Marry The Internet & Make It Grow

By Oscar Carlsson | February 13th, 2012 | MarryTheInternet, My Projects | Comment
MarryTheInternet deisgn

Today I will start with my project "MarryTheInternet" for real. I’m so excited about the journey and hopefully it will end with a kick ass wedding.

Am I getting married?
– I believe so.

With who?

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My best tips to more CSS love

By Oscar Carlsson | August 10th, 2011 | Tech, Web dev | Comment

CSS code can be a living hell if it’s unstructured and badly written. In this post I’m going to give you my best tips to write better CSS code.

-  If you feed your CSS with shit it will soon be fat and ugly.

The key to beautiful CSS is planning before you write the first line of code. Yeah, you’ve probably heard it before with everything you do but the time spent on planning is worth ten times in the end.

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Working with multiple projects

By Oscar Carlsson | July 27th, 2011 | Life, My Projects | Comment
Dazed and Confused

In a Kevin Rose and Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote Gary was asked how he handle working with multiple projects all at once.

- Everything suffer!  I thought I could do anything and it is a downfall by doing that. I said yes to everything and I’ve come to the conclusion that by doing three things you are doing no things.

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I do what I do worst

By Oscar Carlsson | July 11th, 2011 | Inspiration, Life | Comment
Who the fuck is Brad Pitt?

By some odd reason I like doing what I do worst.

Right now I’m trying to get better in making videos. It’s definitely a challenge for me because I’ve always had a stage fright and standing in front of a camera feels like standing on a stage.

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Spotify Guide - A showcase of its features

By Oscar Carlsson | July 09th, 2011 | Inspiration, Life, Tech | Comment

Spotify is an awesome music service that I've used almost 24/7 for three years. It is today only available in a few countries in Europe but it is coming to the U.S soon.

Spotify in the U.S

So to welcome my U.S friends I’ve made a short Spotify guide. In the video you will learn about its features and understand why it has revolutionized the music industry in Europe.

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Gary Vaynerchuk and Kevin Rose Keynote

By Oscar Carlsson | July 09th, 2011 | Inspiration, Tech, StartUps | Comment

This morning I began my working day by watching a Gary Vaynerchuk and Kevin Rose keynote from the Las Vegas conference “Future of Web Apps”. 

Notes on Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote

I always write down comments and quotes in my red idea book while watching keynotes and today I’m going to share my notes with you.

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My office during July

By Oscar Carlsson | July 04th, 2011 | Life | Comment
New Office

Today I decided to move back to my old office. It's a great place and there are some crazy people working here so I love it.

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Should I get back to school?

By Oscar Carlsson | July 04th, 2011 | Life | Comment
Study or not

In February this year I dropped out of university and began working full-time with my own web company. So far I haven’t regret that decision once because I love what I’m working with and I’ve also had the fortune to travel to Amsterdam twice, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg and New York City during this period.

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Stop thinking and start doing

By Oscar Carlsson | July 01st, 2011 | Social Media | Comment
Stop thinking - start doing

Please CEOs don’t wait for the perfect social media strategy before making an appearance on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Quora. Stop thinking and start doing, see what’s out there and start learning the game.

“Strategies are less important before you know the game.”

All these platforms are so young that it doesn’t matter if you play with a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2  strategy (soccer terminology).  Your employees need to learn the social media game and they do that by kicking the ball around and are having fun.

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3 tips that make me a happy camper at work

By Oscar Carlsson | June 21st, 2011 | Inspiration, Life | Comment
Oscar at his office

It is easy to be a happy camper when you work with your passion. But eventually I think every person hit some speed bumps with periods of less motivation and flow.  I’ve written down 3 tips that keep my speed bumps away for as long as possible and make my work fun and productive.

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