Sudden burst of mysteriously stupid Qs...

What’s going on in FB – some weird new spying scheme, spoofing user IDs, checking out viral effectivity???

Funny (=sad) proof of “cultural erosion” … about 50% of 70k people thinks the answer to 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1-1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0 =? is 0.

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Don't do that RockMelt... loosing trust

I have been a pretty happy and also excited user of RockMelt for quite some time (almost from beginning?). It does integration of info/comms and browser in value adding way.
It was a bit scary to start using it by having to “give away” your social media accounts, first thing.  But I got over it – sort of a trust was created thanks to the value it added.
They do also frequently updates with no pre-warnings – pretty significant changes to functionality actually if I remember correctly. This is quite a bit different in their case compared to a “normal” browser, since they do integrate service experience deeply into browser – it’s not just the looks and speed that get’s updated.
Now the last attack update really first time seems to touch the service itself – RockMelt seems to remove functionality from Facebook page and integrate it to browser.
There goes familiar service user experience and comes browser depencecy.

There goes one RockMelt user back to good old Chrome….

Broken window theory and organizations... TISKIANTERO?

Had (as always) really fruitful strategy session with Sebastian... as a side track (among many things like usual) we discussed about Broken window theory. The discussion wondered from "how the theory is so true in office environment" to "does the theory apply to how project/customer driven organization's work". We agreed - it does. To both.

A whiteboard flower... lie Sebu so well it crystallized :D

Xmas?

Just visited Outi and saw the Xmas card from Vili .... I like the style, he is talented (is a proud dad saying) but should I be worried :D
As a side remark - what a HUGE difference between HTC 5Mpix and Nokia 5Mpix. Nokia had the pic quality of current HTC like 5y ago. 

THE world's shittiest?

Dakine power up hauler... What a piece a shit.

Great beer... despite of the name

The name could not be worse... which is probably the purpose: Burger & Bun L.A. Lager by Mikkeller.
But fantastic flavour!

Soul of company

I believe companies have  a soul. It is a summary of the inspirations of it's employees and appreciation of these inspirations by employer.
Companies typically try to formulate this soul into "values". Unfortunately these will tend to inevitably turn against the good cause - "values" tend to amputate the soul because in people's minds and in everyday's management realities "values" turn into outgiven, externalised consultancy styled jargon. Companies make it even worse by enforcing these "values" in policies and in best practices ... which do not really go along with the term "soul".
For me what happened eg in Nokia is an example of this.... Nokia's soul was really drive for better solutions. I felt (in the 1990's) that this was practically every individual's primary agenda in the company - to solve things in the best possible way. Also, Nokia's real culture valued this greatly. "Solving" was encouraged and appreciated. Then it all changed - management was officially (eg by Mr. JT Berqvist) stated to be the "only scarce resource", "everything else (=everybody) is plentiful". 2000 was the start of the era where Nokia amputed it's soul, it's employees' spirit.... and it's competitiveness.
For me Apple's soul in the quest of mechanical and aesthetical perfection - they drive for it and excel in the markets.