I’m pleased to announce the launch of DataMarket’s new website.
As the name implies, DataMarket is about creating a marketplace for data - structured data to be more specific. This means all sorts of statistics and tabular data, including but not limited to: market research, exchange rates, various financial information, economic indicators, weather data, sports results, [...]
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DataMarket launched
Posted in Ideas, data, datamarket, english, tagged data, datamarket, structured data, market research, statistics on November 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Presentation on Innovation (IceWeb 2008)
Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, english, tagged bubbles, crisis, economy, iceland, innovation on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ever since the banking crisis struck Iceland a few weeks ago, I’ve been running out and about to advocate for innovation as the way to rebuild the economy.
Yesterday, I was privileged to give a presentation on the topic at the IceWeb conference. The title of my talk was “The Innovation Renaissance” and the slides can [...]
Þegar hugmynd fær fólk…
Posted in english on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fyrir fimm vikum síðan mætti ég á “kick-off” fund í námskeiði sem kallast Business Innovation Lab. Námskeiðið er samstarfsverkefni Listaháskóla Íslands og Háskólans í Reykjavík og er ætlað að koma saman viðskiptafræðinemum í HR og hönnunarnemum í hinum ýmsu greinum í LHÍ og nýta kraft og kunnáttu hvors um sig til að koma fram með [...]
Hagkerfi stór og smá
Posted in english on October 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Í einum af uppsveitum Borgarfjarðar býr rútubílstjóri á leigulóð.
Fyrir nokkrum árum skuldaði hann landeigandanum leigu - sagan segir 50.000 krónur. Fyrir skuldinni skrifaði hann ávísun og afhenti landeigandanum. Landeigandinn taldi ólíklegt að innistæða væri fyrir ávísuninni, en lét gott heita.
Skömmu síðar var komið að því að landeigandinn stæði skil á útsvari til sveitarinnar. Sem hluta [...]
Sprota og -þekkingarfyrirtæki
Posted in english on October 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Uppfært 29. október, 2008: Söfnun þessarra upplýsinga hefur verið flutt á vefinn Nýsköpun.org. Færslan var uppfærð m.t.t. þess.
Við erum hérna nokkur að reyna að koma saman lista yfir helstu sprota- og þekkingarfyrirtæki landsins. Þetta er gert í því skyni að geta sýnt að þetta sé raunverulega til og eitthvað sem getur vaxið upp úr rústum [...]
Nýja Ísland: Nokkur forgangsmál
Posted in english on October 14, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Meira um kraftinn sem er að losna úr læðingi og hverng hægt er að virkja hann.
Meðan útbrunnu pólitíkusarnir, reiðu álitsgjafarnir og fátæku auðmennirnir eru að taka til eftir partíið og rífast um það hvort bankakerfið stækkaði of mikið fyrir baklandið eða baklandið fylgdi ekki nógu vel eftir bankakerfinu (hvort kom á undan eggið eða hænan?) [...]
To: Gordon Brown - From: An Icelander
Posted in english on October 10, 2008 | 35 Comments »
Dear Mr. Brown,
(cc: The international press)
Here in Iceland, we are busy dealing with a series of mistakes in government, regulation and banking operations.
As a result of a total collapse of our banking system, customers in the UK have feared for their deposits in Icelandic banks, just like every single Icelander has. In accordance with international [...]
The future of finance: Total transparency?
Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, data, english on October 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The financial crisis hit Iceland full force last Monday. One of our banks was pretty much nationalized, followed by a large investment company filing the equivalent of Chapter 11. This led to significant losses by a large “risk free” money market fund, that stored a part or all of the personal savings of some [...]
The Case for Open Access to Public Sector Data
Posted in data, english, opin gögn, tagged data, open data on August 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This article will be published tomorrow in The Reykjavík Grapevine.
Government institutions and other public organizations gather a lot of data. Some of them - like the Statistics Office - have it as their main purpose, others as a part of their function, and yet others almost as a by-product of their day-to-day operations.
In this case [...]
Enter the cloud - but how deep?
Posted in datamarket, english, tagged cloud computing on July 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The new company is officially founded and has got a name: DataMarket. You’ll have to stay tuned to hear about what we actually do, but the name provides a hint
In the last couple of weeks I’ve spent quite some time, thinking about the big picture in terms of DataMarket’s technical setup, and [...]





