The Uutisraivaaja blog is written by the winners and finalists of the media innovation contest.
Little Brother’s team has been full at work for a week in Edinburgh in the UK’s largest start-up incubator CodeBase. The spring time has been full of testing and discussing with people, and debating and developing ideas. In this post we focus on our competitors. Benchmarking has helped us position, what are we doing and…
A late dark night in December- a researcher and two journalists are entangled in a deep discussion. A new service with the aim of promoting female experts has been launched in Sweden. The researcher is lamenting how expertise of both men and women is so underutilized in Finland. A journalist ponders how experts could be…
Little Brother is a camera application that hides the material and moves it away from the phone. This way it protects the person shooting the pictures and videos, as well as protecting the material itself. In a world where soon everyone will have a smart phone in their pocket, our application makes recording and spreading…
Want to venture out on an expedition to changing decision making to be more open and engaged with people? With the Topicalio project, you can! The project aims at getting political decision making and decision makers accessible and familiar to everyone. We’re also offering a better channel for decision makers to seek out guidance from…
Summer is finally officially here. So I’m wishing exciting holidays to everyone. It’s been a hot and intensive period of work at infogr.am. With the support of Uutisraivaaja we’ll rewrite a good part of our software, in general to make it way more flexible in regards to interactivity and animations. We’ll be working on this…
In recent weeks we at PalloPostia have had some particularly interesting discussions about business models for online media. It is clear that with the widespread use of mobile data people are consuming digital online news services at an ever increasing pace. Printed media responds by moving content online, but continues to face significant challenges because of…
This is the first blog post from infogr.am team, one of the Uutisraivaaja finalists. We’ll be sharing our experience and challenges of building data visualization tools for online journalism. In this first blog post we focus on what good things infographics and visualized data does for online media and a brief history on infogr.am.
We made a presentation about how Scoopinion can be used to scientifically research reading behavior at FINCOM2012. Read our blog post about the tool.
Yeah, it has been a roller coaster ride ever since our project qualified for the final round of Uutisraivaaja. I have often been asking myself if our project really is too much of a daydream. I mean, building a whole new network with a decentralized architecture alongside the Internet seems like nutty idea, like tilting…
Hello. This is the first blog entry of our project to this Uutisraivaaja blog and at the same time the first blog entry I myself have ever written. Now as it has been revealed I’m a bit of a social media luddite, or more accurately a bit of a backwater simpleton, maybe you’ll be more…