Apr
18
2010
Incredible numbers
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Apr
10
2010
4 year old entrepreneur
This video won a contest for best commercial in Entreprenörsjakten. I really like it! What do you think?
Mar
3
2010
10 Billion Tweets!
This is crazy. About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, five billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets .
I read a few days ago an very interesting article about how Twitter in the classroom is boosting studen engagement. Studies frequently discover that greater participation translates into better academic performance, motivation, and a likelihood of adopting different points of view, which is why it is so striking that Twitter can foster that type of communication.
Classroom shyness is like a blackhole: Once silence takes over, it never lets go! In a class of hundreds, the fraction of students who speak up is small, and a still tinier fraction contribute regularly.
For schools hit hard by the recession, Twitter is an inexpensive solution to the growing problem of increasing class sizes. It is a tried-and-true platform to let conversations flourish.
Watch this video with Dr. Monica Ranking of the University of Texas at Dallas. The Twitter Experiment:
Dec
23
2009
Digital newspaper. Must-see-video!
When I saw this conceptual video I was amazed what the possibilities are for new technology. The team at Bonnier R&B Beta Lab and BERG tries to make the experience of reading magazines on digital devices to something extraordinary.
They want to capture the essence of magazine reading, which people have been enjoying for decades. I really like this product! What do you think?
Dec
7
2009
What’s the fuzz about Google Wave?
Google Wave has got lots of intension lately. If you haven’t understood why you should use it yet this video might help you. It takes 2 minutes of your time, well worth it. I’m still struggling to get new friends on Google Wave so if you’re interested to try it out just make a comment and tell me your e-mail. I will send you an invite.
This is how Google Wave looks like when you’re logged in. Please add me on viktor.nord@googlewave.com if you have an account.
Nov
30
2009
Google Chrome OS?
For you who doesn’t know that Google is releasing their own operation system here is a video worth watching.
Nov
17
2009
Body language is important!
Henrik Fexenus gives a great short talk, very thoughtful, about how you should approach people you don’t know.
Nov
16
2009
Learn to be creative!
I watched a seminar with Teo Hären from Interesting.org about how you can improve your creativity. You have to start practice! And yes, you can practice to be more creative. Watch this seminar (in swedish) or visit his homepage. It’s worth every minute!
Teo Hären talks about creativity
Nov
6
2009
Why should you be an entrepreneur?
Nicklas Mattson asks Anders Hansson why you should be an entrepreneur at Entreprenörsdagen 2009 in Gothenburg.
Aug
22
2009
Social Media – Just face the facts!
If you aren’t convinced yet that social media is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate please watch these stunning videos. I think you might change your mind.
Even thought some of the facts in the videos are controversial you will have to face the facts that social media is bigger than we think.
Please enjoy the videos and have a great day!
Video from – Socialnomics.com (Erick Qualman)
Did you know 3.0
Stats from the first video:
- By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
- Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
- 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
- Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
- If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia
- Yet, some sources say China’s QZone is larger with over 300 million using their services (Facebook’s ban in China plays into this)
- comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network
- 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
- 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum
- % of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees….80%
- The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
- Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama
- 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
- Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
- What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
- The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
- Wikipedia has over 13 million articles…some studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
- There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
- 54% = Number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily
- Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
- If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
- Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0
- 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
- 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
- People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them
- 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
- Only 14% trust advertisements
- Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
- 90% of people that can TiVo ads do
- Hulu has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009
- 25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video…on their phone
- According to Jeff Bezos 35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available
- 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
- In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media
- More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.
- Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy Listening first, selling second
- Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser
