourite Tottenham. There's also some ice hockey competition going on but I must admit ...

Totally virtual beauty contest

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Playray is running a virtual beauty contest for the avatars that users have been creating with Playray's unique Character Generator. It would be nice to know if this is a first totally virtual beauty contest in the world? I guess there must have been some already, but I just haven't ...

See you at E3

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Next week I'll be in LA at E3. In case you're coming too throw me a mail and let's meet.

Playray international – it’s international

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Our Playray.com site is kind of international one, as it's not aimed to US users only. It is nice to see how widely across the planet the users come from (the picture shows only top-500 user sources). And again: Google Analytics is so great.