iakttakelser (observations)

Blogger has added five new views. To use them simple press here http://iakttakelser.com/view. There is a menu where you can explore different types of views.

In redisgning my social media marketing , I’ve worked through the tags in my posts. I’ve removed all tags used less than 5 times. I’ve grouped them and defined categories. Then I have distributed categories to different media platforms. My goal is to publish using the following categories: Apps Lifestyle Social media Apple iFacturas Leisure I plan to do the three first groups in English on my Apps Lifestyle blog and fanpage. The Finance also in English at the ifacturas page and blog «social financials» and the leisure stuff on iakttakelser.com or maybe mortjac.com using my native Norwegian. Here is what the tags look like, categorized with the number of tags in each category: Apps Lifestyle (772) post-PC (5) touch-mobile cloud (37) curating (5) UX (28) disruption (7) viral (7) geolocation (6) apps lifestyle (77) mobile (190) smartphone (113) wp7 (107) Android (103) Nokia (53) windows phone 7 (24) RIM (7), blackberry (7) wp7dev (13) Social media (2029) social...

I've got tweets telling me my blog doesn't work well in iPad. That's really bad. So now I'm looking at alternatives to blogging in blogger.com again. A post from wordpress.com has the original story : by Nick Momrik With the launch of Apple’s  iPad  we have seen the future of computing and it is touch. Nothing matches the visceral feel of navigating your digital world with your hands. The past four months we’ve been working closely with  Onswipe  to bring your iPad visitors our vision of what a blog can look like re-imagined for a touch experience. Our iPad-optimized view is app-like in its functionality, but pure HTML5 goodness on the backend: it supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation, and many other features of the iPad. Like when we launched our  smartphone-optimized WP-Touch integration  in 2009 (now responsible for over 150 million page views a month) this is immediately available and active on the over 18 million blogs on WordPress.com. T...

I did run the test on this blog and got: Summary The page  iakttakelser (observations)  got an overall Page Speed Score of  90  (out of 100). Click on the rule names to see suggestions for improvement. High priority.  These suggestions represent the largest potential performance wins for the least development effort. However, there are no high priority suggestions for this site. Good job!  A post from TechCrunch by Guest Author Josh Fraser has the whole story . Here is a part: Yesterday Google announced  Page Speed Online , which provides a quick and easy way to accurately measure the speed of your website directly from the web. Previously available only as a browser add-on, Google Labs launch allows you to analyze your site from anywhere and receive instant feedback on making it faster. Chances are, your website could perform better—all of ours could.  There are a lot of tools online that only measure server response time, giving an inacc...

Blogger has added five new views. To use them simple press here:  http://iakttakelser.com/view . There is a menu where you can explore different types of views.

A post from asymco.com by Horace Dediu has the original story . Here it is with kind permission: Two years ago: With new netbooks, laptops, desktops, and, yes, a smartphone, Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci explains why he expects to soon overtake No. 2 PC maker Dell via  Acer Boss Lanci Takes Aim at Dell and HP – BusinessWeek . Today Acer CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci resigned with immediate effect. Acer is in trouble. You can read more on Acer’s current problems in the wake of the downward revision of its sales targets for two quarters here:  Acer Should Overhaul Its Operation: Stan Shih | CENS.com – The Taiwan Economic News In a nutshell, whereas Acer under Lanci took aim at Dell and HP, it seems that Apple took aim at Acer. And whereas Lanci missed, Apple’s aim was true. What is interesting here is that Acer had a very disruptive approach. They used the low end “netbook” concept to take share from incumbents motivated to move up-market. But what went wrong?...

New blogger views is big news for  this blog, so I pass it along - all of it. A post from Blogger Buzz by noreply@blogger.com (Anil Sabharwal) has the original story : Today we’re previewing five new dynamic templates in Blogger that you’ll soon be able to customize and use for your blog. These new views use the latest in web technology, including AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, to deliver a host of benefits to you and your readers: Infinite scrolling: read more posts without having to reload or click to a second page New layouts: different views suited to different types of blogs Speed: download images as you view them, not all at once in advance Interactivity: there are now more ways to experience and engage with blog content Click on any of these links to take the new dynamic views for a spin on a few of our favorite blogs:  Flipcard , Mosaic ,  Sidebar ,  Snapshot  and  Timeslide . Flipcard Snapshot Mosaic To try these views on your own b...

A post from Social Media Examiner by Michael Stelzner has the whole story . Here is a part: In this video I interview  Darren Rowse , co-author of the best-selling book ProBlogger  and founder of the popular blog  ProBlogger .  ...  Here are some of the things you’ll learn in this video about how blogging has changed: The shift in blog monetization Why you should  create content to make money How to get traffic to your blog Why you need to  get off your own blog to become successful How to  find where your audience is online How Darren uses Flickr to build a stronger community around his  photography blog How Facebook can enhance your blogging How to  seed your blog content on Facebook Darren’s latest project is  ProBlogger Academy , a platform which takes bloggers through the different aspects of blogging.  Connect with Darren there,  @problogger  or on  ProBlogger.net . ...

