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T H E · B U Z Z · W O R D · at Web 2.0 in SF was Corporate Machups. Portals that presents content produced on other sites in a new way. John Musser from Programmableweb presented web oriented architechtures. Microsofts Amit Mital lectured on MS Mech tech that connects computers.

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L I S T E N E D · T O · S T A R B R E E Z E · HR Manager the other day. He lectured on the Starbreeze production organization, who do what and when. He also payed a tribute to the demoscene where Starbreeze originates from. Right now their in the production of the sequel of the first Riddick game.

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T H E · W I N N E R S · yesterday of the ishockey series HV71 is from Jönköping the hometown of Dreamhack computer festival and LAN/Demoparty. Congratulations HV71, Jönköping and Dreamhack for that matter.
Read more on the final 6th match

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J O S H · K L E I N · down to the left held an most entertaining keynote speach on Swedish Institute of Computer Science Day 2008 in Electrum at Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. Josh lectured on training of crows and cats, his work as SF author etc. Other lecturer talked over the development of intilligent lighting and displays in public places.
Transcripts form all lectures could be asked for by a comment or email.
SICS day info

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Y E S T E R D A Y · I attended the computer newspaper Computer Swedens Career Expo at Berns in Stockholm. Several companies where represented. I talked to IT-Resurs, Sandvik, Softronic and IBM representatives.

One of the most interesting highlights of the evening was the lecture by headhunter/senior HR expert, managing partner Per-Allan Karlsson at Heidrick & Struggles Stocholm office. He presented inside thoughts on the recruitment process, do and dont’s.

Visit CareerXpo Stockholm

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I · A M · J U S T · B A C K · after two days conference on the contry side outside Stockholm. At an old military base a new conference center has been established. Discussions, group assignments and a lot of food and wine etc had been a daily matter. Now it's time to rest and maybe run i the forrest.

Visit the conference center www.gallofsta.se

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I · H A V E · R E L E A S E D · a demo album called "Expost Nuus" in Februar. A sample with short exerptions could be found here on allears.se. The theme is travelling and is comprehended as a concept album for a travelling video game where the main character visits different exotic places. The album is in an orcestral instrumental genre.

Visit AllEars.se and listen to the Demo

Click on the image to see cover art in high resolution

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W H O · I S · T H E · G R E A T E S T · nintendo weirdo of the world? The Angry Nintendo Nerd with his outrages and graphical effects? Members, not only making SIDs, of the minimalistic famous Swedish demogroup FLT that was nominated for a prize for best demo at the annual Scene Award at Breakpont in the Frankfurt Metro area? The completely insane Nintendo Girl that writes on her rantings and bad behaviour on her USA visits. Telling you stories that Astrid Lindgren could dream of. Or is it the demoscener/musician from d4rkn3ss in Linköping based demo group that used to shout and mess around in his ugly shirts, making new school tunes in nsf-format just like NYC based Nullsleep. I wote for finnish hardcore sceners making extreme minimalsitic metal on nsf. Or maybe Ron the Hedgehog dressed as Mario.
Btw, here is a fun game tune cover to jam to recomended by the Nintendo Girl.

Visit the demoscene comunity on www.scene.org

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B O (S) (S) E · B Y L U N D · who will finish his job as boss for the Arbetsförmedlingen. He was an example of the old habit to place leftist SAP people on leading posts in Swedish State administration, and in this conduct strong ideologicaly based leadership of different sectors of the state.
Source: Realtid.se

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4 0 0 · E M P L O Y E E S · at SVT, will be sacked declares CEO Eva Hamilton. All production except news will be closed in Norrköping and the production will be centered to Stockholm, Göteborg , Malmö and Umeå. Sveral titles will change production location. 150 over 65 will leave the company. I hope SVT will produce more independent and free television as their device says. Maybee not so much extremistic content anymore.
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T H E · J O N S H U L T · F A M I L Y · A L B U M : V O L U M E · 1 · release party and concert in the dungons of Kaffegillet Trångsund 4, Old Town Stockholm, Sunday March 31 01.00 PM. 8:14 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit -

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I N V E S T I G A T I N G · F O R B E S · annual list of the world’s 1000 richest (men:) USA dominates overall, but a new trend is clear as diamonds. Russia is rising. Young russian business-men is poping up like muchrooms and they are welleducated and building up their own business in sectors like banking, property development, real estate, oil etc. Sergey Polonsky (born 1972) of Mirax Group serves as one example. The americans are big in IT development and investment like hedge funds. One example of an rising young american business-man is Peter Thiel, aged 40, born in Frankfurt am Main, living in San Francisco. He is the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook. He is also gay, if that is of any significance.

Sweden resides 1% of the hyper rich individuals in a population that is 1‰ of the world population.

Forbes.com

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B Y · U B I S O F T. According to Gamasutra has the french video game publisher acquired rights to Tom Clancy name for games, media. The Tom Clancy brand is worth USDM 20. I am willing to sell out my name Tom Smoke for just a fraction of that.

Learn more on Gamasutra

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“Web 2.0 technologies are empowering us in ways we could only have imagined even just a few years ago. We're able to build more, connect more, have more fun, sell more stuff, share more than ever before—and do it all faster.” (Web 2.0 Expo 2008)

T H E · O P E N I N G · T A G · L I N E · for Web 2.0 Expo above, an expo to be arranged in San Francisco 22–25 April. Companies like Intel, Google, Disney, Sun, Adobe, Yahoo, Amazone, Citrix will present their web 2.0 solutions and Strategies.

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I · H A V E · G O T · a new stage outfit: a skull'n'bones hat, black pinstripe suit, skull'n'bones shoes, black shirt. Pictures to be up soon. Not exactly looking as good as the gentleman to the left but almost. Go visit my pictures at my Flicker site btw.

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S A T C H U R A T O R · a new effect introduced by Vox Amp. and master guitarist Joe Satriani at Musikmesse Frankfurt 08 12–15 March. The gadged is in a simplistic red retro design.
At the fair is Lamb of God and Swedens own Arch Enemy and Mattias ”Snackis” Eklund from Gothtowns Freakkitchen.

Visit Musikmesse

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T E C H · M A N A G E R · A N D · D E V E L O P E R · Mr. J. Lindfors at Microsoft Developer Network, runs his own blog, where he discusses technological aspects and topics related to development on the Windows plattform.

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P U B L I S H I N G · on your myspace/facebook status line is a new oportunity for writing development. Several myspace artists like Metal Sanaz and Snakemannn are using this method. You have to uptade often and write a lot of fun stuff. You change your main image often and make it entertainng. A lot more valid and relevant than ordinary boring trad. printed media that where born to die.
Btw if Snakemannn wants to develop his silver business I have an unemployed goldsmith from Bagdad who wants an internship and searching for employment opportunities.

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A T · T H E · E V E N T · snack and breweries was served. After the lectures the attenders socialised. Lee Sandberg programmer from Sightline Vision and Johan Lindfors Tech. Evangelism Manager from Microsoft.
Visit Johans blog