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SIME 09: Highlights

Relive the SIME Magic, the SIME Inspiration through some recorded footage and pictures

SIME 09 was all about the 4 dimensions of digital opportunities: business, knowledge, inspiration and fun, the 4 pillars or the corner stones for this year’s SIME. And we took every step to make sure during the 2 days you got your best business opportunities, learnt as much from the sessions, workshops, drew inspiration from the speakers and the participants and, most importantly had riveting fun before, during and after the conference.

Looking back, we did quite much shake the SIME cover. From coming up with a new format, an agenda that boasts of covering most verticals within the digital landscape, and a revised Awards format, we did have quite an uphill task to package them the best and add the SIME touch at the end. At the end, if you had as much fun at SIME as we had arranging it, we think it’s a job well done :)

The Highlights section is here

Some very good footage from the whole show is here

Interviews with SIME speakers and Participants here and here (thanks folks from 23business, Germany).

Pictures from Tom Solo (SIME’s “legend behind the lens”)

SIME Pool at Flickr (user uploaded)

And stay tuned for the year ahead. SIME is going even more international, so get ready to welcome SIME to your city!

SIME Awards: Published the Draft Edition

Just a quick note to say, sorry, we stand digitally corrected.

We realized that we published the draft or earlier version of the Mighty 36 order yesterday, a mistake that makes few companies go up and down the list, not giving you the final numbers of what the entire jury agreed on.  And we realized it today (yes the after-party helped us), and we have corrected it. So if you were in the Mighty 36 and wondered why your rankings differed so drastically as compared to yesterday, we are sorry.

The final ranking can be found here.

Congrats folks, you are all stars of the Nordics!

Meet the nominee of the day (36), Livebookings, Sweden

Company Bio

Livebookings helps make restaurants more profitable by delivering customers through an online, real-time booking service. Livebookings provide restaurants with the tools to build a customer database, run offers, be listed on hundreds of websites, generate more bookings and improve the way they manage their reservations.

Country

Sweden

Website

http://livebookings.net

SIME Profile

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

Snapshot

livebookings

Jury Motivation

Swedish company with a good shot of making it on the global table reservation market.

Meet the SIME jury here

Couple of days to go, the wait cannot get any tenser. May the best folks win!

Meet the nominee of the day (34), Mr. Green, Sweden

Company Bio

Mr Green is the fastest growing online gambling company in Norway and Sweden, in spite of a very late start (2008) and fierce competition. A focus on design, look and feel, brand uniqueness and responsible gaming and an ethical gambling offering made the difference. The company is currently rolled out over Europe (SE, AT, NO ready, UK, FI and ES happening this fall). Internetworld rated Mr Green Sweden’s best gambling web site beating Svenska Spel (national monopoly), Betsson, Expekt and Unibet.

Country

Sweden

Website

https://www.mrgreen.com/

SIME Profile

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

Snapshot

mr-green

» Continue reading ‘Meet the nominee of the day (34), Mr. Green, Sweden’

Meet the nominee of the day (33), Burt, Sweden

Company Bio

Burt builds easy-to-use products that inspires and enables better and more creative advertising:

  • Copybox The world’s first word processor created with the digital copywriter in mind.
  • Meme Machine Enables quick and cost-efficient creation of ”real-time ads”, ads that optimize the message dynamically for each viewer
  • Rich A campaign analytics tool for digital media focused on creative agencies

Country

Sweden

Website

http://byburt.com/

SIME Profile

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

Snapshot

burt

» Continue reading ‘Meet the nominee of the day (33), Burt, Sweden’

Meet the nominee of the day (31), LoadImpact, Sweden

Company Bio

Load Impact  provides the world’s first true online load test service. Instead of paying tens of thousands of dollars to consultants for a singel load test, users can now go to www.loadimpact.com, enter a URL and for either free or a few dollars get a complete load test performed. The company excels in technology and vision in a way that will make it a true Swedish internet star.

Country

Sweden

Website

http://loadimpact.com/

SIME Profile

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

Snapshot

loadimpact

Jury Motivation

Finally it’s here. A service that infact is doing load testing in a smart reliable way without you having to put resources into a massive tech project.

Meet the SIME Jury

Online Coverage by Arctic Startup, Killer Startups

LoadImpact twitter

Meet the Nominee of the Day (30), Powerkiss, Finland

Company Bio

Powerkiss has developed an integrated wireless charging solution, which turns basic furniture into smart energy platforms. To juice up your gadgets, you only need to place them above the furniture surface. Just like you´d do anyway.

Country

Finland

Website

http://powerkiss.com

SIME Profile

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

Snapshot

powerkiss

Jury Motivation

Wireless Phone, Wireless Lan and now Wireless Power - no need to say more.

Meet the SIME Jury here

[ You can read about the rest of the nominees for the SIME Awards Mighty 36 from this archive ]

SIME Helsinki - An orgy of knowledge and inspiration

SIME Helsinki was fabulous, and nothing short of sheer inspiration and knowledge. In fact, the crowd that got in (was an invite only event) were pleasantly surprised by the surge of knowledge and discussions put forward from the folks on stage. The SIME team in Helsinki did a great job in putting great content, great speakers, and great settings for some great discussions fueled by inspiring topics, in true SIME folklore.

Below is a collection of some pictures taken from SIME Helsinki, thanks to Gary Shainberg!

Some twitter feed screenshots from folks who were at Helsinki then and loved the contents and speakers.

Thanks Joakim Lonnroth and the rest of the SIME team for a great SIME Helsinki.

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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

endomondo

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

wreckamovie

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!