What does a random place on Earth look like? Is it pristine and beautiful like this one? …or polluted and gloomy like this one? Let’s find out. Let’s find photos of 5 random places around the world. But how? Random places The first challenge is to select 5 random places. This is not as straightforward [...]
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What does a random place look like?
Posted in Philosophy, english, reality check, tagged earth, environment, randomness, travel on July 16, 2010 | 10 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 [...]
Greiningadeild Hjalla
Posted in General, Philosophy, íslenska on October 23, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Ég er alger amatör í hagfræði og fjármálum. Ég hef samt ekki enn séð neinn virkilega rýna í stöðuna sem upp er komin hér á landi og hvert stóra myndin í efnahag þjóðarinnar stefnir og ef enginn vill gera hlutina fyrir mann, þá verður maður að gera þá sjálfur. Eftirfarandi hugleiðingar geta því ekki verið [...]
Vorum við öll sofandi?
Posted in General, Philosophy, íslenska on October 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Undanfarnir dagar hafa verið merkilegir. Vikurnar tvær hér á undan virðast hafa farið í þunglyndi og “refresh” á mbl.is, vb.is og Eyjunni hjá voðalega mörgum. Ég er þar engan veginn undanskilinn. Síðustu tvo daga hef ég aftur á móti orðið þess var að þetta er mjög að snúast við. Fólk er farið að sjá tækifærin [...]
Peningar vs. raunveruleg verðmæti
Posted in General, Philosophy, íslenska on October 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Í hamaganginum undanfarna daga hafa sótt að mér allskyns heimspekilegar pælingar. Sumar þeirra snúast um eðli peninga og hversu mikið peningar eigi skylt við raunveruleg verðmæti. Þarna er ég ekki að tala um mjúku hliðina – að raunveruleg verðmæti felist í ást, kærleika og hamingju (slíkt er einfaldlega á öðrum kvarða) – heldur hefðbundin veraldleg [...]
The future of finance: Total transparency?
Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, data, english on October 6, 2008 | 5 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 12 [...]
Adventures in copyright: Open access, data and wikis
Posted in General, Philosophy, data, english, langtech 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 [...]
Dear Apple – may we pay?
Posted in General, Philosophy, english 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 [...]
Visited Countries – Revisited
Posted in General, Ideas, Philosophy, english on December 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
When I read Bill Bryson’s fantastic book “A Short History of Nearly Everything“, one of the things that stood out, was a reminder that the world is still a really big place. Even though we feel that we can – with a credit card, and a solid visa – get pretty much anywhere in the [...]
Personal Blogs are the Public Life Bits
Posted in Philosophy, english on January 12, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago I wrote about “Memories for Life“, a proposal for a Grand Challenge in computer science. The aim of that Grand Challenge was to find ways to store, index and secure our digital memories, i.e. the digital trail that we’re constantly building in the form of digital photos, email correspondence, browsing history, [...]
Hjálmar Gíslason
A technology enthusiast and general nerd living in Iceland. Founder of four tech-companies. Currently working on DataMarket.
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- er að leita að klárum nörd sem er til í að taka að sér smá Google Maps mashup verkefni fyrir félaga minn - anyone? 8 minutes ago
- @andresjons @gthb Hvað með brottvísun fagráðherranna, skemmdarverk Möllers og togstreituna í flokkunum? Hefði ekki boðið í "illa heppnað"! 3 hours ago
- The days are just packed! 16 hours ago
- Oh, that's cute. Google Checkout knows the format of Icelandic postal codes. In comparison, Apple removed us from the world map :) 18 hours ago
- @pallih Ekki alslæmt (þ.e. þetta er þarna), en væri gagnlegt að sjálfar tölurnar væru aðgengilegar, en ekki bara myndir af þeim. 3 days ago
- RT @gthb Oh, neatly put: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold” http://url.is/3wm 3 days ago
- @bjalli @grapewire Þetta er alveg sniðugt - svona í fyrstu 20 skiptin :) Stundum koma innslögin líka í kippum. Fékk 5 í röð fyrr í dag?!? 4 days ago
- Býsna góð samantekt á Wikipedia (ensku) um stöðu og bakgrunn aðildarviðræðna Íslands að Evrópusambandinu: http://bit.ly/cpD8cB 4 days ago
- @grapewire Er ekki hægt að fækka aðeins innslögunum ykkar? Færi ekkert á milli mála á hvað er hlustað þó þeim myndi fækka um svona 80% :) 4 days ago
- @smarimc Jobs is no longer about tech breakthroughs, but making it easy to use and bringing it to the masses - which is far more difficult 5 days ago
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