My name is Hjalmar Gislason. I’m a technology enthusiast and entrepreneur, currently working on my fourth startup - DataMarket. Previously I founded social bookmarking and search technology company Spurl (see Spurl.net), a mobile software company called Maskina (now Vyke) and a casual gaming company called Lon&Don. On my blog you’ll find various musings about my business projects, the web and other technologies and other things as they come to mind.
Oh - and don’t be surprised if you’ll see some jibberish inbetween the English postings. That would be Icelandic, my native language, and those posts more geared towards that audience.
If you are dying to know more about me, you can take a look at my CV.
Sælt veri fólkið. Hjálmar Gíslason heiti ég. Ég er þessa dagana að koma af stað nýju netfyrirtæki sem ber heitið DataMarket. Þangað til nýlega starfaði ég sem sem forstöðumaður viðskiptaþróunar hjá Símanum auk þess sem ég hef komið að þróun símaskrárvefjarins Já.is. Ég hef í gegnum tíðina stofnað nokkur hugbúnaðarfyrirtæki: Spurl ehf (sem m.a. smíðaði leitarvélina Emblu), Maskina (sem er í dag í eigu nokkurra Norðmanna) og Lon&Don (sem sameinaðist Gagarín).
Ég hef í gegnum tíðina skrifað aragrúa af greinum um tölvur og tækni í Tölvuheim og reyndar fleiri blöð, innlend og erlend, auk þess sem ég hef verið með vikulegt spjall um sama efni, fyrst á Útvarpi Sögu, þá Talstöðinni og loks á NFS - undir titlinum Þriðjudagstæknin. Hérna á blogginu eru einhverjar pælingar, mest um tæknimál, en þó einnig um annað eftir því sem hugurinn reikar.
Inn á milli íslensku pælinganna koma stundum einhverjar enskar færslur svona eftir því sem mér þykir henta efninu í hvert skipti.
Ef þú vilt endilega vita meira um mig, þá er hérna ferilsskrá á ensku.
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heh hope you are well and looking to catch up as will be back in iceland soon
Hey was curious to know what’s going on with spurl.net these days, has it been abandoned? Several emails to the info@spurl.net have gone unanswered, and the support forums seem to be inaccessible as well. (keep getting a username password prompt that my login credentials do not work for.)
Also I was never able to get del.icio.us integration working.
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Hello,
I have the same problem with spurl.net. I use it for many years and this is sad . Please could you send me answer too. support doesn’t work
Thank you very much hjalli
PS: … nice photos :}
Hello,
indeed, support doesn’t work, and since some time the “Categories”-tab in the Spurl bar doesn’t work anymore (it keeps loading and shows no categories).