Pictoriala
Posted on | March 14, 2010 | No Comments
That’s the (quite bad) name of mine & David’s most recent project. Last week we were invited by Paulina at Bonnier to participate at #bonnierhackday and decided to go as a part of Dobermans initiative Kitchen. It was a classic 24 hour hack although a bit smaller than Music Hack Day and 24 Hour Business Camp.
Our goal was to create a hack around newspapers or magazines, but it proved quite hard to figure out something simple enough. So we went for the somewhat classic idea of browsing news with images. We wanted it to look extremely slick and fit perfectly on the iPad so for us this was a pure UI hack.
Pictoriala automatically scrapes images and articles from dn.se, svd.se and guardian.co.uk using their API’s and YQL. It then displays the images in a flexible grid and allows for users to get a big view and the headline of the surrounding article. We think it’s a really cool way of browsing news. It will be released on the web before the end of next month.
The hack was nicely organized and featured some really great people, especially Chris Thorpe from The Guardian and Ulla-Maaria & Ryan from Thinglink. We ended up as finalists in the competition but the prize went to Citypedia, although, some people thought we should have won 
All in all, a very good hackday!
Music Hack Day Stockholm this weekend
Posted on | January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Stockholm episode of Music Hack Day is closing in fast. We are expecting around 90 hackers to spend over 24 hours at the Doberman HQ building the future of music. You will be able to follow pictures, tweets and live casts via the site.
Read (and listen to) more about the event here.
- Ny teknik (Swedish)
- Spotify
- RjDj
- SR will air a short interview with me tomorrow, tune in for some first class rambling
Here is a quick preview of the spaces as well, looks quite nice don’t you think!?
Tags: citysounds > citysounds.fm > conference > hackers > musichackday > soundcloud > spotify > stockholm
A great week for public service
Posted on | December 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
The past week has been great, especially for public service in Sweden. Three somewhat unrelated events happened that, imho, strengthens the position of Swedish public service.
1. Swedish Television (SVT) released a mobile version of their awesome on demand service SVT Play. It includes support for all the major platforms such as Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile and is, of course, completely free. A long with the browser version SVT also announced their iPhone app for Play which was built by a team from Doberman that includes yours truly
2. Swedish Radio (SR) released an much anticipated update of their iPhone application. It now features live radio as well as on demand shows from their archives. Their broadcasts are extremely good, free of ads and free to listen to.
3. SR also decided to join the hacker conference Music Hack Day that me and Mattias Arrelid from Spotify are organizing in Stockholm early next year. This is probably the coolest thing of the three. They have decided to not only join but also release a new API before the event. The API includes access to track listings, program listings and more. And as mentioned, they have an extremely valuable archive so hopefully this spawns a range of new and interesting mashups and web services.
Needless to say, Swedish public service organizations are stepping up their game and making our money worth. Kudos!
Tags: doberman > iphone > public service > radio > sr > svt > sweden > television
Metro on Music Hack Day Stockholm
Posted on | December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
Metro Stockholm posted a short interview with me regarding Music Hack Day Stockholm today. (only in Swedish)
The CitySounds.fm iPhone App Unleashed
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
We just released it, more over at CitySounds.fm and SoundCloud!
Music Hack Day Stockholm
Posted on | November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
Finally, the best hack event out there is coming to Stockholm. The weekend of the 30-31:st of January next year hackers and music nerds meet for two days of code & fun. The venue is the web agency Dobermans office in an old brewery on Södermalm.
So, are you interested in bulding something? Head straight to stockholm.musichackday.org and sign up!
Jyri & Tariq on Jolicloud
Posted on | November 18, 2009 | No Comments
One of the more interesting software projects right now is Tariq Krim’s Jolicloud. I mentioned it shortly a while back when my project The Cloud Player was spotted in a demo. The development seem to be coming along well and I hope that their beta program will be extended to more people soon. I believe in the power of Netbooks and think they have a bright future if operating systems like Jolicloud become popular.
Here is a short video of Jyri Engeström and Tariq Krim demoing and talking about Jolicloud from Monaco Media Forum 2009:
Independent: The 25 best music websites
Posted on | October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
A few weeks ago The Independent, one of the major newspapers in the UK, ran an article on the 25 best music sites on the web. And guess if we were honored to be on it with CitySounds.fm. Quite good for a project that was first created during 15 hours, don’t you think?
Thx to MixCloud for the scan.
Talk from a2n
Posted on | October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Earlier this fall I held a talk on Music Hack Day at the all2gether now conference in Berlin. Now you can watch it on vimeo:
a2n - Berlin Hack Days from all2gethernow on Vimeo.
Music & Bits today
Posted on | October 21, 2009 | No Comments
Right now i’m watching Eric & SpeedyJ discussing the future of music and technology. Later today there will be presentations by some of the more interesting companies in this space. Looking forward to an interesting afternoon!
Best swag from ADE, a bag with a small flashlight and a not saying “Can’t find your royalties”. Anthony was very amused!
Tags: ade > amsterdam > conference > hypem > music&bits > musicandbits > soundcloud
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