$100 laptop now only $175?!

April 28th, 2007 by erik

I just read that the OLPC now is 75% more expensive than planned. It will be very interesting to see the reactions from the countries who signed up who now will need to cough up 75% more in costs. It is also an adjustment of $25 since only a month ago. It is also interesting [...]

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The Stickiness and the Viral Nature

April 9th, 2007 by erik

I have of various reasons had a lot of discussions lately on viral marketing and stickiness. It is interesting to look around on the web these days and you find numerous examples of sites claiming to be viral and using these techniques to build their communities. Very few seem to have thought it through though.
I [...]

Internet, Social communities, social media | No Comments |

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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