R&D Blog - December 2009

Best links - week 52

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-12-22
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Undead Tech: E-Ink and Readers

Fast Company offers a fairly good overview of the eBook business.

 

A Look at the Sports Illustrated Tablet Concept

Best links - week 51

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-12-18
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Local Governments Offer Data to Software Tinkerers

A two-week-old NY Times story on novel web and mobile services, using local data made available by the US government.

 

More women using social networks, preferring Facebook

Initial reactions on our Mag+ concept video

By Emil Ovemar on 2009-12-17
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[UPDATED! More links and extra video]

Wow! We're really impressed with the interest in our concept video of what we think the magazine of the future may look like. We call it Mag+ and we would really like to hear what you think of it over in our Beta Lab.

Launching Beta Lab & Mag+ Prototype

By Björn Jeffery on 2009-12-17

Today we're launching our new Bonnier R&D Beta Lab and our first digital magazine prototype. The Beta Lab will be an open think tank arena where we will initiate discussions through publishing our prototypes and research insights. We hope to engage thought leaders, entrepreneurs, media experts and other free thinkers in a heated debate about the future of media.

R&D Summary - week 50

By Sara Öhrvall on 2009-12-13
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This weeks summary of Bonnier R&D's activities

This week we have been finalizing a video describing our first Digital Magazine Prototype together with Berg in London. We will be presenting our initial thoughts on how future reading on handheld devices may look like.

Best links - week 50

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-12-10
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Photo by Flickr user This Particular Greg, CC licensed

Kindle Fantasies Are Running Wild -- But, For Now, Amazon Is Losing Its Shirt

While eReader sales may experience huge growth in the coming years, many underestimate the losses companies like Amazon will need to weather before selling e-books becomes a meaningfully profitable business, writes TBI Research.

 

Apple to launch tablet in spring 2010

R&D Summary - week 49

By Björn Jeffery on 2009-12-04
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This weeks summary of Bonnier R&D's activities

We're starting to get used to this weekly summary format. It's good as it forces you to both actually stop being lazy and start writing, and also it's a nice little review of what you've done.

So what's up? This:

Best links - week 49

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2009-12-04
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A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Image by Flickr user manfrys

Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009

ReadWriteWeb's annual top 10 lists were published the other day. Apart from semantic web products, RWW has also listed consumer web applications and mobile web products. In the consumer web application category, Sweden is represented by Spotify and Twingly.  Congrats.

First day at Bonnier R&D - SF edition

By Björn Jeffery on 2009-12-04
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Bonnier R&D spends their first day in the new San Francisco office.

After two intense and extremely interesting days at the Supernova conference, we are now settled in at our new San Francisco office. Our Bonnier colleagues at Weldon Owen gave us a very warm and heartful welcome, so we are very excited about the whole affair.

We are primarily here to do two things: