Lets get personal…or not…

By Mathias HellquistPublished: July 21, 2011 at 16:15 Tags: #data, #selfmanagement, #socialmedia

20101210-NodeXL-Twitter-pdfleaks by Marc_Smith

In 2009 I read an excellent article in Wired where journalist Evan Ratliff tried to "vanish" and stay hidden for a month. In case you haven't read it I really recommend you do, you can find the article over here. In short he offered $5.000 of his own money to whoever found him within a month. To make it a little bit more difficult he had to do certain things at given...

Services I have joined lately

By Mathias HellquistPublished: July 19, 2011 at 00:45 Tags: #apps, #games, #socialmedia

Google+ by Mickey_Liaw

As you quite possibly know (as you are reading this) I join lots of new services that pop up. Almost all of them, as I come by them, and if they let me in (which can be tricky enough at times). The reasons for this varies of course, but one of the main things is that when colleagues and/or clients ask me if I have heard of a particular service I prefer to have first-hand knowledge of it. Also, obviously, I don't...

My Social Network set up

By Mathias HellquistPublished: February 21, 2011 at 22:25 Tags: #apps, #selfmanagement, #socialmedia

My Facebook Network by dennisar

When talking about online activity in general, and social networking and/or social media in particular, I often get asked:

How on earth do you keep track of the 7000+ [on Twitter] people you follow, and what they say?

I also often get asked:

How do you have time to be active on all the services, you appear to be literally everywhere!?

There are a two very simple answers to that: "I don't." and "I am not." Yet it...

Share your love – Flattr someone

By Mathias HellquistPublished: February 10, 2011 at 20:30 Tags: #apps, #socialmedia

Flattr - Social micropayments - Mozilla Firefox_020 by mathiashellquist

In my signing-up frenzy a couple of weeks ago (I have one of those once every quarter just about) I signed up for Flattr, who are running a rather interesting concept. It is a service I had completely missed in all other noise, so you might all know about it already. I didn't, so this article is...

Facebook, the behemoth

By Mathias HellquistPublished: February 9, 2011 at 21:00 Tags: #apps, #socialmedia, #webdevelopment

future-of-facebook_symbol by Venessa Miemis

I came across this page on Pingdom regarding the latest stats for Facebook and YouTube.

Facebook now has 600 million users worldwide, generating an estimated 770 billion page views each month.

Apart from the jaw gaping obvious (and slightly) scary numbers of users, it had me wondering "How on earth (or...?) do you run a web site for 600 million users?", so I started looking around for that.I shall point out that this is a highly non-scientific research, and...

Excellence – Teamwork or flying solo?

Have you, in your life, been part of something truly excellent, created, at least partially, by you? Something that made you think afterwards: -”How on earth did I pull that off?” or -”I had no idea I was capable of that…“? Think carefully, as this doesn’t have to be work related, it can be your first-born child, the first time you won a major sports event or when you pulled off that solo during a live concert in front of 3000 people. Chances are you have had that feeling at some point.
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