R&D Blogg - November 2009

R&D Summary - week 48

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. 

The publishing industry and its OCP

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

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.

Best links - week 48

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?

Best links - week 46

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).

R&D Summary - week 46

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!

Curation as core competence

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.