Some notes on Google

October 12th, 2006 by erik

Just after the deal between Google and YouTube I wrote a short entry on why noone is discussing Google:s very impressive strategy to become the number one player on the whole internet market. It really surprises me is that the same people who blamed Microsoft now seemed completely blinded by the “vision” of Google. Wasn’t [...]

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Ethics of bloggers

October 10th, 2006 by erik

Nicholas Carr is writing about the ethics of blogging in a way I haven’t thought of that much before. I think his post is excellent, and brings up some issues which need to be discussed in the blogosphere. I have for a long time been firm on stating that we need “some” structure and praxis [...]

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Does monopoly ring a bell?

October 9th, 2006 by erik

I read some recent blog post on the Google-YouTube acquisition. Look at the chart at http://googlelogs.blogspot.com.
One question immediately pops up. Didn’t the first step get taken to a total monopoly of the user-contributed media market for video? If so, is that good or bad? Personally I am skeptical. We will see. Obviously and without any [...]

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Google buys YouTube… Hmmm…

October 9th, 2006 by erik

I guess it is a great thing…
I spoke to a friend Thursday when the rumor just started. We concluded that the acquisition is all about getting the biggest chunk of the market, or to some extent the whole market. I do not think it has anything to do with what YouTube is actually doing. [...]

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Conceptual mobile approach for emerging markets

October 9th, 2006 by erik

I have been discussing cellphone approaches in lately and wrote a short entry on it. This is only an approach how to deal with cellphones and the web, and the strategy needs to be defined out of each unique situation, each country and each project. Using the approach to define it is however a good [...]

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About Erik Sundelöf

  • Erik Sundelof is the Chief Technical Officer of Spot.Us. Erik was previously the co-founder and VP of Social Media and User Interface at San Francisco based Allvoices, Inc. Allvoices is a new content-based social network around news and opinions which currently is the biggest citizen news media site on the web. It became one of the 3000 largest sites on the Internet within 6 months of launch. Erik was previously a fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Program (http://www.rdvp.org) at Stanford University between 2005-2006. Most notably he created the Web site inthefieldONLINE.net, which was recognized by major global media including PBS, CNN and BBC, and got featured on Discovery International's Rewind 2006 as one of 25 highlights of the Year. He is active in the social media arena and has directed the launch of several social media sites including the biggest blog in Sweden during 2005-2007. Erik is a prolific blogger on issues related to social and user-generated media, group dynamics, cellphone technology and community building. His academic orientations are rooted in a Master?s degree in Chemical Engineering and PhD licentiate in Numerical Analysis from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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