R&D Blogg

Realtime and journalism

By Björn Jeffery on 2010-06-17

As a part of the Moving Images blog relay, I'm picking up from Mike Masnick at Techdirt that wrote about music and realtime, and I'm passing on to Peter Alvarsson at Headweb. But before that - a few thoughts on journalism and realtime:

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Mag+ live on the iPad

By Sara Öhrvall on 2010-04-02

Tomorrow is launch day. On the iPad. It is very very exciting. We have taken our first step towards our Mag+ vision by building a Popular Science digital magazine for the iPad. Popular Science+ is available now in the iTunes and tomorrow live for the (hopefully) lucky iPad owners. If you want to have a first preview of the magazine, check out Beta Lab at www.bonnier.com/betalab.

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Bonnier Hack Day wrap up

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-03-15

24 hours of hacker bliss.

[Original blog post can be found here.]

The first Bonnier Hack Day is now over. Oh boy, what a day. Despite the fact that the alarm went completely berserk at around 5 pm, amazing participants, concepts, discussions and food made the event a huge success. And a big plus: the Internet connected worked fairly well for the most of the time.

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Best links - week 10

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-03-10

A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Rapid Rise of Children With Cellphones (NY Times)

Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Bullish (Media Week)

Google 'Trialling TV Search Service' (The Guardian)

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Best links - week 9

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-03-05

A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Facebook Revenues For 2010 Could Hit Between $1.2 To $2 Billion

According to a recent WSJ article, Facebook executives have mentioned that "revenues for 2010 could hit between $1.2 to $2 billion", reports TechCrunch.

First Look: How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With iPad

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Paid digital content

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-03-01

Guess what? Paid content isn't about the content, after all.

Last Thursday, Bonnier R&D invited a couple of guest speakers, e.g. Forrester Analyst Nick Thomas, Sapient AD Cassian Opara, SSE researcher Henrik Sjödin, and a large number of colleagues to discuss and exchange experiences regarding the popular topic of "consumers' willingness to pay for digital content". The event was internal, so the exact conclusions can't be revealed. However, the following four public sources were referred to during the seminar and are highly recommended:

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Best links - week 8

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-02-26

A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Facebook Announces Credits Terms For Developers (via @jaggeree)

Facebook will soon roll Facebook Credits out to even more application developers, so it has publicly announced that it will take 30% of the revenues earned for goods sold via Facebook Credits, reports All Facebook and Mashable.

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Best links - week 7

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-02-19

A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Seesaw Internet TV Service Launches in UK (via @mattiasfyrenius)

BBC reports that the UK now has its own equivalent of Hulu. Seesaw recently launched its online TV service after less than a month of beta testing. The service offers 3,000 hours of archive and recent programs from the BBC, Channel 4 and Five.

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Best links - week 6

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-02-15

A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Symbian Makes its Smartphone Software Open Source

Symbian, an operating system used in many smartphones, is now available as an open source platform four months ahead of schedule as it looks to compete with Apple and Google's Android, writes the Guardian.

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R&D Summary - week 6

By Emil Ovemar on 2010-02-12

This week actually started last week. Sara, BERG and parts of the american Mag+ team spent all weekend in our office. Everything on the walls looks impressive so we are really excited about things to come. Sara is already back in San Francisco making final adjustments to prototype 2.0 of Mag+ together with Kicker Studio.