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I’m working with Mikael and Anders (plus a few other clever helpers) on a brand new website for Wulffmorgenthaler. Part of the website is some “Internet TV” features and for this I’ve found a few plug n’ play solutions that seem cool - but I don’t know which to choose?

http://www.narrowstep.com
http://www.maven.net
http://www.brightcove.com

Anyone?

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2007 was a rather eventful year for me.

TraceWorks launched an awesome new product called Headlight and it’s really beginning to fuel an amazing growth. We also took in $5.4 million from Nordic Venture Partners, hired 10 more super talents, and convinced top notch CEO Christian Dam to head our team of 20-something people instead of Anders and myself. All working very very hard … and thank you all for that.

Wulffmorgenthaler - the entertainment company I started with Anders Morgenthaler and Mikael Wulff - is definitely heading in the right direction as well. We doubled our online visitors to about 50.000 per day, took in a little money from Nordisk Film, and convinced Michael Ritto to become chairman. We also sold 3 times as many books and 12 times as many calendars  (brilliant product!) compared to any previous year - all thanks to our 3 man strong team of Tobias Hoff, Martin Nielsen, and Julie Lind-Holm. Thanks!

I also had some good fun helping Kim Gulstad of Nordic Capital bring www.findbilsyn.dk - just a small and simple idea - to the market.  Will be fun watching this small service expand to other countries.

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I just had the pleasure of a 3 hour long chat with Martin von Haller Groenbaek who’s a partner at Copenhagen-based Bender von Haller Dragsted - a leading Scandinavian IT-law boutique. Martin specializes in legal issues related to emerging technology and business models based on openness. Need advice on e.g. issues like Creative Commons? Give the man a call.

It certainly was a great chance for me to dig a little deeper into the whole aspect of open business models as well as open source technology - something that seems to play an increasingly important role in many of my companies and in some of the projects currently in the pipeline.

Why is openness important to an ordinary small tech start-up? What exactly does “openness” mean?

I still don’t have all the answers clearly defined and I guess that’s partly why I’m talking to Martin, reading Chesbrough’s Open Business Models, booked a meeting up with the successful Danish open source entrepreneur Niels Hartvig, following SaaS vendor sugarCRM so closely, asking silly questions on Linkedin, flicking through the pages of Wikinomics, and going to listen to Jimmy Wales in Chicago a few weeks from now.

Hopefully it all helps me understand the concept of openness a lot better… Because right now I’m a little lost.

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should I listen to!? The list of speakers is rather long.

Since I’m deeply involved in marketing technology I should probably go check-out:

• Brian McAndrews, President and CEO, aQuantive, Inc.
• James Bilefield, CEO, Openads

And since TraceWorks is depending heavily on M$ I’m of course considering:

• Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft

Web 3.0 is something I don’t understand at all so I should probably listen carefully to:

• Nova Spivack, Founder and CEO, Radar Networks (his blog)

I’m pretty involved with idea lab “Frank & Able” (stealth) why I think I could learn a lot from super star inventor (latest Metaweb):

• Danny Hillis, Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Minds, Inc.

Who else should I learn from? What else should I do?

BTW: Anybody else going to “Web Summit 2.0″? Let’s meet-up, have a beer, and change the world.

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This is a collection of some of the best strips. If you only buy 3.000 books this year, this should be one of them. It’s a funny book.

Facts:
170 comic strips in english – All in colour and all!
PLUS a very special announcement from Mr. James Joyce.

Buy it here

NB! This book is ready to ship Thursday the 27th of September, 2007.

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Wulffmorgenthaler is allready being translated by thieves and anarchists to all sorts of strange languages like Russian and Portuguese. Now it’s time for ourselves to get involved in this project. This will ensure that the comic strips are top-quality and of course integrated directly onto the best comic strip website in the world: Ours.

First stop Spanish. So, if you know anybody who would like to help us out, speaks/writes Spanish perfectly, wants to support a divine course (spreading the Wulffmorgenthaler gospel) … then don’t hesitate to email our Business Manager Tobias Hoff.

We might even pay you a little for doing the world this favor.

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A partner in my brother’s new production company just returned from South America … He’s probably been trekking around in exotic rain forests filled with big sexy snakes and tap dancing scorpions. Or maybe he’s just been sitting in hotel rooms watching MTV on the telly - that is what I would have done!!! Since MTV according to him is constantly running Wulffmorgenthaler cartoons … in Spanish.

Makes me damn proud to be part of Wulffmorgenthaler … and makes all the long nights and weekends seem worth it.

Guess that is one of the funny things about partnering with giant media companies like MTV -the message really gets distributed.

You can watch a few of Wulffmorgenthaler’s animations on Youtube (English).

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I’m going to FOWA in London. I think it will be pretty pretty pretty pretty coooool. I’ve read quite a few blog posts about previous shows - all very exited about the quality of these get togethers.

FOWA is put together by Carson Systems (aka Ryan Carson) who is known for a knitting together a few pretty decent web apps e.g. Dropsend. Today they mostly create noise from offering world-class conferences like FOWA, FOOA, and FOWD.

By the way Mr. Carson, I’m expecting an invitation to speak at the next FOOA? … whenever that is.

If anyone would like to meet-up at FOWA then don’t be shy. Get in touch.

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