I haven’t written any in a long time, mainly because I haven’t had time. It’s so much to do at Testfreaks at the moment, we are really showing good progress.
Last week I went to Daytona Session vol 1, in Stockholm. Daytona Session was is an Internet Conference that discussed the online future and what will come the next five years.
One of the speakers, Johan Ronnestam at Foreign, had a really interesting speak about this, where he listed 10 things to come the next 5 years.
He gave a good brief in what he thought was the really good things that would come over the next years. He spoke about some new business marketing roles that we might see over the next years. Where SEO manager where the top one. But he also mentioned some other new interesting roles as feed content managers, social customer manager(handle all customer support online on every community that excist), where the companies need to be more focused on what information they are spreading and how they deliver these.
It will be really interesting to see if there will be more of this, hopefully a volym 2 with more internet focus. It was a little bit to much about journalism mumbo jumbo.
If you understand swedish, you can take a look at Johan Ronnestams presentations here.
Take a moment to think of how the future will look like on the internet. And what will the next generation of Internet users do online? What will be the next big thing online? When will the majority of Africa connect?
I read about this new company today, on idg.se, that will use Bittorrent technology to distribute new movies to consumers. The consumer will then be able to watch the movie from the computer or burn it on a dvd. Headweb have made there own client for distribution and payments. Instead of using DRM technology (copyright protections) they will make a watermark in the movie, like the one that are used for cinema film distributions. Headweb write this on there webpage about this - “The invisible watermark will not cause any problems for you legal and honest users but increases the risk of getting caught for those who illegally spread the movies. We believe watermarking is a good compromise so that you won’t have to deal with complicated copy protections.”
Headweb will in the beginning be distribute swedish and european movies in there network but they will probably be signing deals with all the big major players in Hollywood. They will have 500 titles available in the beginning.
I wrote about Spotified a month ago, and how good there beta music service was. Today I found another good project in the same area. Deezer works in your browser and there search for music is really fast. They stream the music to you. You don’t have to download any clients or something just enjoy the music in a Firefox tab.
I did try the search for some rare swedish artists and it didn’t work (Spotified did). For the record I searched for an Elvis look a like named “Eilert Pilarm”.
This service is french from the beginning, but are not aiming to take over the world in the same way as all other 2.0 start-ups do.
I’ve been totally Spotified, the last couple of days. Actually we have had a beta account at work for this great service a couple of weeks now, and it’s really good.
The service is based on streaming, so you never actually download anything. You might say it’s a legal Napster, but without the viruses and quality. This will probably be a big competitor to last.fm, pandora and other similar services. It’s got a hugh library with songs in all genre. I did a search for the swedish band “Lillasyster” former Luuk, but there where no songs listed from them. But all my other searches have popuped up instantly, very fast. It doesn’t feel like it’s web based. Hopefully they get the randomize function or should I call it radiofunction to work, where you can choose genre or decade (70s, 80s music). This is not working fully at this time.
Last time Felix Hagnö and Martin Lorentzon worked together they created Tradedoubler, this time they will take over the music distribution scen. They have teamed up with Daniel Ek, former CTO at Stardoll.
The really big question is, when will they go public with this really good service?
I just stumbled across this site, Mojobaby, while checking my networks questions at Linkedin (Which is a really good site, btw). This site helps you share pictures from your phone with your friends on the internet. Unfortanatly for me it only works in USA, and not in Sweden But I think this is a really good way to connect your phone with your internet blogs and social networks. Instant sharing! The first thing that pops in to my mind when reading this is, no more postcards to friends. From now only the parents get the written post cards.
I wonder if this site have any plans on launching outside of US? Radar.net (Currently in beta) are another good site that makes the same.
But I think this is a really good way to connect your phone with your internet blogs and social networks. Instant sharing! The first thing that pops in to my mind when reading this is, no more postcards to friends. From now only the parents get the written post cards.
