R&D Blog - November 2009

R&D Summary - week 48

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-11-27
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Our weekly summary of what we've been up to.

Yet again a week full of travelling, events, and interesting meetings.

Last Wednesday, Sara got back from a short but intense trip to the US, where she met several potential cooperation partners for the newly started San Francisco satellite office. She is leaving for the US again in a couple of days; this time for two months. 

Best links - week 48

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-11-27
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Habbo Hotel

The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web

ReadWriteWeb's guest author Alisa Leonard-Hansen explains why she believes relevant web experiences are born out of the context of our identities.

 

How Engaging Is Online Video?

The publishing industry and its OCP

By Erich Hugo on 2009-11-24
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Maasai tribe welcoming the tourists to their village in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Iain Banks describes an Outside Context Problem (OCP) in his book Excession as the following:

Best links - week 47

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-11-20
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Photo: Flickr user jyri

Yet again, Murdoch declares that he is done with "giving away his news for free on the Web". Instead, he believes that the future of news lies in tablets, reports TechCrunch. Murdoch Warns That Without eTablets, "Newspapers Will Go Out Of Business.

R&D Summary - week 47

By Emil Ovemar on 2009-11-20
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Our weekly summary of what we've been up to.

This week has been full of workshops and new insights. A very exciting week for us!

Björn held a workshop for the MCXL programme at Stockholm School of Economics on digital reading and is also looking into what's going in Asia with the help of Benjamin Joffe at +8*. Nice to see what's happening in China, Japan and South Korea, not the stuff that you usually come across in your RSS feed.

R&D Summary - week 46

By Björn Jeffery on 2009-11-13
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Starting this week, the R&D will be posting regular briefings on what we're up to every week. Short and sweet.

An intense conference week for all of us this week. Sara was a speaker at both SIME and Good Morning 2019. Pontus was head of the SIME Prize jury and sat in a panel discussing entrepreneurs. Paulina was briskly thrown in a panel at Digital Landscapes and wanted to know more about how to monetization online. Phew!

Best links - week 46

By Paulina Modlitba Söderlund on 2009-11-13
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Photo by Flickr user respres

Exciting news, if true: Microsoft Natal to be launched in a year according to gaming blog Kotaku. Rumor: Project Natal Launches November 2010, 14 Games, Might Be Cheap

Convergence in its essence - The BBC and Nintendo UK team up: BBC iPlayer launches on dedicated Wii channel (Media Week).

Curation as core competence

By Björn Jeffery on 2009-11-06
On why data could be the next offering for media companies.

Yesterday we had The Guardian´s developer advocate Chris Thorpe over for a visit. He helped us hold a workshop about developing with APIs and the implications that this can have for media companies.

Best links - week 45

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-11-05
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.  

Apple TV

Apple proposes subscription service. According to the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog, Apple has proposed a new $30-per-month subscription service for Apple TV. The TV content would be distributed via iTunes software and store across an array of devices.