Visual Radio

Morko loves boxes

2012-01-07T15:20:00.001+02:00

Morko loves boxes
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Morko loves boxes. Yeah, that's right, Morko's behavior has been tested.

Social boxes are familiar to all of us.

We all live in boxes and silos, but most of us do not understand the limitations imposed.

What can we learn from cats and chats?

My point is that the understanding of social media is at a very early stage of adoption, understanding, and adaption.

We've a long way to go before we are ready to jump out of the boxes we've built around us to provide a primitive sensation of security.

Southern Africa

2012-01-06T18:41:00.001+02:00

Southern Africa
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Southern Africa does have a meaning.

A small country, like Finland, needs to loog for new markets and nisches.

My opionon is that AFRICA is going to play an important role in the future:

I want to understand Africa just as well as China today.

Help me to succeed!

Happy New Year 2012

2011-12-31T15:57:00.001+02:00

Happy New Year 2012
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Happy New Year 2012.

This year has been a great year.

The year 2012 will be a most interesting one for us.

There're a lot of things boiling ;)

Cats stretched out on the couch

2011-12-26T12:34:00.001+02:00

Cats stretched out on the couch
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Cats stretched out on the couch.

Listening to Sibelius music from Musiikkitalo.

This year Christmas has been most relaxing.

We decided to take it easy and not too much fuss.

This is Sotkamo tonight

2011-12-23T22:30:00.001+02:00

This is Sotkamo tonight
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

This is Sotkamo tonight.

I visite Sotkamon Siva to buy some final items for Christmas preparation.

We've 10 cm of snow but the weather is exceptionally warm for the end of December.

The temperature just around 0 C.

Happy Christmas

2011-12-23T11:31:00.000+02:00

Bologna, Italy

2011-12-09T01:39:00.001+02:00

Bologna, Italy
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Bologna, Italy. Back in Finland and trying to find out the idea of RCM from Wikipedia:

The methdod offers specific criteria to use when selecting a risk management strategy for a system that presents a specific risk when it fails.

Some are technical in nature. Others are goal-oriented. The criteria are often presented in the form of a decision-logic diagram, though this is not intrinsic to the nature of the process.

Identification of Safety Critical Elements (SCE) and maintaining associated pre defined performance standards is the foundation of asset integrity management.

The RCM process described in the DOD/UAL report recognized three principal risks from equipment failures: threats

to safety,
to operations, and
to the maintenance budget.

Modern RCM gives threats to the environment a separate classification, though most forms manage them in the same way as threats to safety.

RCM offers four principal options among the risk management strategies:

on-condition maintenance tasks,
scheduled restoration or discard maintenance tasks,
failure-finding maintenance tasks, and
one-time changes to the "system" (changes to hardware design, to operations, or to other things).

Cats listening to my speach!

2011-12-07T16:24:00.001+02:00

Cats listening to my speach!
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Cats listening to my speach! That's not true. Kassu and Morko do not care a bit what I say. They've a mindset with own priorities.

I did make some notes while watching television:

a business model should be based on realism
clients are much more complex than simplified target group definitions
we need power to get our message out to collaborators around the globe

Sotkamo by night

2011-11-26T20:33:00.001+02:00

Sotkamo by night
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Sotkamo by night two days ago. I'm working with the digital villages project and Biotechtouch details.

Planning to focus on local content.
Would like to create local audio story telling:
The average day is most interesting:
Searching for the extraordinary in ordinary life.

My initial thought is that there aren't big news to be broadcasted or narrow-casted from a small village, but that's not true. I'll be digging into the analogue past of Sotkamo and transform it into a digital form: text, video, picture, and audio.

Winter today

2011-11-21T21:12:00.001+02:00

Winter today
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Winter today. The lake is frozen and we've just a little bit snow in Jataniemi.

I managed to do all the necessary works required in the garden and outdoors everything is ready for a new winter.

Let it snow, let it snow...

Creating new stereo and quality audio content with my new Zoom H2n handy recorder.

Sotkamo today

2011-10-20T13:55:00.001+03:00

Sotkamo today
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Sotkamo today: I was waiting for Irja and expanding my mobile communication.

I'm looking for practical ways to deliver micronews (snacks) from daily routine locations.

A long term target is to use these information snacks as building bricks for a more complete presentation of hyperlocal activities and services.

Small and trivial microevents may have an importance for tourists and visitors.

Intelligent machines the future of mechanical engineering

2011-06-15T11:21:00.001+03:00

We have an Intelligent Machines collaborative and networking cluster program operating in Finland. I’m reading a publication that gives an overview of Finnish expertise in mechanical engineering and its diversity.

Finnish mechanical engineering has a number of world class areas, and we have strong companies such as Konecranes, ABB, Wartsila and Metso. In addition, we have a strong work machine cluster and an advanced operations support network between the main contractor and sub-contracting activities.

- We have excellent international success stories in this field – and more is yet to come, says Toni Sulameri, Vice President, Hermia Oy.

Physical and Intelligent machines are needed, regardless of the changes in economic trends in the production and transport of different kinds of commodities, even though ICT and virtual technology have been developing strongly.

Energy producing machines and appliances are needed to operate the machines. New technologies help to avoid overload situations, optimize a journey, allowing safe operation of machines and optimizing energy use.

Machines using sensory devices can work independently and release people from carrying out potentially dangerous tasks. Intelligent machines may also work smoothly alongside people.

Our expertise in research and product development guarantees that machines are going to be even more intelligent in the future. The most challenging goals are to take steps towards internationalization and the development concepts for SMS-sized enterprises.

intensified utilization of mechanical engineering
greater technological expertise and rapid response to customer needs
the service industry is growing as a part of machinery exports
new technologies can be applied to transform traditional industries
knowledge-based sectors are invited to crowd source and collaborate for new solutions
low energy consumption and activity based costing should guide research and development
minimizing environmental impacts: green machines that are increasingly electric or hybrid-powered
emphasis should be placed on ease of use, UI, human-machine-interaction

When this over

2011-02-08T23:49:00.001+02:00

Europe has changed a lot since the second world war; during my lifetime. Still, we think that the old continent has stagnated and is unable to innovate.

Yet, Europe is an innovative society. This continent is not as trigger-happy as the Americans. But we're getting older, that's a fact and creates problems.

Are we going to witness the spring of Northern Africa this year?

What could be the role of EU in the transformation of Africa to a more democratic and prosperous continent?

Communities Dominate Brands: Some Symbian Sanity - why Nokia will not join Google Android or Microsoft Phone 7

2010-12-15T17:15:00.000+02:00

Communities Dominate Brands: Some Symbian Sanity - why Nokia will not join Google Android or Microsoft Phone 7: "I had a great meeting with my dear friend Ewan MacLeod the editor of Mobile Industry Review and a deeply insightful commentator on the mobile industry, as he visited Hong Kong last week. We had a good discussion about smartphones and both were astonished by the continuing rumors about Nokia operating system future options. All that speculation about 'when' or 'if' Nokia will migrate its smartphones to Google's Android operating system or to Microsoft's Phone 7 (the successor to Windows Mobile). This is ridiculous. Nokia is executing a migration strategy from dumbphones to smartphones - excellently, one might add, and has the best strategy of any handset vendors, for its smartphones.

– Lähetetty Google-työkalupalkin välityksellä"

Interpret in your own way

2010-12-10T22:01:00.002+02:00

Integrate your song to the hearthland and rural context.

Years and years of text and songs sculpted out of empty darkness of a creative mind.

That process might end. It's a huge junkyard of garbage; make the songs out of that. There is plenty of stuff to select from.

Somebody is going to get hurt tonight. I watch a movie and wish to create my own sets of micro-movies.

The big apple wasn't finished

2010-11-09T00:21:00.002+02:00

The deal landed him his first professional gig. But he was looking for a real dream come through performance.

When he was abou to give up all hope, luck striked again.

He left the producers with the dilemma: what should we do? What kind of a character do we need? The country boy coming to the big city. Alternating as a city boy.

He wasn't a method actor but he nailed the audtion and was ready to accept the work. Think about it for a minute. How would his fans react? He worked like a slave and his acting touched the younger demographics.

They did take him under their wings. The actors loved the competition. This is where the story begins. Read my next out of the wind story whenever it appears in digital form.

Professional thoughts

2010-11-03T22:29:00.002+02:00

What could be the number one idea of social innovation?

Any thoughts about what the world is going to need the day after tomorrow?

A sustainable lifestyle?

New renewable energy forms
Less traffic and more distance work
Even distribution of wealth and health
Ways to growth without increased consumption
Recycling and smart ways to use garbage and waste

Had Apple Announced The Nokia N8 | Mobile RnR

2010-10-18T15:18:00.000+03:00

Had Apple Announced The Nokia N8 | Mobile RnR: "Whether you’ve been following the mobile industry for two days or two decades, a few observations should be quite obvious to you, the first of which is how much Apple, and Steve Jobs more specifically, excel at keynote announcements in comparison to any other manufacturer. The second observation is that no matter how good a device Nokia can produce, they never seem to get it right when it comes down to introducing it to the press.

In an Utopian world, somewhere far far away, let’s suppose that you could combine Steve Jobs’ keynote prowess with Nokia’s N8 product, and see the stellar event that would have transpired.

– Lähetetty Google-työkalupalkin välityksellä"

Helge: This is a great virtual presentation. Nokia is big, big, big, but not small enough to make the headlines.

We should look for it

2010-10-10T22:09:00.001+03:00

We're not supposed to be in here. The bunnies might be a clue to all of this.

Social media should not be blamed. There is a bigger secret behind all of this.

The tools have been pictured to symbolize the move from work to microjobs:

Skip the fear
We do have pre-occupation barriers
Life is mor complex than simple theories

Dave Young to speak at Podcamp Boston 5 | Purple Stripe Productions

2010-09-25T16:49:00.000+03:00

Dave Young to speak at Podcamp Boston 5 | Purple Stripe Productions: "As Social Networking changes how people connect with each other, how can companies and other organizations benefit from this “new” way of communicating? What lessons have we learned from personal social networking and how can we apply them to our working lives? What compelling reasons are there for a company to embrace social networking internally – not just to communicate with their customers but with their employees? How can social networking help companies be more competitive, operate more efficiently, and provide a better understanding of how their company truly works. Come to this session and find out why Forrester Research is calling Social Networking “The Biggest Enterprise 2.0 Priority by 2013″

– Lähetetty Google-työkalupalkin välityksellä"

Xperimental

2010-09-07T22:44:00.001+03:00

I'm working with a re-definition and consolidation of my social media tools and platforms.

Less is more. Focusing, a sharper edge, and a crystal clear target.

I hope to see more of you commenting upcoming blog postings.

Yet, I don't have the faintest idea about my audience and readers.

My best postings ever are those when I write notes for myself, my thoughts, ideas for private use. I try to forget target groups and readers. This is for me ;)

Pleasure and the creative process

2010-08-22T14:27:00.001+03:00

The difficulties of composing something important leads to inventions every day.

Sometimes I've to wait long times to find even the slightest fragment with something new and inspiring in it.

It takes time to find the uniqueness

Creation is a pleasurable process

The vision of a new world order

2010-08-16T22:35:00.001+03:00

Who is going to give me a ride to the second life or to an exclusive virtual reality? To be honest, I don't even know how to get started with my first one.

First, we've a meeting with wicked personalities on the ride back home from a party. You say, "Nothing important for a businessman".

The woman in the picture didn't know what happened. Don't blame her. This is post-modern poetry. She doesn't even understand the contemporary. What's modern?

He was ambitious and had plenty of resources. People around him didn't take notice of his talents. We're so focused on global brands and famous people: the average man does never hit the headlines. The media is the message but in a very stupid way.

What's wrong with the fucking vehicle? In the middle of night at the cross-roads; nobody moving either east or west.

How big investments? Are we sure about the heating system and the ventilation system? Right, the plan is great but does the real thing meet the expectations?

Don't giggle, the city is sleeping and waiting for the next move. The global economy is recovering and we have the resources for a renewal.

Hello, are you ready? Life continues from crisis to crisis. Don't worry, we can do it alright. Take a look at the stars.

Tomorrow, the sun is shining and we can recover some energy and use water as a storage.
Great ideas are all around us, we just have to grasp them. Rocket scientists are reaching for the stars. Still some things to do on the globe.
Downshifting!

Welcome to my world

2010-08-15T00:38:00.000+03:00

Check out the security. I was able to deliver security. Are we clear?

There were documentary pictures all over the place. No need to testify.

Oh my God! Movies have to follow the rules of drama.

The script

2010-07-20T01:16:00.001+03:00

We had been planning the movie for several months. It would tell details about the local community. But we had to find people for interviews. The summer vacation promised a great time for us to learn about potential participants and their roles.

The thunderstorm symbolized an event with high unstability and with high temperature we would be able to mimic tropical conditions.

Heat and moisture, what about rain? Sun is shining and a sudden change from beutiful summer day to a dramatic outburst.

At least twenty individuals will participate. At the moment we have W2, s1, w4, townspeople, cafeteria, m5 etc. We do have most of them profiled already. Their personalities will be better outlined at a later time.

Open innovation

2010-07-15T02:24:00.001+03:00

The institute of open innovation conducted a long term development program.

The evolution of special attractors were coninuously monitored by a team of trained innovators.

Evolution
Creation of attractors
Magnetism and personal development
Comparative extensions
Modelling of excellent representations
Practical field studies
Scifi as a source of ideas

Sydney restaurant replaces menus with iPads

2010-06-03T12:28:00.001+03:00

I got an email from my brother, Helmer, living in Sydney. The iPad is moving into areas that are close to the ideas of the “Future Store”.

THE iPad is already a tasty product among gadget lovers, but a North Sydney restaurant has become the first in Australia to replace their printed menus with Apple's new touch screen device, writes Stephen Fenech.

Global Mundo Tapas in the North Sydney Rydges Hotel yesterday [The Daily Telegraph, June 03, 2010 10:43AM] introduced a custom-made iPad application which allows customers to browse the virtual pages of the menu with a sweep of their finger.

Diners can peruse the dishes and see a picture of what the dish looks like along with tasting notes before compiling their order and sending it wirelessly to the kitchen.

The iPad menu can also suggest the best wines to go with certain dishes and suggest the best food pairings.

When ordering steak, users can even specify how they'd like the meat cooked and which sauce they'd prefer.

It will even ask them if they'd like fries with that.

Mundo's iPad menu app can also help keep track of stock levels so if certain dishes and wines sell out they will automatically disappear off the on-screen menu.

Craig Simpson, Rydges area general manager, says the new iPad platform will enhance the dining experience.

"We have something that presents really well, sells our food really well and is absolutely dynamic," he said.

Mr Simpson said the iPad menu would eventually make it possible to order food based on the weather or even match dishes to a person's mood.

While the waiters and waitresses of the restaurant will still be required to take the food from the kitchen to the tables, the iPad will mean they =ill have to work a little harder for their tips.

Credit to:

By Stephen Fenech

From: The Daily Telegraph

June 03, 2010 10:43AM

How to Incorporate the iPad Into Your Social Strategy | Social Media Examiner

2010-05-27T17:13:00.000+03:00

How to Incorporate the iPad Into Your Social Strategy | Social Media Examiner

Nobody can pump up a new product launch quite like Apple. Take a semi-rabid fan base, a celebrity CEO and products that just sparkle, and you have all the makings of something big.

In its first month alone, the iPad had already racked up a million units sold. There’s so much online chatter about it, as of this writing a Google search on the name alone generates 107 million search results. The hype and the sales are soaring.

But what does this mean for social media and the way people use the Internet? Are there just a million new Apple toy owners out there or is this the beginning of a broader, more meaningful shift?

- a new way to view and share photos
- look at all the photos
- share with your frinds
- watch videos: there is no delay
- a really fast map application
- ibooks application "is such a pleasure"
- there is a bookstore behind
- iTune, AppStore, iBooks

Mobile Services and Gadgets

2010-05-16T20:53:00.001+03:00

There was a long silence. Blackberry was not supposed to be a threat to the connecting people engineers until Barack Obama made it clear that he was using one. Big blow.

There was dead silence for several years when Apple introduced the iPhone. That wasn’t supposed to be more than a one per cent nuisance. Temporarily the estimate of Steven Jobs as a mister no-body in the mobile phones sphere was very correct. But there was no iPhone killer the first, not the second and third year.

Now, most of the consumers understand that the Symbian operating system might be the big problem. For the remaining part of this blog posting I try to figure out what Nokia has to do.

To make a long story short, they really have to listen to their users and accept that Apple and Google have some things in their touchable phones that Connecting People can’t produce or even understand. And Blackberry is also a very profitable cell phone supplier.

What could the Future Store learn from the past?

2010-05-15T17:57:00.001+03:00

What on earth could be we learn from the history of shopping?

I’ve a feeling that we’re trying to find answers from a very clouded future when there are plenty of good answers available in the history of sales, marketing and shopping.

Today’s stores are clinical, clean and boring. Every store tries to create a spotless image. But at the same time the “experience of finding” is moved further and further away.

The clean and tidy seven eleven or K-Mart isn’t interesting anymore. The consumer wants to find something new and unexpected. Are the store owners really providing that possibility? My answer is: No!

The Future Store – Work in Progress

2010-05-13T16:54:00.001+03:00

The idea, concept and image of the future store did not escape my mind. Early this morning, I was in the kitchen preparing breakfast when Irja walked in. She had a concerned look on her face.

“What are you going to speak about at the conference?” she asked.

I found it hard to give a concentrated answer. “I’m still working with the presentation but I’ve a few things on my mind: the future store, microworks, the innovation train, iTraining and iTrading.

Irja seemed satisfied with that. “Okay, sounds great, you have an idea, but don’t make it to theoretical.”

She certainly had a point. I have the habit to get overly theoretical or philosophical. Get back, down to earth, I said to myself.

"Are you expecting for something that I don’t understand?" I asked and continued to motion my mind into a grey zone I’d not discovered before our breakfast discussion.

Obviously, I needed to learn more about. Nevertheless, my presentation wasn’t as clear as I first imagined. But I could now see the whole picture much better than ever before.

Yesterday, the time I parked my car in the driveway and entered our home, Irja was even more curious.

"What is the new thing you have on your mind?" Irja asked. There was surprise and shock in her voice.

"What do you mean?" I stammered.

"So what do you have to make a break-through?"

“Irja, I might conduct a digital tour around the facilities: someone could be amazed and others bored. Need to find the pitch about the facilities and of our futuristic ideas," I grinned.

Her eyes showed surprise. For a moment, I thought she was going to begin challenging me again, but then, I saw that she was just having a good time analyzing the string of new ideas surfacing during our discussion.

“We certainly have some very important matters to discuss. The future store isn’t a technical thing, it’s not about futuristic logistics, the focus is on shoppers experiences and service. Some people want to do their shopping with high-speed and efficiency.”

“We’re going to figure it out!” I thought.

What do I know about business and corporate blogging in Estonia?

2010-05-12T23:50:00.001+03:00

The good, the bad and the ugly: Meelis Mandel, Editor in Chief, Äripäev Meelis chooses some Estonian business blogs and says what's good or bad about them in his opinion.

