Meet the nominee of the day (29), Endomondo, Denmark

Company Bio

Endomondo is where you keep track of your sports activities, challenge your friends, and follow them live while they are working out.
You can track your activities with most GPS mobile phones or a Garmin device, or you can choose to enter your workouts manually. Endomondo can be used for all distance based sports – running, biking, hiking and kayaking are just a few examples.

Country

Denmark

Website

http://www.endomondo.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/endomondo

Snapshot

Meet the Jury

A very good team in an interesting niche. The ability to track your excercises is done by numerous companies out there, but Endomondo manages to build a very strong social component on top of the tracking.

Meet the SIME Jury here

Meet the Nominee of the Day (28), WreckaMovie, Finland

Company Bio

Star Wreck Studios is a film studio that is specialized in blending the Internet and the film industry together by unleashing the creative potential of Internet communities, and changing the whole chain of filmmaking. Through the launch of its new online service www.wreckamovie.com, the company makes it possible to collaboratively produce professional quality A/V content of all types: from short films to feature films and to all distribution screens – from Internet and mobile to film theater.

Country

Finland

Website

http://www.wreckamovie.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/wreckamovie/

Snapshot

Online Footprints:

Twitter: @wreckamovie

Jury Motivation

Ok it is niche, but what can you do when you sense such a level of energy?

Meet the SIME Jury

We say wreck it up for SIME, looking forward for more creative energy from these cool chaps. Good luck guys!

SIME Talks 15: Thomas Crampton and Michael Oreskes – "The future of content is quality"

The future of content is quality. Quality will win, since the fundamental scare resource is the attention span of the audience. People do not have the time to absorb random information on the internet, and what they need is the professional skill and craft of journalism to make the data accessible and for journalists to do the work for the audience so that they can absorb it.

Words from veteran journalist Michael Oreskes who believes there are a myriad of ways to execute journalism and, the internet is all about finding the right mix at the right location.

Michael Oreskes – 28 years of solid journalism, and yes, he believes in new media.

Mike has served as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune since 2005. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of The New York Times, supervising television and Internet content. During this period, he won three Emmy awards and a DuPont award for documentary television. Currently he is working with the AP as Managing Editor for U.S. News. He is the co author of The Genius of America, How the Constitution Saved Our Country and Why It Can Again.

Read more about Michael Oreskes

Thomas Crampton – Walking the new media lane

Thomas Crampton who worked as a correspondent under the supervision of Michael Oreskes in International Herald Tribune and New York Times is out there changing the media industry. He is currently involved as the Asia-Pacific director of 360 Digital Influence for Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. Tom heads a team stretching across 23 cities in 15 Asian territories that helps companies conceive, develop and execute strategies in Social Media.

About Tom
Read Tom’s very well acclaimed personal blog
Tom’s Twitter

Raw energy and fresh appetite for ideas, 24*7.

The deadly duo of Mike and Tom were simply scintillating on stage. The final session of SIME 2007 was all theirs to fight out about the changing media industry and, the number of ideas that were thrown in during the session to save the media industry was simply a “Eureka” moment to all of us.

Old vs New Media, the battle has escalated into a war or are we seeing peace signs?

While the proponents of old media were still not convinced about the future of content online, the visionaries saw it coming, and on stage were two such minds talking about how things would be shaped 5 years from now. Unlike any “future will happen in 5 years” prediction where typically the number of years is understated, the media industry has quite much evolved into their vision 2 years ahead in time of their prediction.

Media companies are on a rampage, (look at the chart of Schibsted) on a wild hunt to find interesting niches and verticals to monetize their unsold inventory and cross- sell their existing journalistic services on top of new vertical; and a revenue model that connects them all, the holy grail of new age journalism if one might call it that.

Thanks Mike and Tom for all the energy you guys exhumed then. I can safely say, its still very much breathing!

Sime 07 – Tom Crampton & Michael Oreskes from SIME on Vimeo.

Meet the Nominee of the Day (27) Oculusai, Sweden

Company Bio

Every day, a huge and rapidly increasing amount of images are uploaded on the internet. Assuring that these images are aligned with site policy is a great challenge for many sites. Slow manual pre-upload validation of images result in long waiting times for disappointed end-users. Manual post-upload validation results in inappropriate content on the sites. Sites must choose between long upload times due to manual validation or the existence of inappropriate content.

Country

Sweden

Website

http://www.oculusai.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/oculusai/

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Helsinki is all set for some SIME action today.

