Looking at the credits of the short films made at Tampere School of Art and Media this and last year you notice that the composer is often Michael Law. This was obvious at Tampere Art Factory festival in May; the music score was made by him in six of the films screened. Michael Law has composed the music e.g. for Hera by Sanni Rajapolvi and Sideline by Maria Kaurismäki, both presented earlier in

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NewsToScreen, the service by Finnish marketing men that aimed to charge consumers for watching ads, has filed for bankruptcy according to Kauppalehti. We covered the company just little over a year ago in March. Later last year I talked to the CEO Marko Parkkinen back then and he quoted them having 80 000 users. Apparently not everyone was paying the 29€ annual fee as it would have brought in revenue of over 2 million euros.

Moozement is now available in a simplified form for certain mobile phones – just use the normal URL www.moozement.com on your phone browser. At least S60 phones and the iPhone support our mobile site, verified support for other phone platforms and browsers is on the way.

The feature set on mobile is quite limited now, but we’ll be enriching it along the way. The look and feel of the service might be a bit clumsy still on some browsers, but we’ll be fixing these issues during the coming days.

Moozement is now available also in Finnish and Russian besides the original English language version. These were obvious first choices, as we have native speakers of these languages in the team. We’re looking to introduce several other language variants in the future – so if you like the service and have skills for wordsmithing in your own language, please let us know! Especially Spanish, German, French & Italian would be interesting next steps!

We’ve just introduced a major new release with several usability improvements, new languages, and the possibility to share your exercises on Twitter.

Denmark is a great example on effective use of public promotion instruments on renewable energy. And now we are not speaking merely about  the effecitive use of manpower on transportation (bicycles account for 18 per cent of all trips taken in Denmark)!

We all know and love Apple for giving us the almost seamless experience to manage content between the web, our laptop and ipod or iPhone via iTunes. Only problem is that it’s as closed system as it gets. Linkotec, a Finnish startup is aiming to come to rescue with Dazzboard.

Episode: VMC #172 - Heiko Hebig, 3 Tags

The 3 Tags serie, is a self-folksonomy introduction to some of the bright minds I know in the web industry. It’s a first input to let you then connect, network and discover more about them…

I haven´t used Skype for a while so did not know all the new features. After seeing this video:

I just need to start Skype-ing again. It´s not only phone calls and web cams but screen & file sharing. :)

The news that The Pirate Bay (TBP) is to be acquired by Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) for MSEK 60 (App USD 7.7 million) spread all over the media this morning. The purchase includes the domain name and related web sites, including www.thepiratebay.org, and amounts to consisting of at least MSEK 30 in cash and up to the equivalent of MSEK 30 in the form of newly issued shares in GGF. The transaction is scheduled to be closed in August 2009.

This is our periodic thank you note to our blog sponsors to describe what they have to offer.

Summer Shirts

Hey all you Pals!

For July we will bring you some exclusive t-shirts with cool and fun logos printed on them.

This is a unique opportunity to get yourself a shirt that will never again be on sale in MoiPal, so buy one or all of them right now!

The shirts are not VIP so everyone can buy one

Night at the movies got totally different intrepretation when IGDA Finlandinvited IGDA volunteers to experience big screen gaming at Sello Bio Rex movie theater. After the last screening ended in the night, gamers started entering the building. Three screening rooms were reserved for game playing until next morning. Gamers got to choose which NES, PS3 or Xbox 360 games they would prefer playing

Last week I got a LinkedIn invitation from a genius who was a fan of Michael Jackson. At the same time he holds several amazing positions:

-Owner of Global LINK SERVE
-C.E.O of FORD
-C.E.O of Toshiba Japan
-Director in Nokia
-Director in sharp Electronics
-Director in Sony Electronics Company
-Director in Lexus
-Director in colgate Palmolive usa

He must be a busy guy...

What is really amazing is that he has got 15 new contacts after yesterday and there´s now only 2 people between him and me.

Venture Capital 2.0: Grow VC Launches Private Beta (We Have Invites)
Grow VC launches today an invitiation-only private beta of their “Venture Capital 2.0″ service. Grow VC aims to better enable early stage funding for mobile and web 2.0 startup companies by community-based approach. The investment size Grow VC is looking to facilitate ranges from USD $10,000 to $1M.

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