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		<title>Happi Papi The Movie &#8211; eller en trailerfilm på två dagar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[En viktig del i marknadsföringen av en app är att göra en film som visar upp appen. Eftersom vår app Happi Reads skulle släppas på App Store idag behövde vi få ihop en film lite snabbt. Appen hette tidigare &#8221;I (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/design/happi-papi-the-movie-eller-en-trailerfilm-pa-tva-dagar.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>En viktig del i marknadsföringen av en app är att göra en film som visar upp appen. Eftersom vår app Happi Reads skulle släppas på App Store idag behövde vi få ihop en film lite snabbt. Appen hette tidigare &#8221;I Read&#8221;, men efter att ha slåtts med sökmotor-o-optimering i App Store bestämde vi oss för att byta namn på hela projektet från My Pal Apps till Happi Papi och dessutom byta namn på apparna så att de börjar med &#8221;Happi&#8221; (Happi är snigeln i loggan).</p>
<p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/happipapi.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-375" title="happipapi" src="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/happipapi-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Utan att ha en egentlig idé om hur filmen skulle byggas upp gav jag barnen iPaden och bad dem spela Happi Reads medan jag filmade. Till bruset av ett akvarium och en brummande videokameramotor (insåg jag efteråt) började de spela medan de busade, pratade och sjöng. Jag filmade lite planlöst med egentligen enda målet att få hyfsade vinklar och ljussättning. I efterhand insåg jag att ljudet var mer eller mindre värdelöst eftersom de dels pratade svenska (filmen ska släppas world wide), dels oväsendet från videokameran och akvariet plus att en moped så klart lyckades köra förbi samtidigt.</p>
<p>Efter lite färgjustering och klippning hade jag i varje fall lite bildmaterial som funkade. För att få in själva appen så gjorde jag en enkel screen capture och filmade ett par sekvenser när jag spelade Happi Reads i iOS Simulator. Nu var bara frågan vad filmen egentligen skulle handla om.</p>
<p>Eftersom 3-åringen halvvägs igenom bestämde sig för att lägga sig på golvet och sjunga Jedwards &#8221;Lipstick&#8221; samtidigt som 6-åringen jublar över att hon svarar rätt kändes det som ett bra slut, och då var det bara att sätta ihop sekvensen där de startar appen, brygga med skärmdumparna från appen och med sekvenser där de spelar till fram till slutscenen. En liten minidokumentär helt enkelt.</p>
<p>Eftersom ljudet från filmen till större delen var oanvändbart blev ljudsättningen lite klurig. Jag ville behålla känslan av att de har kul och busar medan de spelar, så jag ville få med så mycket originalljud som möjligt, så det blev en del pusslande med de ljudsnuttar som gick att använda. Till sist återstod bara frågan om musik &#8211; skulle det vara upptempo, akustiskt, jazzigt, barnsligt? Efter en hel del experimenterande i GarageBand fastnade jag till sist för att göra en upptempo-låt med gitarr och trummor.</p>
<p>Hur blev filmen då? Med två dagars produktionstid, noll budget och två barn på full volym som &#8221;hjälpredor&#8221; är jag riktigt nöjd:</p>
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<p>Mer om Happi Papi finns här: <a href="http://www.happipapi.com">http://www.happipapi.com</a>.</p>


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		<title>Lära läsa HD på iPadnytt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[iPadnytt, en blogg om ipad, tillbehör och appar, har skrivit en bra recension av vår app Lära läsa HD som på ett lekfullt sätt hjälper barn som håller på att lära sig läsa. Läs recensionen här: http://www.ipadnytt.se/apptips-lara-lasa-hd/. Related posts:100 böcker (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/communication/lara-lasa-hd-pa-ipadnytt.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>iPadnytt, en blogg om <a href="http://www.ipadnytt.se">ipad, tillbehör och appar</a>, har skrivit en bra recension av vår app Lära läsa HD som på ett lekfullt sätt hjälper barn som håller på att lära sig läsa. Läs recensionen här: <a href="http://www.ipadnytt.se/apptips-lara-lasa-hd/">http://www.ipadnytt.se/apptips-lara-lasa-hd/</a>.</p>


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		<title>Ett år med designfavoriter.se</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[För ganska exakt ett år sedan lanserade jag designfavoriter.se, en blogg om designmöbler och heminredning. Syftet var att skapa en webbsite där jag, i motsats till kundcase, fritt kunde experimentera och använda webbsidan som exempel. Nu har webbsidan levt i ett (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/communication/ett-ar-med-designfavoriter-se.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>För ganska exakt ett år sedan lanserade jag designfavoriter.se, en <a href="http://www.designfavoriter.se">blogg om designmöbler och heminredning</a>. Syftet var att skapa en webbsite där jag, i motsats till kundcase, fritt kunde experimentera och använda webbsidan som exempel. Nu har webbsidan levt i ett år och det är dags att summera hur det har gått.</p>
