Scenarios and thoughts about internet video and media development.
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.
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 […]
Beautiful Iceland
We are used to tiny, fuzzy and jerky internet videos, due to technical limitations. But the technology is developing fast and new standards are now appearing that will make our video experiences richer on the internet.
So sit back, put on your best headphones and rest your eyes on this clip from Iceland, a music […]
KIVA
I am engaged in venture capital in Sweden, both as investor and as business coach. But I have also invested in 5 aspiring entrepreneurs in third world countries through KIVA, an internet based micro-lending organization that since the start in 2005 has financed some 30 000 entrepreneurs by small ($25 and up) loans from […]
How to sell a web application
You read about a new cool internet application and click on the link.
An unfamiliar site appears. In about 5 seconds you decide if you want to stay there and explore it, or if you will surf away.
Fact: most people only give a new site 5-10 seconds to attract them.
So why […]
There is still some confusion regarding the difference between a company board of directors and an advisory board.
How can companies benefit from having an advisory board?
I learned a lot from building an advisory board in Los Angeles in 1999-2000. I managed to recruit top-level people front Yahoo and other well-known companies and they were […]
Greenpeace in Sweden today sent out a news letter with a smart way of letting people personalize a Greenpeace anti-whaling video and email it to their friends:
The idea is that you can write your own texts that are inserted in the Greenpeace campaign video, so you can send a personal message inside the video to […]