Hello folks! We’ve less than one hundred kilometers in distance between Tallinn and Helsinki. The birds can travel this distance very easy but how well do we know the blogosphere and business practices in our neighboring countries?

It very quickly occurs to me that that the Finnish bay is much thicker borderline than we tend to think. Estonian businesses is a big question mark for me. Tourism is one of the areas where people know a few brands. The same goes for liquor, beer and some household products.

It seems like we still live a very separated lives within our national economies. How could that be changed with Web 2.0, social media, blogs and microblogs? We’ve the tools but there has to be some common areas of interest before we start to connect.

Are you able to make changes?

2010-05-12T16:46:00.001+03:00

Enthusiasm, passion, engagement, risk-taking, the ability to think differently and to transform thoughts to action are essential personality ingredients for innovators and change makers.

The big challenge is always to get started with innovative processes; to overcome friction and inertia. It’s so easy to get tired and de-motivated. Those who make new things do always face opposition and down-right hostility. Change makers are regarded as trouble makers, revolutionaries and unpredictable eccentrics.

Innovators and inventors need endurance. A network of like-minded people supporting change and invention might be a helpful in situations when the fight for what is right is getting though.

Way to share with iPad - a gallery on Flickr

2010-05-08T11:45:00.000+03:00

Way to share with iPad - a gallery on Flickr

I begin to understand... using your fingertips & visual images in your mind the prez & fab people around you wake -> one more finger tip click. Done. Shared for followers of your followers :)

Who wants to powerpoint, prezi etc things after seeing this? When all you produce with your fingertips are ready for simultaneous sharing!!

Who’s using Apple products? - Holy Kaw!

2010-04-23T09:54:00.000+03:00

Who’s using Apple products? - Holy Kaw!: "Holy Kaw! All the topics that interest us
Who’s using Apple products? Posted Apr 22nd, 2010 at 7:29 AM

Who lined up to nab the iPad first and where will you find the most devoted Apple fanboys? Look no further than the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area to spot the biggest Apple enthusiasts in the nation. Eh, not much of a surprise.

New data from Experian Simmons reveals the cities that purchase Apple products the most. So who’s jamming out to iPods and typing away on Macs the second most? None other than Bostonians.

Here’s the full list of the top ten markets for Apple fanatics:

10. Las Vegas, NV

9. Santa Barbara-Santa Marina-San Luis Obispo, CA

8. Monterey-Salinas, CA

7. Denver, CO

6. Chicago, IL

5. Washington D.C.

4. New York, NY

3. San Diego, CA

2. Boston, MA

1. San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

Full story at Huffington Post."

Apple earnings: iPhone growth magnifies global smartphone potential | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

2010-04-21T18:04:00.000+03:00

Apple earnings: iPhone growth magnifies global smartphone potential | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: "Apple once again took Wall Street by surprise when it reported second quarter earnings that far exceeded any expectations of analysts and industry watchers. Revenues came in nearly $1.5 billion over what Wall Street forecast and earnings were 90 cents over. Growth in Mac sales was impressive - at 33 percent - and iPod Touch sales were even better, up 63 percent from a year ago.

But the darling of the earnings call on Tuesday was the iPhone, which saw a whopping 131 percent year-over-year growth in sales and 124 percent jump in revenue. Its numbers exceeded the records set during the previous quarter, a holiday quarter. And sales were also up more than three times the 41 percent that IDC projected for overall smartphone market growth for the quarter."

The f8 Preview: How Facebook Plans to Take Over the Web

2010-04-21T11:01:00.000+03:00

The f8 Preview: How Facebook Plans to Take Over the Web: "Facebook’s third f8 developer conference kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco and online, with the social networking company likely to announce what is essentially a game plan to not only socialize the web, but to marginalize the pre-social web. But while such a plan indicates a tussle with fellow upstart Twitter, the real battle is Facebook vs. Google.

And it’s a battle that, armed with its game plan and 400 million (and growing) subscribers, Facebook is going to turn into an all-out war. As I wrote last week, the company’s vision of the Internet is one connected to Facebook’s brain via hooks — and four of those hooks are expected to be unveiled at f8:

* Facebook Connect 2.0 with auto-login features
* Facebook Presence Bar
* Share/Like buttons
* Facebook Location"

What comes after Social Media?

2010-04-18T22:48:00.001+03:00

SILICON VALLEY – Year 2003 things were heating up again in the valley after the dot com crisis and 2001 WTC twin tower catastrophe.

Web 2.0 and social media made Internet services fashionable again, pulling back entrepreneurs who thrived or merely survived in the first rounds of activities on the Internet that began two decades ago.

New companies emerged from nowhere. Blogs became popular. We got wiki and microblogs. Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Skype and a myriad of other social media services emerged.

Google and Apple are now the most glowing examples of post-dot-com-crisis. Both companies have positioned themselves for future growth. But they are also becoming competitors.

Millions of people around the world learned to use Facebook and Twitter. Nokia is still the world’s biggest mobile phones producer and supplier but it’s not the leader in usability. Google launched Buzz this year.

It’s interesting to see how fast the competitors are countering the successful launching of iPad. Nobody has been able to deliver a iPhone killer? Is it going to take three to five years before we see the first iPad killers as well?

AudioBoo

2010-04-18T16:19:00.000+03:00

AudioBoo: "Audioboo. Because sound is social. We are a mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and upload audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear."

The Success Manual - Encyclopedia of Business and Self-Help Advice - Get a World Class Business Education for Only $14.95

2010-04-17T05:56:00.000+03:00

The Success Manual - Encyclopedia of Business and Self-Help Advice - Get a World Class Business Education for Only $14.95: "What's Inside ? The Best Things Man Ever Said or Wrote

Self Development Business & Work

PART 1: BE REMARKABLE

1. Manage Yourself
2. Question Everything, Assume Nothing
3. Seek the Truth
4. Be a Warrior
5. Achieve Anything
6. Do your Own Thing
7. Be Successful
8. Work at It
9. Be Useful
10. Make the World a Better Place
11. Be a Winner
12. Have a Goal
13. Live in the Present
14. Find Peace
15. Know The Rules of Life
16. Keep it Simple
17. Be Disciplined
18. Be Humble
19. Just Do It
20. Be Confident
21. Build your Self-Esteem
22. Have a Message
23. Be Grateful
24. Be Kind
25. Know Thyself
26. Be Positive
27. Understand Better
28. Do not be an Asshole
30. Do what is Right
31. Relax
32. Improve your Memory
33. Assert Yourself
34. Be Emotionally Intelligent
35. Create a Life Plan
36. Be Outstanding
37. Have a Good Character
38. Stay Healthy
39. Be Nice
40. Have Great Friendships
41. Be Likeable
42. Be Respected
43. Be Interesting
44. Be Happy
45. Make someone Happy
46. Don't be Angry
47. Breathe
48. Do not Fear
49. Focus
50. Be Loyal
51. Learn some Self Defense
52. Talk to Kids
53. Know When to Worry
54. Smile
55. Start Doing Things
56. Be Persistent
57. Drive Safe
58. Be Prepared
59. Learn to Explain
60. Know What Women Want
61. Be Virtuous
62. Have Power
63. Be Rich
64. Become Rich and Famous
65. Know your Government
66. Pray
67. Love your Parents"

Natural iTraining in Finland as a spin-off of innovaatiojuna

2010-02-13T15:47:00.001+02:00

I’m learning the logic of the Google Buzz. The iTraining emerged as a result of the innovaatiojuna / innovationtrain.

The new challenge is how to continue a process that started in September 2009.

Social Collaboration is seemingly a very instantaneous process but I think that we can foster some long term projects and goals as well.

Innovaatiojuna was an important self-organizing project and was manifested in the January 13. 2010 journey Helsinki – Oulu – Helsinki.

Fish and Chips, iPad and electronic paper

2010-01-31T18:52:00.001+02:00

iPad was released last week and will come to your local store in USA after two months.

I’ve no idea about the release in Finland.

iPad promises a number of things for content suppliers.

Helsingin Sanomat will be able to charge for the content delivered to the iPad but probably not for content streamed to an average computer.

It’s a perfect tool for many applications.

From Innovation Train to Loviisa next week

2010-01-16T20:08:00.001+02:00

The Helsinki – Oulu –Helsinki 13.1.2010 innovationtrain / innovaatiojuna experience isn’t over yet. We’re returning back to Loviisa January 18, 2010 and there is plenty of work to do.

After the trip, there are hundreds of photographs and videos that have to be analyzed. We learned a lot about open innovation and self organization of events.

A traditional seminar can only provide a fraction of the experience economy this trip provided the participants.

Followers are jumping on the train after the trip to follow the digital footprint. Blogs and feedback powerpoints are covering the experience. OpenJournalism will lead to several printed media articles.

Innovaatiojuna is changing the digital landscape in Finland. We’re only witnessing the very first transformations three days after the journey. There is a lot of information that has to be analyzed and the learning process continues.

Self Organized groups is a big challenge to traditional top-down managed activities. We’ve to tell people that the Father Christmas exist. Many outsiders think that the innovationtrain experience is too good to be true.

Thos who participated know that it was more than real! And it was great fun as well.

The innovation train on the small screen

2010-01-09T21:32:00.001+02:00

The small screen is another way of seeing the reality. Nokia was the leader of mobile technology for a long time, but things have changed.

It might take a year or more for Nokia to run through the circle of confusion and find the way to mobile mastering.

Nokia is still a big player and if the historical black box delivers the simple mechanism for future innovation and prosperity then we’ll see Nokia as a major performer ten years from now.

But the world has changed fast since the introduction of iPhone. That was a disruptive innovation and the small singular moment of change has already happened. The observed moment of change is already here.

What will be the next big thing?

City Wall Helsinki Big Screen

2010-01-02T22:10:00.001+02:00

The interactive City Wall Helsinki is to be find opposite to the old bus station.

The solution uses a touch screen technology that follows the control modes familiar to Apple iPhone users.

The idea is good but I’m not sure if the content is interesting enough. This is a trial. They collect user experiences.

The sixties and the baby boomers and the present crisis

2010-01-02T11:27:00.001+02:00

Having dreams is fine, and there is certainly a place for dreamers.

A lot has changed since 1968. As the years passed and I accumulated my own experience and wisdom, I still continued to dream for better times, goods and services. Even about a better world.

Forty one years later, I and my friends got good educations and good jobs. We raised well-educated, hard working kids. But we’re facing new problems. The economic crisis is forcing Finland into a new era of innovation and restructuring of its industrial base.

We have made this country a sitting duck for the hungrier an much more hard-working hordes of ambitious capitalists in China and India who are destined to bury us with cheap goods and software for our computers and hardware.

Not only have we made our self uncompetitive economically, we've also made us too stupid, careless, and lazy to compete with all our might for our very survival. But I’m still a dreamer and hope that we can make a change like we did after the big economical downturn 1992.

Loviisa in search for a strategy

2009-12-29T20:17:00.001+02:00

Loviisa is a small town in the southeastern par of Finland. The picturesque city is located at an one hours drive from Helsinki.

We’ve been in the city since 1998. The most important industry is in the field of energy production.

Loviisa has two nuclear power plants. The rest of the city is sleepy and looking for a future that isn’t very clear by any means.

Nevertheless, it’s a lovely city with less than 20 000 inhabitants from the beginning of 2010 after a fusion of three smaller municipalities to something we at the local level call the “new Loviisa”.

Four Days to Go of This Year

2009-12-28T11:54:00.001+02:00

Four more days to go of this year 2009. What will happen to the economic downturn next year? Are we heading towards better times? Many have struggled for stable footing on a rocky economy.

As people wind down their Christmas cheer and start looking ahead to 2010, there are signs that the US economy is starting to recover from the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

We estimate that it will take some time for the Finnish economy to return to its glory again. Exports of goods and services are dramatically down. It might take years to struggle back to the growth and prosperity of 2005 to 2007.

Globally, millions of people are still out of work, and even those fortunate enough to have a job have had to make adjustments in their lifestyle. We’re spending the holiday season in Sotkamo and besides the cold weather things are quite okay.

I think many of us will be glad that 2009 is over - due to the recession. Probably most of you place lots of hope on 2010. If it doesn't get better at least let's be grateful that it doesn't get worse.

I Like Windows Live Writer but would like to have language check in Swedish

2009-12-19T12:53:00.001+02:00

I’ve been testing Windows Live Writer for a few hours. There is a language check for Finnish and English text but I’d like to have one for Swedish as well.

Do I need to create another account for that? Probably not, I just have to check language options.

Anybody out there in the cyberspace writing in several languages? How can I add another spelling check to Windows Live Writer?

Christmas is almost around the corner. I also like the rounded corners options for photo publishing. All this happens without cumbersome photo-shopping. I also like to wish you a Merry Christmas.

Gravity - The Best Business Example of Google Wave, Period! | Google Wave Blogger

2009-10-08T20:43:00.001+03:00

Got into this through FriendFeed. I guess, it's time for me to return back to the global discussion. Too mucn national intrigue lately. I'm fedup. But Google Wave is a new thing. How can I get an invitation?

Gravity - The Best Business Example of Google Wave, Period! | Google Wave Blogger: "Gravity – The Best Business Example of Google Wave, Period! October 7, 2009 by Google Wave Blogger · 5 Comments

I watched this video of Gravity and was simply blown away. This is the best example I have seen, to date, of what Google Wave is.Clearly, what it is not is a replacement for this and that (Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, etc). What it is, is the most awesome business collaboration tool ever developed! It is basically Web 2.0 for business…finally, BTW.

I have taken this description of Gravity right from their site and it reads as such:

Gravity is a prototype developed by SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia and SAP NetWeaver Development providing real-time, cloud-based collaborative business process modelling within Google Wave. We have embedded Gravity as a Google Wave “gadget” that can be added within the Google Wave client. Leveraging the collaborative features of Google Wave, all business process modelling activities get propagated in near real-time to all other participants of the Wave. In addition, participants of the Wave can use all other features provided by Google and its developer community to enrich the collaborative modelling experience.

Now watch this video. After you will understand the unbelievable power/promise that Google Wave can bring to the business world. I say again, it is not for somebody who has 25,000 followers. It is for serious folks trying to do real world problem solving via collaboration…i.e the grown-up side of Web 2.0."

Europe to get a London TechHub for startups to meet and work in

2009-09-24T15:21:00.001+03:00

Europe to get a London TechHub for startups to meet and work in: "Europe to get a London TechHub for startups to meet and work in.

by Mike Butcher on September 24, 2009

Europe has no real equivalent to the big hothouse that is Silicon Valley, but it does have lots of tech clusters and networks. As recent research from the startup Seedcamp startup programme has shown, clusters of innovation are spread far and wide across Europe.

Helge: Good point, we're more distributed.

One place everyone agrees is a key cluster is London. It now hosts offices belonging to all the top-tier pan-European VCs, several new Seed funds, has a very active Angel investor market and hosts many major tech events.

Helge: London sounds like an easy landing strip for US business people.

However, largely because of its cost – everything is still expensive here – London remains hard for European startups to access and get into, even in a recession. It’s incredibly cheap to rent an office in Berlin, for instance. In London it can be double the price. And although European and US entrepreneurs often need to take meetings and work in London, they don’t always need permanent office space, which can be extremely restrictive to startups. Who wants to sign a huge lease before you’ve raised any funding? The preference is for working out of anonymous clubs, cafes, and perhaps sub-letting a single desk here or there.

Helge: Meeting at the hotel. The same goes for Moscow.

To some extent events and conferences are great for networking. But when you can actually rock up to a space and see people in your community — well, it’s unbeatable. That’s what the vibe is in the Valley, where you can literally walk into potential partners, investors and co-founders. That’s what’s lacking here in London, a key, lynch-pin city on the European scene.

Helge: Short term meetings and real collaboration. Walking into your next networking partner isn't easy in a periphery location like Finland. That's why digital networking in Qaiku seems so natural.

So there’s clearly a problem that needs to be addressed if the startup eco system is to develop in Europe.

Helge: Should there be a high-tech ghetto?

TechHub (@TechHub on Twitter) is new project put together by Elizabeth Varley which will address just this issue. Elizabeth has been involved in the London scene for a number of years, organised London Twestival and has recently been developing the concept of a physical space aimed specifically at the tech community and particularly at startups."

Helge: London Twestifal...hmmm.

Dreaming up fantastic ideas

2009-08-08T20:21:00.001+03:00

We are working with a new industrial and manufacturing structure.

Down-sizing is an healthy idea for those who want to find manageable future success.

We've to make more out of less.

China has become the global factory. The Finnish technology industry has to survive on doing small series that the big producers aren't interested in.

Faster iPhone With New Features Due Next Week - washingtonpost.com

2009-06-09T16:31:00.001+03:00

The computer in your pocket wil be on the market next week. What should we be expecting?

Faster iPhone With New Features Due Next Week - washingtonpost.com: "Apple unveiled the latest version of its popular iPhone, called 3G S, at a trade show for Mac users yesterday in San Francisco. The company, known for using the conference to launch new, often game-changing devices, touted its next-generation iPhone as its fastest-running smartphone yet. The 'S' stands for 'speed,' after all.

Speaking from the stage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple vice president of worldwide marketing Philip W. Schiller showed how the new iPhone's camera lets users decide what the lens should focus on with the touch of a finger. With a set of voice controls, users can upload an iPhone video to YouTube with a spoken command.

The new device, priced at $199 and $299, will be available at the end of next week, the company said. The more expensive version comes with 32 gigabytes of storage space, a new capacity for the device. The less expensive iPhone has 16 gigabytes.

And the price of last week's cutting-edge model, the iPhone 3G? It's been reduced from $199 to $99.

Tech pundit Tim Bajarin, with Silicon Valley think tank Creative Strategies, said the cheaper, older iPhone should allow Apple to speed up the adoption of the smartphone."

Visualizing your thoughts

2009-06-06T23:46:00.000+03:00

I am trying to break out some new ideas about the making of micromovies. We live in a time when this should be an easy task. Movies can be made with pocket size smart phones while on the move. Distribution isn't difficult either. Getting viewers is still a challenge.

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About

2009-05-26T15:30:00.001+03:00

Got this lead from Twitter. Need to go there more often. I've been too much focused on local and European tech news lately. Nokia's OVI did open today. There has been rumors about a Nokia mini-pc as well. Don't confuse with the minicomputers of the 70's and 80's.

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About: "Last week Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster claimed that an Apple tablet computer was in the works though it would not arrive until the first half of 2010 due to the complexity surrounding the operating system.

'We expect the development of such an OS to be underway currently, but its complexity, along with our conversations with a key company in the mobile space, leads us to believe it will not launch until CY10,' Munster says.

Apple Tablet rumors have been circulating for years, so weren't entirely sure what to make of this particular analyst report. One reader has since pointed out, however, that Businessweek's Peter Burrows was also able to get 'confirmation' of this Apple tablet from another source said to be familiar with Apple's product plans. If this source is to be believed, we may finally see an Apple Tablet as early as next year.

Rumors of an Apple Tablet have been a recurring theme here at MacRumors. In 2003, the rumors accelerated to a point where multiple credible source were pointing to the imminent release of a Mac tablet. We believe that such a project had clearly been in the works and may have even evolved into today's iPhone. Now, in the past few months, there has been an increasing number of reports that Apple is working on a device that fits somewhere between their laptops and iPhones."

