Episode: VMC #89 - Open Source Hardware’s Next Challenges

Episode: VMC #88 - Antti Vilpponen
Nice chat with my social media friend Antti Vilpponen. He is a sharp guy and probably one of the coolest ‘Suomi mates’ able to tell you more about nordic startups. Check the show notes below + enjoy!
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A delegation with representatives of Dutch Media organisations and directors of graphics- and media schools pays this week a visit to Helsinki and Tampere. TAMK School of Art and Media hosts and coordinates the programme of the Tampere leg of the visit. The purpose of the study trip is to learn about innovation and higher education in Finland. It is organised by Media Update, a news and

Le Web conference (9-10 Dec. Paris) is coming! I’m going to be there and I really hope to meet many of you too!
As you probably noticed during the last month I added to the sidebar of andreavascellari.com a direct link to the registration page for Le Web + the registration code BLOGDISCOUNT with which you’ll receive a 20% discount!

Teymur Madjderey is a talented freelancer photographer based in Cologne (Germany). One of the interesting projects he’s working on is ‘Troopies 365′, and I was delighted when I found out that he dedicated today’s shot to me based on iTive.net digital marketing consulting services (disclosure: He is one of our clients, we are working together on some nice projects ).
Enjoy it!

- Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriön seminaari: Sosiaalinen media aikaansaa uudenlaista vuorovaikutusta yhteiskunnassa- Opeblogi: Mystinen netti, verkko kasvattajana- eLearning Technology: Concept Worker- Training teachers and trainers

- VuClip: Mobile video search and playback for all; webware article- LinkedInABox- Bambuser takes on Qik's live mobile broadcasting; webware article

Like I said when everything moved to andreavascellari.com, I really want to make this more interactive… so let’s start with it!
You know better than me how important it is to know your audience. Indeed today we can use excellent tools to analyze relevant data. For instance if I take Google Analytics, one of my favorite tools, I get good stats related to the geographical location, time, quantity, frequency, etc. but no info for example about demographics data.

"i did this..or part of it..well, some seconds" is the caption of the photo you see on right side. I copied it from Pekko's photo album at Facebook. Pekko is proud of his contribution to the latest James Bond movie.

Timo-Pekko Nieminen started as a sound design student at Tampere School of Art and Media 15 years ago. He was stunned by the visual effects of film like Terminator 2 and Jurassic

Episode: VMC #87 - Ben Hammersley - It’s time to choose
It’s a tough moment for our economy. What Ben says should make think lots of people out there… It’s time to choose between high and low value, don’t sit in the middle.
Andrea

Blyk, the free Finnish born (but operates only in UK) mobile network for 16 to 24 year-olds funded by advertising, has signed a frame agreement with Aito Technologies, a Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution provider, for the delivery and implementation of its Business-Driven CEM software product, Aito, to UK market. This follows a successful 3-month pilot installation, which began in May.

Demola, in one sentence, lets students to do project courses together with students from other universities and companies in Tampere region. TAMK School of Art and Media students are attending in two project courses starting next year. All eyes will be on these two interesting pilot projects.
Learn to fly with Pikku kakkonen is a project for Finnish Broadcasting Company. It utilizes web camera

Episode: VMC #86 - Stowe Boyd - Better Plumbing for the Social Web
@Stowe: Sorry I didn’t have time to add subtitles in Portuguese
Andrea

Show notes & Credits: Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, Stowe Boyd

Last Friday, Microsoft launched a new program called Bizspark that offers startups of different ages and stages tools to take care of their software and hosting requirements. Technopolis Ventures, Veraventure, The Finnish Software Entrepeneurs Association and Venture Cup has partnered with Microsoft in Finland to accept participants into the program.
Startups must meet the following requirements to be accepted into the program:

Fruugo, the secretive and ambitious Finnish startup that I was the first one to blog about a year ago, is finally today revealing more details of their offering at the SIME08 conference in Stockholm.

