Scenarios and thoughts about internet media development and interactive communication.
Expert generalist and doer. Media production and development: internet, video,television, interactive multimedia, telecom, publishing and the digital merger of it all! My specialty is to be an idea catalyst, to produce media and drive development projects forward while creating new business opportunities.
Here is a very informative and inspiring analysis of the YouTube phenomenon from a very human viewpoint:
An anthropological introduction to YouTube
This video is produced by Michael Wesch, a professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. It is long (55minutes) and unfortunately it does not have any interactive navigation tools. But it is worth seeing if […]
Google is in high-speed pursuit now of new functionality for YouTube. Google has acquired one of my favourites: Omnisio, a US company offering a very smart and nicely designed video service. Omnisio allows you to share compilations of different videos in a simple way, but their most interesting service is a video player with embedded […]
As I have written before in my post Empowering internet video, automatic voice-to-text for online videos is already here. It means that any words spoken in a video is automatically transcribed into text.
The transcribed text can be shown in the video window or be used to search for the part of the video where something […]
I just love smart tools that helps me work more efficiently. Especially when they are simple to use, web-based and cost-efficient, like this one:
Evernote, a very smart, simple and free online tool for powerful management of notes and clips.
Also check this video, it is the founder of Evernote doing a 52-second pitch. Run the video […]
Dan Gillmor doing an inspiring speech about the citizen journalism movement.
Two great conference days in lovely Copenhagen at Reboot10.
It was an inspiring event with a great crowd, but my focus here will be on the conference format and organisation, adding to my previous posts on how to organise internet-focused conferences.
Reboot is a very different type […]
I don’t want to own my music!
Steve Jobs said last year that he did not see that the successful iTunes business model of selling individual music tracks would be threathened by subscription models where you pay a fixed fee to access all the music you want.
I am convinced that Steve Jobs now realizes that he […]
Corporate internet video is exploding!
Millions of people are watching video clips, instructional videos and TV shows on internet every day.
The production costs of professional video has decreased significantly due to new, inexpensive technology.
Thre are numerous new internet-based video distribution channels, for free or at a low cost.
There are many ways for companies to use video […]
Internetframsyn, “internet foresight” is a project organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, (Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademin, IVA in Swedish).
The theme is “How can Sweden become a leading internet nation by the year 2015?”
I have participated in the User panel since August 2007, focusing on how internet can be used to improve life for citizens and […]
Video is an old medium with many strengths, for example:
Video is more personal than texts and stills, it affects us and our feelings much more.
Video is very efficient for learning, explaining how things work.
But internet video as it is mainly used today also has several drawbacks:
It is linear: 5 minutes of video takes 5 […]
Diploma is very successful elearning system that I created in 2005 for Boehringer-Ingelheim, a large pharmaceutical company. It is based on a constructivistic learning model where medical doctors are trained using wireless PDAs to control video patient scenarios.It is all done in an intense group session with interactivity in three directions:
Between the participants […]