Ninni Lindertz, Senior Mar­ket­ing Strategist at Face­book Nor­dic, gave an inspir­a­tional talk at the “Guldäg­get inspirerar” event. Ninni put for­ward bowl­ing as an example of how mar­ket­ing used to be done. Tak­ing a full-size bowl­ing ball and try­ing to strike down as many pins as pos­sible in one go. In...

Over half the world’s pop­u­la­tion now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But not all cit­ies are exper­i­en­cing growth, some are actu­ally shrink­ing.Urb­an­ized is a fas­cin­at­ing doc­u­ment­ary about cit­ies, look­ing at strategies behind urban design of some of the world’s fore­most archi­tects,...

Oh yes, Kodak missed the opportunity to prosper from their innovations in digital imaging and the digital camera. So how come they didn't see what was coming? I guess they were stuck in their old business model of making film that had made them a fortune. When you're feeling comfortable with the old and the old still brings in some money, it seems impossible to look up and get a grasp of the long view. At least not without taking help from a outsider that isn't trapped in the present.

Clay Shirky explains the real problem with the SOPA/PIPA bill that the US Congress is about to make into a legislation that threatens to close down the Internet.

“On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy… your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. Managers and investors should not set share price increases as their overarching goal…

An amazing look into the future when we can print any object at home.

When in Mad­rid, I spot­ted a lib­rary for mod­ern com­mut­ing people. I won­der if any­thing like this may be found in other city met­ros? Maybe there is one in Stock­holm, even though I’ve never seen that…