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Communities are the new classifieds

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I’m gone two days and another community has been bought! Hopeless. If your Swedish is decent you can read the newspaper VK´s own story, they are the ones buying. In short they paid 10 million SEK for half of a local youth community called Apberget.se. There’s been a lot of this going on lately, as you will have noticed if you follow my blog. Personally, I think it’s an act of desperation. Not necessarily a […]

Playing it safe

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So it finally happened – the video site Bubblare.se has sold part of their company to Eniro. Anyone following the current web affairs in Sweden saw this coming a mile off. As Jonas from LK9 points out, this doesn’t make it the right decision. Bubblare.se have had a lot of media hype, living well off the recent sale of YouTube. For journalists out of the loop, the easiest way to find the next big thing […]

Conferences / Keynotes 2007

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Conferences / Keynotes 2007 Keynotes during 2007 21-22 March – Keynote Panel discussion at Webbdagarna. Topic: Marketing within digital media. 27-28 March – Keynote at Citygate Forum together with Anders Olofsson at Sydsvenskan. Topic: Innovative journalism within digital media. 13 April – Keynote for MiM on Four sites you need to understand 2007, at S:t Gertrud Konferens 21 April – Keynote at Hej! 2007. Topic: Old Media vs New Media 9 May – Inspirational talk […]

Is quality hygiene on the web?

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Quality is hygiene these days: even TV sets and irons from obscure brands found at Wal-Mart work flawlessly. Another incentive to try out the unknown. And yes, to be less brand-loyal. A telling finding: only 26 percent of digital camera buyers say they would purchase the same camera brand in the future — down from 35 percent in 2005, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study. I read the quote […]

Likemind.mal tomorrow!

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Reminder: Tomorrow is the second meetup for Likemind in Malmö. Turn up at Solde after 9am, drink coffee sponsored by Anomaly, and meet good likeminded people. See you there! (next time we´ll be hosting in Copenhagen as well, if that suits you better) tags technorati : likemind malmö tags bloggar.se: likemind, malmö

Why hype isn’t reason enough to follow (or stay away)

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The launch of Sydsvenskan in Second Life is getting a few reactions that I want to address. One of them written in English is by Kristine Lowe (via Media Culpa). I left a comment there but decided that there was more to say. About hype, this awful word that plagues the internet (and everything else). Second Life has been getting a lot of flack for being the ultimate money (and time) waster in this time […]

Good Old launches SL island for Sydsvenskan

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Today we launched an island in Second Life for the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan. Since the Swedish Embassy announced their plans the Swedish buzz has increased considerably. Consequently, the time was right to enter and start something up. The island is called Sydsverige which translates to “Southern Sweden”, which is the area of Sweden that Sydsvenskan covers. The plan is to create a place where Swedish people can meet, and create their own projects if they […]

In short:

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* “Within a week or so” was somewhat of an understatement as Twingly officially launched today. The ping-address to include is http://rpc.twingly.com/ * We have rearranged our Good Old blogs, and now have four to show the world. This one, Good Old Tech, Good Old Design and Good Old Office. The latter will cover what we, as a company, are up to. Whatever that may be. I want to start a Good Old Robotics project […]

Primelabs to launch new ping site soon

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The Swedish newspaper DN launched a new addition to their site today; the blog perspective, if you like. Basically it is the same idea that the Washington Post have done with Technorati for ages, but it’s an excellent initiative still the same (look at this article to get the picture). DNs partner is the Linköping/Stockholm-based company Primelabs, with their product Twingly. The idea is to listen to bloggers and give them an incentive to link […]