Curating is an important part of The Apps Lifestyle. I love to read curated pages. And I like to curate posts for my readers! A post from A VC by Fred has the whole story . Here is a part: We largely invest in consumer web services with a large number of engaged users where the users create the content. Services like this can become messy and hard to navigate. There is always a signal to noise issue.   I'm a big fan of curation in these services. Twitter has  lists . Etsy has  favorites . Tumblr has  tag pages . These are all variations of curation in services that have a lot of noise in them. Recently  Kickstarter  launched their own version of curation called  Curated Pages . In the Kickstarter model, "Curated Pages are a way for organizations, institutions, and (soon) individuals to share projects they love on Kickstarter."   Here are some of my favorite Curated Pages: The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund  - The Magnum Foundati...

A post from TechCrunch by Mark Suster has the whole story . Here is a part: Editor’s Note:  This is a guest post by Mark Suster ( @msuster ), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at  GRP Partners . Read more about Suster at  Bothsidesofthetable Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. By definition, if you are reading this you read blogs. But should you actually  write  one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Absolutely. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. Suster then takes you through the why, what, where, how and when to blog. Read it. I learned a lot!

In addition to writing compelling posts, @asymco discover new great writers. J-P Teti is a 14 year old web designer and developer's blog, which I instantly put on my RSS feeds list. And to a lot of hackers disgust Teti gaves a huge writeup on why iPad is so important. A post from J-P Teti has the whole story . Here is a part: ... The teenage market is where I like to turn for a prediction of where the general market will be in a few years. Because while teens aren’t nerdy, they tend to be early adopters because it’s cool— taking out my iPad (which I often bring to school in my backpack) is actually considered showing off by a lot of people. Everyone in my class has an Android phone or an iPhone. One of my friends, again, not a tech nerd, had the Droid within 2 months of it being released and had the Verizon iPhone the day after it came out.  And this market thinks the iPad does more.  This is the key to the iPad that nobody has figured out. The iPad does everything tha...

I'm on the wrong platform. At least in regards to iPad. But my wife's school are happily on WordPress. A post from ReadWriteWeb by Mike Melanson has the whole story . Here is a part: Over the last year, blogging platform  WordPress  has nearly doubled in size growing from  10.5 million blogs  last March to 18 million today. With more than 10% of the Web powered by Wordpress - according to founding developer Matt Mullenweg - it has become increasingly important for the company to support more interfaces and today it has done just that with iPad-optimized themes. The company  announced  today that an iPad-optimized view would be immediately available, bringing "swiping, rotation, and many other features of the iPad" to all 18 million blogs on WordPress.com.

Late winter in Norway Visualized: US smartphone market share, by manufacturer and platform, made pretty This graphic is quite pretty. And easy to read. A post from Engadget Mobile by Chris Ziegler has the whole story. Here is a part: They ... #Microsoft Confirms that some Carriers are Blocking #WP7 Update I've been reading a lot these days in Social Media about Windows Phone 7 update. Here's a post that talks about some carriers blocking the u... Twitter Suspends UberTwitter Nice post by VentureBeat explains why Twitter has suspended UberTwitter (among other API brands). See here what the "boss" said to the "emp... iPad 2 Review - Hands On #humor Two Norwegian are the first to review iPad 2. Whitch has quite som shocking news... Kule monstermaster i Hardanger også? Det amerikanske arkitektkontoret fra Boston gjorde i 2008 et arbeide for å gjøre monstermastene på Island penere. Jeg synes de klarte det, m... Flummoxed, again Read the post, try to read it a...

I've tried to leave blogger many times. For wordpress, for tumblr, for posterous just to name a few. I keep posting on blogger however. No other gives a productivity like my blogging platform of seven years! Until I see the new mobile template, I certainly will not even think about it... A post from buzz.blogger.com by has the whole story . Here is a part: To start, we’re kicking things off at  SXSW  by giving folks a sneak peek at our next-generation user interface. The new design is not only cleaner and more modern, but it also uses  Google Web Toolkit , delivering the latest in web technology. Current post editor New post editor Current dashboard New dashboard

Have you a blogger soul and don't want to be stuck on your chair in front of your computer the whole day? If so, you must read this post I found in richescorner.com. I mention 5 of the 10 here: I love my iphone. The design is amazing and the apps allow me to check in, manage my time, and get some entertainment on the go all in one device. I have quite a few go to apps that I use that help me out with my various blogging needs. Need some help with time management? How about taking some quick notes? Need a break from work? There’s an app for that. I’d like to share with you some of the staple apps that I have on my phone. Not all of these are specifically just for blogging, but they all help you out in your daily lives on some level. And anything that makes you more efficient will help you become a better blogger: 1.  Evernote This is one of my favorite apps for taking notes. It syncs automatically and is intuitive and easy to use. I can create text notes, take photos and record vo...