February 2007
- Waves Sun 18
Ze Frank talks wisely [Via Winston D]....
- Tell me what you don't like about yourself Sun 18
Some pieces of music produced by my mysterious alter-ego have been appearing on a particular American television series. Recently a random person sent me a mail mentioning how he "got to know Forss from Nip/Tuck" and how "that song worked...
- The Screen Tue 13
My friend must have been happy the first time he turned on his newly bought pro screen, a 23'' Philips Brilliance 230WP7NS with glorious 1920*1200 resolution. No dead pixels and perfect colors, ah!The screen, oh no, the screen.But then he...
- Show Pdf Thu 8
I feel terribly bad because I just spent half the day building a little web tool when I shouldn't have. What I should do is work on my thesis, which–believe it or not–is nearing completion. Anyway, I got the idea...
December 2006
- I've got my own OpenID! Tue 19
I now have my own OpenID ("eric.wahlforss.com") that I can use to login to a bunch of sites–without having to type neither my email address nor my password anywhere! Combined with the new Sxipper Firefox plugin, we get a very...
November 2006
- SIME kicks off Wed 22
...with a very exciting panel featuring Carlos Bhola, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Martin Varsavsky, and Alexander Bard. Carlos Bhola and Martin Varsavsky totally rocked the panel, whereas I feel Mr. Bard is way off in much of his thinking. Sorry, but who...
- Got burger for the price of a hyperlink Thu 16
A while ago, a Swedish friend and Internet entrepreneur bought dinner for me in exchange for a link to his website. I felt terrible for about five seconds–then a glorious hamburger arrived and I quickly forgot about the shady...
- This isn't exactly the BlackBox I envisioned... Fri 10
...and it's from Sun, not Apple? But it's mighty cool nonetheless. (My 2005 article on the hypothetical Apple BlackBox)...
- Google Docs Wed 1
Best collaboration software in years, hands down. Subethaedit still rocks for pure code, but I've been looking for a cross-platform wysiwyg dito for a long time. Combine it with Basecamp and you are... teh p0werful. And now those smart Googlers...
- The pen is mightier than the sword Wed 1
"Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel" Mark Twain...
October 2006
- Nerdlife Thu 26
My friend Palle just let me know that he put our 1998 short film on YouTube (Winner of the DreamHack 98 Wild Compo). I play a confused nerd who meets his own destiny in the forest. Still a funny movie,...
- Pecha Kucha talk on trust coming up Sat 7
Alex and I are doing a talk on trust at the next Pecha Kucha Berlin on Tuesday 10th of October. Come by if you're in town! Hopefully slides and audio will be available online after the talk....
September 2006
- George Carlin - Modern Man Mon 25
- Our desire for backchannels Fri 1
Recently I saw Snakes on a Plane with Felix Petersen. After the movie, Felix soon exclaimed: "We should have had a backchannel!". That got me thinking. Backchannels everywhere these days. But what is a backchannel? It's a kind of parallel...
August 2006
- Alf Rehn on the tongue in economy Thu 31
Entertaining post on economics research and the tongue by my current supervisor, Alf Rehn. From the post: The tongue, slithering and moist, is instead both real and Real, for even though its physical reality is obvious and uncontested, its place...
- Two meters from Steve Jobs Sat 26
Today I had lunch at Apple with super-nice, super-motion-graphics-designer Gary Butcher who I met two years ago after he had made a music video for Forss. At some point during the lunch, I looked up and saw Steve Jobs pass...
- Kiko for sale Sat 26
Kiko.com's eBay auction reminds me of Adam's and mine 24 Hour Dotcom. If only there existed an online marketplace just for buying and selling companies and company assets......
- 15 years of web! Mon 7
Tim's original usenet post outlining the World Wide Web. [via Richard MacManus]...
- Jaiku.com Launches Fri 4
Brings coolness a.k.a. rich presence to mobile phones....
July 2006
- At the Googleplex Thu 27
Yesterday I was at the Googleplex with Alex and Ted. We meet up with Cathy, Erik, and Glen. Really nice place, really nice people. We'll go back to see the Spore techtalk at Google on friday....
- BumpTop Thu 27
Very nice desktop UI prototype [via Timo]....
- 12% Powerbooks Sat 22
It's just not a feeling anymore, hard numbers show that Apple is indeed gaining ground with their portables. Now they're at 12%. I'm still confused after 2-3 years of waiting for the MacBook Nano (or MacBook Thin or whatever you...
