A Swedish/British entrepreneur in Berlin, trying to make it happen

I’m just shooting of a little test post here since I just updated my wordpress and got myself a new theme. I’ll keep working on it and I hope and finally get back into writing down some thoughts here. Btw– why is it still so time-consuming to update wordpress and get a few widgets working? Blows my mind. Anyway, I’ve really been missing blogging/writing in general & have been reading a lot more lately so we’ll see how things goes.

Oh, and just to actually put something in the post I want to archive this insane headline from last week, especially since its real.

Meebo raising round, valued up to $250 million. Bear Stearns sold for $236 million (venturebeat)

Funny, scary, preposterous – call it what you will but that one will stick around in my mind for quite some time.

From eric.

OMG WOW.

From Yahoo news, via Slashdot:

The British government rejected a plea to extend copyright laws for sound recordings to beyond 50 years on Tuesday, prompting the music industry to accuse it of not supporting musicians and artists.

I was in London last fall for a MusicTank seminar with several attendees from the industry and at the time it sounded like the extension was practically on its way. Sometimes I like when people are wrong.

I’m in Berlin right now working like crazy with Eric’s and my start-up SoundCloud. Things are going super good and I almost feel in love with both Berlin and SoundCloud. Also, there’s quite a few interesting start-ups around here. Apart from Plazes (who gracefully have lent us a part of their office until we move in to our own) I like the Talkety concept and had a chance to talk to the guys behind it the other day at the Web2.0 Expo pre-meetup.

Anyway, I’m in Berlin, any recommendations of people, places or things to check out are greatly welcomed!

Here’s a nice little feature I’d missed, courtesy of delicious. Their playtagger allows you to add a bookmarklet to firefox that makes links to mp3 files on a website instantly playable directly in context. So, for example at the Fluokids blog, where the files are directly linked mp3s, a single click of a bookmarklet turns this:

in to this:

Instantly playable. Sweet.

I’m heading out into Europe for a bunch of meetings during the next two weeks. If you happen to be around and fancy a coffee, don’t hesitate to send me an email.

Barcelona, 13-16
Vienna, 16-18
Berlin, 18-20
Manchester, 24-27

Also, I just started a blog about mobile services (in Swedish, sorry) called mermobilt.se. Of course, as all blogs start out, there’s not much there yet (apart from good intentions!). Don’t hesitate to send me any links, recommendations or info that may or may not be interesting to know about in relation to new mobile services, their markets and technology.

[ disclaimer: super-geek post ]

Ok, if you’ve ever done any programming and also followed the movement of the lolcats lately this will be ridiculously funny. Lolcode is a programing language based on the lolcat-talk and looks a bit like this:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

The lolcode’s fitting tag-line is of course: Programming the LOL way. All LOLCats, LOL, ALL CAPS.

I’m at Reboot9 in Copenhagen in case anybody wants to meet up and have a chat! Eric and I will be giving a talk about online trust later on during the day (”small hall” 17:20-18:00)–hope to see you there!

Emanuel Sidea from the Swedish business magazine “Veckans Affärer” gave me call yesterday to talk a bit about trust and secret/exclusive communities on the internet. The resulting article (only swedish, sorry!) can be read online right here.