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July 2008

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• Advertising, Music

  Spotify to open doors to advertisers

  07.31.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just recieved an email from the team from Last.fm competitor Spotify about their experiment with advertising within the service. This is still in beta but they are now rolling out these ads to include almost all beta testers.
  Ads will both […]

• News, Web 2.0

  News is getting more and more personal

  07.31.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

   
  Ever since the blogosphere started to evolv into a huge filter for information from around the world there has been a strong trend towards the personalisation of news. By personalisation I mean that in the constant overflow of information we use different kinds of filters and one of them is friends and people we trust. […]

• Terminology

  Buzzword Bingo

  07.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just read a great post CK’s Blog about how marketers (and tech people) tend to over use buzzwords. The moral of that blog entry was that consumers don’t use those buzzwords, just the marketers. I think that it’s probably impossible to avoid buzzwords completely, but it is important to think about them and not let […]

• Communication, Video

  If Twitter would marry YouTube

  07.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If Twitter would marry YouTube you would get something like the new service 12seconds. Instead of 140 characters you get 12 seconds in front of your webcam to send messages to the world or your friends. It’s video-micro-blogging I suppose, an interesting evolution of two separate things; Internet video and micro-blogging.
  The popular YouTube profile […]

• Mobile communication

  Live mobile press conference from Bambuser

  07.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday I wrote about Bambuser and their recent landing of VC and a great PR success from getting their brand ambassadeur on Swedish TV.
  Today they held a live mobile press conference (what else) about the VC deal. Apparently they will get a money injection of about 15 million SEK (1 SEK = 0.17 US dollars […]

• Branding, Opinion

  Swedish Digg clone puts “DIGG” in header

  07.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In a recent redesign of the popular Swedish marketing blog Researcher and the private blog deep.edition by the same author, things took an interesting turn. The new aggregated site (called “Researcher DIGG” in the header) with posts from both these blogs turned into a small Digg clone where readers have the power to “digg” different […]

• Announcement

  Documentary on wiretapping in Sweden

  07.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Don’t forget to check out the web documentary on the new wiretapping law in Sweden that we are currently working on:
  www.WiretappingSweden.com
  www.WiretappingSweden.com/blog 
  The trailer is up on Vimeo here.
  //Tomas Nihlén, Editor in Chief
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• Announcement

  New RSS feed for this blog

  07.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  We just changed the URL for the feed for this blog to:
  http://feeds.feedburner.com/UrbanLifestyleReport_NewMedia
  Please update in your reader and we appologize for any inconvenience.
  //Tomas Nihlén, Editor in Chief
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• Mobile communication

  A bright future for Swedish Qik killer?

  07.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The future is looking bright for Swedish mobile-to-Internet video streaming service Bambuser. Yesterday their brand ambassadeur Adam Tensta appeared on one of Swedens most popular Swedish TV shows, a sing-a-long show that draws a huge crowd each week. The performance is available on both Bambuser and MySpace. On top of that they just went public […]

• Micro-blogging, Video

  About the future of Twitter

  07.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This video is about the “death of Twitter” if there is such a thing, which amandolinb doubts. Worth watchingif you are into micro-blogging.- Tomas Nihlén, Editor in Chief, follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tomasnihlen
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