- Incredible book stats Fri 21
Some almost shocking numbers on books in the U.S [via BuzzMachine]: One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. … 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school....
- Taipei gets city-wide wifi Tue 11
San Francisco may be the first city to provide free city-wide wifi, but Taipei becomes the first city in the world to roll out city-wide wifi (some 4000 hotspots, covering 90%). The uptake is slower than expected though, with only...
- Citeulike greasemonkey proxy script Tue 11
Got tired of constantly copying and pasting the acm library link from entries on citeulike (in order to get the correct proxy url for Royal Institute of Technology), and so I hacked together a small greasemonkey script that will do...
- Trustmojo.com goes online! Sun 9
I'm currently in San Francisco trying to figure out how trust works on the web. Me and my partner in crime, Alexander Ljung, has started a blog/project site that we call trustmojo. Check it out for live reports, ramblings, interviews,...
December 2005
- Google Earth Mac OS X Beta Sat 10
Is available....
- Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture Fri 9
You should probably see this....
- Deeper Understanding Thu 8
I've been listening a lot to Kate Bush lately. It all began when I stumbled upon the mysterious new single King of the Mountain (here's the video) -- that track in turn made me rediscover some of her old hits....
- Exit Sign Mon 5
Hilarious video that placed third in a recent 24 hour video competition....
November 2005
- Post-Bloggforum Sun 27
It's been an absurd week of schoolwork and music, haven't been able to blog or even send important emails. I did manage to squeeze in some films at the Film Festival though, of which the eerie Lemming by Dominik Moll...
- Bloggforum 3 Tue 15
Will be in a panel on copyright and blogs at Bloggforum 3, 19th of November in Stockholm. I've really enjoyed reading the other participants blogs; Markus Fleischer, Simon Winter, and Oscar Swartz. They're all better bloggers than I am, they...
October 2005
- Ideas for Startups Fri 21
"The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand". Such a good way to put it! Paul Graham have more great tips on getting ideas for startups....
- Aperture Wed 19
Have you seen it? One of the best interfaces I've ever seen. Check out the quicktour movies for some true Apple design excellence. Nevertheless, some social software aspects (no, photo albums don't count) would have been cool -- and dragging...
- Google RSS Reader Sun 9
Very Ajaxified, quite nice. Google RSS Reader....
- Yahoo aquires Upcoming.org? Thu 6
I'm not sure I'm interpreting this correctly, but it sure looks like Yahoo buys Upcoming.org. It is coming from the horses mouth, after all......
September 2005
- Wikinews Rocks Wed 7
Here's a first person account of what happened in New Orleans. Someone from New Orleans just started a new page and wrote it....
- Magnatune and Double Moral Hazards Sat 3
I just read a very inspiring article (part 1 and 2) by Umair Haque on why the business model of the music industry -- which still is about selling records -- is seriously flawed. Haque applies a theory in...
August 2005
- Last.fm Redesigns! Fri 19
Woah, last.fm has gotten a major overhaul! It's now possible to tag music; the new tagging interface is pretty good. The player has been made a native application -- a wise choice.But alas, it doesn't work. Oh no, yet...
July 2005
- Seggin' Tue 26
Ulla, Adam, and me. With Ulla, Jyri, and Adam. Wow, it's the future -- I can already imagine a fly-by-wire, autopilot, gps-tracked deluxe Segway. People will look at us 50 years from now and laugh at how ridiculous these...
- iTunes Affiliate Application Status Fri 15
Dear Eric Wahlforss: We regret to inform you that iTunes has chosen not to accept your application for the iTunes Affiliate Program at this time. Â This may be because: The content is unrelated to iTunes Your site is temporarily down...
- Forss Offical Site Wed 13
The new site has been launched, complete with exclusive downloads, remix possibilities and a video! I'm actually making music full time this summer, which is one of the reasons why I'm not posting that much here. I will be...
- 24 Hour Dotcom Revisited Tue 5
I've finally uploaded a very entertaining documentary film about the 24 Hour Dotcom online for viewing and downloading at ourmedia.org. Big thanks to Ben Pohl and Sebastian Gollek for creating the film! Champagne flashmob. Watch the film here. In other...
June 2005
- Nokia and Upcoming.org? Tue 28
In this cryptic post, Andy from upcoming.org announces that Nokia is working on a mobile version of Upcoming and that they need your feedback. Hmm...Interesting!...
