And so it has begun…

November 18th, 2006 by erik

It was only a matter of time… Bear in mind that Universal first threatened both YouTube and MySpace, only to short before the Google aquisition of YouTube sign a deal with YouTube. The pattern continues.
Read more on the entry at TechCrunch: Universal Music Sues MySpace

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Bill Gates on social entrepreneurship..

November 15th, 2006 by erik

I am listening to Bill Gates on his visions. Incredible to listen to one of the most powerful persons alive mentioning that the future of the world relies on taking care of huge issues such as global health, education and energy.
He is one of the few i have heard being very firm in [...]

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Free cellphones to the people!

November 15th, 2006 by erik

Apparently that is the future according to many and not very suprising Google thinks so too. Here is an article by Eric Auchard at Reuters, with an interview with Googles CEO Eric Schmidt –
INTERVIEW – Google CEO sees free mobile phones, funded by ads.
Amazingly this exist in a new startup, Blyk, with an impressive team. [...]

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YouTube does what?

November 15th, 2006 by erik

I just read TechCrunch to get some updates on what’s going on around the valley and found this this pretty amazing post Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist. I actually laughed…
They have to be kidding. Regardless if this is part of a legal strategy, it really make no sense coming from an online [...]

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Are cellphones the thin client of the World Wide Web or a part of the World Wide Web?

November 11th, 2006 by erik

I yesterday submitted a position paper to the W3c Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries even though the discussion is valid for the whole mobile web discussion. The main conclusion is that we should of policy and technology constraints discuss whether a mobile web really exist:
When these issues – both on the handset, [...]

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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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