<p><strong>Över 40.000 besök</strong></p>
<p>Under sitt första år har designfavoriter.se fått hela <strong>40.355</strong> besök (35.627 unika besökare) och <strong>118.123</strong> sidvisningar. Inte illa med tanke på hur lite tid jag haft att lägga ner.</p>
<p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/stats-e1294688541769.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-354" title="stats" src="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/stats-e1294688541769.gif" alt="" width="500" height="140" /></a></p>
<p>Andelen besökare har till 91% kommit från sökmotorer, vilket ligger i linje med målsättningen med siten. Antalet sökord som lett till den trafiken är 11.076 vilket tyder på att jag lyckats bra med long tail-optimering (fråga 11.076 är &#8221;äkta mattor i design&#8221;, så optimeringen ligger i ämnesområdet).</p>
<p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/stats-sources.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-357" title="stats-sources" src="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/stats-sources-300x194.gif" alt="" width="300" height="194" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Vad har gått bra?</strong></p>
<p>När jag startade designfavoriter.se hade jag som mål att nå topp 10 i Google på ett par utvalda ord. Jag nådde topp tre på väldigt många fler än jag trodde skulle vara möjligt. Ett ord som &#8221;dansk design&#8221; som jag utgick från skulle vara hårt konkurrensutsatt nådde jag topp 5 hyggligt fort.</p>
<p>Antalet besökare har förstås gått bra, det finns en stadig ström av besökare.</p>
<p><strong>Vad har gått mindre bra?</strong></p>
<p>Jag har inte haft tid att skapa så mycket content som jag skulle vilja. Tiden har helt enkelt inte räckt till.</p>
<p>Eftersom siten kretsar kring designmöbler hade jag som förhoppning att kunna länka in priser och länkar till butiker. Det har inte alls gått av det enkla skälet att det inte funnits en enda ehandlare som publicerat några produktfeeds. Den första produktfeeden dök upp först i höstas, tack till <a href="http://www.designonline.se/">http://www.designonline.se</a>. Jag hoppas kunna använda deras feed mer under våren.</p>
<p>En annan sak som gått mindre bra är att antalet kommentarer är väldigt lågt. Jag hade gärna sett en högre andel interaktion och kommer göra en del förändringar för det.</p>
<p><strong>Mål 2011</strong></p>
<p>Det främsta målet för 2011 är att dubbla trafiken på årsbasis.</p>
<p>Ytterligare ett mål är att bredda ämnesområdet genom att sätta upp fler bloggar på egna domäner, genom statistiken har jag hittat lämpliga områden för att täcka upp ett bredare fält.</p>
<p>Jag har också som mål att ta in ett antal gästbloggare som ska få skriva om just sin &#8221;designfavorit&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Lärdomar</strong></p>
<p>Ibland brukar man raljera över att bilbranschen ligger långt efter på webben. En alldeles uppenbar lärdom är att möbelbranschen är hopplöst långt efter. Det finns bara en ehandlare som publicerar priser på PriceRunner, det finns bara en ehandlare som har ett affiliateprogram och 70% av alla siter är Flashbaserade i mer eller mindre sin helhet. Flera av de större ehandlare är långt ifrån sökmotoroptimerade, och ett ytterst litet fåtal av alla möbelhandelssiter (ehandlare och fysiska butiker) kan klassas som &#8221;OK&#8221; eller bättre.</p>
<p>Onwards and upwards!</p>


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		<title>10 nya domäner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Binero kör under november månaden en kampanj där de delar ut registrering av 10.000 .se-domäner gratis (max 10 per kund och registrering av domänen på 1 år). Kampanjen körs samtidigt som .SE gått ut med ambitionen att komma över 1.000.000 registrerade (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/communication/10-nya-domaner.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Binero kör under november månaden en kampanj där de delar ut registrering av 10.000 .se-domäner gratis (max 10 per kund och registrering av domänen på 1 år). Kampanjen körs samtidigt som .SE gått ut med ambitionen att komma över 1.000.000 registrerade .se-domäner (vilket uppnåddes i förrgår).</p>
<p>Jag passade på att registrera följande 10 domäner:</p>
<p><strong>jagslarvad.se<br />
</strong>Ett projekt som jag snart kommer skriva mer om och som ett experiment dessutom lägga ut en öppen inbjudan till. Jag har även registrerat<strong> jagslårvad.se,</strong> vilket borde ge en hint vad det handlar om <img src='http://jensode.se/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>letakurser.se, letakonferenser.se, letautbildningar.se<br />
</strong>Jag och <a href="http://www.twitter.com/crusell">@crusell</a> kommer under hösten släppa ett <a href="http://www.hittastad.se">API för att enkelt geografiskt knyta ihop innehåll</a>, <a href="http://www.hittastad.se">http://www.hittastad.se</a>. Tanken med letakurser, letakonferenser och letautbildningar är att förhoppningsvis använda det API:et för bygga en sökmotor kring utbildning/kurser/konferenser med geografisk anknytning.</p>
<p><strong>snyggabarnklader.se<br />
