http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

We Danes are for the most part blissfully ignorant of our past. Sure we know as the rest of the world a bit about Vikings, but not a lot really. Perhaps I just didn’t listened thoroughly enough in the history classes, but I haven’t the faintest clue about the deep past of our Country, so this blog entry is a collection of various articles about relations between present day Denmark and the consequences of its ancestors in the rest of the world.

The Cimbri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri

The Angles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles

The Juts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutes

Viking expansion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion

The Founding of Russia by the Varagians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians

The quest for Vinland (the first europeans in North America)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas

Medieval history: http://omacl.org/DanishHistory/book1.html

Danelaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw

Kings of old:
Gorm the Old (Gorm den gamle) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorm_the_Old
Harald Bluetooth (Harald Blåtand) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_I_of_Denmark
Swen Forkbeard (Svend Tveskæg) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_I_of_Denmark
Cnut the Great (Knud den store) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_the_Great

I have spoken to quite a few leaders in the web world doing the last years, and naturally everyone wants to know where the next trend is. When the talk hit the topic of Googles all dominating web presence it has been clear for some time (since the launch of Chrome) that the last piece to complete the iron-to-cloud strategy was a pure web-centered operating system, bridging the local hardware with the web. Today Google finally announced their intentions in this direction, and it looks very much like the kind of system many people have envisioned. It’s interesting times indeed, and by now Microsoft must be scratching their heads asking themselves when they let that small startup company avoid assimilation.