Category — Services

Crowdsourcing is a nice concept, but it can be hard to practice. Because while the idea of getting people engaged and collaboration on a project is nice and good, it takes an effort to get to critical mass and actually make thing happen.

The new web service The Point has decided to do something about this. They have developed a service that lets you sign up to do stuff IF enough people decide to do the same - and you decide what that number should be. And that’s a concept, I like. [Read more →]

Everytime media people are discussing the web in public, one of the things they discuss is whether to continue their bet on being destination sites or whether to let the content flow to the sites, where users hang out.

But what if you could do it the other way around? What if you could pull in what people do and say and become sort of a reverse hub for content and conversation? BBC is showing that you can indeed do that - and the concept is absolutely brilliant. [Read more →]

I’m a strong believer in the potential of the internet to unleash forces previously kept under lock’n'key. And for that reason I’m very fond of a new service called The Point.

Basically The Point allows you to define a cause or higher goal and get people to support you in making it happen. Nothing new there. No, the new thing is that people will only have to act on their pledge, once a sufficient number of people (a number you define) have stated their support. [Read more →]

One of the really cool things about web TV is that making an editorial bet on online video is anybodys game not just media companies’. If you’ve got the money and are willing to invest, you can build quite a media enterprise.

This is exactly what brewery conglomerate Carlsberg is doing. Carlsberg has long been a sponsor of Liverpool FC, some other clubs and various football tournaments, but now they want to take ownership of the beerdrinkers…ehhh…the fans of football across the globe. This is to happen, when they launch Partofthegame.tv in a little months time. [Read more →]

One of the most exciting things about the times we live in is that barriers of entry into new markets with new products are getting close to zero. At least from a technological point-of-view. Its the idea rather than your financial clout that makes great things possible.

A front-runner for this has been Amazon, who through its Amazon Web Services have made computing and storage in the cloud an almost free proposition for would be entrepreneurs. And now they are looking towards great competition from someone who wants to make it completely free. [Read more →]

Danish telco, TDC, is your friend, if you are into music. At least that is how the old once-upon-a-time state monopoly wants to position itself. Starting at midnight April 1 the telco will be offering more than 1 million tracks from the likes of Sony BMG, EMI and Warner for download to broadband and mobile subscribers through their new music service PLAY - absolutely free of charge. And it’s supposedly not an Aprils Fools joke.

TDC CEO Jens Alder calls it “the companys most important strategic bet for years”. Even though I like the idea I will let that remark sit for itself for a few seconds in the memory of all the other things TDC could - and in my mind should - have done ages ago instead. [Read more →]