Public Space Blogging - Graffitti

2009-05-19T15:17:00.001+03:00

I've noticed that graffiti, clutter, public space tagging is increasing.

There are more people who want to tell something.

The tags are considered as a nuisance and cities spend large sums of money "for clean-ups".

But what is the story? Where is the message?

What are the taggers trying to tell us?

The pace of innovation

2009-05-13T00:09:00.001+03:00

The pace of innovation will accelerate when we move out from the recession.

This is both a challenge and an opportunity to enterprises.

Managing innovation
The process of creative destruction
Tastes and market demand change more rapidly

Apple and Google 2006

2009-04-26T14:38:00.001+03:00

I wrote a web page August 2006 with the below content. These two companies have been doing quite well. They are not recession proof, but they have made good results anyway.

APPLE AND GOOGLE

The announcement by Apple that Google C.E.O. Eric Schmidt will join its board means that half of Apple’s eight person board has ties to the search giant. This means several things in the context of the Web, emerging technologies, and business. It means that Apple is looking to the Web as a platform for more applications. We can probably look for more Web-dependent products from Apple in the years to come. This is especially true if, as some analysts predict, Google is planning to take its omnipresent Wi-Fi experiment in San Francisco to other cities in the coming years.

Working on What is Going On

2009-04-25T23:34:00.001+03:00

The recession isn't over yet. Now, it's a good time to get working with "the new". Innovations are needed more than ever to take companies and nations out from the recession.

Wait and see doesn't work when the new world order emerges. First, we really need to know, "what's going on?"

Most people think and hope that we'll land back to normal within a few months. I'm not sure about that this dreamland vision will come true.

New products, services and business models have to be created. The mighty Nokia has to make plenty of new moves to become competitive. Our stagnating Forestry industry has to make bold moves to survive the looming disaster; not all of them, but a few. Mergers are in the pipeline.

The small businesses are facing a new tomorrow as well and have to learn how to compete for local orders in a global economy.

The small guy has to learn the global play, to stay alive locally. The disaster hasn't hit the streets yet, except in the periferic tourist villages.

Things aren't business as usual in Levi and Ylläs anymore. We're going to hear trouble reports from many other destinations with too much hotel room capacity, silent restaurants, and empty tourist village shops.

Those with big loans will be hit hardest.

Written with E71, so there might be typo errors. I'll check with laptop tomorrow.

Digital Displays

2009-04-19T17:16:00.003+03:00

There's endless speculation about how Twitter will make money - and when. I've been wondering, how long it will take to make the Future Store Concept to a money machine.

What about combining Virtual and Real to something that helps to create more compelling shops with more products and services in smaller space. Let's give the "nano" a thought.

Steve Rubel writes in his blog Micro Persuasion: "The brief history of online communities (all 15 years worth) informs us that it's virtually impossible to make money around them. No one has been able to build a sustainable business doing so that has lasted more than five years. The reason is, people online are fickle. We come and go. This is why I wrote that Twitter is peaking - at least as far as in its ability to grow users."

The shops could be open night and day. Some of them could be fully automated.

Making movies in no time

2009-04-15T18:56:00.004+03:00

Making movies simply isn't a big challenge anymore. I can do movies with digital cameras or with my mobile smart phone. Cost isn't an issue, neither is technology. Making the movies boils down to ideas and accomplishment.

Professional movie making is still a challenge and requires expensive equipments, lights, a big team, you've to invest in good sound recording.

But these small new movie making gadgets can help me to tell a story.

- Micronarratives
- Idea is needed
- Make a quick content plan
- Context for what culture?
- Who is probably watching?

Connected identity was discussed at a seminar in Tampere 2002. The new tools can be used in learning, teaching, marketing, sales and product profiling.

We don't need a thick corporate manual about communication. The rules are now to be broken by those who adopt the new tools. Movies can be made while walking down the street. We can record transcendental moments and help your viewers experience the environment where you are.

Stand still, go nowhere, send your on-site projections, make it to on-the-spot concrete visual poetry. The potential of transcendence is there wherever you are. Start slow, move to expectancy, deliver a short story, it doesn't have to be longer than 30 seconds maybe 3 minutes and 14 seconds; the definition of Micromovies at that time [2002].

Mobile Blogging a Flipchart

2009-04-13T16:21:00.002+03:00

Could you ever imagine a normal human being making / creating a mobile blog about a flip chart?

I'm doing that know. This drawing was made several years ago when we started to build a web shop for Snowdrop.

The process started in the spring of 2006.

What makes this "big news" now?

Our collaboration has continued and new departments to the store has been added.

The old notes and drawings do bring some new elements to the creative process. We don't need to run for new things and themes all the time.

That's a part of the learning...

Reflecting upon the old leads to a deeper learning of what actaully happened. Life is a continuous process and so is life long learning.

Much more has taken place during these years. The completed shop was finalized by Olli while he studied in France, at the Technical University of Troyes.

Now, he has finalized the technical parts of the GNLD-version a week before Easter. There are still some things to be done, but Alf has also been doing a lot during the past three years.

I'll write more about the organizational changes in an upcoming blog.

Reality tv is cheap to make

2009-04-10T14:24:00.002+03:00

I start a mobile blogging series from my paper notebooks and diaries. The work will be done while being mobile.

The reality tv-programs are cheaper to make. The producers learned how to cut out costs.

The reality shows don't need to hire Hollywood writers. The writers now get a very small percentage.

Reality-tv has been along for quite some time and continues to be popular even though I don't like to watch.

Traditional TV is looking for new wasy to produce programs that will attract big numbers of viewers.

Computers and Mobiles Connected

2009-03-29T20:02:00.001+03:00

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Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Imagine all the computers in your home or business connected to each other and to the Internet.

The future is going to become much more wireless and mobile. Wi-Fi is still red and hot, but still, FREE Wi-Fi isn't so typical as one could imagine.

Wiring the world, it turns out, means getting rid of wires.

Emil Keitel

2009-03-17T15:47:00.001+02:00

Emil

Originally uploaded by Jeremy Brooks

My grandfather's name was Emil Keitel. He is dead since long ago.

- Lived his life in Wirby

My grandmother's name was Hilda Keitel

- She was born in Wirby

My father's name Otto Keitel

- Born in Wirby

My mother's name Anna-Liisa Keitel

- Born in Hanko

How to become more mobile

2009-03-16T10:37:00.001+02:00

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Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

I've been thinking about ways to become more mobile. Smart phones are a part of the solution, but maybe one should be looking for synthetic lubrication.

Here are some examples:

- Twitter
- Jaiku
- Qaiku
- Facebook
- Friendfeed
- Brightkite
- Bambuser
- Floobs
- Qik
- etc.

What are you using to boost your mobile productivity?

Auchan and the future store concept

2009-03-15T12:10:00.001+02:00

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Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

We're busy working with the future store concept. Auchan is a big hypermarket chain in France.

I try to figure out the road side signage and print advertising and how it could be replaced by digital signage.

It's not enough to set up big screens all over.

Instead we should think in terms of using GPS navigation and other means to give clients carrying smart phones the information about our stores.

The public space clutter is probably moving to the digital space.

Ikea and the future store concept

2009-03-15T09:00:00.003+02:00

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Originally uploaded by
Helge V. Keitel

Let's take a look at IKEA. The information below comes from Wikipedia. To learn more about IKEA, go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA

IKEA is a privately-held, international home products retailer that sells flat pack furniture, accessories, and bathroom and kitchen items in their retail stores around the world. The company, which pioneered flat-pack design furniture at affordable prices, is now the world's largest furniture manufacturer.

Helge: And Ingvar Kamprad is one of the richest men in the world.

IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden and it is owned by a Dutch-registered foundation controlled by the Kamprad family. IKEA is an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name (Ingvar Kamprad), the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd), and his home county (Agunnaryd, in Småland, South Sweden).

INGKA Holding B.V. is the parent company for all IKEA Group companies, including the industrial group Swedwood, which manufactures IKEA furniture, the sales companies that run IKEA stores, as well as purchasing and supply functions, and IKEA of Sweden, which is responsible for the design and development of products in the IKEA range. INGKA Holding B.V. is wholly owned by Stichting INGKA Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation registered in Leiden in the Netherlands.

Inter IKEA Systems B.V. in Delft, also in the Netherlands, owns the IKEA concept and trademark, and there is a franchising agreement with every IKEA store in the world. The IKEA Group is the biggest franchisee of Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is not owned by INGKA Holding B.V., but by Inter IKEA Holding S.A. registered in Luxemburg, which in turn is part of Inter IKEA Holding registered in the Netherlands Antilles. The ownership of the holding companies has not been disclosed.

In August 2008, IKEA also announced that it had created IKEA GreenTech, a €50 million venture capital fund. Located in Lund (a university town in Sweden), it will invest in 8-10 companies in the coming five years with focus on solar panels, alternative light sources, product materials, energy efficiency, and water saving and purification. The aim is to commercialise green technologies for sale in IKEA stores within 3-4 years.

Helge: What do you think? What could we do?

RFID and Near Field Communication

2009-03-14T16:00:00.001+02:00

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Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

The Future Store Concept means millions of new possibilities. I think, the most important thing is to reshape the ideas of store design. The generic approach mean that we can deliver solution to stores on a global scale.

* Individual solutions
* Tailored customer interaction
* Thinglinks to conncet with clients
* Community Managers to do grassroots market research
* The store design has to support the needs and desires of clients

Context project of Helsinki University

2009-03-14T15:50:00.001+02:00

Qaiku is a new service. I get valuable information through Qaiku.

