09:11 – Good morning. People are starting to show up at the Swyx Technology Conference. We will try at our best to cover the most important information revealed during this first STC from Dortmund. Stay tuned to this blog post and make sure to update your browser window from time to time.

Please note that pictures are taken with a mobile phone at the moment. There might be higher quality photos available later.



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It has been really interesting to see what has keeping Google busy lately.

First they launched a really neat feature called ‘Chrome-To-Phone’. In short, it will add a button to Chrome that lets you seamlessly push links, maps, and currently selected text and phone numbers to your Android device. Basically a ‘CTI’ function between your browser and Android phone. If Swyx could release an Android version of SwyxIt! Mobile, this could actually be used to make some sort of CTI for Android phones integrated with SwyxWare. How sweet would that be!

 

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Before the summer of 2009 we started up a new company to bring Hosted SwyxWare to Norwegian resellers. We refer to this as Cloud Communication. Starting a company from scratch is a perfect way to be a little bold and try to do things differently. So, my quest as the CTO was to see just how ‘cloudy’ a company can be in the year of 2009…

There it was. Just like that. In my email inbox. An invitation to use Google Wave.

I suddenly got interested in fashion and clothing. But not for the reason you think…

I suddenly got interested in fashion and clothing. But not for the reason you think…

I had just start reading an article about Google Wave ( O'Brien: Google Wave Is like e-mail, only way more complicated ). When I read the introduction, I had to smile a little bit:

By chance I stumbled over the website of a certain Mr. Bernd Baringhorst. Want to know more about the man behind the graphical profile of Swyx Solutions? Then visit his home page Bernd Baringhorst.

…and made a Swyxware video presentation. Use it at your own risk…







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Today is a special day. Well not the day in itself, but the date; 07.08.09. It will not happen again for a hundred years, so spend the day wisely…

Just sharing my first experience of preparing lobster. Enjoy.







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I just got the time too watch the complete Google I/O Wave presentation. I must say I am looking forward to this. A lot of the feature they are showing, is exactly the features I have missed.







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Maybe construction is not one of the skills your friends associate you with. But I am pretty sure you could have done better than this!

I have written about the startup of our company, UCIT. Finally every piece of the puzzle is in place.

Since I am so ego-centric, I always test new search engines by doing a search on my own name. Bing was no exception, but I may say I got myself a surprise when I checked out the image search.

This is my latest project.

One of my favourite games for the Amiga was Ports of Call. I also bought it for the PC a couple of years ago. It is a trading simulator, where you transport goods from one port in the world to another.

So when I read about a project that is using Goolgle Earth to make a ship simulator, I tested it right away.

The ‘game’ is developed by Dinther Product Design.

Try it here: Ships

Tomorrow Jean-Michel Jarre will be back in Oslo as part of the World Tour. So now you know where to find me tomorrow…

Swyx has been around for ten years. We just started our business, with strong focus on Swyx products and we are sure we will be successful delivering services based on the Swyx product range. The first step is now completed, we have an officelocation and the necessary IT systems up and running. The CRM, accounting and logistic system is a web-based solution from 24SevenOffice. Email and simple office applications are handled with Google Apps for Domains.

Our office is located in Østensjøveien 36, just 8 minutes from Oslo center with the Metro or car. We are renting two offices from another company. They rent the complete floor and rent some of the offices to us and another company.

We are very satisfied to get such a nice office location, for a quite reasonable price I think. Enjoy the photos of the office below.

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We decided to start our own company! I am no longer an YIT employee.

Check out this ‘game’ from Microsoft. Don’t limit yourself to be a geek in real life, step into your virtual parallel universe.

Designed to look like any C64 game, it’s fun (and yes, of course it is some kind of advertising)

Click the picture to play (requires Silverlight)

Are you into the business of sharing your screen. Here are two free tools to help you do just that.

More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas



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The use of the WEB just took yet another step in the right direction; Games as a Service.







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BATAVIA, IL—In October, Fermilab scientists joined a growing number of physicists around the world in warning that the Very Large Earth Collider—a $117 billion electromagnetic particle accelerator built to study astronomical phenomena by colliding Earth into various heavenly bodies—could potentially destroy Earth when it sends the planet careening headlong into Mars, Jupiter, or even the sun.

Read the rest here: The Onion

If you are the kind of person that will get exited every time your car' odometer reaches some 'magic' sequence of digits, then friday the 13th will be your lucky day. That's because, at precisely 23:31:30 UTC on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most Unix computers ( Unix time ) will display all ten decimal digits in sequence.

