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The leading Norwegian news sites seem to engage readers much more than the British news sites. Why is that?

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How Facebook is cheating advertisers on the demographics

by John Einar Sandvand on June 9, 2010 · 0 comments

More than 1,6 million people live in Norway’s capital Oslo, claims Facebook. But the real number is only about 500.000. Advertisers be warned: You cannot trust the demographic numbers of Facebook.

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Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten, just celebrated its 150 year anniversary. Check out this great interactive graphic for a fun way to ask readers to post their opinions and suggest improvements.

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How iPad proves to be a sofa device

by John Einar Sandvand on May 6, 2010 · 10 comments

When do people choose to use their new iPad? In their sofa late at night, if we are to believe the first traffic statistics.

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Teenage girl blogged about her painful road to death

by John Einar Sandvand on December 4, 2009 · 1 comment

The death of 18 year old Regine Hansen Stokke in Norway demonstrates in a tragic way the power of social media. For more than a year thousands of people have followed her blog about the fight against cancer – up to the day of her death.

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Where half the population use Facebook every week

by John Einar Sandvand on October 28, 2009 · 4 comments

The growth of Facebook has been tremendous in Norway over the last couple of years. A new survey shows that more than 50 per cent of the population now use Facebook every week.

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- Kindle’s user terms violate basic consumer rights

by John Einar Sandvand on October 27, 2009 · 10 comments

Norway’s Consumer Council warns Amazon that user terms for Kindle e-readers violate basic consumer rights. The watchdog is considering launching a formal process against Amazon, just as it did against Apple’s iTunes store.

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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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Norway went to the polls on September 14th. It was an event which inspired new and creative ways of doing online journalism. Here is an overview of how the biggest news sites in Norway decided to cover the election night.

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Where everybody visits newspaper sites

by John Einar Sandvand on August 10, 2009 · 18 comments

Newspapers own less than 1 per cent of the time spent online in the US. This is in strong contrast to the situation in Scandinavia. In fact, Norway’s largest newspaper site, VG.no, have more page views than any newspaper site in English, despite the fact that only 4,7 million people live in the country.

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