Ég átti umtalverða peninga í hinum “áhættulausa” og nú alræmda Sjóði 9 hjá Glitni. Það þýðir ekkert að gráta það, þó auðvitað fylgist maður með því hvernig umræðan þróast um það hvort sjóðurinn hafi verið kominn út fyrir yfirlýsta fjárfestingastefnu sína og þá möguleg eftirmál þess. Þegar ég talaði við minn mann í bankanum í [...]
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Framtíð viðskipta: Opið bókhald og fullkomið gegnsæi?
Posted in íslenska, data, General, Ideas, opin gögn on October 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Starting up – that would be the fourth
Posted in english, General, Ideas, tagged business, start-up on June 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well, well, well. I guess it’s some kind of a medical condition, but I’m leaving a great job at Síminn (Iceland Telecom) to start up a new company once again. This will be my fourth start-up, and I’m as excited as ever. It will be a relatively slow migration as I’m finishing off a few [...]
Adventures in copyright: Open access, data and wikis
Posted in data, english, General, langtech, Philosophy on April 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I’ve just had a very interesting experience that sheds light on some important issues regarding copyright, online data and crowdsourced media such as wikis. I thought I’d share the story to spark a debate on these issues. For a couple of years I’ve worked on and off on a simple web based system for maintaining [...]
Firehose aimed at a teacup
Posted in data, english, General on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dogbert to Dilbert: Information is gushing toward your brain like a firehose aimed at a teacup. Every company, organization and individual is continuously gathering and creating all kinds of data. Most of this data collection is happening in separated silos, with very limited connections between the different data collections. This is true, even for data [...]
Dear Apple – may we pay?
Posted in english, General, Philosophy on February 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Update (Feb 7): Updated the estimated number of iPhones in Iceland in light of more reliable data. As stated before: I live in a small country, nobody wants my money. In the couple of years since I wrote that post, I’ve been watching in awe as my fellow Icelanders – and in fact a lot [...]
The inevitable business model for music
Posted in english, General on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There is a lot of turmoil in the music industry. The big publishers (usually dubbed “the majors”) are finally waking up to the fact that a decade of neglecting to come up with suitable business models for the web has bred a generation of consumers that have never paid for music. For them, music is [...]
The Government API
Posted in english, General, Ideas on October 15, 2007 | 7 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I attended a conference where there was a lot of talk about Business Process Automation (BPA) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Disclaimer: Yes, I do lead a very exciting life, even if attending such a conference may indicate otherwise. You’re probably familiar with the story: Companies are increasingly wrapping their [...]
The Polar Express … for data!
Posted in english, General, Ideas on September 19, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I was at a nerd party last Friday and as it goes, ideas became wilder as the beer supply diminished. One of the wilder ones stuck with me: Jarl brought up the possibility of a submarine cable across the Arctic region, properly connecting East-Asia and Europe. This is certainly a wild idea, but as a [...]
Be right back…
Posted in english, General on May 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Books are too long
Posted in english, General on May 4, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I love books, but I never have enough time to read. Most of my book reading is non-fictional except during the Christmas and New Year when I try to swallow the cream of the crop of the years’ fiction. A lot of the best non-fiction books are really communicating only one or two core ideas. [...]
Hjálmar Gíslason
A technology enthusiast and general nerd living in Iceland. Founder of four tech-companies. Currently working on DataMarket.
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- Heilsusamlegt upplýsingaæði er ekki síður mikilvægt en heilbrigt mataræði: http://t.co/87wMxcSw 8 hours ago
- Note to self: Product development != Software development 3 days ago
- Meðalfjöldi ferða um Víkurskarð í janúarmánuði 2012 = 523 - http://t.co/e1xKf61L 3 days ago
- just paged through the least interesting issue of @wired to date (jan 2012) in about 20 minutes. Guys, are you loosing the touch? 1 week ago
- deeply recommends @cjoh 's book, The Information Diet: http://t.co/54cpHiWy Perfect=no. The best "food for thought" I've consumed lately=yes 1 week ago
- @thorarinnh :) 1 week ago
- I've mentioned the value of startup obituaries before. Here's yet another insightful one, this time by @marksoper - http://t.co/GK0FH7pa 2 weeks ago
- RT @maranomynet: http://t.co/XiYLie3x RT @raggam Gögn um opinbera vefi eru komin í kerfi @datamarket - glæsilegt! 2 weeks ago
- sér að kálfskinnsskrifarar finna prentvél Gutenbergs allt til foráttu þessa dagana. #21öldinhringdi 2 weeks ago
- @cjoh Reading your excellent Info Diet book. Criticism: When comparing news analysts etc. to PR people, you ignored: http://t.co/wZsdYSpy 2 weeks ago
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