Hi all,

No weeknote last Friday because of a danish holiday getting in the way. And by getting in the...

Except if you are Martin. He took a trip to Berlin to participate in Next Berlin, a conference...

Much of our time last week went to a new project we have begun together with Nimb Louise, a new...

A couple of weeks ago we wrote a little bit of our work on a Saxo.com project. We have now...

Our resident master thesis students, Rasmus and Inge-Mai, has travelled wide and far in Denmark...

That’s it for us this week, take care.

-Kasper

Hello,

It’s another Monday weeknote, since we held a small event in our office this Friday. It was a...

Magnus spent a couple of days in Helsinki because he had been invited to speak at DMI Helsinki -...

Besides that, here are some of the things we have been reading last week:

Martin was interviewed for an article in Politiken. (in Danish)

Rereading 37Signal’s Get Real - a guide to project management (and more)

MIT professor Sherry Turkle’s piece in the NYT on how social media is a alienating us from each...

The (quite a bit more agreeable) rebuttal from The Atlantic to the above piece.

That’s it from us this week, take care.

Things are moving fast forward here at Nørrebro. Momentum is still high after our event in...

In extension to this, we have this week have had a series of meetings about potential new...

On next Friday we hold an event to follow up the one in March. Read more and sign up here. The...

Back in January I wrote this blog post about the shifts in the publishing industry and on the...

This week we have turned the collaboration with SAXO.COM a notch up. Now our task is to help...

It seems like spring has finally arrived to Copenhagen. And at Socialsquare we have got some...

Have a nice weekend!

Kim  

Tourism is moving into a new paradigm. The renewed preferences of tourists and the technological...

Kodak's fate is an interesting case - one that we have referred to before in our work. I shall...

Much has happened since. Tourism and photography is alive and well, while Kodak has gone...

Tourism is changing

Mads Bødker is an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School and is doing some of his...

Today several services on the Internet almost define tourism. Flight tickets are found on pages...

New services for the future tourist

Not only will the technolgies and services help the traditional tourist. As Mads Bødker says in...

Foursquare and Localmind are other services that help the new type of tourist. It enables...

Some years ago we at Socialsquare challenged the hotel concept with The Social Hotel. It...

Room for new business models

Tourism is clearly changing. At Socialsquare believe that the market holds a lot of business...

Next is for the existing and new actors in the industry to challenge the market!

(We would like to help you do it)

Kim

 This week the amazing story of our good friends at Podio who was acquired by Citrix is...

The main point here is not the monetary value, but the value of the service and it's interesting...

The two acquisitions are obviously not comparable 1 on 1. Instagram is a "fast...

 Beside the differences there are obvious similarities, both holds very small, fast moving and...

Instagram obviously is the succes story of a wastly growing userbase on it's way to 30 million...

Basically Facebook has bought the community from Instagram - they bought the 30 million users -...

This brings me to a full circle, as this  concept of "loser-driven innovation" was coined by...

Podio was, to my best guess acquired, because it is a bloody cool product created in a vibrant...

 Instagram got traded, Podio got more leverage. Instagram users will loose. Podio users …...

Keep challenging. Happy weekend, 
Martin

Oh, forgot to mention we are listing to Kings of Convenience to warm up to the concert on...

Lots of good meetings and generally we are all fired up by spring hitting Copenhagen, making the...

This week we have been somewhat scattered - in a good kind way. Magnus has been in Amsterdam...

This week, my highlight, was talking to and workshopping with 150 people from a large danish...

As per tradition, we like to suggest what you should hear this weekend and this week go check...

Happy weekend

The danish welfare state is challenged. Because of financial, demographic and global trends, the...

You might know that we only recently launched the next internet paradigm here at Socialsquare...

The development is driven by cultural and technological change - and by a new approach to...

We believe that it can be done. But on a danish level, at least, we still lack the perfect and...

Current public initiatives in Denmark

We are nevertheless seeing the first tentative steps into social and digital opportunities...

Another initiative is how government data is now slowly being opened up. Denmark has signed The...

Institutional differences between the sectors

The window of opportunity in relations to this discussion is - theoretically - very wide...

But why isn’t it already done on a much bigger scale? Why haven’t we already seen major changes?...

Follow our feature on the public sector

In the coming months we will investigate on the questions above. We will go into detail with the...

And we are also so fortunate that two students from University of Copenhagen, Inge-Mai and...

It is all very exciting. And if you are interested in the public sector or in social and digital...

Kim

Yes, 13 and 14 because we skipped one - sorry!

Last week was busy as usual, but much of what we did and saw has already been covered in other...

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I attended a conference called Digital Urban Living in Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest...

In general it was a good conference. There were some great speakers, an interesting project and...

The main thing i was missing - and this goes well with what Magnus reported from London - was...

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And that was the gist of last week, at the beginning of this. Take care

Kasper

Despite the dramatic shifts in the music industry, the Copenhagen venue VEGA maintains its...

With record sales plummeting, the live scene has a even stronger role in music. This is where...

In the clip below Magnus talks about his approach to the changes in the music industry and how...

The past decade's development in the music industry is a perfect example on how the Internet is...

According to the rapport The Sky is Rising, the music industry is changing and expanding on a...