Meet the Nominee of the Day (4) – Eat.fi, Finland

Company Bio:
Eat.fi is a restaurant search and review site based on a time-based dynamic map. The color of the dots on the map shows what restaurants are open at at any given time. Users can also filter their results by category, rating, price, and keyword. Restaurant information is kept up to date via a combination of wiki-like tools for users, and specialized tools for registered restaurant owners. Eat.fi’s community features allow users to have profiles, add photos, edit, search, share and organize their reviews. The site currently covers only Finland, but is designed for international expansion. A mobile version is currently under development.

Company Web:
http://eat.fi/

Country:
Finland

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Jury’s motivation

“Very good user experience, nice design, continuous innovation”
— Peter Vesterbacka

About the Jury

Peter Vesterbacka is active in the industry of branding, mobile e-services ecosystem building and enablement.
Twitter pvesterbacka

Meet the rest of the jury here

Meet the Nominee of the Day (3) – Tobii, Sweden

Company Bio:

Tobii Technology is a world leader in hardware and software solutions for eye tracking. Eye tracking enables a computer to tell exactly where a person is looking. Using radical innovations in technology, Tobii’s mission is to bring eye tracking into broader use in applications such as eye control interfaces for computers, design testing and medical diagnostics.

Company Web:
http://www.tobii.com/

Country: Sweden

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Meet the founder:

Henrik Eskilsson, CEO, Tobii Technologies

As chief executive officer of Tobii, Henrik is primarily engaged in overseeing the company’s daily operations, ensuring that efficiency, as well as quality standards are maintained. He founded the company in 2001 and under his guidance, it has shown continuous revenue growth and has been formally recognized as Sweden’s fastest growing technology company. Henrik is an expert in administration as well as marketing and holds a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering management from Linkoping University. He maintains an active schedule of community service and altruistic undertakings, consisting of support for several charities that benefit the environment and promote education. In his spare time, he enjoys travel, reading and being with family. In recognition of his exemplary career with Tobii Technology AB, Henrik Eskilsson is being included in the 2008/2009 Princeton Premier Registry where he will assume a well-deserved position among the most accomplished business leaders and professionals of every industry from around the globe.

His LinkedIN is here

Jury Motivation:

“With an impressive core technology, a global potential and a wide range of areas of application, no wonder Tobii has already delivered on some of its great promises.”

— Johan Siwers

Meet Johan Siwers, and the rest of the jury here

Meet the Nominee of the Day (1) : Fileride, Sweden

Company Bio:
FileRide is a pioneering social desktop connecting like-minded people through the files and links they have in common. For example, if someone adds a PDF document or MP3 file to her FileRide that you added to your FileRide, that document will instantly serve as a communication channel between the two of you without you having known each other previously.

Company Web:
http://www.fileride.com

Country: Sweden

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Jury Motivation

Meet the jury here

“Fileride is taking the next logical step to interactive, social behavior into your desktop. Share your interests and files with others in a smart innovative way.”

Social Desktop is indeed interesting since the desktop is still the central nervous system of our computer usage. Our wishes with you guys.

SIME Awards: Nominee of the Day

Now that the SIME Awards cat is slowly jumping off the bag (atleast partially), we thought we should do some canvassing for the nominees who actually got selected. And so starting from today, we will put together a quick section called Nominee of the Day (NOTD) every single day, where 1 nominated company gets a quick introduction, if available, the entrepreneur behind the company gets an introduction too and the jury motivation for the company to be part of the SIME Rising Stars of Scandinavia. Meanwhile, we are also getting in touch with the companies and their founders who are now part of the SIME family to make sure we get all “their” side of the story too. Stay tuned.

Read more about the SIME Awards Process

Read more about the Mighty 36

SIME Awards, the doors open to the Mighty 36: Meet the first 12.

Yes, its finally official. After months of screening, indexing, and going through some of the best companies from the Scandinavian soil, we have opened the doors to the SIME Awards officially to present them to you.

View the SIME Awards Process Info here

SIME Awards this year focuses on 2 categories (as explained in the prev. post)
“SIME Rising Stars from the North” and “SIME Grand Prize”, the former committed to finding the next Skype from Scandinavia, the later awarding the “most innovative big company”.

We at SIME started working behind the scenes through the summer, stealthily attending various entrepreneurial events, going to places where the young minds congregated, going for the geek girl meet up’s, going for those likemind and social media lunches, we took all the effort to make sure we covered every corner of the entrepreneurial news sources, and voila, we came up with a grand list of companies that we thought were befitting to be considered for our prize.

View the full list of nominated companies and the chosen 12 of the Mighty 36 here

Then we hand picked some top digital minds within Scandinavia, the one’s that in their sleep dream of startup’s and new media, and the one’s that help big companies make such dreams come true, the geeks, the big intrapreneurs, and in all true spirit of SIME, with a smile on their face, they congregated like in the Vatican secret conclave, went through the long lists, and came up with their jury words of wisdom.

View the list of jury here

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SIME Awards Stockholm: Process, meet the jury

SIME Awards this year has taken a completely new path. From the previous year’s edition of allowing companies to nominate themselves and then doing a yes or no jury vote, this year we decided to hand pick the “deserving” companies ourselves and then do the jury process. We dare to say that we have the who’s who of tomorrow’s digital stars of Scandinavia all indexed and tagged, ready to go through a stringent jury committee to capture the top prize at the Awards Gala and Dinner on November 12 in Stockholm.

View the agenda for SIME Stockholm here

SIME Awards has 2 categories this year:

1. SIME Rising Stars of the North: The pioneers and innovators within the tech scene. Companies that have a working product / service, do not have more than 50 employees and, preferably was founded in the last 2 years. We call them the rising stars, the one’s that will be the toast of Scandinavia, giving the SIME audience a chance for a “aha” moment (more in the likes of “aha, we saw them first in SIME 09″)
2. SIME Grand Prize: The Big Industry Star are the big lions that are roaring past the competition, finding interesting niches and most importantly, constantly innovating in the Scandinavian digital landscape.

View more info on the Awards here

At the present moment, we have made a list of companies that fit into these criteria, and passed it to the jury members. Once the jury express their opinion and reach a consensus, the nominees will be announced through the blog. The chosen companies will then be given a chance to talk and connect with you, make a quick blog even on why they think they would / should win the top SIME prize.

The jury for SIME Awards 09 consists of a handpicked team of experts within the areas Internet, technology, journalism and entrepreneurship. You can find their quick SIME – twitt- profiles, their online hang out spots right here

Good luck jury, looking forward to present the nominee list soon.

3 and SIME launching an Android Dev. Competition. Are you up for the challenge?

3 together with SIME is launching what is called as the Swedish Android Developer Competition 09 (SADC 09),
that invites all the developers to create fun, smart and useful applications for the Android community. The winning app developer gets an Android phone, 2 free tickets to SIME Stockholm (November 11, 12) and an opportunity to present the app during the SIME Awards Evening (November 12) to an audience of top representatives from leading companies within IT, media, Internet and Advertising, giving you a perfect launch pad for your idea.

The video below is a teaser, and the link to find more information and to register is here

[Update: Check out the comments for some interesting links to Android coverage and versatility]

SADC09 from SIME on Vimeo.