Finnur Palmi Magnusson aka Gommit

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 tossing questions into my social graph for a while. Asking my friends, family and followers for guidance on things that would take me ages to work out myself. Most of the time it results in great twists and marvelous solutions to tedious tasks on my ToDo list. I hate cars. Stupid piece of [...]

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 [...]

I have been watching closely how Obama is embracing the Government 2.0 ideas and effectively engaging with people through the medium of the web. So with nothing better to do, I decided to do a quick survey on how the Icelandic political parties are using Facebook. Framsókn 174 members, 2 discussion topics and 11 wall [...]