</strong>Jag håller på att sakta rulla ut ett annat sidoprojekt, <a href="http://www.barnevenemang.se">BarnEvenemang.se</a>, en site där <a href="http://www.barnevenemang.se">familjer enkelt kan hitta barnaktiviteter där de bor</a>. Eftersom jag är småbarnsförälder känns en barnklädessite som ett bra komplement till BarnEvenemang.se.</p>
<p><strong>unconference.se<br />
</strong>Antalet unconferences verkar bli fler och fler. Jag har ingen klar idé kring domänen än, så den får ligga till sig lite först.</p>
<p><strong>hittasistaminutenresor.se</strong><br />
Målet för domänen är nog rätt uppenbart. Den här domänen föll nog mer under spekulationskategorin, jag har inte planer (ännu) på att sätta upp en resesite. Fast det skulle ge en del roliga erfarenheter med olika rese-API:er så varför inte som ett experiment.</p>
<p><strong>hittaapps.se</strong><br />
iPad är på väg til Sverige, det finns överhuvudtaget en uppsjö appar. Något kul kring det borde nog gå att göra.</p>
<p><strong>hittarecensioner.se</strong><br />
Som konsument är recensioner av olika slag alltid intressant. Böcker, produkter, filmer etc etc. En sökmotor kopplad till domänen kanske?</p>
<p><strong>hittaord.se</strong><br />
Jag gillade namnet. Svårare än så var det inte. Någon som har en bra idé och vill göra något kul med domänen så säg bara till <img src='http://jensode.se/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>


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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With This Picture? (SEO And Google Images)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I stumbled upon an interesting situation when I used Google Image Search. I searched for the term &#8221;Norrgavel stol&#8221;, where &#8221;Norrgavel&#8221; is a swedish furniture brand and &#8221;stol&#8221; is swedish for chair. The result unfortunately confirmed someting I discovered (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/communication/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-seo-and-google-images.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I stumbled upon an interesting situation when I used Google Image Search. I searched for the term &#8221;Norrgavel stol&#8221;, where &#8221;Norrgavel&#8221; is a swedish furniture brand and &#8221;stol&#8221; is swedish for chair. The result unfortunately confirmed someting I discovered a while back &#8211; furniture stores are horribly bad at search engine optimization. Take a look at the screen capture from the search result screen and specifically look at two things:</p>
<p>1. What&#8217;s there.<br />
2. What&#8217;s not there.</p>
<p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/seo-google-image-search.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-334" title="seo-google-image-search" src="http://jensode.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/seo-google-image-search-300x211.jpg" alt="seo-google-image-search" width="300" height="211" /></a> </p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s There</strong></p>
<p>Well, I can give myself some credit. At place 1, 4, 8 and 14 we see results from designfavoriter.se, which is a web site I run. It actually shows all the posts about Norrgavel I have on the site, which means that I managed to dominate the search results. Good for me, especially when designfavoriter.se is only a couple of months old. What else do we see? Mainly all sources displayed are from blogs or larger interior design sites such as Sköna Hem and StyleRoom.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s Not There</strong></p>
<p>Moving on to the more important question &#8211; what&#8217;s not there? Norrgavel is a swedish brand specialized in high quality and environment-friendly furniture. They only sell their products through their own set of stores and they have a web site which has been up and running for a long time, <a href="http://www.norrgavel.se">http://www.norrgavel.se</a>. Where are the images from norrgavel.se?</p>
<p>Norrgavel should be very interested in driving traffic to their own site, especially since they don&#8217;t rely on resellers, in which case it would make sence to let the resellers get the traffic. Page after page is filled with images from blogs (even the logo image from designfavoriter.se appears), but there&#8217;s no sign of any images from norrgavel.se.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Does It Matter?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, it really does. Traffic from the image search engines are actually quite large.  To quote SavvyAuntie.com (large community site) &#8221;I have more traffic referrals from images.google.com than Facebook and Twitter. [..]&#8221;. It is even more important for a design brand to have a strong presence in the image search results, since it is a very visual product.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>What To Do?</strong></p>
<p>Remember that every piece of content on your web site is a valuable asset. Make sure to give your images correct names and to use the Alt and Title tags correctly. If in doubt, <a href="http://www.addicottweb.com/2009/02/using-the-alt-and-title-attributes-properly/">read this article about using Alt and Title tags</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Note To Norrgavel</strong></p>