SIME Helsinki, an invite only SIME day focusing on digital opportunities will be held today at Andorra cultural centre, Eerikinkatu 11. In tune with the SIME Mantra of “Great People, Great Conference”, the event features some of Scandinavia’s house hold brand names and thought leaders who would be talking about knowledge being the key differentiator in today’s business across different industries.

Check out SIME Helsinki’s page here

Speakers

The highlight speakers for the day are:

Pekka Pohjakallio, VP Concepting and Innovation, Nokia (Finland)

In Nokia’s solutions unit, Pekka is in charge of finding new ways to connect people and places leading the concepting & innovation practise.

During his 18 years career in Nokia Pekka has worked both in various business leadership and marketing roles including the early SMS business in early 90’s to the Nokia Nseries product responsibility, Nokia’s music business, and latest the user experience and consumer data acitivities for Ovi by Nokia.

You can also catch him at SIME Stockholm.

Steven Overman, founder the Realtime project

Founder The Realtime Project, communications pioneer including Lowe Worldwide Global Strategy Director for IPG Team Nokia and as one of the enthusiast behind Wired Magazine as well as in many other innovative teams. Steven was in the room -94 when the first banner was created…

Twitter: stevenoverman
Web: therealtimeproject.com

Gary Shainberg, member of the Tech Jury of the World Economic Forum, ex-CTO BT Innovation

Gary Shainberg, ex-CTO, BT Innovation and member of the Technology jury of the World Economic Forum. currently the Vice President of Technology & Innovation Support working for the Group Chief Technology Officer, Matt Bross. Runs a team who are known as the JFDI team (Just xxx Do It) and their motto is “There are no Barriers only Hurdles”.

Kaj Arnö, chief Evangelist MySQL (Switzerland)

Chief Evangelist MySQL/Sun and founder of new religion, Runnism…

View the profiles of all SIME Helsinki speakers

The Agenda

View the Agenda details here

The agenda is a very good blend of topics digital, kick starting with a panel on everything mobile and marketing, the path drifts to new marketing techniques, followed by the change makers, the one’s who are taking industries by the neck and changing them with a smile. The post-break sessions focus on – ‘communication going wild’ – video as a format in particular, the concept of innovations and research and the importance of implementation in the growth cycle.

The post-lunch session marks SIME Helsinki’s tryst with the workshop format chaired by different experts on a plethora of different topics. More info on workshops below.

The penultimate sessions has Steven Overman, founder Real Time Projects talking about getting “real”, followed by a keynote by Kaj Arnö Chief evangelist MySQL with the key take away being why over 100 million people are hooked on open source and how it can lower your cost.

Workshops @ SIME

Beginning this year, SIME will feature thought provoking, content driven workshops taking the personalization of SIME to the next level. Almost, like an unconference of sort, the audience is free to choose the workshop topics that interest them the most, and be part of the dialogue. It’s the perfect place to talk about your company in the domain, ask questions to experts chairing and moderating the workshops, and meeting enthusiasts of the particular topic.

The workshops at SIME Helsinki focus on the following topics, a prelude of sorts to the main show in Stockholm which has 8 workshops with 3 sessions each, on both days of the conference.

Check out the SIME Stockholm workshop format here

Workshops @ Helsinki:

AOL

Futurice (Integrated operations – no to silos)

Open source

Activeark (Marcom, service development and sales are converging into one)

Real time

Marketing

Internationalization

Innovation

Some tracks are repeated to make sure the audience can schedule them depending on other workshop topics they are interested in which might be held parallel to the popular tracks.

An orgy of knowledge

Bringing together the best of knowledge, content and inspiration from Scandinavia, Finland is all set for some rock n roll, SIME style today. If you are in Helsinki, do keep an eye on the crazy entrepreneurs who are doing everything in their might to get an invite into SIME.

We call it the SIME Magic.

Announcing the SIME 09 Blogger Press Passes

We are happy to welcome the following bloggers to SIME09 on a Blogger Press Pass. We got lots of great applications, and these bloggers are our pick based on a combination of writing, reach and application comments.

And a reminder about what the SIME Blogger Press Pass means:

What do we expect from Blogger Press Pass attendants? Basically – nothing. We hope you participate and make SIME a great conference, and cover topics you find interesting and that fit your blog as you normally would. You will have the opportunity to talk to and interview many of the international top speakers.

