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My name is Andie Nordgren, and I work as a technical producer in the Core technology group at CCP Games. You may have heard of a game we make - Eve Online.

Some of my other projects include the geek girl revolution at Geek Girl Meetup, relationship anarchy at Dr Andie, Nordic larp community blog Nordic Scene, Nordic Larp Talks and change-through-participation art zine/think tank/activist group Interacting Arts.

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Solder comic

soldercomicI made a 1 page comic about how to solder, based on Mitch's teachings. Get it for free, you can use it to learn soldering, or as reference material in your hackerspace or at your electronics course or workshop.

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Email: andie.nordgren@gmail.com, Twitter: nordgren, Jabber: andie@jabber.hackerspaces.org, Skype: andienordgren, MSN: andie.nordgren@home.se, Facebook: Andie Nordgren, Swedish Phone: +46702288652, Icelandic phone: +3546952443 (primary number of contact)

There are photos on flickr, bookmarks on delicious and needle crafted things at ravelry.

Some previous fun

rjdj creates mind twisting hearing sensations by weaving your environment into music, using the sensors on your music player. I worked for RjDj in London from Dec 2008 to April 2010.

While in London, I lived and tinkered in the Shoreditch Hacker House.

In 2007 I produced the game part of Interactive Emmy Award winning project The Truth About Marika, and I will some day finish a masters thesis in Computer and Systems Science at the Interactive Institute Game Studio about the tools we built to game master the reality game.

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Systems Science from Stockholm University.

Oct 11, 2008
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The importance of iTunes for the iPhone success

Just a reflection on an aspect of why the iPhone is so successful that I don’t think is talked about enough: the iPhone is the first mobile phone that lives in symbiosis with your computer. All other mobile devices I’ve used have been disconnected from the rest of my digital life. They could be synced, but only if you really tried and could endure some of the horrible software for it. That the iPhone basically does not work without syncing and managing it through iTunes makes it an integrated part of my digital life - a smaller device that carries a subset of the content and functionality of my main work tool. Apple claims they’ve “re-invented the phone”, but that reinvention I’d say is more about the natural connection to the computer than the functionality of the device itself. The OS, interface and touch controls are fabulous, but just like with the iPod a lot of people don’t seem to understand the importance of connecting the mobile device with limited functionality to a full computer desktop environment where it can be managed and connected to the important data that lives there. This is what makes the iPod and the iPhone killer products - they are part of a small ecosystem of how you manage all parts of using it. And yes, I know this is not new knowledge, I just think it is not talked about or focused on enough in reviews and product comparisons and talk about iphone killers from other companies. A similar device is not enough - you have to make an iTunes killer as well.

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