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Local media sites watch out: The global giants are out to attack you!

by John Einar Sandvand on November 15, 2010 · 6 comments

How location and positioning will become game changers in the local media market.

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Does technology pose a threat to our private life?

by The Guardian on August 21, 2010 · 5 comments

This week Google’s Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts – while Facebook launched a tool to share users’ locations. So does technology pose a threat to private life?

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Facts you should know about social media in Asia

by John Einar Sandvand on December 15, 2009 · 3 comments

The social media situation in Asia is very different from Europe and USA. Here are some very interesting facts and figures giving a good overview of who are the big players.

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Google’s view of the future

by John Einar Sandvand on October 28, 2009 · 0 comments

For an in-depth look at how Google look at what is happening in the online world: Here is an excellent interview with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt.

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Three-year-trend: Newspaper sites falling, social media rising

by John Einar Sandvand on October 19, 2009 · 1 comment

The service of Alexa.com frequently is used to get an indication of which sites are most popular in different countries. Here are two top 20 lists for Norway, registered three years apart. Check the differences.

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Against the wall: Fighting to own the news

by John Einar Sandvand on April 11, 2009 · 0 comments

Media leaders want to take steps to “protect news content online”. It is a fight against the wall. Media’s former monopoly role as gate keepers is gone long time ago. Now is the time to open up.

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5 great tools to add interactivity to news sites

by John Einar Sandvand on March 29, 2009 · 2 comments

News sites need to communicate with their readers. Here are 5 great tools that will help you cover the news in a much more dynamic way. All of them have one thing in common: They are extremely easy to implement – even if you have no skills in programming.

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5 social media trends in 2009

by John Einar Sandvand on January 20, 2009 · 7 comments

Here are some of the social media trends that are taking place in 2009. Illustration: Matt Hamm

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YouTube beats Yahoo in search

by John Einar Sandvand on December 19, 2008 · 0 comments

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown It is web historic: In November YouTube had more searches from U.S. users than Yahoo.

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10 new roles for journalists

by John Einar Sandvand on December 14, 2008 · 11 comments

New roles will be necessary in editorial organizations. Here are 10 of them, provided by the Swedish media blog Mindpark.

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