SIME 09 Blogger Press Pass

Lotta Holmström & Gitta Wilén http://citizenmediawatch.com
Markus Olausson & Ola Johansson http://ohsohightech.se
Björn Alberts http://bjornalberts.com
Johan Ronnestam http://www.ronnestam.com
Rosemari Södergren http://kulturbloggen.com
Peter Rosdahl http://rosdahl.me
Tommie Nordholm http://www.etui.se/
Hans Kullin http://www.kullin.net
Heidi Wold http://heidisnews.wordpress.com
Erik Arnberg http://blogg.binero.se
Kimmy Nordqvist http://it-tjej.idg.se/karriaristen/
Brit Stakston http://www.jmw.se/author/brit
Karin Nilsson Malmén http://www.preferenspr.se
Johanna Ögren http://www.lillagumman.se

All bloggers with a press pass will be contacted individually with information on how to register for the event, and about possibilities to schedule interviews with speakers through the SIME press contact. Please send any questions to Mahesh Kumar ( mahesh@result.com ).

Countdown: 17 days to the most important event on digital opportunities. You got your ticket?

Exactly 17 days from now, the smartest people from all over the world will go missing.

And yes, if you are looking for them, you can find them at Rigoletto in Stockholm. When we finished SIME 2008, the DNA of Change edition in Stockholm, we realized that we have upped the ante considerably since 2006, and had a very lofty vision of making SIME 2009 the best SIME ever in the history of the 13 year conference.

May be I am a bit biased, but I dare to say we have the best mix of agenda, speakers and formats, all packaged into a format that will stick. We have learned a lot from the conference goers experience over time, and we believe that the learnings will transcend into an exhilarating SIME experience this year.

So my question to you is: have you got your tickets to inspiration? Stitch your own SIME with the workshops you want to attend (during this week, the SIME Blog will have more information on the speakers and experts who will be moderating the workshops), and the awards gala and dinner. The mayor of Stockholm has decided to give the keys to the city during the 2 evenings, and yes, we will be raiding the best of the best nightclubs to give our international friends some tryst with history starting from the way the Vikings partied (in all good sense that is).

Check out the agenda and speakers

Get your ticket to inspiration

Welcome to the most important event on digital opportunities. Welcome to SIME Stockholm, 11, 12 November.

Meet the nominee of the day (26), Youcalc, Denmark

Company Bio

Youcalc’s mission is to create the world’s largest library of analytics apps by allowing business users to create and share analytics apps.
A user driven library of now more than 130 analytics apps for CRM, sales, marketing, service/support and project management, and live data connection to a growing number of SaaS systems (Salesforce.com, Basecamp, AdWords, Google Analytics, Highrise CRM, MailChimp, etc.)

Country

Denmark

Website

http://www.youcalc.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/youcalc/

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Meet the nominee of the day (25), WebofTrust, Finland

Company Bio

Web of Trust is a unique community-based safe surfing tool that uses an intuitive traffic-light style rating system to help Internet users stay safe as they search, browse, and shop online. The WOT security add-on provides safety ratings to search results when using Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and other popular sites, helping people protect their computers and personal information. Web site ratings are continuously updated by millions of members of the WOT community and from numerous trusted sources, such as phishing site listings. The free Internet security add-on works with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers and is a free download.

Country

Finland

Website

http://www.mywot.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/web-of-trust/

Snapshot

Jury Motivation

Good open source approach, backed by Monty of MySQL fame.

Meet the SIME jury here

Good luck guys, looking forward to a more protected virtual world.

SIME Talks 14: Kjell Aamodt, former CEO Schibsted talks about changes in media landscape

Back in 2006, when we were still trying to understand the online space a little bit better, there were very few big media companies or “dinosaurs” that really could come to terms with the fact that their core business model probably is going to have to change, and that the change will sweep them right from beneath the feet. They could either jump in or sink, and Schibsted with a CEO who boasted of a fantastic sense of vision rightfully decided to jump in, take the mantle and steer the ship to safety

Schibsted has grown to become one of Scandinavia’s largest media houses with diverse footprints in the landscape, operating in 22 countries, and having some of the leading sites in Scandinavia like Aftonbladet.se (the most read online newspaper), blocket.se amongst other very interesting and successful verticals.

View Schibsted’s profile here

Kjell Aamodt, who has led Schibsted for 20 years decided to step down mid this year. Rolv Erik Ryssdal is the new sergeant at the helm. You can catch Rolv Erik Ryssdal at SIME Stockholm this year, he is one of the speakers at the conference.

View the speaker listing here

View the agenda here

Below, is a video dug out from 2006, which I think is still relevant, as many media companies are still questioning the viability of the online model and holding the traditional channels too near and dear to their heart. Probably, the alarm bells are not loud enough, or may be, a Lehman brother kind of shock is needed for people to realize where the money is being spent. At the end of the day, its a simple mantra of “Follow your customers”, and when the customers are going online, what’s stopping them, they only know

SIME 06 – Kjell Aamodt from SIME on Vimeo.