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Jaan Orvet

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About: I am a web strategist and entrepreneur with a strong belief in cutting out complexity, doing away with “extras” and turning a blind eye to “feature rich” in favor of clarity and simplicity. Doing “better” rather than doing “more”.

I am ridiculously passionate about building web-based businesses and apps. I have worked in the web world since 1994 and never enjoyed it more than I do right now. These days I help startups get off the ground and more established companies take their next step.

In the works right now is a book, a new agency venture, and a few other things.

What question would you most like others to ask you? What should I do?
What conference tracks are you interested in Design, Marketing and Community, Strategy, Web2Open

Blog Posts

blog posts

333 Mother

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For some reason my late 90’s favorite London club 333 popped in to my mind. Had a look at the site (now 333 Mother). Instant laughs, instant ...

Citywide wifi screens

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File this under very very geeky, but I think it’s sort of fun to collect welcome screens from citywide wifi networks. Below Mountain View, CA...

Boagworld and other recommended podcasts

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A recommendation? On Sharpenr? No, surely not! I know, weird huh? This is not normally the blog that “recommends” things left right and...

The new Orbitsville site is live

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The new Orbitsville site launched while I attended the Web2.0 Expo. Great job by everyone involved, and there’s more goodness to come!

Belated Web 2.0 Expo wrap

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Much has been written about this years Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and I will keep my contribution short. Not least as I’m kinda’ lat...

More noise, less signal

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Over the past month or two I’ve been getting less and less interested in following Signal vs. Noise. Yes I know, that’s like the crazie...

The cat is out of the bag - almost

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The cat is almost out of the bag on the thing that Andreas and myself have been working on. Almost, but not quite. More soon-ish. From Andreas̵...

Does your OS affect your output?

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It strikes me again and again how different the output (general design, UI) from a Mac based Art Director can be from a designer working in Windows...

Review info that matters

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The Macbook Air review in the April issue of Japan’s MacFan has all the usual specs, close up pix of ports etc that we have come to expect. T...

Fantasy Interactive makes it clear what you get for your money on SAS

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The Scandinavian Airlines website is a sorry sight. Illogical navigation and non-functioning tools lead the way for my favorite airline’s onl...


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Comments

Rebecca Murtagh:

Great meeting you in SF, wish we'd had more time to chat. Keep in touch!

Rebecca

Eero Leppänen:

Hello Jaan
I like your approach!
Looking forward on meeting you.

Niclas Bergstrom:

Hi man, looking forward to see you in SF to catch up!