A value i treasure is having self distance, being able to stop, have a look at yourself and laugh. This should be Shit Bubblan Says, or even better, Shit SSWC Says (This for swedes only.)
Written, filmed, and edited by Kate Imbach & Tom Conrad.
We are also making a Swedish version, contribute to >>> “Shit SSWC Says”.
Erik Pettersson reacted to when I said we should make a “Shit Silicon Valley Says” videos, and i agree, we´ve been a bit to serious lately.
Let’s collect all the one-liners of 140 characters, tragi-comical, funny, rhiming and whitty all about the Swedish startup and social media scene the way we know best and post them either in:
A. The comment’s
B. Om twitter with the hashtag #ssswcs (Shit SSWC says) or #SBS (Shit Bubblan Says)
Erik and I will take care of the editing and the filming with help of people who have been asked but not yet confirmed, altho Im shure we can do it with a phone. Everyone will be credited who’s material we have used.
So why SSWC and Bubblan? As SSWC and Bubblan probably is the epicentra that links the social and the startups into the mesh that makes it a tangiable network, where everybody knows everybody. This isa good place to start. If someone fancies making new alternatives up, have your go, your even allowed to joke abut GeekGirlMeetup and social media expert if you like. Knock yourself out.
Restriction: There will be filtering for racist and illegal comments towards minorities, etc.
The article “Facebook, Myspace and Twitter chide Google with ‘Don’t be evil’ add-on” at The Guardian, and being a fan the free internet, this video-research and plugin need to be known about. Yes, its true, development is not guaranteed to go forward, it can also go, backwords.
The “focus on the user and all else will follow” that Google has been promoting for so many years is now taking a turn, promoting its own Google+ in organic search results before the actual search results. A plugin avaliable to Safari, Chrome and Firefox allows a clear search. Not to mention the plugin is built purely on Googles own code and kit, no other API´s used.
How easy is it, will take long, do i need to know how to code?
Hell no! Just drag and drop a button into your bookmark field in your browser, and off you go with clean search results.
What to do?
Go to FocusOnTheUser.org and drag the button to your bookmarks bar. Then when you are doinga search, just click the button and you will get the real search result, without google promoting their own social results.
If i was a judge in a coding competition for relevant search engine results, Google+, frankly, you would be disqualified.
Startup Sweden and Originate throw a ‘Startup Weekend’ event this weekend (Dec. 2-4). They just added a grand prize of a 250000 SEK investment in the form of development time!
They would really love to have more women entrepreneurs at the event, as they’re rather underrepresented right now. Girls and women, geeks of the industry, hope to see you there! People who don’t have a team yet are welcome too!
More info can be found at http://weekend.startupsweden.com/ or they can email me at garrett.dunham@originate.com.
The third Swedish hackathon 24 Hour Business Camp is held again at at Hasseludden. Im partipating on distance from London with my idea Scrive Petitions, built on Scrive API, that the rest of the Scrive team will Hack together.
The challenge begins now, and the presentations are tomorrow at noon! The program is here.
If i was in Sweden today, this is where i would go. Hyperisland, a school exhibition less ordinairy, with talent like few. An education i once concidered an option, instead i became a speaker and tech mentor here, and today work with one of my students. I I was there, i wouldn’t miss it for the world, and neither should you.
Exploring technology and animation exhibition today the 27th of October in Stockholm, Clustret.
Nya Affärer, the Magazine i write/blog for (translates to New Business in English) is promting entrepreneurship, by embracing inspiring entrepreneurs that have built their companies in an innvating way. Nya Affärer also want to premier venture capitalists an politicians that have contributed to making life easier for entrepreneurs.
Nominate your favourite entrepreneur at nyaaffarer.se/nominera by October 7th
The prize is awards in four categories:
1. The entrepreneur of the year – prize, who has built a company in an innovatiove way.
2. The New Business prize, to a young entrepreneur under 30 that has built a successful company in an innovative way. The important thing is not that your business is making a lot of money but proven that your idea works.
3. The politician or governmental prize, to the employee that has done something out of the ordinary to embrace entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs.
4. The Venture Capitalist – prize, to the venture capitalist that has done similar work for entrepreneurs.
I ran into Andy Lopata aka “Mr Network”, the author of “Recommended: How to Sell Through Networking and Referrals” and made a short video about it.
The book does something that I like, it tells us how to stop cold calling and start building relationships when it comes to sales, and using referrals and recommendations, driving your business and ideas, step by step.
That is worth a salute!
Media Evolution made a video at SSWC about the participants thought on “How big is your market” markets and the language used approaching the question as an intro to the conference on innovation and growth in new media channels, held the 24-25 of August in Malmö.
A nice video featuring in order of appearance: Björn Jeffery (CEO, Toca Boca), Emily May Green (Developer, Skriva På), Jonas Hombert (Former CEO Jaycut / now RIM), Martina Elm (Community Manager, Trip Birds) and Jonas Lejon (Serial Entrepreneur).