- iTunes 4.9 is out Tue 28
Being able to mark the ones I've read is good.And that means podcast integration! Aside from not being able to browse the Apple Podcast Directory for some reason, the interface for storing podcasts is really nice and simple. I'm...
- Jyri kicks ass! Sat 11
Eyes on the ball. Image borrowed from Bjoern.Although I was aware of every single point of Jyri's talk in advance, it was absolutely mindblowing to see him deliver these crystal clear arguments live. Jyri reminds me why we are...
- Reeebooting! Fri 10
At Reboot with all these great people -- Adam, Henrik, Erik, Stefan, Alexis, Joel, Ulla, Jyri and many more -- realising that (sadly?) 99% of all the interesting talk takes place between the talks! Aside from the great keynote by...
- Apple "Switching" Mon 6
All bad things aside, I'll finally be able to run Virtual PC at full speed -- yeeehooo! Wonder how long it'll take my Intel Mac to be able to dual boot Longhorn+OS X?! Woah, this surely is a change in...
- Towards the heavenly jukebox Sun 5
A little over a month ago I visited last.fm in their very east Londonish office. Talking to the team, I got to know about some really cool things that they have in store for the future. Unfortunately I'm not allowed...
May 2005
- Crunch Sun 22
Final exams at School, checking del.icio.us popular late at night. Adam and I are representing SSES in the European Business Plan of The Year Competition next week. With participants from INSEAD and Imperial College, I still hope we stand a...
- iTunes Music Store Sweden Launches Tue 10
I just bought Chopin & Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas played by the incredible Héléne Grimaud. I discovered her through my mother who was blown away by her Bach performance in the Stockholm Concert Hall. Apart from being one of the top...
- Bug in Google Sun 8
There seems to be a typo in the Google Wikipedia links feature. An & sign is missing, which destroys all the links to Wikipedia. Try this or this and click the Wikipedia link. First time I discover a Google search...
- Upcoming.org Events Script Fri 6
Here's my super simple upcoming.org events feed script. Nothing fancy, but it will do the job for a simple events feed like the one on this page. It's a PHP script and it requires only the Magpie RSS-parser (simple drop...
- Up(and)coming Fri 6
Andrew Baio (creator of upcoming.org) just told me that the upcoming API now has full tag support. I'm now displaying tags on the event feed here.The addition of tags+API definitely was the tipping point -- now I'm really using the...
- Backpack is out! Tue 3
Last weekend reminded me that breaking up with girlfriends sucks. Big time. Anyway, I'm slowly recovering, and things got a bit better after trying out Backpack, the new wiki/todo-list/PIM web app from the signals. Really can't decide if this...
April 2005
- Walter Bender in Stockholm Fri 22
Attended the "mini trade fair" at the Media Technology department at KTH yesterday. They had some great speakers there, including Walter Bender, Executive Director of the MIT Media Lab, Richard Bartle, Professor in Computer Game Design at University of Essex,...
- First nail in the coffin for Flash? Wed 20
Adobe buys Macromedia and suddenly SVG might get a revival! I'd really like to see that happen, as it is a much more Web 2.0 savvy technology than Flash will ever be.Todd Dominey and Dave Shea has good posts....
- Giving Plazes a chance Wed 20
After Jyri told me about the exciting possibilties for location aware social software, I once again gave Plazes a chance. The showstopper last time I tried it was their ugly and buggy OS X "launcher", which you need to use...
- Off to London Wed 13
To meet my girlfriend, Jyri, and hopefully the guys from last.fm. Won't bring laptop. Back in Stockholm on monday!...
- Del.icio.us got cash! Mon 11
What does Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O'Reilly, and Bob Young have in common? They are all investing in Del.icio.us!Sure hope that will make our favorite bookmarks service even better! People...
- Lickr Sun 10
Greasemonkey is clearly showing the way. What's so cool about it is that it enables users of websites to actually contribute code to them!A good example: I used to be annoyed by the fact that Flickr used Flash to display...
- This blog needs more color! Sun 10
I realised that after assaulting it with a paintball gun. I also got the chance to give vent to my feelings for the RIAA. Please do try this at home, it's mighty fun.By the way, being able to do...
- Google Semantic Blunder Fri 8
Just realized the importance of RSS search engines when looking at my traffic logs, realizing that one of the top 10 search strings leading visitors to my site is the phrase "iShuffle sucks". Type this into Google and my page...
