Thanks M

Am thrilled to have the new Macbook air.

www.Healthcare.com perfectly positioned for E-Health wave

E-Health is estimated to be a € 450 billion industry. Telecoms are racing towards etablsihing their share of the e-health market.

Orange recently launched Orange healthcare in an aim to be a driving force in a service industry catering the medical professionals, as well as the private individuals, the elderly and disabled markets.

BT has established itself as the provider of a variert of services for  several nayional e-health strategies.

Vodaphone Care, Germany, provides a health hotline through service providor vitaphone.

LundXY is proud to back Matias Tazanos, founder of Healthcare.com a global all health sector englobing health register with 1.2 million care providors in their directory (online and mobile). www.healthcare,com and well positioned for the boom of the e-health market

Hidden talents

I am so lucky to meet some of the smartest people around, especially those changing the landscape of the web.

We all have something we think we are pretty good at outside or inside our work.

Daniel Ek is just a more extreme form of hiding a talent. Having been CTO of www.stardoll.com (revolutionary interactive site/game/online reality for teens) he is co-founder and CEO at Spotify www.spotify.com/about/, streaming music on demand via lightweight software downloadable on multi-platforms (media systems, phones, Iphone…).

So this is, pretty/very good. But i just discovered he is a composer and producer who’s song is at the top of the Swedish charts, and composes for some big names in the music industry. I love this song. Its just nice, and fresh and NICE. Cant believe someone can be that discrete.

taking online social, chat and gaming SHOPPING

I count 107 online public social communities. I havnt even started on the chat options (and am a little annoyed since MSN has virused my laptop), the gaming sites and celeb gossip sites.

But i know this:
 - online social is in, its here, it will stay and grow in one shape or form and will have to become more versatile and interesting than just ‘poking’ people
 - online gaming is big, especially the smaller, short and less cash intense options – also mobile, and gaming products for women will get more and more popular
 - we love chatting and need all the gadgets to do it
 - we love shopping: especially if its Marc Jacobs and Gucci at half price

I will do a super fashion, hot e-commerce site (retailing the most popular brands at very VERY good prices – thanks to my rather fantastic supplier), but I will make it super social, sticky to the max with gaming to earn points, celeb gossip and cover girl competitions to become a star.

Investors. Ping me.

Merry Christmas

This isnt supposed to be a pseudo ‘Queen’s address’ i just wanted to say Merry Christmas. It has been an amazing year.
Some of my favorite memories contain: lots of Joe the Juice, watermelon martinis, the fear of independance, sushi at 2am, the internet, jogging in sunshine in the city of city’s, dyrhaven, our office, what we do – whatever that is, Queen, the Board Label, Soho house, meeting my mentor - the best mentor you could ever have (Guy, merci)! my baby niece whom i am completely in love with, jogging, again. 
I wont name names, you all know where you are in that list.
Thank-you to all the amazing people i have met and had the honour to work with. Thank-you to my beautiful girlfriends, for always being there. Thank-you Rasmus and Morten, you guys are fantastic.

You always go back for more

This is what i see from my window at my childhood home. I love it and know every tree type and when it blooms and when the fruit tress, fruit. I have learnt my Cicero off by heart, have chatted for hours with girlfriends.

A lot of people “go home” for Christmas, this usually entails famillies reuniting, which is the most explosive of concepts – everyone has different lives, agendas, paradigms and suddenly need to get on together under one roof. Here’s the fact: IT DOESNT WORK, and ITS NOT HEALTHY. Every year we all say, “never again, next year i will go to a spa instead” but we keep on going back….

But it IS useful to remember where you come from, who you were, who you are, and who you want to become.

p.s. I love how in Luxembourg you can walk through the Grand rue and meet someone every 2 mins who you know so well and havnt seen in years. The Grand rue is the best natural networking environment ever, its like being in a village – but with LV, Cartier and Celine…

A Brave New World

107 Social networking websites listed in Wikepedia – so was Aldous Huxley right about the ‘Brave New World’ being dehumanised?. Not entirely – but he wasnt entirely wrong either. 

In “A Brave New World” Aldous Huxley writes about a dehumanized world, where material comfort and physical pleasure—provided by the drug soma and recreational sex—are the only concerns.When I think about the Internet, the words ’A Brave New World’ come to mind. Not because of the book – because it is unchartered territory. Exploring is something we do well, I don’t know where it fits on Pavlovs pyramid of needs, but we all like to do it, every day. The Internet gives us a New World to explore and conquer. Everyone can be a pioneer and conqueror. (Who doesn’t have a blog, a myspace, or an online email account).

So, what Huxley right? would the next world be monopolized by ‘soma and sex’? well, in a sense he wasn’t totally wrong. One in four searches are sex related; the real online moneymakers are porn, gambling and e-commerce (amazon) guys and gals.Huxley’s world is DEHUMANIZED. The Internet was long accused of the same fate, and making people anti-social.BUT the exact opposite is happening: its making us HYPER SOCIAL. We have never had so many friends and networks, nor communicated so quickly. Today’s Internet stars and busy bees are ALL doing SOCIAL. Everything has to have a community linked to it, and the Internets most valued currency is personal information.

Am loving SPOTIFY

Check out www.spotify.com 

Once on your desktop, you will be hooked.

Its all the music you could dream of, easy usability like Itunes….but its streaming. You can listen to new music all day (it comes with loads of great suggestions) and you dont pay 1cent.

am a fan.

How simple one can make running a company

I just got back from visiting a the distribution wharehouse of company we will work with to take pan-european.

Their work is an example of how to cut the BS and pretentions out of running a company. They just DO with what they have and with what seems logical.

They are 5 people, managing the distribution, website and purchasing of a company that makes €150,000 per month only in Scandinavia (they get some help with the marketing).
They dont have MBAs, havnt worked in large corporations, havnt held management positions, they dont do fancy lunches.

They simply manage a huge chunk of the value chain, for a very profitable company (which they founded) using basic logic, teamwork, hard work and home remedies.

AND IT WORKS! I take my hat off.

Did Facebook just go on steroids?

All of a sudden, people around me are talking and doing facebook EVEN more. I mean a lot more. Havnt I caught the train yet or I have aready been on it?….i cant decide.

Everyone is ‘doing my facebook’ or ‘catching up on my facebook all morning’. Socialising has become a full time job! networking on facebook as superceded our daily tasks. Facebook better figure out a decent business model soon, otherwise we will all be broke very quickly.

WHY ?- POPULARITY CAN NOW BE MEASURED OBJECTIVELY

There is  new social rivalry, the inadequacy of having too few friends has created FACEBOOK ENVY and so we developed a new mania for collecting friends.

Who has the most friends?
Who has the most GLAMOROUS friends? people are going after that eurotrash mix of artists, politicians, a bit of aristocracy and a couple of milionaires. But be careful of too many girls….the wife may get jealous!

The detail and banality of what we communicate to one another is another Facebook phenomena:
‘Morten is a jingle bell’ ??? do I really want to know or even dare start to think what he means?
‘Ashraf IS’ – I like that one

I read that the average Brit spends 191 mins per month on Facebook and that UK businesses are losing £132 mln per day in lost productivity. They say there will be 50mln users by Christmas and 200mln by 2011. I suppose Mark Zuckerberg didnt mean to lower most countries’ GDP with his online community….

Then again, are we all going to get bored of ‘poking’ one another aimlessly? Will someone come up with something a little more content rich?

But for now I will go work on my facebook - I need more friends otherwise I may start to look like a loner! shock horror!