Hi, my name is Finnur. I have spent a good chunk of my life online. I'm a parallel entrepreneur, intrigued by social media. Like my coffee strong and whiskey from the cask. More →
Facebook has been hyper active these first weeks of 2011 and keeping us developers and community managers on our toes. The latest twist for page owners was introduced on the 10th of February with the iFrame tabs for pages blog post. I was a bit surprised to see them let go of their full control [...]
Last week two Icelandic sites stopped responding on the interwebs; Orkuaudlindir.is and IcelandAirwaves.is. This was quite unfortunate cause the first site has been actively promoted in the media. Björk and friends are petitioning to stop the first deal where an Icelandic energy company is acquired by a foreign investor. The unfortunate bit for Skýrr, a major hosting [...]
I’ve been receiving requests for Social Media experts doing freelance work in Iceland. Companies are realizing that there might be some value in a solid social media strategy while the Icelandic advertising agencies don’t seem to meet the demand. Community managers are a scarce resource on our island but I’ve compiled a short list. Mainly [...]
I have many types of milestones in my life. One of the more stressful are related to this domain, what to put on it and more importantly which platform to run it on. During the last couple of months I have somehow managed to set up a dozen or so WordPress sites and I must [...]
Er búinn að vera að fylgjast með ótrúlega góðum spretti hjá @islandsbanki síðastliðna tvo daga. Þetta er fyrsti bankinn á Twitter og eitt af fyrstu fyrirtækjunum sem hlustar og svarar (augljóslega séð fyrirlesturinn minn) Þetta fór af stað með smá skotum en mér finnst bankinn hafa staðið sig vel í að svara og dæmin tala [...]
We excel in everything per capita. Today Facebook states that we have 170,400 Icelanders registered which equates to roughly 54% of the total population. After reading this post I decided to dig a bit deeper and create a similar graph for the Icelandic Facebook demography. No real surprises there, similar to the US except for the [...]
My Gov 2.0 heart still beats strong and this recent report (PDF)highlighting the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce Online Engagement making the rounds online sparked my interest. Just the thought of having a social media task force in matching uniforms on a Hummer with a theme tune would be awesome. But having the Icelandic government actually consider [...]
Only 9 blog entries this year (including this one) despite this being one of the biggest one yet in terms of unforgettable moments. It's pretty well covered on twitter though with over 2800 tweets. I moved back home in March after 3 good years in London. Great to be back with friends and family and [...]
No updates on this blog since Saga was born :p Twitter is where the updates are at these daysJust wanted to link to this conference where I'll be speaking about user engagement and social media.