<p>Somehow I don&#8217;t believe that Norrgavel has any alerts on when the brand name is used online, but if you do and find this, feel free to contact me and I&#8217;ll be glad to give you some hints on what you should do with your web site. Love your products, but your web site really does not live up to your standards.</p>
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<p>A screen shot of the search result screen is displayed below.</p>


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		<title>Four Lessons From A Social Media Project &#8211; Alice In Twitterland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice in Twitterland - Twitter Seen Through The Lens Of Alice Two weeks ago a friend and I discussed crowdsourcing (harnessing the power of the general public) online. During breakfast the following day, while reading an article in the morning paper (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/communication/four-lessons-from-a-social-media-project-alice-in-twitterland.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Alice in Twitterland</strong><strong> - Twitter Seen Through The Lens Of Alice<br />
</strong>Two weeks ago a friend and I discussed crowdsourcing (harnessing the power of the general public) online. During breakfast the following day, while reading an article in the morning paper Sydsvenskan, something hit me:</p>
<p>The public is capable of so much more than it actually knows. For example, doesn&#8217;t the online community reproduce (albeit randomly) the works of great authors every day without even knowing it? How long would it actually take for, let&#8217;s say Tweeters around the world, to (re)write a famous novel?</p>
<p>I emailed my friend asking: &#8221;Wouldn&#8217;t it be interesting to link (every word of) a book to excerpts of people&#8217;s discussions and watch the book evolve &#8221;live&#8221; on a web site?  We quickly agreed to go with the idea. The world wide release of Tim Burton&#8217;s remake of the movie Alice in Wonderland created the perfect back drop for the experiment. We decided that we would let the Twitter community write Lewis Carroll&#8217;s old master piece.</p>
<p><strong>Step By Step</strong> <br />
We got the text to Alice in Wonderland from Project Guthenberg and split it up into single words. The original idea was to move through the text word by word and search the global Twitter stream to find messages (tweets) that contained the words of the book. Through the course of the project our approach had to be tweaked a few times which created some valuable lessons.</p>
<p><strong>Lesson 1: Time Is Relative</strong><strong> <br />
</strong>At first the idea was to move sequentially through the information stream, that is, every tweet had to be time stamped later than the previous one. The purpose was to make sure that the text was as close to real time as possible. The way to do this was simply to check the time stamp of a message and compare it to the one previously used. A later time stamp would indicate a more up to date message. Well, that is unfortunately not true. If two messages are submitted simultaneously, one in Sweden and one in New York, there will be a time stamp difference of 6 hours since the time indicated is local rather than from a global time line.</p>
<p><strong>Lesson 2: Twitter API Is Limited</strong> <br />
Twitter has applied a limit on how often you may call it. In the original approach we wanted to move through the text word by word, and thus needed to query each word one by one. However, Twitter only allows 150 calls per hour if you’re not whitelisted (which requires going through a manual application process which may take weeks). When making a search through the API you can get away with a higher amount of calls (Twitter won’t say how many), but due to this limitations we had to scrap the idea. Instead of moving word by word it had to be sentence by sentence to make due with fewer searches and instead cache the result and replay it through the web site.</p>
<p><strong>Lesson 3: User Generated Content = Body Count</strong> <br />
As soon as you try to harness user generated content, you run the risk of getting explicit content (and we&#8217;re not just talking the occasional mentioning of boobs…). This project is no exception. Already in the first test run of only ten messages there was content from the &#8221;red light district&#8221;. Still it was decided to forge ahead without any filters, since the experiment is a snapshot in time, and these kind of messages are the reality of the online world today. However, if you plan to run a site with user generated comments be prepared to monitor it, because you <em>will</em> end up with inappropriate content.</p>
<p><strong>Lesson 4: Leave An Opening</strong> <br />
One of the features of this project is that there are words that probably aren’t mentioned too often (like the names of some of the characters). If we stepped through the text and only displayed the result world for word, no one would be able to foresee upcoming words and (hopefully) include them in tweets to move the process forward. To remedy this we display one page of the book at the time and show the progress by highlighting every tweeted word. This is not in line with the original idea, we believe it will make it more visually interesting.</p>