Context project: "In mobile and ubiquitous applications and systems, reacting to user context is a key component of proactivity: changes in the user's situation are rapid and they are strongly reflected to the user's needs and preferences. The Context project studies characterization and analysis of information about user's context and its use in proactive adaptivity: what is the user's understanding of her current context, how to make automatic inferences about the contexts, and how to characterize context to users and design user interaction about contexts. The research problems are approached by qualitative end user studies, data analysis algorithm development, and empirical testing in a prototype environment."

iPhone in Loviisa 11032009

2009-03-11T16:44:00.003+02:00

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Originally uploaded by Wirby

We could call this a mega trend. iPhone is NOW available in this small Southeastern town, Loviisa, Finland.

The local Swedish language newspaper had a full front page iPhone 3G advertising.

The picture the right was taken with Nokia's E71.

Loviisa is located 90 km east of Helsinki. We've about 8 000 inhabitants. Rural communities will merge and next year we've greater Loviisa area with about 18 000 inhabitants.

Loviisa is known for its nuclear power plants and time will show if we get more of them in the future.

Welcome to Meyer Lemon Designs

2009-03-03T09:33:00.001+02:00

Learned about some great designs on Twitter. Need to read this blog with more time.

Welcome to Meyer Lemon Designs: "Welcome and thanks for stopping by!

Life's bright colors inspire me to paint on silk. Nothing can compare to the light catching luminosity of the silk fiber and fun of seeing the dye spread and blend into an exciting composition.

Working with color is a way to express myself and to bring joy to others. I enjoy painting abstract landscapes and designs.

My commissions include working with commercial interior designers, non-profit organizations, and individuals.

Please enjoy browsing my shop and visiting my blog to learn more about the gal behind Meyer Lemon Designs.

Cheers!

Katy"

Fastest Growing Demographic on Facebook: Women Over 55

2009-03-01T16:35:00.001+02:00

Learned about this today.

Fastest Growing Demographic on Facebook: Women Over 55: "We have the latest demographic data on US Facebook user as of February 1, 2009. Before jumping into the details below, here are the highlights.

Key Highlights

Facebook reporting nearly 45.3 million active US users in the last 30 days
Facebook growing in every age/gender demographic. Fastest growing segment: Women over 55, up 175.3% in the last 120 days.
Facebook growing faster with women than men in almost every age group. Women comprise 56.2% of Facebook’s audience, up from 54.3% late last year.
45% of Facebook’s US audience is now 26 years old or older.

Facebook US Audience Growth by Age and Gender

Facebook’s US audience has continued to grow in recent months, fueled by expansion primarily in users 26 and older. Facebook has been growing particularly rapidly amongst people over 45 in the US, as the charts show below: over 165% amongst both men and women 45-54 over the last 4 months.

While the fastest growing age group by total users is still 26-34, the number of women over 55 on Facebook grew by an astounding 175.3% since the end of September. Their male counterparts, however, weren’t able to keep up - growing by only 137.8%. The number of women over 55 on Facebook almost..."

Read more on the site.

Constructive Capitalism

2009-02-14T15:19:00.002+02:00

Daytona sessions

Umair Haque, chef för Havas Media Lab och bloggare på Harvard Business Publishing. Han hjälper investerare, entreprenörer och företag med ledarskaputveckling, affärsmodeller och strategisk innovation.

Före Havas grundade Umair Bubblegeneration, en mycket framgångsrik rådgivningsbyrå inom Edgeconomy. Bubblegenerations arbete har publicerats och refererats till i tidningar som Wired, The Red Herring, Business 2.0, och BusinessWeek. Umair bidrog också till Chris Andersons Long Tail.

Umair vann Daytonas interna omröstning om bästa blogg 2007, så vi är extremt glada och stolta över att få ta honom till Daytona Sessions.

Umair Haque @ Daytona Sessions vol. 2 - Constructive Capitalism from Daytona Sessions on Vimeo.

TV compared with social networks

2009-01-24T14:57:00.001+02:00

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

2009-01-05T19:13:00.001+02:00

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs: "Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Take a closer look at the website...

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my..."

Be a Better Writer: How To Make Your Sales Copy Actually Sell

2008-12-17T20:54:00.001+02:00

Be a Better Writer: How To Make Your Sales Copy Actually Sell: "How To Make Your Sales Copy Actually Sell."

Helge: I'd like to become a better writer. Need to read this with better care.

One of the main problems I see with sales and marketing copy online is that it rarely makes me want to buy anything. More often than not, it sounds sales-y, and by the 'call to action', I'm looking to the browser search bar to find something I actually care about. I, like millions of other net savvy surfers, have become grossly desensitized to online advertising, so it takes a lot more than your average, run-of-the-mill sales letter to get me to act.

Chances are that you're that way, too.

So how do you counteract this advert apathy? How do you write sales and marketing copy that converts visitors into subscribers and buyers?"

Technology can fix India's problems

2008-12-05T07:58:00.005+02:00

I've been following India and Southeast Asia more closely after the Mumbai Attack. India with its big population has both great possibilities in the future, but at the same time, there are huge social and internal security problems that have to be addressed properly and fixed. Below is a short story about one possible problem solver.

I borrowed his picture from Wikipedia. There is also some background information about "the problem solver" copy pasted from Wikipedia.

Technology can fix India's problems, says Mr. Nandan Nilekani in an IPTV interview for IBNLIVE webcast television.

The entrepreneur Nandan Nileakni has authored a book Imaging India. He is painting a dream for the dream of the future. He wants to be problem solver.

Nandan Nilekani (Kannada: ನಂದನ ನಿಲೇಕಣಿ ) is an Indian software entrepreneur. He is currently the Co-Chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd, of which he is also a co-founder, along with N. R. Narayana Murthy and others.

End-users are pushing change at the grass-roots level.

environmental
healthcare
social development
India's growth and development

Wikipedia tells, Nilekani is a co-founder of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). He is also the chairperson of the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF). His book, Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century was launched on November 24, 2008.In the book, Nandan discusses a host of ideas ranging from the impact ideas such as democracy, globalization and demography have had on India's growth and development, to its slow progress in the areas of infrastructure and the provision of primary education to all, to the ideological deadlock when it comes to politics, higher education and labor reforms.

He also addresses a few ideas that are vital to cementing India's position as a global power - that of its social security provisions, its policies on clean energy and the environment, as well as its ability to deal with lifestyle-related diseases and ailments.

PS: It is good to have a global audience. A kind person from Edelman told me to correct a spelling error in my blog's right side column. There were more and might be more.

What we talked about:

Guest has joined.
Guest: Multi-channel is misspelt on your blog-right side panel - "This channels experiments with online multihcannel communication models. - Helge V. Keitel"
me: thanks
Guest: puneet.khunger (at) edelman (dot) com
me: thanks, i will correct it
Guest: I was just reading a blog on Nandan Nilekani - IPTV
me: ok, I did see the iptv
Guest: since we work with UTStarcom, which is leader in IPTV in India
me: ok, do you have a blog, I could write a post. India is interesting or a website
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SouthAsiaBiz - Doing business in South Asia

2008-11-29T16:23:00.002+02:00

I got this news today. It looks like Know More Media is about to shut down. The last posting was from November 21, 2008. What happened?

SouthAsiaBiz - Doing business in South Asia: "End of Know More Media: For the Time Being
Mehdi Hassan July 31, 2008 | Know More: blogging

First of all, like other fellow Know More Media bloggers, I am also very upset that Know More Media is shutting down. I am one of those few fortunate people who, in the beginning of his career, got the opportunity to work with such a great blog network. I really enjoyed my time here. Know More Media was a very good network and it is people like Dan Smith, Easton Ellsworth, Kimberlee Morrison, who made Know More Media a great network. I became very upset when I first got the mail from Dan Smith. Know More Media is my first job as a full time blogger and I enjoyed it very much.

Southasiabiz

I wish Dan, Kimberlee, Easton, and all the fellow bloggers of Know More Media, best of luck.

I am not quitting blogging. In fact, I will be posting in this blog (SouthAsiaBiz) on an irregular basis. I have joined in another blog related South Asia. Its url is:

http://southasiafair.com/

So, visit me there for updates about South Asia."

I've to get a personal comment from the writers. Our friendship started this Visual Radio blog. What happened? Razib Ahmed writes about it below:

Razib Ahmed July 31, 2008 | Know More: blogging Blog, Dan Smith, SouthAsiaBiz

I hope that you already know that Know More Media is going out of business from tomorrow. I have been in Know More Media since 22 March 2006. So, it is 28 months. Yes, I have written entries for that time here. I have received generous compensation and even more generous support from the owners of Know More Media and the publishing team. I like to pay my tribute to Dan Smith, General Manager of Know More Media.

Reuters AlertNet - Twitter in Mumbai

2008-11-29T14:06:00.001+02:00

The value of Twitter in the #Mumbai Terrorist Attack Reporting channel is scrutinized by Andrew Stroehlein. The tweets didn't, in his opinion, add with any substantial news. His critic is well founded from a news reporting and journalistic standpoint. Tweeters aren't professional journalists. But should we think about this as a conversational and therapeutic process that starts at the very beginning of an incident. There are of course also security concerns when tweets are disclosing things that "other side" can use for evil purposes. Tweets can also be used to deliver hatered and false information. The crowd doesn't act as a controlled, organized, well organized community. The crowd expresses feelings and sentiments. Traditional media focuses on "facts" and what is considered as "objective" information.

Reuters AlertNet - Twitter in Mumbai: "Written by: Andrew Stroehlein | Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone.

I will try to make this blog entry 140 characters long, since that is the longest possible message on Twitter, which some are raving about as a source of news during the Mumbai attacks. I'm not exactly convinced. And I'm already over 140 characters.

