CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-15 17:09:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Developers can now distribute controlled alpha and beta tests and do staged app updates through Google Play.

#io13   #keynote   #io13android  

2013-05-15 07:33:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

About 14 years ago, I got a bad cold, and my voice became hoarse.  At the time I didn’t think much about it.  But my voice never fully recovered.  So I went to a doctor and was diagnosed with left vocal cord paralysis.  This is a nerve problem that causes your left vocal cord to not move properly.  Despite extensive examination, the doctors never identified a cause — though there was speculation of virus-based damage from my cold.  It is quite common in cases like these that a definitive cause is not found.

While this condition never really affected me — other than having a slightly weaker voice than normal which some people think sounded a little funny — it naturally raised questions in my mind about my second vocal cord.  But I was told that sequential paralysis of one vocal cord following another is extremely rare.  

Fast forward to last summer, when the same patternrepeated itself... more »

2013-03-21 14:20:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"So what is the Tumblr or Blogger or Wordpress of data science?" http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/03/diy-data-science.html

2013-03-18 20:19:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The future of contextual mobile

Sampo Karjalainen of +Moves and +Jeffrey Dungen of ReelyActive go on a walk through my neighborhood and we talk about the future of context and Internet of Things.

I love the Moves app. Replaces many of those health monitors that are all the rage. Take a look at what it does.

Moves is an app that watches what you do. It works in the background. Tracks you during the day. It's sort of like a health monitor that you might wear, like a FitBit, Nike FuelBand, etc. But it does a lot more than those do. So, we took a walk to discover just what it does. 

On the walk we also had a founder of ReelyActive, which makes BlueTooth devices that can be used to connect you to the physical world and we discuss the future of the Internet of Things as well on the walk. Interesting conversation. 
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2013-03-02 15:35:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/01/peter-thiel-backed-metamed-launches-to-provide-you-with-an-on-demand-medical-research-team/

2013-02-19 20:37:51 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Should you ditch your interface?" Inmates in Cooper Design Firm have a disagreement  

2013-01-25 20:27:35 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm looking for the best HCI and UI design research papers from the recent years. Suggestions?

2013-01-24 20:03:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

With current price and earnings, Apple stock starts to be a value stock. It has P/E 10 and $137B in cash or equivalents. 

2013-01-22 20:45:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Reid Hoffman has started blogging. 

http://reidhoffman.org/if-why-and-how-founders-should-hire-a-professional-ceo/

2013-01-18 19:34:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Applauds for Nokia, this is fresh and bold thinking: Nokia releases 3D case printing files for Lumia 820.  http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-releases-3d-case-printing-files-for-lumia-820-18265821/

2013-01-18 15:09:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

28 countries that I've experienced, plus a few exotic transits. Europeans have an edge here, I think. Three times on Interrail gives a little boost to your country count. I added visits to dependent territories and other specialities after the country.

1. Finland (Finland, Åland)
2. Sweden
3. Norway
4. Denmark
5. Estonia
6. Latvia
7. Poland
8. Czech Republic
9. Germany
10. Hungary
11. Croatia
12. Greece
13. Italy
14. Vatican
15. Switzerland
16. Austria
17. Netherlands
18. Belgium
19. France
20. United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Gibraltar) 
21. Spain
22. Russia
23. China (PRC and Hongkong)
24. Thailand
25. Portugal (Madeira)
26. Barbados
27. St. Lucia
28. USA

Transits
29. Mongolia
30. Lithuania
31. Slovakia
32. Serbia
33.Ma... more »

2013-01-06 16:27:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Shanzhai - innovative hardware mashup shops in Shenzhen, China. A bit like garage startups of Silicon Valley in 70s. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

2013-01-05 14:14:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Really early on I decided to focus only on the product design and would forgo any time spent on things like visual design and, to some extent, branding."

http://www.artypapers.com/ap.log/thread.php?346

2012-12-25 15:57:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#GreatReads2012 pick no 5. "Magic Ink" by Bret Victor. It's from 2006, but of things I read this year it influenced me most http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

2012-12-24 11:07:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Pick no. 4 for #GreatReads2012 "You don't have to be local" http://sivers.org/local Merry Christmas everybody out there! 

2012-12-23 19:16:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My #GreatReads2012  continues. Pick number 3 is "Breakfast of Champions: Meet the man known as FAKEGRIMLOCK" - 
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/31/breakfast-of-champions-meet-the-man-known-as-fakegrimlock/

FAKEGRIMLOCK is a great example of how you need to be bold with personality to do internet communication and marketing well. This interview might seem as a lighter pick for #GreatReads2012 than two  previous picks but it contains nuggets of gold. And bacon.

2012-12-22 11:08:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I also started a Kippt list for my #GreatReads2012 project: https://kippt.com/tmu/great-reads-2012

2012-12-22 10:59:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#GreatReads2012, my pick no. 2: "The Challenge of the Future",  class notes by +Blake Masters  of Peter Thiel's Stanford course http://blakemasters.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1

2012-12-21 18:58:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Let's start #GreatReads2012 with "Economies of Scale, Economies of Scope" by always wonderful +Venkatesh Rao  http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/10/15/economies-of-scale-economies-of-scope/

2012-12-21 18:57:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Starting #GreatReads2012 project. I'll finish this year by tweeting (and g+ing) daily links to writings that most influenced my thinking this year.