<p><strong>Final Thoughts</strong> <br />
This experiment is meant to capture a moment in time. The Alice in Wonderland-text will only be run once and when we reach the end the &#8221;gathering of words&#8221; is over. We then have a static version of Alice in Wonderland expressed through thousands of twitter messages posted globally during the time of the experiment. It will be a snapshot of dialogues, expressions, ideas and mumbo jumbo seen through the lens of Alice.</p>
<p>Hopefully the experiment works, otherwise failure is always an option. Visit <a href="http://www.aliceintwitterland.com/">http://www.aliceintwitterland.com</a> to follow (and perhaps participate in) the process.</p>
<p>Press release (swedish):<br />
<a href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/wannaplay/pressrelease/view/twitter-anvandare-valrden-over-skriver-om-alice-i-underlandet-klart-paa-24-timmar-379945">http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/wannaplay/pressrelease/view/twitter-anvandare-valrden-over-skriver-om-alice-i-underlandet-klart-paa-24-timmar-379945</a></p>


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		<title>Kindle Beta Developer Program Opened</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has opened the beta program for developing Kindle content. Kindle, the Amazon e-book reader most known for being a book reading device, now pushes forward to be converted into a more versatile tool. The timing is perfect with the upcoming shipping (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/communication/kindle-beta-developer-program-opened.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazon has opened the beta program for developing Kindle content. Kindle, the Amazon e-book reader most known for being a book reading device, now pushes forward to be converted into a more versatile tool. The timing is perfect with the upcoming shipping of the Apple iPad. A lot of development focus will be targeted towards the iPad, leaving an interesting area open getting apps through the Amazon store instead of the overcrowded Apple App store. Well, at least for the US content providers, since the Kindle probably won&#8217;t kick off internationally until Amazon opens up the entire catalogue outside the US.</p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/02/kindle-more-than-an-ebook-reader-its-a-development-platform.html">http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/02/kindle-more-than-an-ebook-reader-its-a-development-platform.html</a></p>


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		<title>Behind The Scenes With Designfavoriter.se</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot to be said when it comes to implementing a web site. Due to client confidentiality I can never really explain the bits and pieces of this using real examples. So, this christmas holiday I decided to (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/communication/behind-the-scenes-with-designfavoriter-se.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a lot to be said when it comes to implementing a web site. Due to client confidentiality I can never really explain the bits and pieces of this using real examples. So, this christmas holiday I decided to create my own real world example to use as a platform for getting behind the scenes.</p>
<p>I give you <a href="http://www.designfavoriter.se">http://www.designfavoriter.se</a>!</p>
<p>In a series of articles I will explain the strategies behind the creation of the site, the tools and technologies and all the bits and pieces I can come to think of. The article series is not meant to be a dive into technical stuff, but rather an overall view suitable for everybody working with online communication.  The article series will deal with all the things that are important to think of such as content strategies, user generated content, spam protection, SEO etc etc.</p>
<p><strong>The Article Series</strong></p>
<p>The first article will be<em> Content Strategies or How To Get 61 Pages From 13 Articles</em>. This will be followed by an article on <em>Getting Jiggy With Mashups or How To Use Yahoo Pipes</em>. In all in I have planned for about eight articles, including a WordPress-dedicated article stepping through the inside configuration of the site.</p>
<p>Designfavoriter.se is connected to SIS-index, a swedish service that publishes visitor statistics , in order for you to be able to follow the progress of the site, <a href="http://www.sis-index.se ">http://www.sis-index.se</a>.</p>
<p>If you want to follow the article series without the hassle of going here every day, make sure to add my RSS feed by clicking this link: <a href="http://jensode.se/blog/feed">http://jensode.se/blog/feed</a></p>
<p><strong>And A Little Tip</strong></p>
<p>If you are interested in design furniture or run an interior decoration blog, please feel free to register your blog on the blog index on the site: <a href="http://www.designfavoriter.se/ny-blogg/ ">http://www.designfavoriter.se/ny-blogg/</a>.</p>
