A new Norwegian tech site launched today - www.tek.no. This is a co-operation between the tech sites akam.no (cameras), Amobil.no (mobile phones), Gamer.no (gaming) and Hardware.no (you gessed it - hardware related stuff).
Their goal is to establish tek.no as the best Norwegian portal for technology. It will function as a joint site for editorial stuff across the existing sites, and all traffic will lead to the respectively sites. Besides the editorial content they already co-operates on [in manys opinion] the best price guide Norway has to offer when it comes to hardware, mobile phones and other nifty things.
Finally an objectivity remark:The company behind tek.no, Edda Media, is my employer. However they have nothing to do with from a social perspective.com
When planning the trip my boss Gry found walki-talki.com - and I like the concept. Its like taking the tourist buss - but by yourself at your own pace. They explain with 3 easy steps:
- download audio (guide) and put it on your iPod or mp3 player
- print their maps
- take the tour with car, bicycle or your feet - whatever suits you
All I need now is the bag around my waist and 2 meters of lens around my neck. Amsterdam - here I come!
News.com has an article today about DRM which include some statements from David Hughes, who leads the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) technology unit: “[Recently] I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still require DRM. Any form of subscription service or limited play-per-view or advertising offer still requires DRM. So DRM is not dead.”
Last night the tech crew of Facebook evidently focused partly on Norway. After a good nights sleep the chat app integrated in Facebook meet us. It’s not global news, other regions has already testet it, but new for the 4.5 million people living in Norway.
There’s nothing sensational about Facebook Chat. However there is some things that make this interesting to follow regarding market share in the “instant messaging world”.
- No need for any download. Once your’re logged into Facebook your chat is available
- The popularity of Facebook (still hot among the average user)
- No need for finding your friends twice. They are already defined through Facebook
- No new account needed (we got a cuple of hundred on the web already)
We will follow the market (and specially MSN) close in the near future.
The Norwegian communications bureau Colt Kommunikasjon referred today to an article (Norwegian only) on dagbladet.no about politicians and new media. The sum-up: New media is a good and cheap way to measure their standings, popularity and what people thinks about them. They also needs to take part in the digital conversation, something most of them don’t do today. Gordon Brown (British prime minister) however was the first European prime minister to use Twitter.
Marius Eriksen, senior advisor GCI Communique states the following:
- They [politicians] need to listen, engage and influence, in that order.
Krikkit discovered this service today called KoolWIRE, which let you convert mp3’s to wav, wav to mp3’s, Word (doc, docx), Powerpoint (ppt, pptx), Excel (xls, xlsx), Visio (vsd), MS Project (mpp), Jpeg, GIF, TIF, RTF, txt to PDF, and PDF to DOC using EMAIL!
Yes, that’s right. Just add your files as attachments and send them to the appropriate address provided by KoolWIRE.
An excellent service, and that’s not all..
You can send multiple attachment with one email, and what if your files are too big to send by email? (limitations from the email provider maybe?) Then you can upload the files directly to KoolWire, and have them shipped back to you in an email! More info on what address to send to for different conversions can be found here
This is most interesting for the Norwegian readers.
Tinde.no, one of Norways largest section-based sites, launched a new site a couple of minutes ago. Besides the new improved design they have new opportunities regarding search and presentation.
The two most important news however is this; (1) editorial content “mixed” with prospects (houses, boats, cars … for sale) and (2) prospects available and distributed for free to your mobile phone.
Not the first time this happens. New media like YouTube has helped a lot of people reach a larger audience. The young stand up comedian Björn Gustafsson is 22 years old (born 1986), and the last year has been somewhat of a race for him. He claims to work all the time, meaning (his own words); he doesn’t drink, date or eat unhealthy food.
The good old fashion television helped his carrier in Sweden. But the YouTube numbers speaks for themselves. The videos are in Swedish, but here is one with English subs. And he talks about WoW (more here: Björn Gustafsson on YouTube).
Following the last post about Wireds note on the lack of income in social networks; Alex Burmaster (Nielsen Online) states the following to BBC Click: “The slow down in social networks is being somewhat exaggerated. It’s a natural form of any growth that we see in the online eco-system.”
Burmaster is the analyst which compiled the figures showing that there has been a 5% slowdown in new UK users to Facebook and MySpace between December 2007 and January this year.
The Norwegian company Colt Kommunikasjon did a somewhat similar study which they published a week ago. It shows that 50.000 (out of 1 070 000) Norwegian Facebook users left the social network from february to march (one month!).
A new Norwegian tech site launched today - www.tek.no. This is a co-operation between the tech sites akam.no (cameras), Amobil.no (mobile phones), Gamer.no (gaming) and Hardware.no (you gessed it - hardware related stuff).
On Sunday I’m getting on a plain to 
Last night the tech crew of Facebook evidently focused partly on Norway. After a good nights sleep the chat app integrated in Facebook meet us. It’s not global news, other regions has already testet it, but new for the 4.5 million people living in Norway.
This is most interesting for the Norwegian readers.
Following the last post about