Digital surveillance brings typewriters back in fashion »

15 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Keeping secrets online is notoriously difficult. Data has a tendency to escape when we least want it. Many of us have been caught with a white lie, as social media posts reveal that we may not have be... »

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Commission anti-trust investigation welcome »

12 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The EU commission announced yesterday that they will investigate whether the internet providers collaboration is a case of an illegal trust. While it is too early to draw conclusions about the outcome... »

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Unlimited innovation through apps? »

11 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The success of platforms like the Appstore and Google Play is beyond question. By giving developers access to a global market through a service that also provides payment options and device standards ... »

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There can be only one »

10 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Niche monopolies seems to be the nature of the internet, there is really only one search engine, one auction site, on ads listings site, one business networking service etc. It makes sense too, at lea... »

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Lifelogging »

8 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Tried it yet? The trend of logging and posting everything that can be logged and posted: meals eaten, runs taken, places visited, people met… It’s the combination and extension of social media, that’s... »

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Looks can be deceiving »

5 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

As editor of Netopia, I am proud to introduce a new columnist: Rhoda Crocket. Many things in our world are not really what they appear to be and a big part of being an informed citizen is developing t... »

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Just like the post office »

4 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The claim is often made that internet companies are just like the post office, so they should not be forced to check the content of the traffic. However, recent events have shown that they do, but so ... »

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Christensen’s Cup of Tea »

4 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Clayton Christensen is the author the celebrated book The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), where he explains why companies fail, rather than succeed – his theory is that the threats from competitors’ cheap... »

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Information wants to be free »

2 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

“Information wants to be free” was the famous maxim of the early days of the web, back in the Nineties. It is an actual quote, by Silicon Valley visionary and entrepreneur Stewart Brand, first articul... »

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A boy and his atom »

1 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The world’s smallest movie is A Boy and His Atom, made by IBM Research to showcase their mad skillz. It’s animated short about a boy playing with an atom, but the twist is that it is made with actual ... »

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