Ever needed a bad excuse to party? Well, then join these guys: 1234567890day.com

Anyone wants to join my SwyxWare-reaches-11223344-calls-party? It will take place by the water-cooler of the IT-department...

French political elites are pushing through, at home and abroad, the most unscrupulous law project on copyright: HADOPI, which stands for Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet (high authority for the distribution of works and the protection of rights on the Internet).

Read the whole article on Ludwig von Mises Institute

1975: Erno Rubik files for a patent on his twisty toy cubes.

On the 24th of January 1984, the Apple Macintosh was launched. Two days before, on the 22nd, the Mac is introduced to the world in a now-legendary TV commercial aired during Super Bowl XVIII.

The way out of the financial crises is clear. People need to spend money again. If you do not buy then businesses will go out of business. Remember, this is not the time to stop shop expensive coffees with steamed warm milk in it. If you do, the coffee shop will go out of business and you will need to make the next latte yourself.

This was meant for friday, but it was not possible to publish it for some reason:

Keeping the tradition alive, read on for some friday night fun...

The Antikythera mechanism, is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1901. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150–100 BC; and hypothesised that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's new chief software architect was handpicked by Bill Gates to retool the Windows giant for the 21st century. Gates refers to him as "one of the top five programmers in the universe."

Wired.com runs an excellent feature article on the new CSA in Microsoft. This is exactly why I love reading Wired articles. It's more than just tech, it's history, it's the spirit of people just destined to end up in the chair of chairs.

Please enjoy this excellent article from the Wired website

Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode

According to Mark Twain history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. How true is this in the times of global credit crunch.

I could not help myself from sharing this with you. I just logged in to the web shop of the biggest proffessional IT distributor in Norway. Look what I found! This is the Top Selling Items list. If you did not catch it already; 'Mest populære' means 'Most popular'. I can not find my self to ignore the irony between this list and the logo below it

29th of october 2008, the first snow in Oslo. I think I better start from my home office. It will be chaos in the traffic, like always.

EDIT: Oh man, did it become chaotic. Yes!

A lot of accidents (luckily no-one got hurt badly), people driving around on summer tires (hello, it has been snowing in Norway since like before cars even existed, but people are just as suprised every year) and people changing tires in the middle of the road. To bad you can not read Norwegian, you could have read a lot of funny things about this in the newspaper today.

Have you lost all your money? Do not loose your ability to laugh! I will take you back 25 years to a much easier era when everything was just sooo much better (according to my father). This is the cover page of the first issue of a Norwegian computer magazine that hit the market in 1983.

BTW; 1983 was just four years before the meltdown of the economy in the end of the 80's started. So do not despair, we will get over this current one as well!

1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:     19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman  :-)From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use: :-(     With that post, Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon. From those two simple emoticons (a portmanteau combining the words emotion and icon) have sprung dozens of others that are the joy, or bane, of e-mail, text-message and instant-message correspondence the world over. Source: wired.com

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I could have used the opportunity to write about what happened in the US air space seven years ago on this day. But I won't. I will write about something happening on this day in 1822.

Microsoft is still the worlds richest company with around 23 billion dollars in its valet. But Apple might soon catch up. Apple now have a 20.8 billion dollar in cash and is adding a nice one billion dollars to it every quarter at the moment.

Apple has apparently included a blacklisting mechanism in iPhone OS 2.x via which the device can phone home, check for unauthorized applications, and disable them.

Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph. It will dominate the world of small-press-run publication for a century.

The mimeograph machine (commonly abbreviated to mimeo) or stencil duplicator, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs were for many decades used to print short-run office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. These technologies began to be supplanted by photocopying in the 1960s, although in mid-range quantities, mimeographs are still more economical than photocopiers. Photocopying and cheap offset printing have replaced mimeography almost entirely in developed countries. But...

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This is the time when all the Olympic spirit will ignite in peaceful glory in China. 8 years in the planning, 40 billion dollars spent, and 8 is a Chinese lucky number.

The last moths I have been using a free WEB meeting service called DimDim. This is a great tool with a price/performance ratio hard to beat.

Most of the inhabitants in Norway live close to water. Either by living in one of the places along the coast, the fjords or by some inland lake. For this reason it is quite surprising to read that Norwegian' 10 years old children turn out to be on the bottom of the ranking in Europe based on the requirements for swimming skills needed.

Is Microsoft working on a new OS?