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I’ve noticed that a lot of people on Google Buzz are gamers, so I thought it’d be fun to play together online some time.

I’ve created a Steam group, so we can find each other easily

Google Buzz community on Steam.

Feel free to add me on Steam too: rameen

My friend Igor Burattini and I have made an unofficial Google Buzz gadget for your iGoogle.

Get the gadget HERE.

(Thanks to Ryan Jones for the better screenshot)

Also, we’ve submitted it to the desktop gadget list, so hopefully you can use it on your [...]

Earlier this week when Google Buzz came out, my initial impressions were quite negative.

I’ll try explain my thoughts on the service, and why I think it will be a winner.

My main gripes with the service so far:

1) Lack of friends

This is the major issue with the service. I have lots of friends on Facebook and [...]

I’ve been asked by Nerdstalker to make some videos of the startup scene here.

I’m going to make a series of video interview with different startups, both young and “old”, to present them to a US audience.

The idea for now is that I want to cover only -startups- (eg: young tech companies) that are international [...]

MySites speed should be back to normal now!

As I explained earlier, MySites has been getting considerably more traffic lately.

Many people have been asking me why the site has been so slow. The reason is that we weren’t ready to grow so fast.

We didn’t expect things to grow at that rate., and no matter the effort, [...]

This weekend, I was at Global Game Jam.

It’s a worldwide event, in 40 countries, where people get together in small groups, and have 48 hours to create a game from scratch.

Here is our game:

The Ultimate Showdown!

You can download the game [...]

This morning I received an email from a student who’s enthusiastic about his new startup. He asked me about what to do in San Francisco.

I forwarded him a list of events to follow, and a video presentation about what I’ve learned during my trip there.

Since this advice doesn’t get old, here’s a link to the [...]

Here is a quick overview of the hits on MySites, from August 2009 to January 2010 (though January is not over yet). As you can see, we’ve been growing substantially for 3 months now. Here’s your “hockey stick”

This is due to a [...]

EA is offering Medal of Honor Airborne with every purchase at the EA store.

Thing is, there’s one game you can buy for free, and then get this game for free.

Use this tip now before they fix it

Steps:

Go to the EA Store.

Search for Battleforge

Click buy

At the next [...]

Oh, Google Wave.

It’s a new era of collaboration, workflow 2.0, it’s changed my life and it will make your life wonderful. *

I have 7 invites left, so send me a message with your Google Email, and first come first served!

(* none of this is true).

I fucked up! Some of you were trying to reach me in the past 2 days, and my “contact me” link was broken.

It’s fixed now, so if you go to this link, you can reach me by email.

I’m happy to follow up on the story from before, or whatever comes up to your mind.

Feel [...]

I read earlier today a blog entry by Antti Villponen from ArcticStartup, which raised an interesting point about growth entrepreneurship in Finland. Only 3% of businesses in the country are growth businesses (eg +10% growth per year). This is insufficient to drive an economy.

Earlier, I might have said that Finland needs more [...]

What is Chrome OS?

My first video blog entry. I try to explain what Chrome OS is, in normal words.

Sorry for the video quality, it seems Youtube lowers quality a lot. I’ll see how I can improve it next time.

Let me know if that video helps!

Video (Youtube) – MySites CEO Ramine Darabiha at the SF New Tech event

Here’s a 40 second pitch I did at SF New Tech during my trip. I’ll try to find more vids from the trip.

Over the past 2.5 weeks in San Francisco, I’ve attended many events.

One thing I didn’t realize was that there’s really a lot of them, and many of them are very large. People in Silicon Valley like to network! (I’ll write a post specifically about this later). Here’s a quick overview of them, hopefully it’ll [...]

I’ll be in San Francisco for the next week, and in the Stanford area for the week after. If you’re in SF, we should meet

Here’s a list of the events I’ll be attending, and the ones in Europe I’ll be missing:

Events in SF:

SF New Tech http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151471441057

Mobile 2.0 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138264958226&index=1

[...]

I just got my Google Wave invite!

I’ve been waiting for this, because I’ve been hoping for realtime communication to kill email for about 14 years now   Here’s my thoughts.

The bad:

- It’s overwhelming

When you get to Wave, you have very little idea of what it does, or what [...]

Here’s what I use to -be online-. With this setup, I reach 140+ websites, get notified in real time about everything on both my computer and phone, and I can easily share anything I like.

I’ve helped people get better social media visibility in the past, let me know if you need any tips

Facebook [...]

Most online discussions happen on Facebook and Twitter.

These are very public media, where for the first time, unlike the phone, meeting or email, a vast amount of people have access to what you think and do.

This is scary. A large amount of people, your friends, friends of friends, ex’s, colleagues, everyone can see what you [...]

Earlier this summer, we made a choice to drop major functionality such as friends, messaging, comments and replace those with Facebook instead.

It was a difficult choice to make. We decided to throw away tons of work hours, some of our technology, and use another company instead.

Today I’m very happy to say that it has paid [...]

I’m going to pitch at Mobile Brain Bank in Helsinki later today.

I’m currently doing the slides for the presentation, and I figured that I’d share some quick tips for the new guys who want to learn:

1) Have a ready made “basic” set of slides. That way you can simply copy the layout, or some [...]

Here is an overview of what I’ve achieved so far in my life. If you don’t know me well, this will hopefully give you a better idea of who I am.

Education and training

• Nov. 2006 : Bachelor’s degree in International Business, major in E-Business and International Marketing.

• 2004-2006 : Tampere [...]
  

I think many startups are wasting time trying to spit behind each other’s back.

We’re about to announce two major partnerships next week, one for technology and one for user acquisition. Here’s what I’ve learned from these.

1) Offering:

At [...]

Last weekend, Assembly 09 took place (ASM09 in short).
Those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s the largest LAN and demoscene party in the world.
Here’s what I did there

1) Gamer stuff

One thing that was very cool there was that I got to try Nvidia 3D vision.
Basically, it’s 3D glasses that you [...]