My Last.fm event + flickr mashup bargain and revolutionizing your Internet citizenship

When I was in Gothenburg I attended a concert with my friend Jolta's band Tongångarne and made a sweet bargain out of it. Since I was anyway lugging my camera around I elected myself the event photographer and sold the pictures for a signed copy of the album being released (and a good release party it was, for a charming album!). This is all nice and good, but I also put the nicest of the pictures (which are pretty red-tinted, I know and am sorry...) on my flickr account, registered an event on the band's last.fm page and tagged the pictures with the proper event tag, and voila, the event has photos attached!

Now this sounds very complicated, but the thing is that it goes along the lines of everything else related to web2.0 and the social web - it's really easy to actually do, the complex thing to understand is what you can do and how it benefits other. Creating the event was just a matter of clicking a button on the band page, typing in the name of the event, the venue and the date. Someone had already registered info for the venue "Musikens hus", so I just selected that and clicked confirm. However, the accumulated effect of having people registering events on last.fm, connecting them to cities, venues and dates, discussing them and photographing them, it becomes an amazing crowd thing!

The one to recently really succeed in explaining all this is definitely CommonCraft's Lee and Sachi LeFever with their cute animated videos on youtube, check it out below. In plain English. Also on the Young Scientists' new forum, Gustav Johansson recently wrote a post (in plain Swedish) about TED - ideas worth spreading, that's worth checking out too.

Vad är ett roligt spel egentligen?

Ny Teknik skriver om ett av mina favorit-spel, Lego Star Wars. Jag testade det bara för att mina syskonbarn är så tokiga i det, och sen var jag fullständigt hooked! Nästan i.a.f. ... jag berövade min brorsson att få låna mitt PS2 en vecka extra för att få spela det några timmar till. Det är rätt mycket som Ratchet & Clank, med söt grafik, Star Wars-sagan, och tuuusen saker man kan samla på sig genom spelet. Mycket beroendeframkallande.

Annars var jag på Café Delirium (stans bästa pub) ikväll med Philip, vilket förde tankarna till urfåniga arkadspel baserade på pissoarer (har ni tänkt på att man måste handla i baren för att få "ammunition" att spela med?)... men bland annat så pratade vi om att hellre än spel som suger in en i en alternativ verklighet, så är det ännu intressantare med saker som förbättrar, förenklar och gör den befintliga verkligheten trevligare och roligare! Effektivare roligt! Vi är rörande eniga om hur grymt Last.fm events är, och nu har jag nog fått Philip hooked på MoYuMe ("More of You and Me") också, ett trevligt sätt att komma närmare sina nära och kära även på distans, och en kul tillämpning av MMS (Jag kan bjuda in folk... hahaha... ).

(Update: CD kommenterade just för mig att det ju finns en mängd "alternate reality games" som t.ex. "killer - the assasination game", och sen såg jag en artikel och video om en så sjukt lyckad Japansk marknadsföringskampanj för chips)

Exchanging ideas in good old Sweden

I just had a great chat at Café Muggen (got to add that to wifikartan.se...) with Christian Rudolf and Peter Sandberg of disruptive.nu / websmurf, about education, career, entrepreneurship, innovation etc. Thank you so much guys for taking the time to see me!

And to clarify to Christian, I just recently started up this blog to have somewhere to put whatever I'm personally interested in, whereas I use utvandrarna.blogspot.com to write mostly about Sweden, Estonia and various types journeys in life. Maybe it's not motivated to split focus like that, but I it would only feel ok to litter a general blog with web2.0-stuff as much as I have done here, and I still felt like keeping my emigrant blog beside a general one, so that's what I have now. All normal people use a RSS-reader to keep track of their blogs anyway, so it doesn't matter either way, right?


Christian is by the way busy right now starting up mjukvara.se ("software.se"), currently with a mission and focus to bring great antivirus, firewalls and anti-spyware to the masses. Peter is feeding his screaming baby Moyoume attention to launch a a novel use-case of MMS picture messaging and nice way to share your life in pictures with friends and family.

(Update: How nice, I lended Peter my "Johnny Bunko - The last career guide you’ll ever need", but had no idea he'd write an elaborate blog entry (in Swedish though) about Johnny Bunko and it's career advice. In a way, it feels like some sort of very sincere gratitude if he goes through the trouble of writing a blog post about it, makes me happy I let him borrow it. Thanks Peter!)

(Update 2: I bought that book at the Helsinki Academic Bookstore, and now I've been there again! What a place...)

Stockholm, the city by the water

I'm in Stockholm now, see the shoutbox to the right.


Among other things, Telia movies over broadband service has a sweet advertisement campaign regarding what content they offer:

"13 somewhat tougher Swedish works"	"539 from America"
"4 directed by Colin Nutley"	"77 thrillers"

See the rest of my pictures.