Blog Archive / January 2009

January "Midnight Briefs"

I am writing an unusual (what's unusual anyways?) "briefs" blog entry here on no one topic in particular. And it's currently around midnight.

1) The blog now has search (yay!). It's right there on the right-hand-side toolbar. Use it, please.

2) On the day of the Gallows God (Odin's day; Wednesday) this...

Me and Asmo Halinen join Brain Alliance Board of Directors

Brain Alliance Ltd announced today that me and Mr. Asmo Halinen (ex-CEO of Apaja/PlayRay, etc). Have joined the company's Board of Directors.

There a finnish language press release here.

Brain Alliance is the largest PHP-specialized programming house in Finland, with emphasis on agile web projects etc. They are...

Endless TV over the Internet from Tvinno

How about getting endless TV over the Internet without the trouble of ever tagging which TV programs you want to record?

Image: Tvinno logo from the Tvinno website.

Now it's possible through a cool new service called Tvinno at www.tvinno.com

Tvinno currently offers these channels:

Germany: RTL, RTL2, SuperRTL, VOX, n-tv, Sat1, ProSieben,...

Facebook Finland Network revealed + IRC-Galleria comparison

As far as I know nobody has yet made an analysis about the Facebook Finland network with precise data.

I managed to get my hands on some Facebook Finland network data, and as far as I know it is entirely accurate. Meaning that it should represent quite accurately what they have...

Dopplr presents. Barack Obama's travels

www.dopplr.com published a pretty cool story today in their blog:

http://blog.dopplr.com/2009/01/15/dopplr-presents-the-personal-annual-re...

Dopplr presents the Dopplr Personal Annual report 2008 for Barak Obama's travels.

The quality is top-notch...

Speaking at Entrepreneur Tuesday event

I will be speaking at the Helsinki Metropolitan Entrepreneurship Academy event "Entrepreneur Tuesday" on January the 27th. (most of the links are in finnish, sorry).

They have given me the honor & role of kick-starting a series of talks/presentation on Entrepreneurship. The title is "Entrepreneurship - A...

Economic downturn == Manyfold traffic increase

It has been interesting to see www.vakuutuskone.com a site/company I Co-Founded to increase its traffic manyfold now that the economy is in the gutter.

The site does comparisons between insurance and finance product options. Much like www.moneysupermarket.com in the UK and similar sites in other markets.

Sounds pretty logical; people feel the...