Finnur Palmi Magnusson aka Gommit

Well if you look at the blog posts on this page you get something like this:   But if you take my del.icio.us links you get somthing like that:   I guess I´m somewhere in the middle… Brought to you by Wordle

Everyone is so busy upgrading to Web 3.0 that they missed the Web 4.0 release. But internet versions aside, here are some cool cutting edge projects along with my comments on why I think this is the future of the interwebs… Fire EaglePublic launch this week. It is what I would call a location broker [...]

I have been messing about with with the new Google App Engine web application development environment for a while now and plan to migrate this blog onto it (more on that later). Some of my fellow geeks have asked, why would you invent the wheel again when there are so many great blog applications out [...]

It's called Cuil, pronounced Cool apparently. I'm not a big fan of company names that you have to spell for people every time, but hey what can I say. They claim to have a larger index than Google but in my tests I have not seen them return more results for any term. But what [...]

I have often thought about creating an application where you can take a photo of nice wines when you are at a restaurant for buying later. Of course there are applications you can mash up to achieve such functionality but today I tested a great new application which I'm going to start using. Evernote takes [...]

Romance is so 2007. Why risk your future when you can do a genetical comparison and find out if your partner is right for you? This new company; GenePartner.com has this great slogan: “Love is no coincidence”. How romantic. And they claim that the highest probability for a successful relationship is when both individuals are [...]

Last.fm launched their new design last night. It is a massive update impacting all sections of the site. It is not just a facelift, it is a total revamp changing user interaction and features. The site has been growing organically since 2002 and has a massive fan base and today they revolted. Poor Matthew had [...]

Hjörtur recorded 3 clips at the Moss gig last week. It is a mobile phone cam so it is not quite broadcast quality. We enjoyed it tremendously and the crowd seemed quite happy to. Give me your honest feedback. Moss – Debut gig from gommit on Vimeo.

I mixed work and pleasure and spent the last couple of weeks in Iceland. Two great weekends in the country side, split by meetings and meetups in Reykjavik. The funny thing is that Iceland has better climate than the UK now. I worked the tan and used my shorts and slippers to the max. A [...]

Here in the UK there is a very interesting organisation named NESTA, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. It’s sole purpose is to make UK more innovative and I think it's a brilliant idea. Innovation needs to be fostered and when you have the the perfect conditions you breed something like PARC.For the [...]