Photographer / Webdesigner Oliver Nielsen - Copenhagen, Denmark

Freemium is Not a Business Model, it’s a Marketing Model

oliver — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:18:19 +0000

I’ve spent some time this Sunday morning, watching a video on Carsonified’s Vimeo channel, in which Jason Fried from 37 Signals gives a FOWA speak on making money off your by-products. In it, he touches delicately upon the subject of “freemium” and why he thinks it is a bad business decision to give away stuff [...]

Not been blogging much – I’m writing a book!

oliver — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:24:32 +0000

It has been two months since I last wrote a blog post. The reason is that I’m currently writing a book! A book about productivity and creativity. I like to think of it as my essay on GTD, productivity dogmas, false assumptions, as well as the more philosophical buddhist concepts of zen, the mind (mind [...]

Sony HDR-XR500/520 review

oliver — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:38:25 +0000

I visited a Sony store in Barcelona back in March and I remember how surprised I was to find that Sony products suffer from such poor design nowadays. I had heard Sony Vaio laptops was praised for their design, yet to me they looked extremely cheap. Shiny plastic, in an uncool way. It just screams [...]

Olympus E-P1 sample images – my initial impressions

oliver — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:21:08 +0000

Well, when I first saw the Olympus E-P1 I was hooked. The design, the idea of having 720p video with shallow DOF (depth-of-field) and beautiful bokeh in a compact camera with interchangeable lenses. Being a Sigma shooter, a Foveonite if you will, I also got a lurking feeling of disbelief. This will be the end of [...]

IntenseDebate review, short and sour

oliver — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:56:55 +0000

This morning I’ve had a rather intense debate with myself. Should I uninstall the IntenseDebate blog commenting system, recently purchased by Automattic the WordPress kings. After some internet research I found out it was not just me. Other people have had problems with spam not getting filtered properly, comments not showing but was supposed to. Poor, [...]

Panasonic DMC-GH1 = Wauw!

oliver — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:28:50 +0000

For a long time, I’ve been wanting to take the leap from shooting still images, to dabbling with moving images. First came the measly Nikon D90 and the mighty Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Then came the Nikon D5000. I got excited! Then came reality. They all suffered from various problems. Wobbly jello effect because of the [...]

Back On The Blog

oliver — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:17:49 +0000

In late 2008 I got the crazy idea to also blog in my native language, danish, on my olivernielsen.dk domain. However, I’ve felt like a split personality ever since, because I simply couldn’t decide where my efforts should go. Now I’ve decided to have only one blog. My original olivernielsen.com blog, in english. Welcome back – [...]

Rudolph The Rednosed Pitbull

oliver — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:30:19 +0000

When I was a kid, every christmas my dad put up a poster featuring Phil Spector posing as Santa Claus, with sunglasses and all. Very kitch. It originated from the wonderful classic christmas album Phil Spector did with The Ronettes and The Crystals. This christmas he handed me both the vinyl album and the poster, on one [...]

Steve Jobs replaced by… Phil Schiller?

oliver — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:47:20 +0000

It’s been announced that Steve Jobs will not take stage at Macworld 2009, due in a few days. For the first time in a decade or so. Who is to host the event? Phil Schiller, who is funny and cozy, but in my opinion too goofy to take stage as a replacement for Steve. Personally [...]

Gary Fong Lightsphere & Cactus V2s

oliver — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:29:48 +0000

This morning I was woken up by the mailman who had a package for me, from China. Whoohah, I was instantly on, as I knew that could only be… something good… something I’ve been looking forward to… something… from… Gadget Infinity! Any Strobist fan knows that Gadget Infinity is heaven for both your photography, wallet, [...]