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New Media Days Kick-Off

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This year’s conference programme is well under construction and while we can’t disclose any speakers just yet, we can tell you that exciting news are right around the corner. But we’re always game for more input! So if you’ve experienced a magnificent speaker or want to point out a hot, new media topic to consider for this year’s New Media Days in Copenhagen, don’t hesitate to drop us a comment right here, right now.

Start-Ups: Mobile innovation in dire times

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Judging from the last Mobile Monday get-together in Copenhagen, Danish start-ups are handling these dire times quite enthusiastically. Here eight mobile business innovators were competing for the title of Copenhagen Favorite, i.e. the one to represent Denmark at MWC Barcelona and have the chance of winning a Mobile Peer Award. Read on to see who won.

Feeling ourselves at New Media Days 08

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Jonathan Harris is showing Danish media pros the awe inspiring We Feel Fine project that visualizes feelings expressed in the worldwide blogosphere. Linking to the previous talk by Weinberger, We Feel Fine provides valuable metadata and doesn’t try to control the content. Miscellaneous feelings become intelligent connections across time and space. /read full blogpost…

Library Love or “How To Frame Future Media”

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The ongoing debate on the future of libraries in a world of digitized content is not in any way irrelevant. We need libraries to inspire future generations, but in a world of many media outlets going increasingly mobile, it’s time to think hard about how you frame the media on display and make it inspiring instead of awkward.

Who’s talking behind your brand?

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With the surge of social media sites and applications, brands are continually being discussed and evaluated at the will of the users. If you’re not alert to these conversations your business could miss great opportunities or suffer serious damage without you even knowing it. HowSociable is a free tool that measures the presence of a given brand or keyword across 16 social websites.

Google drawing up blueprints for the future web

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The talk of the web for the past 24 hours has been Google’s venture into yet another area of business with their surprising Labor Day announcement of Chrome – a browser to cater for 21st century web needs. Rethinking the client access point to gain better performance from their own services looks like a real smart move from Google. How will virtual world, Google Lively, fair in this new environment for instance?

Copyright violation = Viral marketing

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Some day soon we’ll be able to look up ”piracy” in the dictionary and find a favorable description like “peer-to-peer sharing of commercial products for the benefit of creator and consumer alike.” Face it: Illegal sharing of copyrighted music, movies, software etc. is a business model the industry just can’t afford to be without because it’s an effective adoption driver.

Conference Crunching #2: Jaiku

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Once a week we look back at last year’s New Media Days conference and serve you the key insights from a session…

When Jaiku co-founder, Petteri Koponen, talked about “Microblogging and the Future of Social Media” at New Media Days 07, Jaiku.com had been serving the public for 15 months and property of Google for two weeks. The latter relation being a good pointer of Jaiku’s success in the social webosphere.

Lifestreaming: Connecting the social dots

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The amount of social web services is increasing day by day. We use them and love them because we are an inherently social species. But even so this pace 2.0 is testing our time and ability to continually update our virtual lives. And keep up-to-date on the lives of our friends.
Enter lifestreaming – a natural step on the ladder of social media evolution…

Conference Crunching #1: Mash-ups

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“Mash-Up, Hyperlocality & User-Generated Content” is a session from NMD07 starring Björn Jeffery, Swedish internet strategist and CEO of Good Old and Christian Lund, editor in chief at Berlingske Media’s online city guide, AOK. Björn Jeffery tells about Sommar På … Continued