- Structured Blogging and Collaborative Filtering Thu 7
In 2003 Alf Eaton proposed a standard RDF-vocabulary for reviews. That started off an interesting discourse that has now lead up to the Structured Blogging Initiative (among other things). Structured blogging is basically about..well..structuring blog content (ratings, reviews, events, etc)...
- Tags Enabled Tue 5
Just enabled tags on the blog. You can see it in action on the sidebar "previous posts"-feed. Makes it consistent with my del.icio.us-feed, and it makes Technorati happy (Actually my post is the only one showing up under collaborativefiltering)....
- No more drill-downs! Fri 1
Hierarchic filesystems are dying a slow death. While we wait for Apple to get its act together, we can use Quicksilver (my machine's own little Google) to advoid endless clicking and drill-downs in open/save-dialog boxes. If you use this script,...
March 2005
- Envisioned BlackBox, got iShuffle Thu 31
Almost exactly two years ago, I was predicting that Apple would do a palmtop computer in 2005. Sadly, I was wrong -- and here I am in 2005 with an iPod Shuffle in my pocket. It's a bare bones mp3...
- 456 Berea Street redesigns Tue 29
Roger Johansson, the guy who runs 456 Berea Street, (an excellent web design blog -- probably the best out of Sweden) redesigned and linked to me today! I'm happy to get such a warm welcome in the blogosphere -- this...
- Beatport 2.0 Comments Mon 28
Beatport is a fairly new online music store for dance/electronica, created by my favorite music software company. The problem is that Beatport -- in it's current state -- sucks pretty badly. Since I'm such a fan of their music...
- Linkratings Sat 26
Jyri has cool UI ideas for newsreaders. The question I have is: who should take care of the rating input in that pretty little box...?What I'd like to see is a simple service that could store my ratings for links....
- Annoyingly hard to aggregate! Wed 23
Just looking at how I could integrate my last.fm recently played tracks feed on my site, and it turns out I'll have to parse rss (with some rdf thrown in), transform it to html, cache it on my server and...
- Upcoming.org Mon 21
Jon and Alf has good points about upcoming.org, a site that "does a lot of things right" but still "hasn't gone viral the way del.icio.us did". I agree that it is indeed strange, since I found the site very useful...
- Back to Blogging Mon 21
Phew, finally got my act together and put a new blog up. Had a redesign resting on my Powerbook for year or so, but I was too much of a perfectionist to let it go online -- and I never...
June 2004
- Creating a dotcom business in 24 hours Fri 11
The project is now over, and we survived… Check 24hdc.com for an overview or take a look at dozomo.com, the very useful dotcom we managed to produce in 24 hours. Right now we are at the Wizards of OS...
October 2003
- Trust me! Wed 22
I'm on the boat from Helsinki to Stockholm, eating breakfast. Just returned from a weekend in Helsinki where I, among other things, attended the Aula Exposure book release brunch. The book, which I wrote a piece for, has come out...
July 2003
- Around the world Thu 31
I'm in the middle of some kind of tour. As I'm writing this, I'm on a plane to Osaka, Japan. Siberia is on my right. Recently I visited Switzerland, played at the Montreux Jazz Festival on the World Wide...
June 2003
- Caching Music, Cashing in for Music Mon 30
This essay was published in the Aula Exposure Book. I'm proud to be in such good company! It was long since I bought my last record. Actually, as far as I can recall, buying music over the last years was...
April 2003
- Back to the future Thu 17
Finally back in Stockholm after two years, writing an essay on future GUIs at the Faculty of Philosophy, Södertörn University College. The album is done. Promo copies are going out. Have been working like a dog the last month...
March 2003
- Interview for Berliner Gazette Sun 16
This an english translation of an interview I did for Berlin based e-zine Berliner Gazette (only available through e-mail). How did you end up in Berlin and what are you doing here? The main reason why I decided to...
February 2003
- It's 2005, The Apple BlackBox is here! Thu 13
This is a fictional review of a product that does not yet exist. It contains a lot of whishes and guesswork... Will it happen? If you know more than me, please do comment! Apple has done it again. The...
January 2003
- Bye, Bye SoundEdit Mon 20
SoundEdit has a hard time nowadays. Sometime in 96, Macromedia stopped updating SoundEdit. That was a very, very...puzzling decision. In the meantime SoundEdit has gotten cult status and is still widely used. I use it to quickly create multi-channel...
- Slowly realising facts Mon 6
On the bus. I slept all the way from Berlin to Stockholm, only waking up once to take a photo. I am addicted to screens. And every time I work for a long time with my computer I "forget"...
