The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo – trailern!

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Trailer till The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [cam teaser] från rstvideos trailerarkiv.

This is the trailer to the American version of The Girl With the Dragoon Tattoo. I think it gives a really exciting impression. I thought the Swedish version was extremely good and Noomi Rapace got a lot of international attention and appreciation for her interpretation of Lisbeth Salander.

Rooney Mara looks even more scary in the trailer than Noomi did…

Now I wonder: what’s up with all those ”oo”? Tatoo, Noomi and Rooney. That makes a lot of double-o’s in a row.

Okey, this was funny …

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Christopher Polhem – what a guy!

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Today I visited a meeting at Gotlands Fornsal, a museum. After the meeting anyone who wanted was invited to come to the new exhibition about Christopher Polhem.

This is an exhibition you are supposed to touch. There are wheels and buttons, cog wheels and handspikes. And if you want to understand the greatness of Christopher Polhem, that’s the way to handle this exhibition.

I find his mechanical alphabet especially interesting. A way to teach young people the laws of mechanics, combining the mechanical ”letters” and also using a model for ”how to think” when you are solving a mechanical problem.

This is Lisa Johansson who is responsible for the exhibition about Christopher Polhem. If you are going to Gotland, don’t miss this! It is amazing to see what a boy can achieve, growing up under hard conditions and fighting hard to get the desired knowledge and being ahead of his time with some of his inventions.

Sheryl Sandberg – great woman!

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Sometimes I get a bit irritated because I seem to get more impressed by men in business life, than women. I think it can be good to have persons to think of like role models. Persons that with their actions show that amazing things can be done. But, most of the time the persons that impress on me are men.

I have a book filled with Swedish Business women, which I bought in order to get inspired, but, I can’t really identify with these women. They are not like me. They feel like strangers.

Today I’ve read this six pages long article in Bloomberg Businessweek about Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and I felt happy. At last a successful business woman with features that I can identify with! I love to read that she manages to treat people well, be smart and come up with good ideas, achieve important things and at the same time stay true to herself and the fact that she’s not afraid to show that she’s a human being like the rest of us. Well, I haven’t had the opportunity to meet her or communicate in some other way with her, so I might find out that the impression I got from that article will fall apart if I met her. But until then: what an amazing woman!

PC:s eco-system fights back?

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Yesterday we got the report saying that Apple’s brand value is Number 1 followed by Google.

Apple’s brand value is estimated to $ 153.3 billion. It’s value has climbed 84 percent during the last years. I think that’s great and as being in love with Apple since 1989 I can fully understand why.

Today we got the news about Microsoft buying Skype. I can’t help but feeling a bit sad when I got that information. I guess the owner of Skype isn’t exactly sad when they receive $ 8.5 billions for their company, but I like Skype. I like it’s history with the Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and the dane Janus Friis, I like that they involved Estonian programmers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn and I like that they have been successful. I think their success have inspired a lot of other developers in Sweden, Denmark and Estonia. I like to use Skype. But, I don’t like Microsoft.

On one hand I feel sorry for Skype because Microsoft’s reputation as a partner is not the best when it comes to mobile partners – read the horrifying list on Asymco’s blog – it gives no good karma to bond with Microsoft, sorry Skype!

On the other hand, if everything goes well, measured by PC-scale, what will happen with Skype? Messy software in hundred alternate versions? 1 million bugs? Will they destroy the user interface? I don’t know, but if I was the creator of Skype I would worry. Though, $ 8.5 billions would probably make it easier to cope with that worry…

Now I got the news that Google is about to launch its music-streaming service which will work with with Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Apple’s anticipated iCloud service. Last week Spotify launched it’s iPhone/iPad-app. Hm?

What does all this mean? Well, from the PC-perspective the aim is obvious: to compete with Apple and challenge their success with iPhone both as a smartphone and a music player. That is logical, they have to do something if they want to survive. And exactly like they did with windows they try to copy Apple’s smart solutions.

I know what I will do however. I will probably stop using Skype. I have Facetime, iChat and Facebook so I will manage anyway. I have never used Spotify a lot, because I already got iTunes, so it’s not like I see a reason to use Google’s music-streaming service either.

Well, let’s see what will happen. Apple’s Brand Value is Number 1. There are several good reasons to why.