Interviewed by TigerPrises/ArcticStartup
Talked to Toivo Tänavsuu last week on what’s happening at Skype, how is the labour market looking and how do we relate to the broader technology startup scene in Estonia. The video inteview was publised on TigerPrises and ArcticStartup. Interview with Sten Tamkivi from Skype from Toivo Tänavsuu on Vimeo.
Migration Misery: Feedburner becomes Google
Google started this year with aggressively reviewing its product portfolio. A number of services were announced to be shut down recently. That’s fine, times are tough. And even if they were not – I still admire the decisiveness of any large product company to occasionally merge similar things and kill the ones that haven’t gained [...]
A few more seats at ArcticEvening
As Jüri announced last week, ArcticStartup.com‘s ArcticEvening event is coming to Tallinn next Wednesday, Jan 28th, at Von Krahl. In cooperation with OpenCoffee Tallinn and Connect Estonia. As the initially planned 100 seats filled up really quickly, the organizers increased it to 150. And at the time I’m writing this, there are some 28 still [...]
China Is Larger Than Germany
“Well, duh”, you might say, but actually until recently it was not. GDP-wise that is. Based on 2007 numbers, the top economies in the world were: the US of A, $13.8 trillion Japan, $4.38 trillion China, $3.38 trillion Germany, $3.32 trillion Media coverage around this change has a lot of interesting facts, worth reading Bloomberg [...]
Green Cars and Economic Stimuli
Heard on the morning news that the German $66B economic stimulus package passed today also includes a measure to encourage people replace their cars. It is sort of understandable as a short term measure, as their economy is quite reliant on the infamous German car makers who, of course, are looking at a bleak 2009. [...]
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Villu küsis mult sama küsimuse, mis Telleriltki (ja ilmselt mitte ainult): [15:44:41] Villu Arak: Räägin lähiajal korporatiivblogimise vallas ringikompavatele inimestele blogimise rõõmudest. Tahaks pisut tsiteerida tarku inimesi oma jutu kõrvale – olgu siis nimeliselt või anonüümselt. Kuna sa oled aktiivne blogiserverite bittidega täitja, mõtsin uurida, millised on nt. sinu 3 tipmist blogimisräkitiga seotud põhimõtet või [...]
Swedbank, ambitsioonid ja innovatsioon
Loen eilsest Eesti Ekspressist ja imestan: Sulev Vedler: Eesti tahab saada teadmistepõhise majandusega arenenud riigiks. Priit Perens, Swedbank Eesti juht: Kõrgtehnoloogiline tootmine on eesmärgina hästi ilus ja sümpaatne. Aga see ei ole see asi, millega me majanduse vee peale toome. Enamik inimesi teeb meil suhteliselt lihtsaid asju.[...] Esiteks, me ei konkureeri hiinlastega. Me konkureerime Soome, [...]
Skype 4.0 Beta 3 – UPDATED
Skype launched the third beta version of the new and shiny 4.0 client for Windows in December. I missed reblogging the news here, but you can read from the source what Mike said about Beta 3 on Skype Blogs. In a nutshell, the History is back, a new Bandwidth Manager improves your audio and video [...]
Tired of Steve Jobs Health “Reports”
Well, ever since Steve Jobs went skinny (again, that is), the global Apple community and both new and old media have been nuts about speculations around his health. During the holidays it was quite funny to see a classic butterfly effect in action when Ross and Robert Scoble were… buying yogurt in Palo Alto. “Confirmed: [...]
2008 Travel Report
Looking back at 2008 I discovered that it was a quiet one — travel-wise that is. Mostly I have to thank Etta for her appearance in May and becoming a good excuse for some no-fly-zone right before and paternity leave after, running into the summer. Number of business trips: ~15 Flight legs: ~32 (+ 3 [...]
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