Estonian Fortumo and Finnish Kuneri have won a free pass to Nordic Mobile Media Conference in Tallinn, Estonia on December 3-4th. Both companies will also get an exhibition stand in the event.

Fruugo is preparing to come out tomorrow afternoon in a keynote (titled maybe a bit exaggeratedly “Meet the most ambitious start up on the planet”) at SIME in Stockholm. Fruugo will explain where the company is coming from, what markets and product categories they will go after, and what are they’re next steps.

Tom makes (again) good points on how we can use the lessons of the web to improve our energy networks. Valuable thoughts from which any cluster could get inspiration:
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I’ve lately had many discussion on how the break from the Nordics & Baltics and make one’s service or product really global. Just recently I had this discussion here at Nordkapp where I work, so it does not only concern software products but equally all the service provides with international ambitions.

- Nokian Friend View kertoo missä kaverit ovat; afterdawn article- Add Remember The Milk task manager to Gmail- Dex: The business 'poke'; webware article

A new Bachelor's Degree Programme in Media, taught in English, will start in 2009 at TAMK School of Art and Media. The draft curriculum for the programme is now published, and will be sent to partners and friends for comments. The curriculum will be finally approved by TAMK University of Applied Sciences Board in January.

The new international programme will continue education in interactive

Slush Helsinki is taking place in two weeks time on 24th November at Korjaamo, Helsinki. The event is a collaborative effort from Helsinki startup scene aiming bring together Helsinki’s startups, past and current, and showcasing some of the more interesting startups in the region.

Episode: VMC #85 - Suw Charman - High Order Bit
You already know her In this keynote (Web 2.0 Expo Berlin) Suw explains how we can collaborate and communicate more efficiently. I bet many of you will find it interesting… (especially if you are ‘addicted’ to emails!)
Andrea

Public pre-print version of the article from Mike's blog HERE!

"The user experience design of most everyday ubiquitous computing
devices—things you see in gadget blogs—is typically terrible. That’s
because we do not address ubicomp user experience design as a distinct
branch of interaction design, much as we did not treat interaction
design as separate from visual design in the early days of the Web.

Sami Leino, one of the founders of Spinlet, got in touch with us about their new visual search engine Nuemo. Nuemo is one of the products they are creating to democratize search.

Episode: VMC #84 - Tim O’Reilly & Martin Varsavsky

Web 2.0 Expo Berlin - Here’s a nice conversation between Tim O’Reilly and Martin Varsavsky (FON). I also managed to catch Simone’s question at the end. Enjoy it!

Andrea

To continue from our partnership with the Nordic Venture Forum we have partnered with the European Venture Summit to bring more visibility for Nordic and Baltic startups among the investors in the region.

Watch the video of Jan Chipchase speaking at LIFT Asia, Seoul HERE

"He details nine trends he thinks will shape the future of social interactions, trends he identified through the extensive field work he and his team are conducting around the world. Jan's work shows how the digital devices are creating new practices and usages by becoming smaller and smaller, opening up a new design space for the mobile industry" 

Saplo’s founder and CEO Mattias Tyrberg tipped us that Saplo, the Swedish semantic text processing technology firm, and a winner of Seedcamp, is going to participate in two VC events in California (previous coverage of Saplo). While in the area, Mattias and Fredrik Hörte from Saplo will also visit a few big firms like Google and Facebook, and look for other potential partners, customers, and investors.

Telakka

Second floor:
13:30-15:00:

- ELPIDIO VALDÉS (Juan Padrón, 1979, 80min, animation) The film is presented by Andrea Zapata Girau and Guido Segal.

15:00-16:50
- Noticiero 49 (10 min, News)
- HOMBRES SOBRE CUBIERTA (2008, 50 min, document)

First floor:
- 18:00-20:00
Political speeches on the topic "What is revolution".

21:00-
- Acustic Cuban Night: Alejandro Gutiérrez, Nam San Fong and