As someone who has previously equated 'citizen journalism' with 'citizen dentistry' Twitter heads were obviously going to have a hard time convincing me. There have been a few interesting articles trying to make the case with the attacks in Mumbai, however, including one from Mathew Ingram, who boldly claims 'Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism'.

Reuters also has had a good piece on 'citizen journalism' in the Mumbai case, as does France 24, CNN and others.

I remain sceptical, however. Looking through the Twitter search stream for 'Mumbai', I see so much useless information, I quickly get the feeling I am wasting my time. There are some personal notes -- very welcome no doubt if you have family or friends caught up in the madness and would like to know if they're OK, but it's not information that offers anything anyone can act upon..."

Amid Chaos, Citizens Spread Word on Web - WSJ.com

2008-11-28T20:17:00.001+02:00

I've been following #Mumbai Twitter online. The terror has taken a new dimension. The question is, how can an open society build a defense line? Think about 40 determined people causing such a tremendeous damage. Mumbai (Bombay) is one world's largest cities. Those 40 men were able to take hostage of the whole city. Twitter has been one of the tools spreading word around the globe. Much will be talked about the accuracy of reporting.

Amid Chaos, Citizens Spread Word on Web - WSJ.com: "The Mumbai attacks have unleashed a storm of live updates from residents, swelling traffic and content on sites such as Twitter and Yahoo Inc.'s photo Web site Flickr. A Googlemap on the attack sites was swiftly put up. A lengthy entry about the attacks on user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia surfaced in less than an hour.

The interactivity demonstrates how Asia's technologically sophisticated populations are becoming citizen journalists and increasingly being the first sources of information on disasters like the Mumbai attacks and China's earthquake earlier this year, often outpacing traditional media outlets.

Experts say the late adoption but rapid spread of Internet and cellphone usage has made people in India and China quicker to embrace these new technologies. Compared with the U.S., 'the cellphone system and SMS culture is stronger in Asia,' said Sree Sreenivasan, a new-media professor at Columbia University.

Sites such as San Fancisco-based Twitter Inc.'s are 'one more step in the evolution,' of news-gathering, he said. He notes that bloggers played a prominent role in disseminating information during the 2004 Asian tsunami, as well as the heavy use of text-messaging during the 2006 Mumbai train blasts."

Social Marketing

2008-11-16T11:58:00.002+02:00

I got this information to my Facebook. Social marketing really involves just two activities:

Personal interaction: building relationships through messages, writing on walls, emails etc
Content creation (and content sharing): notes, video, blog posts, photos, comments, etc

"The people that start, participate and contribute value to conversations are the ones who build solid relationships and attract more opportunities into their life…," writes Glen Croiser.

Glen continues: "I've noticed that discussions can quickly fizzle out."

Idea Pioneers– These are people who start a discussion in a group or post a note. These are the content creators.
Topic Builders – These guys take ideas put forward by the pioneer and add to the points made, maybe introducing new topics into the discussion.
Linkers– This is a vital role People can carry out this role when they may not have any new insights into the topic being discussed but they add value by simply acknowledging the contribution of others, asking questions and “linking” the conversation – the most effective linkers will attempt to give the “idea pioneer” or the “topic builder” further opportunity to come back into the conversation.
Artists – These are usually creative people that seem to be able to make contributions that entertain, acknowledge the value of the conversational process. Sometimes the contributions of the “artists” are almost poetic.

In terms of how this links to a group or community, these roles are dependent on each other.
This is crucial.

With social media, idea pioneers NEED topic builders, linkers, and artists to move their ideas forward. Artists need linkers and topic builders to keep the conversation going so they can contribute their own creative expression, and so on…

Of course, these are just labels to help us think about what could be happening. I’m sure there are many more roles and crossover points…

Learned this while scrolling my Facebook Notes.

Martin Canchola » Blog Archive » Podcasting is The American Dream

2008-11-06T07:20:00.002+02:00

Martin is podcasting the American Dream. Martin Canhola is a Digital Native Ready For The New Media Revolution…

Martin Canchola » Blog Archive » Podcasting is The American Dream: "A podcast is defined as an online radio setup to an RSS feed that updates automatically to it’s subscribers. It also provides links to sound or video files that can be downloaded and watched or listened to by the subscriber.The podcast is intended to be, the free distribution ofinformation.

The credibility and reconition that is associated with the term in order to boost their own popularity. On the other hand, the podcast may be where the rest of the industry is headed. Although the technology was first adopted by independent media groups that enjoyed it because of the low cost of distribution and the close possible ties to end users, that may change when podcasting becomes a wider phenomenon. If podcasting is adopted by more mainstream and/or corporate entities, then the face of podcasting is likely to change to one where a profit plan is required.

The advantage of podcasting is direct distribution of the media files to the user’s home computer quickly and easily and is not lost if the system moves to one revolving around profit. As much as locked media files that restrict distribution may be pointless to free information junkies that currently dominate podcasting, however there is little to stop those who want to use the system to make a profit from doing so."

Sprezzatura: Freelance Web Copywriting, SEO, User Interface Design, Search Engine Optimization

2008-11-06T06:29:00.001+02:00

Sprezzatura: Freelance Web Copywriting, SEO, User Interface Design, Search Engine Optimization: "What can I do for you? Call or email me today to set up a meeting. Located in Pleasanton, CA, I work with both high-tech companies and small businesses wanting to develop and utilize technology while keeping the focus on their users. You'll probably recognize some names from my client list. With easy access to the San Francisco Bay Area, including Silicon Valley and the growing Tri-Valley area, I am available for local and remote work."

Helge: Good to know!

New Samsung Phone: a Real iPhone Killer? - BusinessWeek

2008-11-05T16:37:00.001+02:00

New Samsung Phone: a Real iPhone Killer? - BusinessWeek: "To hear Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talk about Samsung Electronics’ new upgraded smart phone, T*Omnia, Korean consumers will soon get the mother of all smart phones on the planet. “The T*Omnia is at the forefront of this new generation of mobile devices,” declared Ballmer at a Seoul ceremony unveiling the phone on Nov. 3. “I like the T*Omnia phone because it brings together communications, productivity, multimedia, and entertainment in a way that meets the needs of both consumers and mobile professionals.”

The T*Omnia, an upgraded version of the Samsung Omnia that has been available in Asia and Europe for more than two months, will be introduced only in the Korean market from around Nov. 20 by SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile carrier. It certainly offers more features than the iPhone. It includes mobile TV and 5-megapixel camera with auto focus and image stabilizer as well as Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, GPS, fast Internet access through 7.2-megabaud per second HSDPA and Bluetooth support. But the real reason why Ballmer speaks highly of the phone is that it runs on Window Mobile 6.1 to allow users to swap any Window-based files seamlessly with their PCs.

One big attraction of the phone, however, is Samsung’s flexibility to work with the carrier..."

The Web Watcher: www.johncleesepodcast.co.uk - Times Online

2008-10-27T16:32:00.001+02:00

Got this information a minute ago from Loic LeMeur on Twitter.

The Web Watcher: www.johncleesepodcast.co.uk - Times Online: "The interview was given to the online video discussion channel www.seesmic.com, which allows video responses from viewers in real time. It's an interesting idea, and another example of Cleese's fascination with the possibilities of the internet. At www.cleeseblog.com Cleese has been keeping his fans up to date with his life since April 2007, often posting under the name Jack Cheese. Cleese also produces regular free video podcasts at www.johncleesepodcast.co.uk and discusses aspects of Western philosophy on a paid for video podcast ($1 a time) at www.headcast.co.uk."

Out of Work? Need a Job? Start a Blog. This is Resume 2.0. | Max Gladwell

2008-10-19T10:53:00.001+03:00

The financial crisis will be followed by a real economy slow down. Enterprises are cutting costs. Many SMEs will have difficulties financing their investments and operations. The blog post below is a good guide for anyone. Get started even though you have a job. Hard times might be waiting around the corner. Be prepared.

Out of Work? Need a Job? Start a Blog. This is Resume 2.0. | Max Gladwell: "Blogging your way to gainful employment in a troubled economy and competitive job market. Building your Resume 2.0.

the-fountainhead-howard-roark-183x300 Out of Work? Need a Job? Start a Blog. This is Resume 2.0.Survival of the fittest will be the guiding principle in this job market. There is a glut of high-quality talent hitting the market in just about every sector of the economy, just as fewer and fewer jobs are being created. TechCrunch started the layoff tracker to keep tabs on the tech carnage, and we’re all-too familiar with the blood that’s already been spilled on Wall St. With the exception of Google, which is basically the trademarked term for the Internet, most companies are either hurting already or preparing for the pain. Keeping a job will be tough. Finding a job can be next to impossible. Our recommendation for out-of-work job seekers is to differentiate themselves and establish competitive advantage by starting a blog."

Rolls-Royce Still Thriving - Luxist

2008-10-12T18:45:00.001+03:00

Some people still have a lot of money. The shorte quote below tells that Rolls-Royce is still going strong. Sales is up and growing. India seems to be an important market.

Rolls-Royce Still Thriving - Luxist: "One company that doesn't seem to have felt the financial pinch yet is Rolls-Royce. The luxury car company delivered 129 vehicles in September, which is up 7.5% over last year bringing total deliveries since the start of the year to 827. Rolls-Royce cites emerging economies including India as their strongest markets. The company hasn't released details on how many current orders it has but has said it remains confident about the future. The next move is the plan for the 'baby' Rolls known as the RR4 which will be available in 2010. The push to bring car deliveries up to close to 2,000 by then has necessitated the creation of 200 additional jobs at the factory at Goodwood, East Sussex."

