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Schmooze your parents with Geomeer’s saftey app

GeolocationGeomeerWhen I was a teenager, the word “curfew” didn’t exist in my family, just one simple rule: as long as my parents always knew where I was, whom I was with and when I was expected back home, I could stay out at night for as long as I wanted. Today, most families have a  0

Samsung Smart Window

user interfacesYou have all seen it in the movies: windows that double as computer touch screens. Now it is reality in the labs, and apparently soon in mass production. Samsung has done it again. Enjoy.  0

Gamify your toilets

gamificationOver the years I have heard many ideas of how to use games in different settings, for example putting a bicycle game in front of the gym bikes having the customers at the gym competing with each other, burning more calories. Or, as we proposed to energy companies in Sweden when I worked for Tieto, having customers compete with each others in energy savings. This is the first time that I have heard about using games in the toilets.  0

Is Facebook overvalued? Naah, I don’t know anymore…

facebooksocial mediaI used to say that Facebook is overvalued. I’m not so sure anymore – Facebook is now the de-facto platform for the social layer on the web, just as Google is the de-facto platform for indexed search. Watch this video and try to grasp the figures.  0

Sign agreements online. E-avtal 2.0 is launched.

Digital SignatureseavtalWhy kill trees just sign an agreement when you can create and sign agreements online? As a shareholder, I am proud to announce that E-avtal version 2.0 is live. The service dramatically reduces the cost and time to sign agreements by reducing the need to mail and archive a paper original of the agreement and is for example integrated with the house rental section of Sweden’s biggest classified site Blocket.se.  Comments Off
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