Blog Archive / February 2009

Tiburon-TV on the Nordic Startup Scene

Tiburon-TV published an editorial by Mr. Antti Vilpponen on the Nordic Startup Scene:

http://www.tiburon-tv.com/2009/02/23/the-nordic-startup-scene/

has a mention of me + an interview.

Also related stuff like an interview from Sampo Karjalainen (Habbo founder)

And Peter Vesterbacka (mobile monday founder)

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Meanwhile on other news:

the Facebook network for Finland has now gone over 1 million...

First "copycat" add using the brain hack appears in my radar

My previous blog entry was about how to hack your brain, found here:

http://tane.li/2009/how-hack-your-brain

At the end of the entry I encouraged people to find even more effective brain hacks and suggested that if you copy the idea, please do tell where you got it from (and link to here, please).

This morning...

How to hack your brain

Let me begin by saying that this is "highly cool" yet disturbing and unusual stuff. Perfect for a topic I should let you know about on this blog.

The "long history" of all this starts with my first startup in 1999, Taika Technologies, Ltd. You might remember my War Story...

Worth a read: Facebook values itself at 3.7 billion USD or less

Mashable just came out with an interesting story that I'm blogging about because it's worth a read, and it is relevant to what I have been posting here about Facebook previously. Also its relevant to what is happening in the economy and with the US dollar right now.

Go read it:

http://mashable.com/2009/02/12/facebook-valuation-3/

(in...

Xiha Life lowers prices and revenue goes up

Xiha Life (www.xihalife.com) is a multi-lingual social network enjoying 1M+ monthly unique visitors and expanding rapidly.

XIha has been making revenue by selling casual games from their website (amongst other models). Recently they slashed their game pricing;

http://en.xihalife.com/b/webmaster/blog/new-game-pricing/

..to half or less than half of what it used to be (from 20 EUR...

1992 makes a comeback to the iPhone

It's 1992 all over again and Pinball Dreams is here.

I have just spent a hefty portion of my evening checking it out. Chatted with the author of the game mr. Juuso Salmijärvi earlier today and I hear the game is selling pretty good at the moment. It's only been out...

Has IRC-Galleria growth hit a wall?

You know me as a strong advocate (and ex-CEO) of www.irc.fi - IRC-Galleria who has long held the top spot in the finnish youth Internet world and still remains as one of the most active social media sites on the net.

I blogged a detailed entry on their recent-enough statistics...