Tourism Bureaus and Bloggers | chrisbrogan.com

2008-10-10T18:38:00.001+03:00

Tourism Bureaus and Bloggers | chrisbrogan.com: "After lunch, en route to the airport, Matt Homann gave me a great tour of St. Louis. We went through various neighborhoods, and I learned a lot about the history of the area, a few really interesting spaces, and some of the interesting news about neighborhood redevelopment.

It got me thinking: why aren’t tourism agencies looking to build relationships with visiting bloggers?

One group that is trying this out is Visit Pittsburgh. My friend and PodCamp organizer, Justin Kownacki, connected me into a program with Visit Pittsburgh that ties to the upcoming PodCamp Pittsburgh, happening on October 18th-19th 2008. They have a tour set up for me, and are doing a lot to show me the better side of Pittsburgh, a place I’ve visited three or four times now and find exciting and dynamic and full of great rebirth stories.

I’m not sure how it works. Maybe you have some ideas. Would this be the kind of thing that would attach to conferences being held in the area? That’d be a great way to find out who was visiting that might represent the new media. Or is there some other simpler mechanism to put people together on these kinds of opportunities? It’s on my mind."

Helge: The same question goes to the Finnish tourist industry?

Big presentation

2008-10-05T11:01:00.001+03:00

The BIG Idea

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: management business)

Susan KN on Snapvine

2008-10-03T14:27:00.001+03:00

Comment | Copy This

This is a new application. I've not used Snapvine before. Susan KN is a member of the KK-Net (networking). I've to test Snapvine soon.

Talking Points Memo | So Angry

2008-09-27T21:24:00.001+03:00

Talking Points Memo | So Angry: "As a psychotherapist and someone who treats people with anger management problems, we typically try to educate people that anger is often an emotion that masks other emotions. I think it's significant that McCain didn't make much, if any, eye contact because it suggests one of two things to me; he doesn't want to make eye contact because he is prone to losing control of his emotions if he deals directly with the other person, or, his anger masks fear and the eye contact may increase or substantiate the fear.

I noticed him doing the same thing in the Republican primary debates. The perception observers are likely to have is that he is unwilling to acknowledge the opponent's legitimacy and/or is contemptuous of the opponent."

Helge: Take a look at the video on the page.

Android: It’s not about Sex, Excitement, or Cool | Tech Broiler | ZDNet.com

2008-09-26T18:27:00.001+03:00

Android isn't clear for me yet. I'll blog about it to learn more. The writer of the below story asks, "Do you want Sex and Excitement on your mobile device or do you just want the damn thing to work as promised and provide you with ubiquitous access to your important mobile data and services?"

Android: It’s not about Sex, Excitement, or Cool | Tech Broiler | ZDNet.com: "Sex? Excitement? Cool? We are talking about digital convergence devices, not a week on tour in Amsterdam with Gene Simmons and his roadie crew. That this industry is so preoccupied with how “cool” or “sexy” a piece of electronics is rather than its value-added features or its price and performance ratio when compared to other devices is insane.

I will hand it to Apple that right now, they have the best handheld device on the market. That is, of course, if you can excuse the fact that their Infineon 3G chipset and has more bugs in it than a taco stand in downtown Tijuana and because of a number of problems with the firmware and the iPhone 2.0 software you’ll still be defaulting to the slower EDGE network in some of most 3G dense areas in the country. And I digress — their application store is second to none, if you can excuse Apple’s capriciousness of what applications they allow to be sold in their online store and desire for total control."

Helge: I've to continue on the Android learning curve.

StartupNation Blog » Blog Archive » A Lesson Learned from the Italians

2008-09-21T09:50:00.001+03:00

StartupNation Blog » Blog Archive » A Lesson Learned from the Italians: "Italian textile manufacturers refuse to give up what the slogan “Made in Italy” stands for. It represents centuries of experience, creativity and expertise passed down through generations. However, they realize that while tradition is valuable it must be safeguarded by innovation. It is through the focus on experimentation, product development and marketing to a niche that values their expert craftmanship and commitment to the ethical treatment of the people who participate in the creation of these beautiful, luxurious fabrics that the Italian textile industry will thrive. From this stems the most important lesson I have taken away from attending Milano Unica. Innovation combined with a correct match between price and intrinsic value of the product marketed to a clearly identified consumer niche is your best bet for success."

Written by: Kristin Potenti September 19th, 2008.

Kristina attended the Milano Unica, the premiere textile show in Italy. It is an exhibition of European textile manufacturers and is the unification of five previously separate prestigious Italian textile fairs; Idea Como, Idea Biella, Moda In, Prato Expo and Shirt Avenue. Each show is known specifically for a certain textile, for example the region of Como is known for silks, while Prato and Biella are known for wool. The Italian and European textile industry has faced extreme hardship and therefore they combined the five shows to unite and promote the true quality of the finest fabric and accessory collections in Europe. The products shown at Milano Unica are used in designer collections and are the latest fashions.

Helge: We visited Italy a few years ago and are planning a new trip. This year we might end up in Paris, France, but Italy and Spain still remain on the agenda. That's why I wanted to make a note of Kristina Potenti's blog posting.

Website Owner Zone

2008-09-15T08:21:00.001+03:00

Website Owner Zone: "Free Social Network for people that have a website, blog, forum or anything else they would like to share...."

I might consider to become a member of this social media network. Learned about it through Twitter.

Off Madison Ave | Phoenix Advertising Agency, Arizona Public Relations Firms

2008-09-10T08:56:00.001+03:00

Off Madison Ave | Phoenix Advertising Agency, Arizona Public Relations Firms: "The other evening I was driving home from work along the 202 and drove past a digital billboard with an advertisement for 98.7 FM – The Peak. The advertisement said “Now Playing: Toto”. While not a frequent listener to 98.7, nor a huge Toto fan (although, who can deny the lyrical stylings of “Africa”) I had to tune it do see if was real.

And would you believe it… the station was actually playing Toto! Now I realize this is nothing new or revolutionary in terms of technological advances; I guess I was just genuinely excited to see the connection between two mediums and the fact that this made me change my current course of action. And isn’t this really good marketing at its finest and simplest form. Keep the message simple and concise: “We’re playing Toto”. And then deliver…and play Toto. Genius."

Helge: Learned about this through Twitter. So digital billboards are showing the real thing in real time!

LD Podcast about learning disabilities

2008-09-09T07:15:00.001+03:00

LD Podcast: "The LD Podcast is a free weekly podcast/internet radio show about learning and learning disabilities. Our focus is on parenting children who are struggling in school, but you'll find many of the topics we discuss applicable to any child. You'll hear a lot about how to emphasize your child's strengths, while helping them find ways to minimize their deficits. Every child learns, but not all children learn the same way or at the same pace as others.

Topics include:

* Dyslexia
* ADHD
* Central Auditory Processing Disorder
* Asperger's and Autism Spectrum Disorders
* Strategies to help your child succeed in school
* Special Education
* Therapy and therapists
* Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities
* Understanding How Your Child Learns Best and How You Can Help"

Helge: Learned about this through Twitter.

The Talk Radio News Service » Blog Archive » TRNS Social Media Coverage of the Conventions

2008-08-27T11:49:00.001+03:00

The Talk Radio News Service » Blog Archive » TRNS Social Media Coverage of the Conventions: "It’s pretty late at night, and I need to crash. But, I’d really like to give props to the social media community. Many users and companies have been very helpful in distributing our content around the web, and allowing us to engage in conversation.

The entire Talk Radio News staff is working hard to continue coverage from the Democratic and Republican conventions. We provide audio content to talk radio stations all over the country. Talk Radio News is, however, also utilizing social media to quickly publish media from the conventions, and provide perspective from behind the scenes.

Much thanks to the staff at Qik who provided me with a few essential tools for the Nokia N95 cell phone. Qik allows users to stream content live from their phones direct to the web - Jackie, Bhaskar, and the entire Qik staff have been very supportive.

The entire staff at Seesmic have helped us talk to YOU about what types of coverage really matter. Thanks, Seesmic - you’re wonderful!

Twitter / Seesmic user @Tiil has made a VERY cool site that aggregates all the Talk Radio News Service content - Check it out!

Helge: I will!

Another Twitter / Seesmic @silverton created a Tumblr that also pulls together our pictures, video, and audio posts - thanks, M"

Dell to Use Twitter for Global Mobility Event

2008-08-26T13:07:00.001+03:00

Learned about this through my brand new FriendFeed "visualradio". I've been there for less than 30 minutes. This one can be compared:

Twitter
Pownce
Jaiku
Tumblr
Etc

Dell to Use Twitter for Global Mobility Event: "Dell will answer questions from reporters and customers in real-time online during a global news conference Tuesday (Aug. 12) unveiling the company’s new generation of mobility products.

Users of Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service, will be able to ask questions about Dell’s new products and the company will “tweet” the answers. Tweets are text-based posts up to 140 characters in length.

Reporters and customers on Twitter can direct questions during the news conference to www.twitter.com/Digital_Nomads. Dell will also blog about the Global Mobility Event at Direct2Dell.

Dell is among the first major companies to offer reporters and customers the opportunity to ask questions on Twitter during a live news conference. The company will provide live updates online from the event in San Francisco, and from media events in London and New Delhi, India."

Arctic Startup

2008-08-24T17:27:00.001+03:00

ArcticStartup: "Megapolis, a Finnish born festival for global urbanites, is planning to go international. The theme of the third Megapolis is Happy Cities and according to Roope Mokka from Demos Helsinki says the event is going to be bigger and better than it was last year and that international expansion might be in the cards:

Theres plans, but they're still v. much plans.
You can see the whole discussion thread here at Jaiku.

Once we get a same kind of buzz and self confidence going country wide and everybody buys the mindset that we can make it anywhere and everywhere, we’re doing just fine even without the ill incentiviced governmental early-stage investing and other market distorting subsidies from the public sector agencies."