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Norwegians face death penalty
Referring to my post about the Norwegian pair in Congo, they got their death penalty today. They had to be convicted before international press noticed the news and now it seems to be everywhere. CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. Pretty well visited as well accordning to Norwegian papers. Good!
By the way I still miss aftenposten.no/english and [...]
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A call for car 2.0
I just watched the TED talk, Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars, and I became very excited with his proposal.
He says car 2.0 needs to be about infrastructure coherence and separating the battery from the car. So what does he need:
- Charging stations where you normally [...]
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Tags: Car 2.0, electric cars, Nissan-Renault, Shai agassi
Sorry SecondLife
Ok, I admit, I have forgotten all about SecondLife, Linden Dollars and avatars in my recent research on social media.
In a class called collaboration at Uni three years ago I visited another 3D-world, and today (after being ticked off by a colleague) i joined SecondLife and now officially have an avatar called TigerOfNorway Riddler (why [...]
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The media sector has since the dot-com been in a changing world. This week it is also evident in Norway. Schibsted, the leading Norwegian media conglomerate said they need to cut 750 mill NOK, most due to plummeting advertising revenues (and some due to failed Classified Ad initiative in Spain). This is not a unique [...]
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All right folks, NAIAS is on! Are you lost? Yes, I am talking about cars! The above five are perhaps the cars of the future. Funny enough two of them have name from physical measuring units, however that is for nerds to beckon, and Chevrolet Volt is doomed from the beginning anyway.
GM’s Rick Wagoner was [...]
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Tags: BYD, Changfeng, Chevrolet Volt
More changes than ever before!
It has been a while, a busy while actually. I have been following the presidential election and the financial meltdown closely, and as everybody else I never thought it would have the implications we see today. I have also tried to catch up on web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and some of the new cool services [...]
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Tags: GM change labour
As a farmer’s son but educated in economics it is impossible not to comment on last weeks WTO efforts. In today’s ”Dagens Næringsliv” the CEO of Cancer Cure, Phd. Gunnar Myhr, himself a successful entrepreneur, questioned the national farmers association in Norway on why they were so protective and negative to a new WTO-treaty (yes, [...]
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Tags: WTO
My last tweets on Twitter- tigerofnorway: just blogged Security certifications for cloud applications, will it help adoption? http://tinyurl.com/yhm25oy
- tigerofnorway: just blogged Election time – Norwegian politics illustrated http://tinyurl.com/mcoq2h
- tigerofnorway: just blogged Norwegians face death penalty http://tinyurl.com/n7u56x
