Let’s face a weird fact – global warming, in many ways the end of growth for the western world, could be the way out of poverty for a billion people. How can that be? Well, it’s simple really:
Greenhouse gas is not worth anything, it’s simply waste. But, as with any waste – once it piles [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Linus
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After almost 2,5 years of hard work and determination I’m blessed to see GiverSigns spreading all over the world. It is WWF’s Earth Hour campaign that is taking our baby to new heights and places. Earth Hour is one of the largest, if not the largest, advocacy campaigns on the environment ever. It is the [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Linus
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Hey, let’s take a couple of worn out words and stick ‘em together. (Ok, found 21800 hits on Google for “Change 2.0″… But who cares, that’s kind of the beauty of the Internet…)
Let me give you my definitions of the words change and 2.0:
Change: Defines the moment when something seize to exist in [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Linus
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It is amazing to look at the development of Viral TIME concepts over the last year. For those of you who have not yet contemplated on the title of this blog and what it really means, here it is:
Viral, as in viral,
TIMEs, as in time(s) of course, but also as in: Telecom, Internet, Media, Entertainment, [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Linus
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The so called global financial crisis hit us like a swarm of meteors smacking down on a big juicy oil field. Pieces of rock shredding the earth, breaking, starting fires, flames burning us, smoke blinding our vision, all hell breaking loose.
Yeah right… I’m so fed up with all the BS of this global crisis… Let [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Linus
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When advertising online, or offline for that matter, good targeting is getting more and more important. If you sell cars you want to spend your ad-dollars on sites where car-buying people might see it. Then come the question of attention, will the possible buyer pay attention to your ad?
When it comes to Peer-2-Peer marketing – [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Linus
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I once heard a couple of Swedish businessmen discuss the “slow south populations – rather sleeping than working half of the day. If they worked like we do they would not be so poor.”
Hello?
We are right now in the middle of the yearly Swedish 60-days siesta, stretching from mid June to mid August. I’m not [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Linus
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One trillion dollars. That is what the US spent, combined with indirect costs and losses, on the war in Iraq so far.
One million million dollars.
Get some perspective:
The calculated cost to eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally: 19 billion dollars.
The calculated cost to provide education for every kid on earth: 12 billion dollars.
The calcutated cost to provide [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Linus
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I’m currently trying to do something extraordinary, even by my standards!
It’s a potential deal in the US that could lead to some great business opportunities for Asaasco and extra viral powers for a contemporary progressive political movement, if you know what I mean…
Anyway, I really got some serious returns this week from my notorious [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Linus
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I love this guy called Obama:
“I’m in this race to take those tax breaks away
from companies that are moving jobs overseas
and put them in the pockets of hard working
Americans who deserve it. And I won’t raise the
minimum wage every ten years – I will raise it
to keep pace so that workers don’t’ fall behind.
That is [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Linus
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