2012-12-07 11:35:05 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A survey for Jaiku community:

What (Jaiku-like) communication tools are used in your workplace for internal discussions, if any? Some examples are Yammer, Hipchat, Flowdock, Skype group chats, Google+?

What do you think Jaiku did better than these tools? What your current tools excel at, compared to Jaiku? 

2012-11-30 14:29:30 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 2 +1s)

Finnish Bitcoin company http://LocalBitcoins.com featured in Businessweek http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/dollar-less-iranians-discover-virtual-currency

2012-11-23 10:11:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Javascript hackers, ahoy. What's your experience of using jQuery (and d3.js) and Google's closure compiler? Seems a bit tedious to declare externs, if you want to serve jQuery independently of your own JS bundle. 

2012-11-20 20:49:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Bubble? What bubble?

2012-11-20 20:11:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Just launched a public demo of Fount today. The demo visualizes startup investment data from Crunchbase. Take a look and give us feedback. It still rough on the edges, but it gives you impression where we are heading. 

2012-11-20 11:11:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Getting ready for the launch of public demo today 

2012-11-14 23:45:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Our new startup Fount (http://fount.io) is not about Big Data, Fount is about lots and lots of Little Data. 
 
http://www.wired.com/insights/2012/11/lets-talk-your-data-not-big-data/

2012-11-14 17:08:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev visited Startup Sauna today. http://startupsauna.com/en/2012/11/prime-ministers-opens-the-new-startup-sauna/ …

2012-10-14 18:14:51 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r04yjaQoL1c_vuwQr-CdbDQ8EjGVGOL_1V6BNVWaR1c/edit

2012-10-05 20:18:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Python Requests library rocks. I had various problems with my quick'n'dirty smoke test crawler on top of urllib2 but with Requests it just works.
 

2012-10-05 07:03:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Got my tickets to Arctic 15 (http://arctic15.com/speakers/). It has a great line of startup founders as speakers: Founder of payment service Klarna ($155M Series C), Founders of Erply, Evernote, Jolla, iZettle etc. and founder of just IPOed Trulia.

2012-07-03 14:14:24 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#iphone  cumbusts in smoke inside #finnish   man pocket! Read more here------>

2012-06-30 16:49:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Elon Musk won a $1K/$1M bet with a reporter about Model S delivery date http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/06/29/to-elon-musk-and-the-model-s-congratulations/

2012-06-13 10:06:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

VPs of Marketing replaced by Growth Hackers in Silicon Valley

2012-06-13 05:56:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Apple bought a mobile wallet patent from two Finnish inventors http://dirtyaura.org/blog/2012/06/13/apple-bought-a-mobile-wallet-patent-from-two-finnish-inventors/

2012-06-12 14:06:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://dirtyaura.org/blog/2012/06/12/root-problem-of-modern-healthcare/

2012-06-12 11:11:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"(With Passbook), Apple is wisely choosing a path to work with rather then against existing infrastructure. " 
http://www.quora.com/Teemu-Kurppa/Great-Business-Insights/With-Passbook-Apple-is-wisely-choosing-a-path-to-work-with-rather-then-against-existing-infrastructure

2012-05-30 07:10:16 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hunting down my son's killer
http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/

2012-05-26 08:29:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

DjangoCon Finland today at Aalto Venture Garage. Come to say hi and meet fellow Pythonistas http://djangocon.fi/

2012-05-14 06:03:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-04-24 22:27:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Camden

2012-04-24 21:50:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

From Norway

2012-04-24 21:48:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Playing with GDrive

2012-02-28 11:10:38 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

We are made of millions of little mechanical machines. Parts of your battery system, ATP Synthase, illustrated http://i.imgur.com/L3B8o.jpg

2012-02-28 10:27:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Check out Levykauppa Äx (Recordstore X) iPhone app that we (Huikea Experience) developed and designed together with Äx team.

You can listen sample records from up-and-coming artists selected with definitive music taste of Äx team. The app offers also a digital customer card that you can use in Levykauppa Äx stores and of course browsing and searching of records, movies, T-shirts and other items.

Levykauppa Äx is the biggest online record store in Nordics.

http://itunes.apple.com/fi/app/levykauppa-ax/id497705271?mt=8

2012-02-27 14:04:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Are you a skilled online marketer? A lead position open in a game startup that NYTimes described as the future of mobile gaming http://jobs.greyarealabs.com/

2011-11-08 22:29:34 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

2011-10-28 22:12:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Birth of Virgin Atlantic. Quite a story if true. The thing is, with $2000, anybody with balls to make calls could have done that.
http://ravithesun.wordpress.com/2006/12/25/birth-of-virgin-atlantic/

2011-10-27 12:17:50 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Android fragmentation visualization. This is a hard problem for Google to solve as Google is the one building the ecosystem, whereas device manufacturers are more in the business of selling devices. Apple shines here, because it's both building the ecosystem and selling devices. http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support

2011-10-27 09:22:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Pretty impressive, a Starcraft AI that deciphers the game state by "looking into the screen". It doesn't decipher pixel by pixel, but by graphics draw commands, but still pretty impressive.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/GameAIs.html