Creating a climate Layar for COP15
Who’s going to make an augmented reality layer showing climate related information for COP15? Today I took a trip around Copenhagen, iPhone in hand and loaded with the new Layar Reality Browser. The Dutch mobile service, which was released to … Continued
Speakers controversial and talented
Presenting: Bastholm, Assange and Wolff. The conference program is almost ready but we’re heightening the suspense with weekly peeks into the speaker’s lounge.
More International speakers for NMD09
As the list of guests for New Media Days 2009 grows longer it is our pleasure to announce another 3 international speakers with novel approaches to media needs.
First presentation of speakers
We proudly present three of this year’s speakers who thrive on the forefront of media development.
Welcome to the brand New Media Days!
This year we decided it was time to walk-some-talk and go for a serious redesign of both our visual identity and website (we’re sure some of you agree.)
Surviving in a World of FaceCraft
Triggered by Jon Lund’s latest blogpost, “Facebook killed the blog” – and also discussions at the New Media Days brainstorm the other day – I came to wonder: Is Facebook really suffocating all other web services? Have the majority of … Continued
New Media Days Kick-Off
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
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.
Start-Ups: Pagegangster
It’s February, it’s monday and it’s 2009. In so many respects a fresh place of departure that it’s sickening to mention it. To make analogies worse it’s time to start looking forward to this year’s New Media Days in October! … Continued
Free DVDs by social demand. Almost.
At a time when copyright is being challenged by widespread P2P sharing and DVD sales are showing signs of fatigue it is refreshing to see the entertainment business partnering up with web entrepreneurs to hit what promises to be a social networking home run.
Reinventing Copenhagen one app at a time
Social media has made crowdsourcing possible on a larger scale. Some new web initiatives crowdsource in the name of city development showing it’s time to look beyond simple social networking and join digital forces to benefit the physical world.
Best of New Media Days 08
At the New Media Days office we’re still processing the great attendee feedback we’ve received, but for now we thought we’d share some key findings with you; namely which sessions people thought were the very best! Interestingly, it was an art project that dazzled the Danish media business. {read on}
Days pass, poverty lasts
New Media Days 08 came and went. We’ve spent the past week feeling equally exhausted as conference organisers and ecstatic about the great feedback we’re getting from our guests; it’s an invaluable resource when planning for New Media Days 09 and we love you too!
Speaking of days past: Last Wednesday was Blog Action Day … [continues]
How will politicians support media innovation?
It was a morning jampacked with interesting sessions here on the second day at the New Media Days conference in Copenhagen. Among other things it was a morning of media politics with light being shed on the issue from opposite perspectives. First: How will politicians support media development? Second: How can media technology support politicians?
Quality rules in Ben’s Web 3.0
Why would anyone work for old, print media? It’s just dead trees sliced really thin, isn’t it? Ben Hammersley is the Associate Editor of Wired Magazine and disagrees heavily with old media giving way to new media. Actually he thinks that web 2.0 is the longest suicide note in the history of media as such.
Feeling ourselves at New Media Days 08
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…
New Media Days 08 is off to a blast
Litteraly. With conferencier Mads Brügger demonstrating the old media qualities of a party popper. Consider the content distribution model! Not very targeted though… Unfortunately the Minister of Culture, Carina Christensen, had cancelled, but instead Brügger shared his thoughts on corresponding … Continued
Survival of the digitally fittest
On Wednesday you have the choice of spending the last 20 minutes of your lunch break in the ambient company of the young and talented Mike Sheridan, who will perform from his debut release “I Syv Sind.” Mike will stay on stage for the following panel session that has representatives from the Danish music business debating the role of record companies in a world of digital content.
Digital Natives in Copenhagen tomorrow!
Students of today are digital natives: They were born into a world of internet and mobile technologies and feel right at home using them. If you’re able to reschedule your afternoon today, Tuesday 30th, Innovation Lab has reigned in Marc Prensky, inventor of the term ‘digital natives’, to give an exclusive talk on the subject at the IT-University in Copenhagen.
PICNIC08: The Future of Television
Liberty Global is the second-largest cable TV operator in the world. At PICNIC08 CEO Mike T. Fries was on stage talking about the new interactive European TV viewer, webifying television, and building digital confidence. Traditional television may be challenged by … Continued
Library Love or “How To Frame Future Media”
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.
“New Media of the Year” nominees announced
Again this year New Media Days has nominated 7 media business initiatives from Scandinavia for the “New Media of the Year” award. Let’s take a look at the nominees:
Conference Crunching #3: MTV Guitar Hero conquering the young at heart.
If the teenagers won’t watch TV someone like MTV is looking at trouble. The international research analysis, “Circuits of Cool”, had the goal of tapping into the young customers’ needs of technology, media and networking to point a twenty-year-old media conglomerate safely into the new century.
Missing out on New Media Days? Go for a PICNIC.
Today is exactly 4 weeks before New Media Days kicks off with two conference days of inspiring media talks and entrepreneurial networking. Last week we were happy to feel that all the hard planning had paid off as we put … Continued
Are you feeling mobile this monday?
A merry monday to all!
I thought I’d take this opportunity to advertise something called Mobile Monday. For anyone interested in mobile media research, networking and future of business this monthly recurring meet-up is something to make a calendar note of.
Who’s talking behind your brand?
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
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?
The Dearth of Great Newspapers
Hate him or hug him, Tyler Brûlé should be respected as an active spokesperson for the resurgence of print media. While it’s true that many magazines and newspapers have made obituary headlines over the last decade, Tyler Brûlé has shown that it’s indeed possible to survive the maelstrom of digital content by transforming commodity news into customer experience.
Copyright violation = Viral marketing
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.
Danish animation means business
Enough praise for Disney vessels with huge budgets. WALL-E made me think of animation achievements in general and of new Danish animation in particular. We’re a small country, but we have some great animation talent and don’t flinch at daring scripts. Let me run you through some of the upcoming premieres on the Danish animation scene.
Wanted: Audience in exchange for free game
Wanted, the action movie starring Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie, is premiering in Denmark tomorrow and it’s accompanied by a Massively Multiplayer Online game.
But it’s also a FIG, Fan Immersion Game, a freemium business model of the future.
Are you Born Digital or digitally challenged?
Fed up with summer crime novels? Next week a book comes out that could prove as nerve shattering as the best whodunit – and the main characters are your kids!
Born Digital is published with high praise from Creative Commons-founder Lawrence Lessig, who calls it ”required reading for parents, educators, and anyone who cares about the future.” And who doesn’t basically.
Conference Crunching #2: Jaiku
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
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…
Technology is changing politics forever
Four more years. A lot can happen in such a long time – at least in the world of media and technology. The US presidential elections have been fought on media grounds for decades, but during the last four years … Continued
Conference Crunching #1: Mash-ups
“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
What is Conference Crunching?
Well, how many times do you actually seek out the conference webcasts of the sessions you didn’t get to see – or the ones you did that were really good and worth a second watch? Unfortunately not very often is … Continued
Smart phones meeting unrecognized customer needs – and fulfilling marketers’ dreams
For more than a year the air has been buzzing with iPhone tales of splendor and rumors of good times to come with Apples mobile wonder. Since July 11 2008, the second generation iPhone has become available in 22 countries … Continued
NewMediaDays – every day!
Why limit inspiration, perspective and conversation to only two days? Just as the New Media Days conference in Copenhagen covers the forefront of media development once a year, the NewMediaBlog will be your daily feed of media news, trends, and … Continued