2,819,665 views in just over a week! This guy is sick and tired of being called fat on his YouTube comments- he decides to retaliate, YouTube style.
Archive for September, 2009
Video going viral: Don’t call me fat By on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 1 comment
Heading to Iceland to cover fashion week and tech scene! By on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 5 comments
Tomorrow I’m heading to Iceland to cover Iceland Fashion Week for an online travel company. I’ll also be taking some time to cover the Iceland startup scene and interview some Icelandic startups and hopefully get them to pitch in interesting places like a geothermal bath pitch or a geyser pitch (startup has to pitch before the geyser goes off!)
I’ve been doing some research: Iceland seems like a pretty interesting country- It was declared bankrupt in 2008 and singer Bjork says Gordon Brown was in part to blame for unjustifiably using the Anti-terrorism act against the people of Iceland for his own short-term political gain. I’m trying to get an interview with Bjork so should be interesting!
Some tech facts:
1. Iceland has more broadband than any country in the world. Most people think Korea has the most but it’s Iceland. By comparison the UK is 12th and the USA is 19th.
2. It’s ground zero for internet startups. it has more startups per capita than any country the world.
3. Because of it’s cheap energy it is being considered by Google and Microsoft to create the worlds largest data center.
4. Not a tech fact but right now the sun will be out 24 hours a day! (great for shooting video)
5. Singer BJÖRK launched a venture fund late last year run by Audur Capital who has put down the initial investment of 100 million ISK.
Size
Iceland is a bigger land mass than most of us realise. At 39,000 sq m (101010 sq km) it is the same size as Cuba, 25 per cent bigger than Ireland and 50 per cent bigger than Sri Lanka. Despite this its population is slightly smaller than that of Croydon: 310,000. This means that, per head of population, Icelanders read more books, eat more sugar, keep more shotguns, drive more four-wheel drives, produce more poets and have more Nobel Prize winners (just the one) than any other nation. In 2007, Iceland was ranked the most developed country in the world by the United Nations.