<p>And if you know any design stores in Sweden that you would like to recommend, please feel free to add them to the store index (you will get a free link to your own site for every store you recommend): <a href="http://www.designfavoriter.se/ny-butik/">http://www.designfavoriter.se/ny-butik/</a>.</p>


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		<title>On Cloud One With Dropbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I got myself a new Netbook. In the old days, a new computer meant a lot of hassle getting files transferred back and forth. Luckily, these are the new days. No more USB sticks, burnt CD&#8217;s, floppy discs or magnetic tapes. To get all my important files in place I did only one thing. I installed Dropbox.</p>
<p>Presto, my Netbook is now filled with all those ever-so important documents, files and other stuff that otherwise would be stuck in some other computer. And this is not the best part. The best part is that whenever I change anything in any of those files it is automatically syndicated to my four other computers that I use on daily basis. If one hard disc fails, the files are available on-the-fly from another computer. And when I move from one computer to the other the files are in place and updated.</p>
<p>This cloud service grabs the spot as number one this year. If you haven&#8217;t done it yet &#8211; get a Dropbox account! As they say, they best things in life are free. And this one will save you a lot of time and headache.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dropbox.com">http://www.dropbox.com</a></p>


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		<title>The Kids Are Alright</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrid Lindgren]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Designing with your heart is often required to achieve a good result. There is especially one type of projects where you really need to put your heart and emotions into the project and that is designing for kids. The great (&#8230;)</p><p><a href="http://jensode.se/blog/design/the-kids-are-alright.html">Read the rest of this entry &#187;</a></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Designing with your heart is often required to achieve a good result. There is especially one type of projects where you really need to put your heart and emotions into the project and that is designing for kids. The great reward is also there &#8211; that is the only time when you can really bring out those vivid colors and funny ideas. But it is not all technicolor-fantasies-with-oompa-loompas, there are a lot of things to keep in mind. I&#8217;ve done my fair share of kids projects, ranging from 3D animated movies, DVD games, web sites, micro sites, digital magazines and cartoon movies. The hardest projects have been those where the target audience is both the kid and the parent. How do you successfully make a movie/game that makes a three-year-old happy and keeps the parent (who buys and reviews the product) satisfied. The kid loves to watch the movie fifty-five times in a row, the parent gets bored the second time. You may bewilder your target audience (the kid) but you push away your buyer (the parent).</p>
<p>A while back ago I was involved in a project based on one of the worlds greatest storytellers and children book authors &#8211; Astrid Lindgren. In a project like that you really try to push yourself to create something that honors her beliefs and world of stories &#8211; not something that appeals to a market segment. It&#8217;s more important to find the heart of the stories than to find the best call to action, if you get what I mean.</p>
<p>This actually applies to most kids design, because kids are very good at spotting what&#8217;s &#8221;constructed&#8221; and what&#8217;s &#8221;created&#8221;. If you put your heart into the project, use your humor and intuition, odds are that you will end up with something that kids will enjoy. You will also probably have a lot of fun doing it. However, there are also a lot of things you need to keep in mind.</p>
<p>- First off &#8211; the legal stuff. Marketing for kids is, thank god, very restricted and you need to know what to do and what not to do.</p>
<p>- Secondly &#8211; kids need the same level of good navigation as grown-ups. Kids will not be able to use a crappy navigation system just because the buttons are bright red and blinking &#8211; they need a good system.</p>
<p>- Thirdly - click areas should be large and call to actions easy to spot (as always).</p>
<p>- Fourthly &#8211; combine text and icons. Younger kids can&#8217;t read (duh).</p>
<p>- Fifth &#8211; bright lights &#8211; big city. Think vivid colors and large and easily spotted shapes.</p>
<p> - Sixth &#8211; follow your heart, Luke.</p>
<p>One of the <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/27/designing-websites-for-kids-trends-and-best-practices/">greatest compilations of kid sites</a> available today with a lot of good pointers has been compiled by <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/">Smashing Magazine</a>. Check it out for inspiration and ideas!</p>


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