nilson.net

Waiting for the afternoon wind to kick in. Cabarete, Dominican...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:54:36 -0500

Waiting for the afternoon wind to kick in. Cabarete, Dominican Republic.

My nephew Nizar filming his brother Amir on a skateboard run in...

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:01:00 -0500

My nephew Nizar filming his brother Amir on a skateboard run in Köln and Basel. He’s 13 years old… I love his background track: Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of the City

My dad giving a speech in Ningbo, China.

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:19:00 -0500

My dad giving a speech in Ningbo, China.

Our Christmas in Germany: the mothership of all “Glühwein”...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Our Christmas in Germany: the mothership of all “Glühwein” stands

Our Christmas in Germany: Austrian Germknödel and...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:59:00 -0500

Our Christmas in Germany: Austrian Germknödel and “Kartoffelpuffer” with apple sauce. The cardboard looking plate is a waffer that can be eaten — good for the environment. Taken at the Christmas Market in the “Altstadt” in Heidelberg.

Our Christmas in Germany: entire pig on a spit. Taken in...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:52:00 -0500

Our Christmas in Germany: entire pig on a spit. Taken in Heidelberg at the Cloister’s Christmas Market in Ziegelhausen, a short walk through the forrest away from my dad’s home.

Sony Make.Believe Contest

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:47:00 -0500

I recently was one of 10 runner ups to Sony’s internal contest for the kick-off of the new Make.Believe branding campaign. Sony’s CEO Sir Howard Stringer’s email below…

TO: Sony Employees

FROM: Howard Stringer

DATE: November 12, 2009

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for the remarkable enthusiasm you have shown for the internal make.believe kick-off and employee contest across the U.S. and Canada. As you may know, we received nearly 1,000 entries from every corner of the company and from employees at every level. I am incredibly proud of all those who contributed, because your amazing personal experiences tell our Sony make.believe story best.

Last week, I announced our three Grand Prize contest winners. They are: Dave Chaimson from Sony Creative Software in Madison, Wisconsin; Erika Kato from Sony Computer Entertainment America in San Diego, California; and Lauren Rivera from Sony Pictures Television in New York. Each of them will have his or her story turned into a professionally directed make.believe videography to debut publicly at CES in January. I know they’ll be terrific. In addition, each Grand Prize winner will receive a trip for two to Las Vegas for their video debut, along with a grand Sony product prize package.

Today, it is my great pleasure to announce the 10 contest runners-up, whose stories are equally inspiring. The winning stories of all of our winners and runners-up, which have been minimally edited, can be found below. Each runner-up will receive the Sony product prize package. They are:

Erwin Coumans, Simulation Team Lead, Sony Computer Entertainment America
Wende Crowley, Senior Director, Film & TV Music, Sony ATV/Music Publishing
Marc Mackin, Senior Artist, Sony Online Entertainment
Jeff Merghart, Senior Artist Animator, Sony Online Entertainment
Christopher Nelson, QA Supervisor, Sony Computer Entertainment America
Tim Nilson, SVP Technology & Operations/Direct to Consumer, Sony Music Entertainment
Brian Orr, Principal Software Engineer, Sony Media Software & Services, Sony Corporation of America
Cecil Prado, Assistant Director, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Adam Visnovec, Customer Information Center Representative, Sony of Canada Ltd.
Ling Wong, Associate Software Engineer, Sony Electronics Inc.

Congratulations to all of you!

Thank you, again, for proving that the passion behind make.believe is inside all of us, and for helping us share it with consumers around the world.

Sincerely,
Howard

TIM NILSON
Title: SVP Technology & Operations/Direct to Consumer
Company: Sony Music Entertainment
Story: In 2000, a friend and I realized that mobile ringtones were quickly becoming big business across Europe, but that there was no good solution available to create mobile ringtones, merchandise them, and sell them to consumers. We knew that we could leapfrog the competition and believed that we could build a better technology platform to create musically pleasing ringtones. We founded our mobile start up, “RunTones” in New York in early 2001. When we showed Sony Music what we were doing in 2002, the Company was so excited by what our platform enabled that it bought our company and made us part of the team to create and execute its mobile strategy. Since then, we’ve helped build a global ringtone business for Sony Music selling many hundreds of millions of ringtones – all created by the technology platform we believed we could create and commercialize.

Geeks!!

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:23:00 -0500

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

Geeks!!

"I am in shape. Round is a shape."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:20:58 -0500

“I am in shape. Round is a shape.”

- Read on a T-Shirt in Turks & Caicos

Toco at the dog run at Riverside Park in NYC. Posted with the...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:15:21 -0500

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

Toco at the dog run at Riverside Park in NYC. Posted with the new Tumblr iPhone app!

While being away from home, Skype is hands down the best web app...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400

While being away from home, Skype is hands down the best web app to keep in touch… and check in on the wife and dog.

AC/DC Backtracks: Global fulfillment via our M2 Platform

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:48:00 -0400

The new AC/DC rarities collectors edition box set AC/DC Backtracks is sold direct to consumer via Sony Music’s M2 commerce platform. The store is fully localized in 6 languages and fulfills the product to 43 countries via quick UPS delivery.

Not owning a car in Manhattan is the smart move. Zipcar versus Hertz Connect is what I am...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:04:00 -0400

Not owning a car in Manhattan is the smart move. Zipcar versus Hertz Connect is what I am researching tonight… could Hertz be on top?

Toco got a massive haircut.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:20:01 -0400

Toco got a massive haircut.

Toco 5 months 25lbs.

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:15:00 -0400

Toco 5 months 25lbs.

The color purple.

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:11:00 -0400

The color purple.

Toco is growing up by the minute. Now 16lbs and 3 months old.

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:18:00 -0400

Toco is growing up by the minute. Now 16lbs and 3 months old.

Yanks / Baltimore. Great box seats behind home plate. Jeter up.

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:35:00 -0400

Yanks / Baltimore. Great box seats behind home plate. Jeter up.

NY Yankees vs Baltimore.

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:30:00 -0400

NY Yankees vs Baltimore.

Our new family member Toco. A Wheaten Terrier, born April 18th,...

Sat, 09 May 2009 17:05:00 -0400

Our new family member Toco. A Wheaten Terrier, born April 18th, 2009.