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 →
Street art in the hood
The Shoreditch area is quite street artsy and I love discovering these guerilla art installations walking around Shoreditch Here are a couple of video highlights:
Read more →The fight for freeing the comment
Google and Facebook are embracing the free flow of social activities between websites with the aim of providing the infrastructure (pipes) that the data passes through. Facebook connect was launched yesterday. The aim is to enable 3rd party sites to tap into the social graph of 120 million active Facebook users and allow those users [...]
Read more →4 years of blog entries on a SIMILE timeline
After having pondered how to present the archive on this new blog I remembered the super cool timeline widget from SIMILE MIT project (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments, thank you very much). After having struggled with the Timeline code base for an hour without luck, I tried the Exhibit javascript instead [...]
Read more →Inside Enterprise 2.0 white paper published
Practical applications for driving efficiency within companies. One of my last tasks at VYRE was to produce a White Paper on applying social web patterns behind the firewall. I touch on social web authoring patterns, social web elements and polish it off with some relevant case studies. It is an ongoing crusade which was the [...]
Read more →Direct democracy
One interesting side effect of the Icelandic meltdown is how the nation is demanding answers by arranging self organized citizen meetings with a massive turnout. It can be tricky selecting the questions to ask the ministers so I decided to set up a thread using the brilliant Moderator Google App where people can submit questions [...]
Read more →Moving days for domains
This is a long and boring story and you don't need to read it unless you are fiddling with the Google App Engine. When you set up your own domain for an App Engine application you do that through Google Apps (confused yet?). And my problem was that I could not set up the naked [...]
Read more →Optimizing business processes using interwebs technology
This Thursday I will be in the old country speaking at IceWeb. The theme this year is “Change”, how IT keeps evolving and how it impacts business. I suggested to Soffia, one of the organisers that I could cover recent projects focusing on Product Information Management and Enterprise 2.0 stuff. In our Instant Messenger chat [...]
Read more →Gommit redesign
Made the switch last night. Google App Engine is all funny about striped URL's (http://gommit.com) and Register.com charges for forwarding it to www.gommit.com. So I'm in the process of switching to GoDaddy and things might be a bit unstable for the next couple of days. The design is very rough around the edges but it [...]
Read more →First post on the Google app engine
Finally got around to migrating the content, fudge a half decent design and do some coding. I think this baby will go live this week. Please give me some feedback and let me know if you find errors.
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